Around 11 p.m. on Thursday night in New York, near a particularly dark and disturbing segment of Donald Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention and amid nationwide unrest in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting , a series of loud, seemingly endless rumblings echoed throughout the city . Once it became clear that the intense noise was lasting far too long to be thunder or a passing truck, panicked New Yorkers ran to their windows trying to see what the hell was going on. Explosions? Shootings? An occupation? An uprising? Alien invasion? It turned out to be a fireworks display set off in the Hudson River for a performance filmed for Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards, pyrotechnics that were delayed late into the night because of rainy weather earlier in the evening. Specifically, it was for The Weeknd's show-opening performance of "Blinding Lights," belted from a terrace 1,100 feet over the city at the Edge in Hudson Yards. NEWSLETTERS The Daily Beast's Obsessed Everything we can't stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in pop culture. By Clicking “Subscribe” you agree to have read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Filmed using helicopters to capture… Read full this story
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