“Cry for Me” is off of Tesfaye’s final album as the Weeknd, Hurry Up Tomorrow, which dropped late last month and features ...

Abel Tesfaye declared that he wanted to “kill The Weeknd.” His final album as The Weekend, “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” delivers on ...

Synthetic but gritty, licentious but charming, Abel Tesfaye’s music was full of contradictions from the jump, a dichotomy he would both benefit from and wrestle with his entire career.

Tesfaye might have been content to play in his ... sense of who the artist is outside of his art. It's hard to imagine Abel doing anything other than The Weeknd; that must be part of the dilemma ...

Tesfaye might have been content to play in his creation's personal ... especially when we've never had much sense of who the artist is outside of his art. It's hard to imagine Abel doing anything ...