By Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor The experience of listening to person’s music while they’re sitting in the same room has the potential to be equally awesome or awkward for both parties.
What if the music is terrible (or, worse, mediocre) and the listener feels compelled to pretend to like it? What if the listener says something idiotic and the artist then has to endure that person’s presence for the duration of the session?
Such scenarios are challenging enough when it’s your friend playing their demo — when it’s a world-famous artist, those elements are ramped up exponentially.
All that notwithstanding, The Weeknd’s Variety cover story was important enough to him to dedicate two hours of listening and conversation about his new album,
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