{"id":1096,"date":"2025-05-16T01:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T01:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-weeknd-tonight-show-preview-tom-cruise-cant-feel-my-face-1235973491\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T01:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T01:40:11","slug":"the-weeknd-tonight-show-preview-tom-cruise-cant-feel-my-face-1235973491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/the-weeknd-tonight-show-preview-tom-cruise-cant-feel-my-face-1235973491\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd Says Tom Cruise \u2018Lip Sync Battle\u2019 Helped Him Score His First Hot 100 No. 1 in \u2018Tonight Show\u2019\u00a0Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/the-weeknd\/\">The Weeknd<\/a> says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/tom-cruise\/\">Tom Cruise<\/a> did him a solid with the actor\u2019s lip-sync performance of \u201cCan\u2019t Feel My Face,\u201d the singer says during his first-ever interview on <em>The Tonight Show <\/em>Thursday (May 15) in an exclusive Billboard preview clip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/jimmy-fallon\/\">Jimmy Fallon<\/a> told The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) one of the first times his late-night talk show used one of his songs was in 2015 during a Lip Sync Battle segment featuring Cruise, who praised the singer as being \u201cenormously talented\u201d before launching into his performance of \u201cCan\u2019t Feel My Face.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-related-story \/\/ lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-b-1 lrv-u-padding-t-050 lrv-u-padding-b-075 lrv-u-border-color-grey\">\n<div class=\"a-heading-border a-heading-border-background-color-grey a-heading-border-height-075 lrv-u-margin-b-075 lrv-u-margin-b-050@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-color-brand-primary a-font-primary-bold-s lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-padding-r-1 a-article-related-module-title a-article-related-module-title--color-brand-primary\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card lrv-u-flex\">\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/the-weeknd-tonight-show-jimmy-fallon-appearance-1235967924\/\" class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-a-unstyle-link lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-card__image-wrap lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-flex-basis-144 u-flex-basis-96@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<div class=\"a-crop-3x2 a-crop-1x1@mobile-max lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/the-weeknd-tonight-show-billboard-1548.jpg?w=237&amp;h=147&amp;crop=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/the-weeknd-tonight-show-billboard-1548.jpg?w=237&amp;h=147&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"The Weeknd\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"\" width=\"\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card__content lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-justify-content-center lrv-u-padding-lr-1 lrv-u-padding-lr-075@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"o_category \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c_title \">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  a-font-primary-medium-m lrv-u-padding-b-050 u-letter-spacing-0028@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe Weeknd to Make Late Night Interview Debut on \u2018The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy\u00a0Fallon\u2026\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<p><time class=\"c-timestamp  a-font-primary-medium-xxs lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-order-100\" datetime=\"00:00-YY-DD-MM\"><br \/>\n\t05\/09\/2025<br \/>\n<\/time><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI definitely saw that. It actually helped the song,\u201d said The Weeknd. \u201cIt helped it peak to the record-breaking top, thanks to him obviously.\u201d \u201cCan\u2019t Feel My Face,\u201d the third single from his sophomore album <em>Beauty Behind the Madness<\/em>, became his first No. 1 hit on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a> a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Weeknd\u2019s full <em>Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em> interview \u2014 his first sit-down late-night interview \u2014 airs in full tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC, and streaming on Peacock. The Weeknd is promoting his upcoming feature film <em>Hurry Up Tomorrow<\/em>, based on his album of the same name, out in theaters on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch a preview clip exclusively on <em>Billboard<\/em> before. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sneak Peek: The Weeknd on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n1yOPXaXnKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weeknd says Tom Cruise did him a solid with the actor\u2019s lip-sync performance of \u201cCan\u2019t Feel My Face,\u201d the singer says during his first-ever interview on The Tonight Show&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,94,558],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-music-news","category-the-tonight-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}