The Weeknd has pushed the discharge of his new album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, due to the California wildfires, in addition to cancelling a one-off efficiency on the metropolis’s Rose Bowl venue on 25 January “out of respect and concern for the individuals of LA county”.
Hurry Up Tomorrow was due for launch on 24 January. It’s going to now arrive every week in a while 31 January. “This metropolis has all the time been a profound supply of inspiration for me, and my ideas are with everybody impacted throughout this tough time,” the musician, AKA Abel Tesfaye, mentioned in a press release posted to Instagram.
Hurry Up Tomorrow is the sixth album by the Weeknd, the ultimate a part of a trilogy alongside After Hours and Daybreak FM – and purportedly the final album below Tesfaye’s stage title.
“Because the Weeknd, I’ve mentioned every little thing I can say,” Tesfaye advised W journal in 2023. “I’ll nonetheless make music, possibly as Abel, possibly because the Weeknd. However I nonetheless need to kill the Weeknd. And I’ll. Finally. I’m undoubtedly attempting to shed that pores and skin and be reborn.”
The album is about to function Playboi Carti, Anitta, Max Martin and Pharrell Williams amongst others.
Tesfaye’s focus now, he wrote in a press release, “stays on supporting the restoration of those communities and aiding its unimaginable individuals as they rebuild”. Tesfaye’s XO Humanitarian Fund has beforehand donated $4.5m (£3.7m) to starvation reduction efforts in Gaza.
As LA firefighters put together for harmful winds to return and additional stoke the disastrous wildfires, Beyoncé has additionally delayed an announcement deliberate for 14 January.
“I proceed to hope for therapeutic and rebuilding for the households affected by trauma and loss,” she mentioned in a press release. “We’re so blessed to have courageous first responders who proceed to work tirelessly to guard the Los Angeles neighborhood.”
The musician referred to as for individuals to affix her BeyGood basis in supporting the victims of the fireplace after it donated $2.5m to fireside reduction efforts.
In the meantime the Grammy awards ceremony, set to happen at LA’s Crypto.com enviornment, will proceed on 2 February as deliberate, Recording Academy Group CEO Harvey Mason Jr confirmed.
“This yr’s present, nonetheless, will carry a renewed sense of objective,” mentioned Mason Jr, “elevating extra funds to help wildfire reduction efforts and honouring the bravery and dedication of first responders who danger their lives to guard ours.”
Common Music Group posted that it might cancel all the label’s Grammy-related occasions, together with artists showcases and events, and redirect the sources to efforts to help these affected by the fires.
