Hurry Up Tomorrow is The Weeknd’s sixth studio album launched on January 31, 2025. It marks the obvious finish of his trendy trilogy that started with 2020’s groundbreaking After Hours and continued with 2022’s high-concept Daybreak FM. Born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, the Weeknd has emerged as one of many preeminent R&B pop singers of the twenty first century, with huge hit singles resembling “Starboy”, “The Hills”, “Depraved Video games”, and “Name Out My Title”.
Tesfaye can also be a notable actor, enjoying himself within the critically acclaimed Safdie Brothers on the spot traditional Uncut Gems (2019) earlier than starring within the divisive HBO sequence The Idol alongside Nosferatu’s Lily-Rose Depp. He additionally contributed to the Grammy-winning Black Panther soundtrack produced by Kendrick Lamar and Anthony “Prime Dawg” Tiffith. The Weeknd at the moment has 4 Grammy wins, his most up-to-date for his function on Kanye West’s “Hurricane” for Greatest Melodic Rap Efficiency in 2022. He is at the moment nominated in the identical class for his iconic “We Nonetheless Don’t Belief You” collab with Future and Metro Boomin.
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The Weeknd has teased that Hurry Up Tomorrow is not simply the top of a trilogy however is the ultimate farewell of the artist and alter-ego completely. On condition that he simply headlined the Tremendous Bowl in 2021, a well-deserved acknowledgment of After Hours getting robbed at that 12 months’s Grammys, it is arduous to imagine Tesfaye will hold it up for good. His newest carries parts of the signature heartbreak and soul-bearing anthems wrapped round a narrative of a self-loathing celeb in despair. The Weeknd’s persona is trapped inside his highlight like a jail and tortured by the perils of fame.
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I Cannot F*****g Sing
Monitor 3 – 0:12
This 12-second non-song is a fast snippet of Abel complaining that he cannot sing in between “Cry For Me” and “São Paulo”. That is doubtless an allusion to when The Weeknd could not carry out at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA on the final leg of his tour in 2022 as a result of he misplaced his voice. It is an vital piece of Hurry Up Tomorrow however as a quick skit, it could possibly’t stand by itself.
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Till We’re Pores and skin & Bones
Monitor 5 – 0:22
One other brief bridge monitor arrives within the first half of the album, transitioning the top of “São Paulo” into what feels like an alternate actuality earlier than “Baptized In Concern” performs. The instrumental manufacturing is straight out of a sci-fi film and the orchestration with a medley of synths is actually out of this world.
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Massive Sleep
Monitor 16 – 3:45
“Massive Sleep” is among the most sonically fascinating songs on the album. Its opening minute borders on psychedelic like one thing out of Mac Miller’s Balloonerism. It is a sluggish, eerie music that sounds just like the background music for strolling by way of the gates of Hell. Manufacturing and vocals are a few of the finest on the album, creating an unsettling soundscape that appears like one thing undead has risen.
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São Paulo (feat. Anitta)
Monitor 4 – 5:02
This monitor divided followers when it was launched as a single and nonetheless feels considerably misplaced on Hurry Up Tomorrow regardless of being a “banger” that includes Brazillian famous person Anitta. The appropriate temper and setting would make this one of many go-to tracks on the album, which is probably going why it is included. It presents a refuge from the principally darkish and nightmarish different songs.
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Drive
Monitor 18 – 3:09
“Drive” is a straightforward, broken-down monitor that exemplifies a sense of escape and longing because the world falls down round you. The Weeknd pleads for the thrilling peace that comes with hitting the street and having no vacation spot, shedding all accountability and discovering bliss with a Bonnie in his passenger seat to match his Clyde.
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Give Me Mercy
Monitor 17 – 3:36
Whereas the overall manufacturing of Hurry Up Tomorrow is unparalleled and utterly immersive, “Give Me Mercy” has one of many extra distinctive and experimental beats. Sounding like a hidden monitor on a Nineteen Eighties Toto or Phill Collins album, “Give Me Mercy” showcases what The Weeknd does finest, mixing an upbeat tempo with heartfelt lyrics.
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Take pleasure in The Present (feat. Future)
Monitor 10 – 5:01
One in every of many collaborations between The Weeknd and Future, “Benefit from the Present” is robust however would not scratch the floor of the duo’s all-time finest, like “Low Life” and even “Coming Out Sturdy”. Future courageously meets The Weeknd the place he is at, singing with little to no autotune earlier than dropping some signature bars. “Benefit from the Present” is extra atmospheric and reserved than what some would anticipate from a Future and The Weekend link-up.
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Take Me Again To LA
Monitor 15 – 4:14
An obvious response to After Hours’ “Escape from LA”, The Weeknd revisits an outdated relationship on “Take Me Again To LA”, stress-free that it is higher when he is by himself. A deeply nostalgic music, “Take Me Again To LA” is a self-assuring monitor by which Abel realizes what he does and would not need. Most of all, he desires to be in contact together with his soul once more, a standard theme in most of the Hurry Up Tomorrow songs.
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Cry For Me
Monitor 2 – 3:44
The manufacturing on “Cry For Me” is fantastically unusual, making an important early monitor on the album that can solely change into extra unstable over its 85-minute runtime. One of many extra replayable tracks on the album, the beat construct on “Cry For Me” has a satisfying payoff. The music as a complete would not take a breath, pulling the listener into the world of Hurry Up Tomorrow.
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I Cannot Wait To Get There
Monitor 12 – 3:09
It feels like The Weeknd is doing his finest Bruno Mars impression over a Tyler, the Creator beat on “I Cannot Wait To Get There”, one of many easiest-listening tracks on the album. As the start monitor of Hurry Up Tomorrow’s second half, arriving simply earlier than “Timeless”, it is a can’t-miss music that will have its highest replay worth for these summertime cruises.
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Crimson Terror
Monitor 20 – 3:52
A part of an epic 4-track run to shut out the album, “Crimson Terror” sounds identical to its title implies. Opening with an odd and dissonant association of synths, The Weeknd sings to an unnamed little one as if he’s saying goodbye in a everlasting sense. The outro instrumental is ominous and haunting as The Weeknd assures, “Deah is nothing in any respect, it doesn’t rely.”
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Opening Night time
Monitor 8 – 1:36
If “Opening Night time” was only a bit longer it might be one of many prime 5 tracks on Hurry Up Tomorrow, simply. The heavy reverb on The Weeknd’s vocals attracts comparisons to Tame Impala, together with the tones of a phone ringing that evokes flashbacks of the synth-heavy “Previous Life” on Currents. It is actually a disgrace “Opening Night time” could not hit at the least 2 minutes however transitions properly into “Refections Laughing”.
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Given Up On Me
Monitor 11 – 5:55
The almost 6-minute lengthy “Given Up On Me” has the wildest beat change on the album. Its opening jiffy are a few of the finest on the album as Abel spirals in a bout of insecurity and self-doubt. Mike Dean and Metro Boomin each produced the monitor, making it a direct standout even when its beat swap is considerably abrupt and disjointed.
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Reflections Laughing (feat. Florence + The Machine & Travis Scott)
Monitor 9 – 4:51
Travis Scott lends his vocals and manufacturing skills on the eerie “Reflections Laughing” which opens with a close to Western-like acoustic guitar. The music is among the most cinematic on Hurry Up Tomorrow, and Trav’s bars are dropped an octave or two to boost a way of trippy mysticism heard all through.
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Niagara Falls
Monitor 14 – 4:37
“Niagara Falls” grows on listeners after the primary pay attention and finally turns into one of many best songs to revisit. Almost sounding like a 2010s Drake instrumental, “Niagara Falls” is among the extra accessible tracks on the album that may be a low-key love music at its core.
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With out a Warning
Monitor 21 – 4:58
The construct on “With out a Warning” is what The Weeknd is all about and feels just like the true conclusion of the album, regardless of being the penultimate monitor. No different music on Hurry Up Tomorrow captures the “tragic celeb” persona in addition to “With out a Warning”, hitting on the overarching theme of the undertaking in its remaining act because the curtains shut.
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Baptized In Concern
Monitor 6 – 3:52
“Baptized in Concern” has some of the impactful lyrics on Hurry Up Tomorrow after its darkish industrial intro that sounds proper out of the Blade Runner universe. “Voices’ll inform me that I ought to keep it up” echoes all through “Baptized in Concern” over a few of the most deeply confessional lyrics on the album.
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Open Hearts
Monitor 7 – 3:55
It feels improper to not put “Open Hearts” after “Baptized in Concern” contemplating the 2 songs have probably the most seamless and satisfying transition on Hurry Up Tomorrow. Listening to “Baptized in Concern” and never listening to “Open Hearts” instantly afterward feels prefer it needs to be a criminal offense. One of many pop-leaning singles, “Open Hearts” is a secure guess for all celebration and membership playlists.
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Hurry Up Tomorrow
Monitor 22 – 4:51
The title monitor finds The Weeknd absolving himself, or relatively being absolved, from previous sins talked about all through the album and the whole After Hours trilogy. The music is a standard ballad that permits Abel to point out off his magnificent voice whereas closing the e-book on the album, the trilogy, and possibly with The Weeknd, as he embraces Heaven.
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Timeless
Monitor 13 – 4:16
The Pharrell-produced “Timeless” is simply as addictive because it was when it was launched as a single months earlier than the discharge of Hurry Up Tomorrow. As he often does, Playboy Carti steals the present on a function that debuts all kinds of latest voices and cadences. The music is, as its title suggests, actually timeless.
