Sole winner of Super Bowl LV. Lover to some of the most desired women on earth. The one with the falsetto rivaled only by the GOAT. Sure, the Harvard House has seen some shit. But so has Abel Tesfaye—a. The Weeknd. The day before the photo shoot, I met that same guy at a recording studio in Century City. He was wearing a black Online Ceramics hoodie and sweatpants that were more function than fashion.
A backpack weighed down his right shoulder. It was stuffed as if he had packed for a whole day of bouncing around in Ubers. There were no disco aviators. We were supposed to meet at 6 p. He apologized, repeatedly, for being late. He arrived at p. The Weeknd has the longest-charting song by a solo artist in history and billions of worldwide streams. The Weeknd spent his pandemic in a red blazer licking frogs dipped in LSD.
Abel, meanwhile, was bingeing The X-Files. He has been rediscovering L. He exudes a type of politeness found only in the world capital of politeness Ontario, Canada. Abel is the sweet guy whom they lose in the first 30 minutes and spend the rest of the movie trying to find. The lines were blurry at the beginning.
And The Weeknd is someone I go to work as. So am I interviewing The Weeknd or Abel? Abel can be badass sometimes, man. But I guess The Weeknd is Hyde. Abel is Dr. I am not dark. What was the original reason for your anonymity? With House of Balloons, nobody knew what I looked like.
When did you first hear your voice and know that it was special? I used to get penalized for singing when I was younger, because I always wanted to sing. I just always wanted to sing. I would sing in class. I would sing at the dinner table. And I would get in trouble for it because it was inappropriate at the time. Did you try to go on Canadian Idol? It was the first song that came out from The Weeknd. Nobody knew what I looked like.
I was not popping. I was struggling at the time. A good friend of mine hooked me up with a job at American Apparel, and I was folding clothes there when somebody at the store played the song.
Mind you, nobody knew who The Weeknd was. Did you freak out? Well, no. I started listening, seeing what people thought of it. So where does the name The Weeknd come from? I was still Abel. So I called myself The Weeknd. Do you still like the name The Weeknd as much as you did then? As much as I did then? No, not as much as I did then. I like that I have that as an option to escape Abel a little bit. I definitely loved it more back then than I do now.
I love my name now, though: Abel. Would you ever make music as Abel? I feel like I already do. They just call me Abel. In most of your videos, The Weeknd is murdered, beaten up, et cetera. What is your fascination with killing The Weeknd? He keeps coming out. I do feel guilty. For sure. I just try not to bring attention to myself. And I just love being in normal situations, man.
To be able to just like go on a walk and not being in a fucking SUV. I like sober lite. Do you drink? Other drugs? Drugs were a crutch. It was me thinking that I needed it. And not doing the work to figure out how not to need it. And I eventually want a family. I want children.
Is it a defense mechanism or something? I guess I say it because I like the trajectory of my career. But also I feel like having children would influence me and inspire me more. You know? Do you ever think about having to explain some of your more sexual lyrics to your future kids?
The one and only moment when The Weeknd appeared in the studio was right before Abel played me a few new songs off his upcoming album. Concern is Abel stuff.
It had a certain arrogance someone could only conjure with percent certainty that I was indeed not ready.
And he was right. The music hit the studio like a Mack truck. The new project is packed with party records. Like real-deal, illuminated-white-tiles-on-the-floor party records.
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Speakers of American English may understand this expression, but they do not use it. Learner's Dictionary mobile search. Learner's Dictionary. Ask the Editor. Many learners have asked about the difference between these three phrases: over the weekend, on the weekend, and at the weekend. Over the weekend Over the weekend means the same thing as during the weekend. We started packing up our apartment over the weekend. I promise I'll call you over the weekend.
We flew down to Miami over the weekend. On the weekend The meaning of on the weekend is similar to the meaning of over the weekend, although it is not used quite as often. The excitement started to build on the weekend. Would you wear it to go jogging on the weekend? On the weekends plural One clear difference between over the weekend and on the weekend is that only on is used with the plural: weekends. For example, these are all good sentences in English: They go sailing on the weekends.
I usually leave early on the weekends.
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