Was anyone wondering what inspired The Weeknd to cut off his trademark locks?
Speaking with the Wall Street Journal about his new album Starboy, he revealed that the style change was a “long time coming.”
“It didn’t feel right anymore, because it ended up becoming a trademark,” he said. “I told everybody I was getting rid of it, and everybody — literally, unanimously — they were like, ‘No, don’t do it! That’s your whole thing, that’s you.’ And the way they said that, I was like, ‘Oh, I’m definitely cutting it now.'”
Outside the music, even the timing took some confidence to pull off, canceling plans for a massive summer tour behind his chart-topping, Grammy and Billboard award-winning album Beauty Behind the Madness, to hit the studio and focus on new music. It was a risk and money lost, but the 25-year-old said “this is what feels right.”
After four months of recording, he finished the new album, which is due out Nov. 25. He says it’s him at the top of his game.
“I think I’m just having my A game — that I’m the best I’ve ever been in the studio,” he said. “I don’t know where to go after this record, to be honest.”
Read the full interview HERE
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