The Weeknd has landed Madonna and Playboi Carti options for the newest observe from his HBO present, The Idol. “Well-liked,” which follows the Weeknd and Future’s lead music “Double Fantasy,” will likewise seem on the soundtrack album, The Idol, Vol. 1, upon the present’s launch in June. The complete soundtrack is out June 30. Hearken to the brand new one under.
In a brand new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, the Weeknd revealed that the music originated as a collaboration with Playboi Carti. “We’ve had a distinct model of this music prior. So I’ve had these vocals for some time and I’ve type of simply labored round it, after which type of stored it within the tuck. However now it felt prefer it was time.” He known as Madonna “the final word co-sign for this music.”
“I’ve at all times needed to work together with her,” he mentioned. “I’ve at all times needed to put in writing and produce a Madonna album…properly, co-produce together with her, after all. She’s a visionary and she or he has such a singular imaginative and prescient, and I simply wish to come into her world and create a traditional Madonna album. That was at all times my dream. Hopefully that is the appetizer for that.”
The Idol has had a tough experience since a Rolling Stone exposé publicized allegations that the present’s creators—Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, and Reza Fahim—had mishandled the manufacturing, resulting in delays and what some workers framed as a departure from the preliminary script’s “feminist lens.” A few of it amounted to “sexual torture porn,” mentioned one crew member. The present’s stars and creators dismissed these characterizations in the course of the press run at Cannes Movie Competition, whilst early critiques bore out misgivings expressed within the Rolling Stone report. (The Idol at present has a 25 % critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes.)
Playboi Carti was arrested earlier this 12 months for allegedly assaulting and choking his pregnant girlfriend. His lawyer mentioned he was falsely accused.
