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Sometimes you take him and then you create more, and then it becomes this beast.

That guy is who I am, but it is who I am to myself and in my writing. Speaking to Apple Music about the persona behind his songs, Tesfaye said, вЂњIвЂ™m a chill person. And though his music has gotten a little brighter over time, the prevailing mood remains heavy, even unsettling-the ride you want more of even when youвЂ™ve had too much.

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TesfayeвЂ™s music has become a symbol of hedonism pushed to bleak excess, with a series of albums-including 2015вЂ™s Grammy-winning Beauty Behind the Madness, 2016вЂ™s multiplatinum Starboy, and 2020вЂ™s dense and atmospheric After Hours-whose narrators canвЂ™t seem to say no even if they hate themselves for it later. Ethiopian by heritage (his parents immigrated to Canada in the late вЂ™80s, just before he was born), Tesfaye-out from behind the mask of making art online-has since come to represent the changing face of Toronto, rooting himself not just in an international musical community but in a specific diasporic experience. One of the earliest musicians to find his footing on the internet, Tesfaye originally offered his music through YouTube and free downloads, a move that felt radical then but is common now. The brainchild of Toronto singer Abel Tesfaye, the project took off in 2011 with a string of mixtapes (later collected as 2012вЂ™s Trilogy) that forged cavernous, falsetto-driven R&B with narratives drenched in drugs, sex, and other regrettable decisions-a sound both sensuous and detached, featherlight and dead heavy.

Even the singerвЂ™s sunniest tracks (вЂњCanвЂ™t Feel My Face,вЂќ вЂњStarboyвЂќ) feel anchored by darkness-the sense that pleasure is pain and beauty decays and you canвЂ™t have the night without the morning after. Nobody makes feeling bad sound as good as The Weeknd.

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