![]() ![]() Last year, he lost Teen Choice Awards to Nicki Minaj, Wiz Khalifa, and One Direction. On “Reminder,” a song from his new album, Starboy, Abel Tesfaye croons, “I just won a new award for a kids’ show / Talking ’bout a face numbing off a bag of blow / I’m like goddam, bitch, I am not a Teen Choice.” (He’s right. The Weeknd did that last year, and he’s suffering some of the identity-crisis spasms you might expect. You’re not supposed to make music that’s fueled by sex and drugs - that’s explicitly about sex and drugs - and then ride that music to massive crossover pop stardom. You’re not supposed to be able to do this anymore.
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