Thania Garcia The Weeknd taps Playboi Carti and “ultimate pop star” Madonna for “Popular,” the second single off “The Idol Vol.
1″ soundtrack. The glittery, upbeat song follows the previously released “Double Fantasy,” featuring Future, and comes ahead of the soundtrack slated for a June 30 debut. “I’m proud of it.
I’m definitely proud of it,” said Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, during his appearance on Zane Lowe’s New Music Daily for Apple Music 1. “Me and Carti had this… We’ve had a different version of this song prior.
So I’ve had these vocals for a while and I’ve kind of just worked around it, and then kind of kept it in the tuck. But now it felt like it was time.” Calling Madonna “the ultimate co-sign for this song, for this album, and for this TV show,” Tesfaye said audiences could expect to “hear more of her in the show as well… She is the ultimate pop star.” The singer, who plays a scheming Svengali named Tedros in the upcoming Sam Levinson-directed HBO series, said he’s always had dreams of writing and co-producing a Madonna album: “So this can be… Hopefully, this is the appetizer for that,” he said.
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