{"id":37140,"date":"2026-08-10T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37140"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:26:09","slug":"the-weeknd-reveals-hes-no-longer-planning-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37140","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd Reveals He\u2019s No Longer Planning to Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>\u201cPart of me actually was thinking, \u2018You lost your voice because it\u2019s done; you said what you had to say. Don\u2019t overstay at the party\u2014you can end it now and live a happy life,\u2019\u201d\u00a0the 36-year-old\u00a0recalled. \u201cYou know? Put the bow on it: Hurry Up Tomorrow? Now we\u2019re here. When is the right time to leave, if not at your peak?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Weeknd\u00a0added, \u201cOnce you understand who I am too much, then it\u2019s time to pivot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But even then, he wasn\u2019t suggesting a permanent goodbye to music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t think I can stop doing that,\u201d he explained. \u201cBut everything needs to feel like a challenge. And for me right now, the Weeknd, whatever that is, it\u2019s been mastered.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one\u2019s gonna do the Weeknd better than me,\u201d he added, \u201cand I\u2019m not gonna do it better than what it is right now. I think I\u2019ve overcome every challenge as this persona.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPart of me actually was thinking, \u2018You lost your voice because it\u2019s done; you said what you had to say. Don\u2019t overstay at the party\u2014you can end it now and live a happy life,\u2019\u201d\u00a0the 36-year-old\u00a0recalled. \u201cYou know? Put the bow on it: Hurry Up Tomorrow? Now we\u2019re here. When is the right time to leave,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260810\/7be297aa-502c-4f15-b758-29142af15e37_1786374340.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}