Webdesk: Abel Tesfaye didn’t want to be associated with The Weekend anymore because he wanted to find his own personality.
The singer of “Starboy” told W Magazine that his next record is “probably [his] last hurrah as The Weeknd.”
“I’m going through a cathartic road right now,” he said, adding, “I’m getting ready to close the Weeknd chapter. I’ll still make songs, maybe as Abel or The Weeknd. But I still want The Weeknd to die. I will, too. Eventually. I’m trying very hard to get rid of that skin and start over.”
The 33-year-old also said that the next record would be the last in a trilogy that began with After Hours in 2020 and continued with Dawn FM the year before.
“The album I’m working on right now is probably my last hurrah as The Weeknd,” he said. “I have to do this. I’ve said everything I can say as The Weeknd.”
After making his start in 2019’s Uncut Gems, The Weekend is also going to be in a movie with Jenna Ortega.
