Abel Tesfaye suggests he is working on the final Weeknd album
thefader.comNext month will bring the arrival of The Idol, the debut series by The Weeknd, to HBO. In a new interview with W Magazine, Abel Tesfaye has suggested that his move into film and TV has coincided with what he sees as the end of his music-making career, at least in some capacity.
Speaking about where he is at creatively at the moment, Tesfaye told the magazine in a new cover story, "I’m going through a cathartic path right now.
It’s getting to a place and a time where I’m getting ready to close the Weeknd chapter. I’ll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as The Weeknd.
But I still want to kill The Weeknd. And I will. Eventually. I’m definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn." Read Next: The Weeknd previews The Idol with new Future collaboration “Double Fantasy” Tesfaye added that he is working on new music that he believes will represent "my last hurrah as The Weekend," before going on to state: "This is something that I have to do.
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