{"id":80557,"date":"2023-08-13T10:57:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T17:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=80557"},"modified":"2023-08-13T10:57:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T17:57:58","slug":"the-weeknd-announced-his-official-retirement-from-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/the-weeknd-announced-his-official-retirement-from-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd announced his official retirement from music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Weeknd<\/strong> has become a musical reference over the years with his undeniable talent and global hits, despite his short<strong> journey<\/strong> in the music industry. However, he recently announced his official <strong>retirement<\/strong> from music which sparked controversy among his fans.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected news caused a<strong> commotion<\/strong> among his fans who didn\u2019t expect he was going to retire after 13 years of being active in the music industry and his latest tour <em>\u2018After Hours Til Dawn\u2019<\/em> might be the<strong> last<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/weeknd-retirement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/weeknd-retirement.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/weeknd-retirement-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/weeknd-retirement-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/weeknd-retirement-750x469.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian artist expressed his thoughts during <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0the performance of <em>\u2018Another One of Me\u2019 <\/em><\/span>and<strong> claimed this was the last song he recorded, indicating he is going to quit music after the last date from his acclaimed world tour<\/strong>. This might be the opportunity for Abel to keep in the cinematography industry after working on HBO\u2019s show, <em>\u2018The Idol.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite the <strong>mixed<\/strong> reviews from \u2018The Idol\u2019 the singer might be involved in numerous projects as an actor or creator, leaving the music industry once and for all. The Weeknd strongly believes this is a sign to start a <strong>new phase<\/strong> in his life to expand his creative persona and involve in art further than <strong>music<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KWmnzXV9JqI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd has become a musical reference over the years with his undeniable talent and global hits, despite his short journey in the music industry. However, he recently announced his official retirement from music which sparked controversy among his fans. The unexpected news caused a commotion among his fans who didn\u2019t expect he was going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":80558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,7,950],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-news","9":"category-showbiz"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80557"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=80557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}