After saying his resolution to axe his artist moniker throughout his interview with W Journal just lately, The Weeknd took a step in that route when he modified all of his show names on social media to his beginning identify — Abel Makkonen Tesfaye.
The quilt story that includes his The Idol co-star Lily-Rose Depp highlighted their upcoming controversial HBO Max sequence, The Idol, and revealed Tesfaye’s want to “kill The Weeknd.”
“I’m going by a cathartic path proper now. It’s attending to a spot and a time the place I’m on the point of shut the Weeknd chapter,” the singer instructed W Journal. “I’ll nonetheless make music, possibly as Abel, possibly as The Weeknd. However I nonetheless wish to kill The Weeknd. And I’ll. Finally. I’m undoubtedly making an attempt to shed that pores and skin and be reborn.”
Although Tesfaye has taken the preliminary steps in eradicating his iconic artist identify from social media, he revealed his plans to finish yet another album underneath The Weeknd. “The album I’m engaged on now might be my final hurrah as The Weeknd,” he mentioned throughout his interview. “That is one thing that I’ve to do. As The Weeknd, I’ve mentioned the whole lot I can say.”
Later within the story, Tesfaye defined how taking part in the position of Tedros within the upcoming HBO musical drama had a bodily and emotional toll on him. “I needed to take off The Weeknd outfit, placed on Tedros’ wig, shoot with [Depp’s character] Jocelyn, then return to being The Weeknd,” he mirrored on the shift between characters. “Then, after the live performance, I misplaced my voice. No voice got here out in any respect. That’s by no means occurred earlier than. My idea is that I forgot the right way to sing as a result of I used to be taking part in Tedros, a personality who doesn’t know the right way to sing. I could also be trying too deeply into this, however it was terrifying. As The Weeknd, I’ve by no means skipped a live performance. I’ve carried out with the flu. I’ll die on that stage. However there was one thing very difficult occurring with my thoughts at that second.”
The Idol debuts June 4 on Max.
