The Weeknd takes efficiency art to some other level.

The musician (whose actual name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) launched his first No. 1 unmarried, “The Hills,” in 2015 — and as his songs rose on the charts, so did chatter about his look. During his November 2015 Rolling Stone cover tale, he published that even Taylor Swift was obsessed with his hair during an encounter at a Grammys afterparty.

“She was once like, ‘I’ve been listening to ‘The Morning’ [from House of Balloons] for years — it’s one of my favorite songs ever!’ I mean, she would possibly have just Googled it. She appeared authentic. But the whole time she was once talking, she used to be kind of, like, petting my hair?” he recalled to the magazine. “I feel she used to be just attracted to it — she must were a little bit long past off a few drinks. And in fact, I’m no longer going to be like, ‘Hey, can you forestall?’ I imply, it felt just right! But when she started petting my hair, that’s when I was like, ‘I no doubt desire a drink.’”

One yr later, the Grammy winner shocked fans with a brand new look to go in conjunction with his 3rd studio album, Starboy, cutting off his signature sky-high dreadlocks.

“He cut his hair for the new album, to give it a more energizing look to match the feel of the album,” an insider told Us in 2016. “It was once a deliberate resolution like a lot of artists do. New album, new glance. He has been making an attempt to not be photographed to unveil all of it in an excessively deliberate rollout.”

While it will be several more years earlier than The Weeknd dropped his fourth album, he opted for an even more dramatic look alternate for 2020’s After Hours, which featured his bloody face on the duvet of the album.

“I believe confident with the place I’m taking this [new] document,” he instructed CR Fashion Book in February 2020. “There’s additionally an overly committed imaginative and prescient and character being portrayed, and I am getting to discover a distinct side of me that my lovers have by no means observed.”

During a number of appearances in 2020, including at the MTV Video Music Awards in August, the singer sported a massive bandage on his face. And if that wasn’t shocking enough, when the bandages got here off in January 2021, The Weeknd appeared to have extreme plastic surgery in his “Save Your Tears” video. According to a supply, however, the look used to be “strictly efficiency artwork.”

The source explained, “The Weeknd is wearing prosthetics as part of the persona he’s been taking part in since November 2019 when he introduced the After Hours generation.”

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