12/3/2023 0 Comments The weeknd new album playlistAbel Tesfaye was scoring pop hits, becoming an arena-headlining star, and a reluctant celebrity - dragged into the spotlight through his oft-public relationships with Selena Gomez and Bella Hadid. In fact, he emerged so fully formed that his subsequent major-label albums - 2014’s Kiss Land, 2015’s Beauty Behind the Madness, 2016’s Starboy - sometimes felt watered-down as a result. The Toronto-born Abel Tesfaye not only introduced the concept of alternative R&B, but gave its melodic, druggy disembodiment an inimitable sense of cool. ![]() ![]() Arguably no other artist of the 2010s emerged with such a fully-formed aesthetic. The Weeknd’s debut mixtape, House Of Balloons, came out almost exactly nine years ago.
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