Super Bowl 2021 halftime performance.But the singer, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, cautioned from the get-go that it was a persona he created for the fourth studio album.“There’s also a very committed vision and character being portrayed, and I get to explore a different side of me that my fans have never seen,” he revealed in an interview for CR Fashion Book in March 2020.
Having just turned 30 — his birthday is February 16 — he had said the album in its entirety served as an “introduction to the next chapter of my life.”However, in the hours leading up to his big game day performance — The Weeknd really broke it down: “The significance of the entire head bandages is reflecting on the absurd culture of Hollywood celebrity and people.
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