{"id":140989,"date":"2022-11-27T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-weeknd-triumphantly-returns-to-the-scene-of-the-crime-for-la-makeup-show\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T15:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T15:43:05","slug":"the-weeknd-triumphantly-returns-to-the-scene-of-the-crime-for-la-makeup-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-weeknd-triumphantly-returns-to-the-scene-of-the-crime-for-la-makeup-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd triumphantly returns to ‘the scene of the crime’ for LA makeup show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Weeknd performing his After Hours Til Dawn Tour earlier this year. (Photo: Paras Griffin\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cAnd we’re back at the scene of the crime, it looks like,\u201d the Weeknd quipped a few songs into his set at Los Angeles’s SoFi Stadium on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow it’s sounding tonight \u2014 is it sounding good? I love you. And the party has just started.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saturday’s sold-out show was a makeup gig for the Weeknd’s aborted SoFi date on Sept. 3, when the 32-year-old superstar, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, halted his performance after only 18 minutes. Citing vocal problems, he had tearfully apologized, then exited the stage for good, as the 70,000 fans in attendance were left disappointed and confused.<\/p>\n

\u201cI personally want to apologize to you guys. I don’t know what just happened when I screamed, but I just lost my voice,” Tesfaye explained that night. “This is killing me. I don’t want to stop the show. But I can’t give you the concert I want to give you right now. I’m going make sure everybody’s good \u2014 get your money back \u2014 but I’ll do a show real soon for you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReal soon\u201d arrived two and a half months later, on Nov. 26, with the Weeknd’s rescheduled LA date on his After Hours Til Dawn Tour. Tesfaye kicked off his 90-minute set with the Dawn FM<\/em> tracks \u201cGasoline,\u201d \u201cSacrifice,\u201d and \u201cHow Do I Make You Love Me?,\u201d and then audience members braced themselves when he segued into \u201cCan’t Feel My Face\u201d \u2014 the very hit on his setlist that had caused issues and forced him to quit mid-song back in September, after his \u201cvoice went out\u201d and his \u201cheart dropped.\u201d<\/p>\n

thigh this<\/em> time, everything thankfully went off without a hitch. At one early point during Saturday’s show, Tesfaye \u2014 who was cleared by doctors to perform again shortly after the LA incident \u2014 even hoisted his microphone stand above his head and pumped it up and down like a barbell, as if to prove that he was back in fighting shape.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you from the bottom of my heart for fighting through with this, with me, and for coming back and showing me so much love. I knew <\/em>you’d come back,\u201d the Weeknd told the rallying SoFi audience Saturday. \u201cI love you guys so much, and I don’t know what else to say. \u2026 Los Angeles, I f***ing love you!\u201d<\/p>\n