{"id":423912,"date":"2026-05-03T23:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/423912\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:12:18","slug":"journey-singer-arnel-pineda-makes-cryptic-post-about-scary-new-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/423912\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey singer Arnel Pineda makes cryptic post about &#8216;scary&#8217; new chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnel Pineda, the current frontman for Journey, made a mysterious post on social media, alluding to things ending and a \u201cnew chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pineda\u2019s post began with an apology to \u201ceveryone who\u2019s attempted to reach out and secure an interview w\/ me over the yearsme being aloof wasn\u2019t intentional nor a disrespect, it\u2019s just that, there\u2019s nothing to tell much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then referred to taking over as the band\u2019s lead singer from Steve Perry in 2007, saying, \u201cONE OF THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITIES in my life used #NealSchon [Journey\u2019s co-founder] to make me a part of a LEGACY that\u2019s touched millions of lives all over America and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pineda admitted \u201cand as scared as i am from the start \u2018til now (believe it or not) I did what\u2019s asked of me to do on behalf of the band\u2019s LEGACY\u201d adding there have been \u201clots of mishaps, stumblings, shameful moments, gigantic self-doubt, imperfections, and before we all knew it, 18 and a half years has passedso that\u2019s all there is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He thanked fans and haters alike for their support and feedback over the years, as well as saying the \u201cstory will go on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pineda asked people to \u201crespect to my privacy as i navigate a new chapter in my life that\u2019s still kinda scary coz for me, it\u2019s unknown and won\u2019t reveal much of what I\u2019m expecting it to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Journey is currently on their Final Frontier farewell tour, which is set to conclude on July 2 in Laredo Texas, though there are more shows expected in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wearepauserewind\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wearepauserewind\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@WeArePauseRewind<\/a> for all your pop culture obsessions.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arnel Pineda, the current frontman for Journey, made a mysterious post on social media, alluding to things ending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[177492,146,199383,85,46,18569,3565,409,65513,177371,199382,177372],"class_list":["post-423912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-arnel-pineda","tag-entertainment","tag-farewell-tour","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-journey","tag-legacy","tag-music","tag-music-career","tag-neal-schon","tag-new-chapter","tag-steve-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}