• The Weeknd released his latest album, Later Hours, in March 2020. Some of the singles include "Heartless," "After Hours," and "Blinding Lights," a song with 1980s vibes that'll get you lot dancing.
  • Only what are the lyrics to "Blinding Lights" about? We did some sleuthing, and it seems to touch on his on-again, off-again relationship with model Bella Hadid, and he'southward spoken about the song's connexion to drunkard driving, too.
  • The R&B superstar volition be performing at the 2022 Super Bowl, and it is widely expected that "Blinding Lights" will be function of his gear up.

When The Weeknd takes the stage for the 2022 Super Bowl halftime evidence, he's likely to put some of his by heartbreaks on display for the massive Goggle box audience. Over the last decade, he's gone from a mysterious viral awareness to a bona fide pop superstar topping charts in the U.S. and his native Canada with moody songs nigh lost relationships and lifestyle backlog.

Specifically, the mega striking "Blinding Lights," from his 2022 anthology Afterward Hours points to a love that got abroad. And if we take a quick peek at his dating history, it'south credible the R&B singer—born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye—may be subtly referring to his on-again, off-over again relationship with model Bella Hadid.

Information technology's a synth-axial pop record that'll brand you call back of '80s new wave or the Stranger Things soundtrack, and while information technology doesn't appear in the serial, a talented fan made a cracking mashup video using its stars. "Blinding Lights" includes the post-obit lyrics: "The metropolis's cold and empty / No one's effectually to judge me / I tin't see clearly when you're gone." Those words are conspicuously about experiencing heartbreak while lamenting what could take been with someone.

Interestingly, the lyrics are quite dissimilar in tone when compared to the first unmarried off After Hours, "Heartless." There, he sings about being in bachelor style: "Never need a b**ch, I'one thousand what a b**ch needs / Trying to detect the 1 that tin can fix me."

Hither, nosotros believe he's talking near his relationship with Selena Gomez, which ended in October 2022 after nine months of dating. It continues: "I lost my heart and my listen / I try to always do right / I thought I lost you this fourth dimension / You lot just came back in my life /You lot never gave up on me (Why don't you?) / I'll never know what you see (Why won't you lot?) / I don't do well when solitary (Oh yep) / You hear it clear in my tone."

There'southward likewise been speculation that other Weeknd songs are about Selena, including much of his macabre 2022 EP My Dear Melancholy, particularly the hit single "Telephone call Out My Proper noun."

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However, the relationship he sings nearly in "Blinding Lights" seems to accept affected him differently. Hadid and The Weeknd broke up in November 2022 just reunited in May 2022 at the Cannes Film Festival. In the summer of 2018, reports swirled that they were back together, before they split up up again by summer 2019.

In June 2020, U.s. Weekly reported the pair "[had] been in bear on recently," signaling the possibility of a reconciliation either romantically or as friends. In October, Page Six published a story claiming that Hadid was dating Duke Nicholson, Jack Nicholson's grandson.

Then how could "Blinding Lights" exist about Hadid? Well, the aforementioned lyrics say a lot: "I wait around and / Sin Urban center'southward cold and empty (Oh) / No one'southward around to judge me (Oh) / I can't come across clearly when yous're gone." Those words seem to reference the fact that without her to rely on, he may not exist as level-headed as earlier.

Later in the song, at that place's a possible reference to the time they spent together during Hadid's birthday in October 2019. Eastward! reported that he wished her a happy birthday and they eventually met in New York. A source told E!, "[He] did reach out to Bella during the day to wish her a 'Happy Birthday' and they have been in touch. There is no bad blood between the two and they are on good terms correct at present. There isn't whatsoever chance of them getting back together right now, only Bella never wants to have any anger or resentment towards anyone." A spokesperson for The Weeknd later told People "they simply attended as friends."

And it'southward these lyrics that potentially address that outcome: "I'yard just walking past to permit you lot know (Past to let you know) / I tin can never say information technology on the phone (Say it on the phone) / Will never let you go this time (Ooh)."

There's been farther speculation that "Blinding Lights" is actually about drug use, inspired in part by its video, which depicts the singer on something of a Fearfulness and Loathing in Las Vegas-fashion bough. In an interview with CR Fashion Book during the Afterward Hours press cycle, The Weeknd talked about his current relationship with substances, something that was particularly present on his early work like "High for This."

"I take an off-and-on relationship with it. It doesn't consume my life but occasionally helps me open up my mind, specially when I'm creating, but when I perform I'yard completely sober and try not to even drink," he said. "I've learned to balance thank you to touring."

The about explicit explanation of the song'due south meaning came in The Weeknd'south Esquire encompass interview, where he indicated that parts of the lyrics were really continued to the feeling of driving while intoxicated. Many believe that the reason his After Hours performances take featured him heavily bandaged and bloodied is really a warning confronting the dangers of driving drunkard.

"[It's almost] how you lot want to see someone at night, and yous're intoxicated, and you're driving to this person and you're simply blinded by streetlights, but zero could finish you from trying to go see that person, because you're then alone," he said. "I don't want to always promote drunkard driving, but that's what the dark undertone is."

In the 2nd poetry, he sings: "I'm running out of time / 'Crusade I can see the sunday light upward the sky / So I hit the road in overdrive," which may exist inspired by the sort of scenario he described higher up.

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So far, it seems like things betwixt Hadid and The Weeknd remain ideal. But the lyrics are definitely null short of swoon-worthy–especially the ROSALÍA-assisted remix that dropped in December–and we expect the Super Bowl performance to be a showstopper. It's even been used in a Pepsi commercial hyping upward the big game.

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The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (Official Video)

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[Intro]

Aye

[Verse 1]

I've been tryna phone call

I've been on my own for long enough

Maybe you can evidence me how to love, perchance

I'g going through withdrawals

Yous don't even have to do too much

You can turn me on with simply a touch, babe

[Pre-Chorus]

I look effectually and

Sin City's cold and empty (Oh)

No one'southward around to judge me (Oh)

I tin can't see clearly when yous're gone

[Chorus]

I said, ooh, I'm blinded past the lights

No, I tin can't sleep until I feel your touch

I said, ooh, I'm drowning in the night

Oh, when I'k similar this, you're the one I trust

Hey, hey, hey

[Verse two]

I'one thousand running out of time

'Cause I tin can encounter the lord's day light up the sky

So I hit the route in overdrive, baby, oh

[Pre-Chorus]

The city's common cold and empty (Oh)

No ane'due south around to judge me (Oh)

I tin't meet clearly when you lot're gone

[Chorus]

I said, ooh, I'm blinded past the lights

No, I tin can't sleep until I feel your touch

I said, ooh, I'm drowning in the night

Oh, when I'm similar this, you're the ane I trust

[Bridge]

I'one thousand just calling dorsum to allow yous know (Back to let you know)

I could never say it on the phone (Say information technology on the phone)

Volition never let y'all go this fourth dimension (Ooh)

[Chorus]

I said, ooh, I'm blinded by the lights

No, I can't sleep until I feel your bear upon

Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, hey

[Outro]

I said, ooh, I'm blinded by the lights

No, I tin can't sleep until I feel your touch

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