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The Weeknd Isn’t Abandoning Music, Just His Name: ‘I’ve Overcome Every Challenge as This Persona’

Abel Tesfaye will return the Weeknd music persona following his album 'Hurry Up Tomorrow,' stating that he feels he has done all he could with it.

The musician's upcoming album Hurry Up Tomorrow will mark the end of the After Hours trilogy and close the door on the pseudonym Abel Tesfaye has performed under for more than a decade His most recent LP, Dawn FM, arrived in January 2022, making the gap leading up to his upcoming record Hurry Up Tomorrow the longest since then. This realization crystalized for Tesfaye as he was performing those Number One singles — “Blinding Lights,” “The Hills,” and “Save Your Tears” among them — on his recent Dawn FM stadium tour.

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