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The Weeknd and Anitta
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The Weeknd and Anitta are celebrating Halloween (Oct. 31) the correct approach. To coincide with the vacation, the pair debuted their much-awaited collaboration, “São Paulo,” alongside its spine-tingling visible effort.
The three ½-minute video adopted a pregnant Anitta carrying the identical Rejuvenique Electrical Facial Masks she teased on Instagram days earlier — it additionally appeared within the tune’s art work. Her stomach bump featured grotesque lips tasked with singing The Weeknd’s half.
“Scorching like risin’ solar, burnin’ every part she contact/ She do not even need your cash, should buy you and another person/ She’s hooked on the push, I can by no means get sufficient/ She desensitized to cash, have to pay with one thing else,” the Canadian singer crooned.
Towards the top of the clip, the title card “Illusion” flashed on the display screen, presumably in reference to a different collaboration, a tune from Hurry Up Tomorrow, or the phrase’s literal definition. Test it out beneath.
“I wrote some verses as a joke and by no means imagined they’d develop into critical. Out of the blue, I acquired the completed tune. I liked it! I felt very honored and flattered,” Anitta informed Billboard of their collaboration. “I’ve at all times been a giant fan of his and his work. I by no means imagined this may occur, and now it’s a dream come true. It’s slightly extra Brazilian funk, as promised, world wide.”
Hurry Up Tomorrow doesn’t have a launch date on the time of reporting. Nonetheless, The Weeknd gave followers a style of the LP with singles like “Dancing In The Flames” and “Timeless,” each of which have been previewed in São Paulo, Brazil. The latter-mentioned monitor got here with a visitor verse from Playboi Carti and debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart.
As Rap-Up beforehand reported, the forthcoming album will convey a near The Weeknd’s After Hours and Daybreak FM trilogy.