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The Weeknd announced he was ready to escape his moody, dark alter ego.
In a recent article, Abel said, "I'm going through a cathartic path right now. It's getting to a place and a time where I'm getting ready to close the Weeknd chapter. I'll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as The Weeknd. But I still want to kill The Weeknd. And I will. Eventually. I'm definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn."
He mentions that he wants to keep making music, but under his birth name, Abel Tesfaye. He continued, "The album I'm working on now is probably my last hurrah as The Weeknd. This is something that I have to do. As The Weeknd, I've said everything I can say."
I'm good to go as long as he doesn't quit music.