The Weeknd has responded to a Woman Gaga meme that has gone viral has he introduced the change of his stage identify.
This week, the Canadian pop star – actual identify Abel Tesfaye – introduced that he was retiring his stage identify and can be recognized from now by his start identify. It got here after he vowed to “kill” his alter-ego.
Final month, he shared a tweet studying: “ABEL formally often called The Weeknd?” and this week (Could 15) then modified his social media profiles to the identify Abel Tesfaye.
Since then, followers have been reacting to the information on social media, with one Woman Gaga meme dominating the dialog.
In a single tweet, a fan shared the caption: “The assistant within the report retailer after I ask if they’ve any Abel Tesfaye albums in inventory,” alongside a video of Woman Gaga performing the music ‘Babylon’ dwell, during which she sings: “We solely have the weekend.”
Tesfaye shared his love for the meme, replying with the crying laughing emoji. See the tweet under.
😂 https://t.co/3h41dN4zKc
— Abel Tesfaye (@theweeknd) May 16, 2023
The R&B singer hinted on the identify change earlier this month, when he admitted that he wished to “shut The Weekend chapter”, and proceed his inventive endeavours below the brand new title.
”I’m going by way of a cathartic path proper now… It’s attending to a spot and time the place I’m on the brink of shut The Weeknd chapter,” he advised W Journal. “The album I’m engaged on now might be my final hurrah as The Weeknd. That is one thing that I’ve to do. As The Weeknd, I’ve stated every thing I can say.”
Elsewhere, Tesfaye has introduced that he can be appearing alongside Lily-Rose Depp within the long-awaited HBO sequence, The Idol. Set for launch subsequent month, it was revealed that the concept for the present got here from a pitch made by the singer, who advised the director that he may “begin a cult” if he wished to.
His remaining album as The Weeknd was 2022’s ‘Daybreak FM’. In January, he teased that he was engaged on new music.
