Canadian singer The Weeknd seems to be kissing his stage title goodbye after he started utilizing his delivery title on social media.
Although his usernames on Twitter and Instagram stay “theweeknd”, the 33-year-old R&B star’s show title now displays his unique title, Abel Tesfaye.
It comes one week after he informed W Magazine he was contemplating retiring his stage title after greater than a decade performing underneath the pseudonym.
“I’m going through a cathartic path right now,” he mentioned within the interview. “It’s getting to a place and time where I’m getting ready to close The Weeknd chapter.”
Tesfaye – who will quickly seem within the horny new Binge collection The Idolreverse Lily-Rose Depp – defined that he has mentioned “everything I can say” as The Weeknd and he’s prepared to maneuver on.
The singer has had success on the music charts with 5 studio albums and a string of hits, together with Blinding Lights, Starboy and I Feel It Coming. In April 2023, he grew to become the primary artist in Spotify historical past to hit 100 million month-to-month listeners, the streaming platform confirmed to Variety.
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In his interview with W, the singer mentioned the following album he’s “working on now” is probably going his “last hurrah” as The Weeknd.
The title change comes only one month after Tesfaye requested his tens of millions of Twitter followers if he ought to give his delivery title a run, however the majority of followers didn’t take him severely.
“ABEL formally known as The Weeknd?” he tweeted on April 4.
“What? Are you going to change it to theweekdys now or something?” joked one Twitter person, whereas one other tweeted: “Weeknd are you trying to get out [of] your record contract or something lol?”
The origins of his stage title stem from his faculty days when he dropped out and apparently took his mattress with him, principally leaving “one weekend”.
He then dropped the ‘e’ in ‘weekend’ to keep away from trademark points with an current band of the identical title.
“I left home when I was about 17, dropped out of high school and convinced Lamar [XO crew member] to do the same,” he mentioned in a earlier Reddit Q&A. “We grabbed our mattresses from our parents threw it in our friends sh**ty van and left one weekend and never came back home.
“I hated my name at the time though so I tried it as a stage name. It sounded cool. I took out the ‘e’ because there was already a Canadian band named The Weekend.”
Source: www.news.com.au
