Why the Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” Is the First Chart Topper of the Coronavirus Era

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Why the Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” Is the First Chart Topper of the Coronavirus Era
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America’s new favorite song is the “Good Times” for our own bad times.

on the Hot 100 a couple of weeks before Christmas but then bumped around the middle of the chart for weeks into the new year, as “Heartless” received all of the initial promotional and radio focus. “Lights” didn’t finally crack the Top 10 until around early March, just as everything in our country was going to hell. Of course, the Weeknd has long been a fervent chronicler ofSeriously, I don’t think “Blinding Lights” is the No.

No, “Blinding Lights” is the chart topper for our time of lonely lockdown because, however accidentally, the Weeknd found the ideal midpoint between glossy and eerie, between danceable and dark. It’s “Good Times” for the baddest of bad times.pouring out of Tesfaye’s head. The “Blinding Lights” video is part of a series of interconnected “short films” issued to promote the new album.

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