Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOver the past few months, The Weeknd — a.k.a. Abel Tesfaye — has found multiple ways to expand his persona.
He’s dropped his smash “After Hours” album, which brought forth a new vulnerability in its lyrics, and made a cameo appearance (as himself) in Adam Sandler’s film “Uncut Gems.” But at the other end of the spectrum, he made comic turns on both “Saturday Night Live,” and in a guest spot on TBS’ long-running animated series “American Dad,” which saw him not only writing a song and voicing his character (a literally virginal version of himself) but also helping to write the episode, which was called, naturally, “A Starboy Is Born.”“I’m a longtime fan of the show,” he tells Variety. “I’ve been watching since.
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