Blinding Lights is part of The Weeknd's latest album, “After Hours”. Since its release in November last year, the song has broken various records in the music world throughout 2020. Until now, the song written by The Weeknd with Max Martin and Oscar Holter has received a total of 4.5 billion streams globally.

Blinding Lights has also recently been named the most streamed song on the Spotify app during 2020, as well as the ninth most-played song of all time on the platform at just one year old. Evidently, the two singles released as pre-release for this album alone have promised different sides to The Weeknd.

"Blinding Lights" was officially released two days after the release of "Heartless", the first single from The Weeknd since the EP "My Dear Melancholy" in March 2018. On the second pre-release single for the new album, Abel reunited with producer Max Martin.

Both of them previously worked on the mega hit "Can't Feel My Face" which catapulted the name The Weeknd. Given this, Abel also collaborated with producer Metro Boomin, who co-produced "Six Feet Under" in 2016. Is it possible that the latest album will carry a list of producers' names from the old releases of The Weeknd? If “Heartless” is a type of song that seems to have become the hallmark of The Weeknd, then “Blinding Lights” is just the opposite.

This single elevates 80's retro music with a cheerful synth-driven electro-pop. Tempo for 3 minutes is maintained a medium limit