The Toronto singer covers Billboard’s September issue
Tomorrow, The Weeknd releases his long-awaited sophomore album, Beauty Behind the Madness. Before fans finally get the full presentation in a few hours, the Canadian singer-songwriter is featured in the September issue of Billboard magazine to explain how his new-found pop-star is his biggest challenge to date. Helming the song of the summer with “Can’t Feel My Face,” Abel XO opens up on his journey on topping the Hot 100, striving to make his mother proud and Michael Jackson’s influence on making him a songwriter.
Take a look at an excerpt from the cover story below, which can be real in full here.
Michael Jackson Made Him Want to Be a Songwriter… and Get Emotional
There’s a reason Tesfaye covered Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana” (as “D.D.”) on his 2011 mixtape Echoes of Silence. “I got emotional,” he says, thinking back to the first time he read its lyrics. “It’s when I first knew I wanted to write songs.”
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