Fast forward a couple years and The Weeknd has become a huge mainstream success, with singles like Can't Feel My Face and the Fifty Shades of Grey-featured Earned It being among the biggest songs in the world at the time of their release. The music itself was dark and grimy, featuring hedonistic tales of excess party-life, multi-day drug binges, being strung-out, and many morning-afters set against atmospheric and ethereal production. The elusive nature of Tesafaye during this time added a cloak of mystery to the project, with many music-reviewers and bloggers famously unsure of what "The Weeknd" even was, as the identities of anyone involved with the project were completely anonymous. ![]() ![]() When Abel Tesafaye first burst onto the scene as The Weeknd in 2011 with House of Balloons, it was immediately clear that there was nobody quite like him in the world of R&B.
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