{"id":814609,"date":"2026-10-26T17:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814609\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:22:09","slug":"the-weeknd-debuts-hong-kong-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814609\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd Debuts \u201cHong Kong\u201d in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening a four-night run at Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29533-the-weeknd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Weeknd<\/a> debuted the thematically apt \u201cHong Kong\u201d on Saturday. The new song features the Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor Faye Wong, who also stars in a sleek visual accompaniment, set in the nation\u2019s capital, that premiered on the giant screen behind Abel Tesfaye as the song played. Watch it go down below.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Weeknd debuted another metropolis-themed song, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-THVKxV6iAg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rio<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0in the titular city. (That was a duet with Anitta, who previously joined Tesfaye on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/the-weeknd-and-anitta-release-video-for-new-song-sao-paulo-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a>.\u201d) His last album, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/the-weeknd-hurry-up-tomorrow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/a>, came out last February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening a four-night run at Kai Tak Stadium in Hong Kong, the Weeknd debuted the thematically apt \u201cHong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4688,96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-audio","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}