The Weeknd, who is no stranger to French electro magic after working with Daft Punk, Kavinsky and Gesaffelstein, is back for more after teasing a collaboration with Justice.
The iconic producers of “DANCE” are forging a full-scale comeback after teasing unreleased music and confirming a new album, their first since 2016. Womenwhich is expected to be released in spring 2024. There will also be a Justice tour this year, according to Pedro Winter, founder of the influential Ed Banger label.
The Weeknd and Justice appeared together on stage at last year's Cannes Film Festival, where the former hosted an event celebrating the HBO original drama series. The idol, which he co-created. Following the world premiere of the first two episodes of the series, in which he also starred in The Weekend, at the Palais des Festivals, Justice performed as a DJ at an official red carpet after-party.
Now it looks like a collaboration is on the horizon after The Weekend took to their Instagram to share a series of images from that meeting, which took place more than eight months ago. He also posted a cryptic image containing co-branding with Justice's signature cross logo.
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The flames of the rumors were fanned in a post shared by Mike Dean, a prolific record producer with whom The Weekend worked to create 2015. Beauty behind the madness album as well as his single “Where You Belong” for the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack.
It's worth noting that The Weeknd said he recorded his “last full-length” in August 2023 — that is, unless Daft Punk reunited — before finally appearing on Diddy's single “Another One of Me” in September.
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Meanwhile, 12 years after compiling his first three mixtapes in his breakthrough Trilogy album, The Weeknd is now preparing to release another triptych. the recently aware 2020 album covers After hours and 2022 Dawn FM as well as an image with a white question mark and an arcane title: “3.”
However, it may be the last time The Weeknd's brooding mystique takes fans from darkness to strobe light.
“It's getting to a place and time where I'm getting ready to close the Weeknd chapter,” he said. W Magazine last year. “I'll keep making music, maybe like Abel, maybe like The Weeknd. But I still want to kill The Weeknd. And I will. Eventually. I'm definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn,” he said on the album. “What I'm working on now is probably my last hurray as The Weeknd. This is something I have to do. As The Weeknd, I've said everything I can say.”
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