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(Redirected from Take Me Back to LA) 2025 studio album by the Weeknd For the film extension of the album, see Hurry Up Tomorrow (film).

Hurry Up Tomorrow
The Weeknd in a black tank top, looking towards the viewer and visibly holding tears back from his eyes
Studio album by the Weeknd
ReleasedJanuary 31, 2025 (2025-01-31)
Recorded2022–2024
StudioConway (Los Angeles)
Language
  • English
  • Portuguese
Label
Producer
The Weeknd chronology
The Idol Episode 5 Part 2 (Music from the HBO Original Series)
(2023) 		Hurry Up Tomorrow
(2025)
Singles from Hurry Up Tomorrow
  1. "Dancing in the Flames"
    Released: September 13, 2024
  2. "Timeless"
    Released: September 27, 2024
  3. "São Paulo"
    Released: October 30, 2024

Hurry Up Tomorrow is the upcoming sixth studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd. It is scheduled to be released through XO and Republic Records on January 31, 2025. The album contains confirmed guest appearances from Playboi Carti and Anitta. Production was handled by the Weeknd himself, Max Martin, Mike Dean, Ojivolta, Oscar Holter, Pharrell Williams, Sean Solymar, and Twisco, among others. The album was supported by three singles: "Dancing in the Flames", "Timeless" (with Playboi Carti), and "São Paulo" (featuring Anitta). It will also be supported by the upcoming psychological thriller film of the same name. The album serves as the final part of a trilogy, following the Weeknd's previous two studio albums, After Hours (2020) and Dawn FM (2022).

Background and release

On March 25, 2020, the Weeknd previewed five unreleased tracks during an Instagram live session, some of which were reportedly intended for After Hours, which was released five days prior. Three of these songs were later included in the deluxe edition of the album. The other two tracks, given tentative names "Take Me Back To LA" and "Regular", did not make the final cut for either After Hours (Deluxe) or Dawn FM.

On January 10, 2022, three days after the release of Dawn FM, the Weeknd confirmed the existence of a follow-up album by tweeting: “I wonder… did you know you’re experiencing a new trilogy?”. This revealed that the upcoming album would conclude a trilogy that began with After Hours (2020) and continued with Dawn FM (2022). The new trilogy serves as a nod to his 2012 compilation album Trilogy, which combines his debut mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence, released in 2011.

In an interview with W in May 2023, the Weeknd stated that his next album would be his "last hurrah" under the stage name, hinting that he might transition to making music under his real name, Abel Tesfaye, afterward:

“The album I’m working on now is probably my last hurrah as the Weeknd. This is something that I have to do. As the Weeknd, I’ve said everything I can say. I’ll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as 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.”

On January 7, 2024, the second anniversary date of his fifth studio album Dawn FM, the Weeknd teased his upcoming record, by posting the cover art for his previous two studio albums, along with a black slide featuring a white question mark in the centre. The slide was captioned with the number "3", indicating that the upcoming album would be the third and final entry of a trilogy. Later that month, he teased a possible collaboration with French electronic music duo Justice multiple times.

On February 9, 2024, the Weeknd shared a picture from a recording studio and a written-down text "Everything fades...". On his birthday, February 16, he teased the upcoming album by posting pictures of the Los Angeles Theatre, along with a text on its marquees: "This Story Has Three Chapters — The Greatest Trilogy Known To Man." On February 23, in three separate messages, he tweeted "Everything Will Fade". In the weeks following this message, he deleted most of his posts on X.

On March 1, 2024, American record producer Mike Dean, a frequent collaborator of the Weeknd, celebrated his 59th birthday with a special concert at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. The Weeknd made a guest appearance, performing a reimagined version of "Take Me Back to LA," which he had previously teased on Instagram live in March 2020. He also debuted another unreleased track, "In Heaven", presenting his own rendition of the song originally featured in the 1977 film Eraserhead.

On June 16, 2024, The Weeknd shared a photo of a stop motion figure depicting himself as a baby. On July 2, 2024, he teased the first visuals from the upcoming album, displaying a person being half his current age self, half himself as a child, with the reflection of a flame in his eyes, and a sinister forest. This was followed three days later by more visuals, displaying an unrecognizable person wearing a cape, on top of stairs in a purple-lighted room, seen through the crack of a door. On July 7, he shared a quote from Abode in Heaven: Paul and Life After Death in 2 Corinthians 5:1–10: "Humanity in its present form is frail, deteriorating, and weak. To share in eternal life, however, our bodies must be transformed."

In July and August 2024, the Weeknd shared a trio of CGI teasers, centred on a young boy, presumably representing a young Abel Tesfaye, alongside his characters from other albums, like Trilogy (2012), After Hours (2020), and Dawn FM (2022).

  • "There Are Three Chapters in this Tale", shared on July 18, which showcased the story of After Hours and Dawn FM, accompanied by various songs from these albums.
  • "When you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you", shared on July 23, featured the first official teasing of "Wake Me Up" and "Run Away". The teaser's title is a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche.
  • "Unprepared Certainty", shared on August 6, marked the resurfacing of "Regular", which he had previously teased on Instagram live in March 2020.

On August 7, 2024, Universal announced that the Weeknd would be returning to Universal Studios Hollywood as a haunted house for that year's Halloween Horror Nights event, after a similar event tied to his album After Hours, in 2022. The Weeknd: Nightmare Trilogy is inspired by his albums from the new trilogy. The house featured music by the Weeknd, scored by Mike Dean. From Hurry Up Tomorrow, then-unreleased songs "Take Me Back to LA" and "São Paulo" could be heard. The event took place from September 5, 2024, to November 3, 2024. The song "São Paulo", still without known title at the time, was again teased on August 31, 2024 through an advert for an NFL Brasil Game in São Paulo.

The album title Hurry Up Tomorrow was officially announced on September 4, a few days before a "one-night only" concert in São Paulo, through a video with a written poem:

Yesterday was fourteen years ago. We held our breath, falling into a shimmering sea in the after hours of the night. Attempted to cleanse the wounds with melodies and lights, a bulletproof bandage to shield what lies beneath. In a place where the seasons never changed, where time ceased to exist. But therein lays the problem. Today has felt like and endless spin. I keep distorting the truth, immune to the dizziness, numb to the nausea. What lies beneath - screams in silence. I look in the mirror and feel both old and new, stuck in limbo and unable to move. I still haven't faced myself. More songs could help but what do I have left to say? Woe is me in my gilded cage, right? The very thing that once made me invincible failed me on the world stage. A new trauma surfaced, opening floodgates. A new path awaits. When today ends, I'll discover who I am.

Hurry Up Tomorrow.

Hours before the concert on September 7, the album cover was revealed, with album preorders on vinyl and CDs subsequently being opened through the XO webstore.

On November 27, 2024, exactly five years after the new trilogy began with the release of After Hours' lead single "Heartless", the Weeknd announced January 24, 2025, as the album's release date. He also revealed plans for a "one-night only" concert at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California, scheduled for the day after the album's release. The concert would feature "never-before-seen production" and a stage designed to cover the stadium's entire floor. On December 2, 2024, the show was sold out in under one hour, as over 300,000 fans attempted to buy tickets.

At the end of December 2024, billboards in major cities appeared, appearing to say "The Weeknd Is Near", with blank spaces in place of three letters, so they read "The End Is Near". In January 2025, during an interview for Variety, the artist reiterated that Hurry Up Tomorrow could be his final project under the pseudonym the Weeknd.

On January 13, the Weeknd announced that the album's release had been postponed by a week, moving to January 31. Additionally, the one-off show at the Rose Bowl Stadium, originally scheduled for January 25, was cancelled. Both decisions were made "out of respect and concern for the people of Los Angeles County" who were dealing with severe wildfires.

Ten days before the album's release, the Weeknd revelead the existence of a website called hurryuptomorrow.club. It featured a 48-hour countdown timer, suggesting that album-related information would be shared with those who provided their contact details. He also tweeted "ALL IN YOUR VEINS IN TEN DAYS… THIS ONE IS GONNA KICK".

Recording and production

The Weeknd started recording Hurry Up Tomorrow in 2022, closely following the release of its predecessor Dawn FM in January. On September 3, 2022, the intended final date of After Hours Til Dawn Tour's North American leg, while performing show opener "Alone Again" in Inglewood at SoFi Stadium, the Weeknd lost his voice, which led him to abruptly end the show in the middle of "Can't Feel My Face". Two months later, he played two extra shows there to make up for it. In an interview with Variety in January 2025, he revealed that "a good chunk" of the album was already finished by September 2022, but the incident led to both the album and related movie being overhauled.

In early January 2023, he first confirmed to have been in the studio for the upcoming album. In June 2023, he stated in a Variety interview: "I’m finishing the third part of this saga, of this trilogy. The name of it will come out soon." Recording therefore coincided with his work for the soundtrack of The Idol (released in the summer of 2023), and the After Hours Til Dawn Tour (2022–present). The Weeknd continued to work on the upcoming album after this statement, sharing images of him in the studio from September 2023 to February 2024 at Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles, alongside frequent collaborators Oneohtrix Point Never, Mike Dean and Metro Boomin, amongst others. The latter confirmed to be working on "a lot of stuff" for the upcoming album on May 22, 2024. A collaboration with American technological company Apple Inc, was teased on June 1, 2024, which was confirmed by the company nine days later for later that year.

The Weeknd also worked with Italian composer and music producer Giorgio Moroder, who told Variety: "I'm thrilled to continue bridging the gap with Abel between the past and the future, creating something timeless yet innovative." The album features Moroder's contributions on keyboards, arrangements, and vocals.

Composition and themes

Variety described Hurry Up Tomorrow prior to its release, in January 2025: stating it "includes plenty of the sleek, chrome-plated hooks that have characterized many of the Weeknd’s biggest hits. But to a degree he hasn’t really done before, it also includes explorations of other genres: classic R&B, straight pop, acoustic guitars, fast beats and an epic, sweeping song, probably the finale, that recalls Prince’s “Purple Rain”. The album delves into existential and self-referential themes, while also exploring death, redemption, and rebirth. The latter term is accuanted by different depictions of birth (in the São Paulo music video), and the Weeknd as a baby, through shared CGI teasers, stop motion figures and pictures. Fans have speculated that the new trilogy is inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, reflecting its themes, symbolism, and narrative arc. According to this theory, the albums represent a journey through Hell (After Hours), Purgatory (Dawn FM), and Paradise (Hurry Up Tomorrow).

In January 2024, The Weeknd teased a love-themed third track for the final album of the trilogy, following "Hardest to Love" on After Hours and "How Do I Make You Love Me?" on Dawn FM. On February 29, 2024, it was confirmed that Anton Tammi, one of After Hours' directors, would contribute to the upcoming album.

In an interview with Billboard Brasil on September 6, 2024, The Weeknd revealed that a "central song" was composed in São Paulo, with the album exploring different sounds, which he nicknamed "frankenstein". In the same publication, a collaboration with Brazilian singer Anitta was confirmed after months of rumours, although the article was later removed by Billboard.

The moment the Weeknd lost his voice during the September 2022 concert greatly impacted his artistic vision for his upcoming album and further career. In an interview with Variety in January 2025, he stated "I really needed to sit down and figure out my life, to understand what happened, face it, learn something new and start again. I had a kind of a mental breakdown, which is pretty much what this new album is about." Italian composer and music producer Giorgio Moroder, known for his film scores like Midnight Express and Scarface, was a major influence on the album, particularly for the "operatic synths" used in the latter. The Weeknd himself described the album as "gothic" and "operatic".

Producer and frequent collaborator Oneohtrix Point Never told his fans to expect "futuristic intensity" in the tracks he contributed to.

Title and artwork

Album title

The album title reflects the Weeknd's deep personal desire to retire his moniker and continue his career under his real name, Abel Tesfaye. "Tomorrow" symbolizes the future moment when this transition takes place. Impatiently waiting for it to happen, the Weeknd wants "tomorrow" to "hurry up":

"It’s a headspace I’ve gotta get into that I just don’t have any more desire for. You have a persona, but then you have the competition of it all. It becomes this rat race: more accolades, more success, more shows, more albums, more awards and more No. 1s. It never ends until you end it. Everything needs to feel like a challenge. And for me right now, the Weeknd, whatever that is, it's been mastered. No one's gonna do the Weeknd better than me, and I'm not gonna do it better than what it is right now. I think I've overcome every challenge as this persona but I just want to know what comes after. I want to know what tomorrow looks like." —The Weeknd on retiring his monniker

This aspiration was partly influenced by his 2022 concert at SoFi Stadium, where he was forced to abruptly cancel the show midway after losing his voice on stage. The Weeknd discussed this during a Variety interview in January 2025, stating:

“Part of me actually was thinking, ‘You lost your voice because it’s done; you said what you had to say. Don’t overstay at the party — you can end it now and live a happy life.’ You know? Put the bow on it: ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’? Now we’re here. When is the right time to leave, if not at your peak? Once you understand who I am too much, then it’s time to pivot.”

The album titles of the new trilogy therefore refer to three chronological points in time, with the "after hours" being 3 a.m. to 5 a.m., "dawn" being the brightening of the sky just before sunrise, and "tomorrow" the time after sunrise.

Artwork

The album cover for Hurry Up Tomorrow features a portrait of Tesfaye in a black tank top, gazing at the camera and seemingly holding back tears. Four special edition vinyl LPs were made available for pre-order, each featuring exclusive artwork by one artist, listed below along with their availability window:

Artist Harmony Korine Hajime Sorayama Frank Miller Jean-Michel Basquiat
Design
Pre-sale window Oct. 4–7, 2024
Dec. 2–5, 2024 		Nov. 13–16, 2024
Dec. 2–5, 2024 		Nov. 27, 2024 – Jan. 7, 2025
Jan. 14, 2025 – present 		Dec. 13–18, 2024
Availability limit Limited time (72 hours) Limited time (72 hours) Limited stock Limited stock

Promotion

Performances

São Paulo concert

On July 17, 2024, the Weeknd announced a special one-night only concert in São Paulo, Brazil featuring "never-before-seen production", taking place on September 7. The show sold out in under one hour on July 22, 2024, with 420,000 fans attempting to buy tickets. In an Instagram story posted on August 15, the Weeknd revealed he would only perform songs from the new trilogy, meaning that the performance of any unreleased song would seemingly confirm its inclusion on the new album. A trailer released on August 20 revealed the show would stream live on YouTube.

The 90-minute concert was held in the MorumBIS Stadium, where the Weeknd performed songs exclusively from After Hours, Dawn FM and Hurry Up Tomorrow, debuting nine then-unreleased songs from the latter:

Both Anitta and Playboi Carti joined the Weeknd on stage to perform their respective songs, with the latter guest artist also performing a version of Travis Scott's single "Fein". The stage design maintained the catwalk-style setup that spanned the length of the pitch, from previous After Hours til Dawn Tour performances. Notable religious elements were incorporated into the stage design for this leg of the tour. Midway down the catwalk, a church inspired by the rock-hewn structures of Lalibela was constructed, likely paying homage to the Weeknd's Ethiopian heritage. The church featured multiple levels, enabling the Weeknd to perform on its roof, an intermediate floor, and its ground level. The stage design now also featured a large video screen and illuminated walkway, which ended in a design resembling a Christian cross. The Weeknd premiered wearing a black robe with gold trim, a costume that became a staple for subsequent performances. The new stage design was also used for subsequent touring shows. The concert received positive critical reception, with The Guardian awarding it 4 out of 5 stars in their review.

iHeartRadio Music Festival

On August 23, 2024, it was reported that the Weeknd was added to the lineup of the upcoming iHeartRadio Music Festival, for the first time since 2017. On September 21, 2024, the Weeknd performed at the festival in Las Vegas, atop a pyramid formed by red-veiled dancers. In a 20-minute set, he performed "Blinding Lights" and "Save Your Tears" from After Hours, "Take My Breath" and "Sacrifice" from Dawn FM, and "Dancing in the Flames" and then-unreleased "São Paulo" from Hurry Up Tomorrow.

Billions Club Live

On December 11, 2024, it was announced the Weeknd would be performing at Spotify's first ever Billions Club Live on December 17. The exclusive, invite-only performance at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar was reserved for 2,000 of his top listeners on the platform, celebrating his record as the artist with the most songs surpassing one billion streams. During a 70-minute concert, he performed most of his 24 tracks that had reached the milestone, along with songs from Hurry Up Tomorrow: "Timeless", "São Paulo" and then-unreleased "In Heaven". On January 7, 2025, the third anniversary date of Dawn FM, a concert film featuring 13 of the performed songs—including "Timeless" and "São Paulo" from Hurry Up Tomorrow—was released exclusively on Spotify as part of its video podcast Billions Club: The Series.

Singles

The Weeknd announced the release of his album's lead single, "Dancing in the Flames", on September 9, 2024, two days after being debuted live at his concert in São Paulo. The announcement followed Apple's live event, where the iPhone 16 Pro was unveiled alongside a teaser of the music video, which was shot entirely on the device. The song, accompanied by its music and lyric videos, was officially released four days later. On September 15, a live audio version of the song was released, taken from the São Paulo performance. Two days later, an acoustic version was released along with a video, in which the Weeknd performed in the same robe as for the São Paulo concert. The initial song debuted and peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Four days after performing live at the iHeartRadio Music Festival, on September 25, the second single "Timeless" with American rapper Playboi Carti was announced. The song had already debuted live at the São Paulo concert earlier that month. It was released on September 27, alongside an accompanying lyric video. The music video was released three days later. The song debuted and peaked at number 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100, marking the Weeknd's highest career debut on the chart.

On October 25, Brazilian singer Anitta shared a post depicting herself with a baby belly and a white face mask. One day after, a snippet of the song was again featured in a trailer to Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6. The day after that, Anitta shared a post depicting an ultrasound image of a baby with sharp teeth and a forked tail asking if the creature is beautiful, to which the Weeknd responded how beautiful it looks. The picture was labelled with the coordinates of São Paulo, Brazil, along with a date later revealed as the release date of the third single "São Paulo", featuring Anitta. Released intentionally a day prior to Halloween on October 30, the single's music video premiered simultaneously. The song debuted and peaked at number 77 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Other songs

The Weeknd debuted "Open Hearts," a track from his then unreleased album, during the After Hours til Dawn Tour shows in Sydney's Accor Stadium on October 22 and 23. The song was officially released on November 14, 2024, as part of an immersive music experience in collaboration with Apple, featured exclusively on the Apple Vision Pro. It has not yet been made available on other platforms.

Tour

Main article: After Hours til Dawn Tour

Starting on July 14, 2022, the Weeknd embarked on the After Hours til Dawn Tour, originally in support of his fourth and fifth studio albums After Hours (2020) and Dawn FM (2022), his seventh concert tour. Before the release of Hurry Up Tomorrow, the tour encompassed four legs, totalling 68 shows in primarily stadiums, successively visiting North America (2022), Europe and Latin America (2023), and Australia (2024).

On September 23, 2024, the Weeknd tweeted "NOTE FOR XO: AFTER HOURS TIL DAWN is the tour name of the entire trilogy", therefore confirming that the ongoing tour will also support his upcoming sixth studio album. During Spotify's Billions Club concert on December 17, 2024, he announced touring would continue in 2025. Specific tour dates and locations are yet to be announced.

Accompanying film

Main article: Hurry Up Tomorrow (film)

On November 4, 2024, American film studio Lionsgate announced their acquisition of worldwide distribution rights to Hurry Up Tomorrow, a psychological thriller film based on the album of the same name. It is directed by Trey Edward Schults, who wrote the screenplay with Tesfaye and Reza Fahim, who also produced the film with Kevin Turen and Harrison Kreiss. Making his feature film debut, Tesfaye stars alongside Jenna Ortega, Barry Keoghan, and Gabby Barrett. Live Nation Entertainment financed the film on a budget of over $20 million. During Spotify's Billions Club concert on December 17, 2024, he announced the movie would release in 2025. Three days later, the release date of May 16, 2025, in U.S. theatres only, was announced.

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