What was The Weeknd?
What was The Weeknd? Abel Tesfaye's alter-ego meets his end on 'Hurry Up Tomorrow,' forcing listeners to ask just who we've been partying with all this time toggle caption Holly McCandless Desmond "High for This," the opening track from The Weeknd's coke-fueled 2011 debut mixtape, House of Balloons, can now be understood as a kind of instruction manual for the artist's new listeners. "It's a headspace I've gotta get into that I just don't have any more desire for," he said last month. In connecting the dots that brought us to this threshold moment, it's tempting to think of "Can't Feel My Face," the Max Martin-produced 2015 megahit, as a line of demarcation in The Weeknd's career — the turnstile between shadowy puppeteer and emergent pop star. There's a moment on "Enjoy the Show" where he makes a revealing admission: "Traumas in my life, I've been hesitant to heal 'em / Take another hit, or my music, they won't feel it."
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