‘I want to kill The Weeknd’: Abel Tesfaye

The Weeknd is set to meet an end after Abel Tesfaye is ready to bid farewell to the calendrical moniker.

During an interview with W Magazine, the After Hours singer said that his next album is “probably [his] last hurrah as The Weeknd.”

“I’m going through a cathartic path right now,” adding, “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.”

The Canadian singer also suggested that the trilogy would be complete with the upcoming album which started with 2020’s After Hours and the previous year’s Dawn FM.

“The album I’m working on now is probably my last hurrah as The Weeknd,” he went on. “This is something that I have to do. As The Weeknd, I’ve said everything I can say.”

Meanwhile, following 2019’s Uncut Gems debut, the singer is set to prove his acting chops in an upcoming film next to Jenna Ortega.