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The Weeknd announces title and details of next album “Hurry Up Tomorrow”

The Weeknd has announced that his next album, the last in his trilogy that began with the blockbuster “After Hours” and continued with “Dawn FM,” will be titled “Hurry Up Tomorrow.”

The announcement is accompanied by a dramatic and seemingly self-questioning series of statements, filled with self-referential lines from his songs, accompanied by equally dramatic symphonic music.

“Today it felt like an endless spin,” it says. “I keep twisting the truth, immune to the dizziness, numb to the nausea. What lies beneath – screams in the silence

“I look in the mirror and feel how both the old and the new are suspended and unable to move. I still haven't come to terms with myself…

“The very thing that once made me invincible has failed me on the world stage. A new trauma has come to the surface.

“When the day is over, I will find out who I am.

“HURRY UP TOMORROW.”

The announcement continues: “This album represents the creative culmination of the project and is the third and final chapter, crafted with existential and self-referential themes, as seen in the recent visionary teasers that have created great anticipation among fans for this final installment.”

The album, which does not yet have a release date, is another reason for a busy fall for the artist. On Saturday, he will perform a special concert at Estádio Morumbi in São Paulo, Brazil, which will be live-streamed on YouTube. In addition, The Weeknd will donate 10% of net proceeds from all merchandise sales at the event and online to BrazilFoundation's Brazilian Soul Fund, which supports communities in southern Brazil affected by natural disasters and economic hardship.

He's also opening his Halloween Horror Nights experience at Universal Studios, titled The Weeknd: Nightmare Trilogy, running from tomorrow (September 5) through November 3.

And next month he will conclude his two-year “After Hours Til the Dawn” tour with four shows in Australia, two each in Melbourne and Sydney on October 5 and 6 and October 22 and 23.

The Weeknd kicked off this new chapter in July with a minute-plus clip posted to his Instagram Story that combines a surreal series of dreamlike images from the past four years of his music career: There's the sports car, the poker theme, the red suit and sunglasses, and the sports car he wore in “Blinding Lights” and the other videos from his 2020 blockbuster album “After Hours,” segueing into the old man images from “Dawn FM,” then the hooded figures from his “After Hours Til the Dawn” tour, and then new elements are added. There's a figure, possibly a mannequin, wearing a mask that looks a lot like his own face (he wore a lot of masks on the tour), and finally a figure that looks like him as a young boy, surrounded by a horde of white mannequins reaching out to him. Throughout the video, there is blurry music, mostly synths and concentrated vocals from the Weeknd, which are presumably blurry remixes of new (and possibly older) material.

The clip ends with a beam of sunlight hitting the boy's head and spreading out as grass and flowers grow, adding to a pretty obvious death-redemption-rebirth theme.

It actually fits with the vague hints he gave Variety during an interview mainly about his HBO drama “The Idol” in June 2023. When asked if there would be new music after “The Idol” and after the tour, he replied:

“I'm just finishing the third part of this saga, this trilogy,” he said. “The name will be announced soon, but it's not called what some fans think… what they think is actually the name of a song on the album, but that's not the name of the actual album.” [It’s unclear which speculative title he’s referring to.] So I'll just say that.”

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