Canadian singer The Weeknd together with Lily Rose Depp sat down for an interview with W Journal the place they mentioned the HBO present The Idol. The previous mentioned his rise to fame and his signature hair.
“To start with of my profession, I didn’t present myself in any respect. I didn’t need to be well-known. For the primary two years, nobody knew what I regarded like,” he defined. When he lastly did start to look within the media’s eyes he rapidly blew up, and together with him, his iconic coiffure.
“The hair grew to become an impediment for me!” he claimed. “I went from ‘Nobody is aware of who I’m’ to ‘No one has that hair besides The Weeknd.’ I used to be at all times making an attempt to cover it. After I lastly determined to chop it, all people stated, ‘Don’t do it!’ That gave me extra causes to do it. I used to be so recognized with that hair that I needed to minimize it. I didn’t need to be identified for simply this or simply that.”
He additionally mentioned his ardour for movies and the way he found this sense of affection: “As a toddler, I beloved to listen to myself sing. However I used to be actually shy and wouldn’t do it in public. I didn’t know if I used to be good or not. In highschool, my love for movies was born. I grew up on The Masks and Jurassic Park. Jim Carrey and dinosaurs! Cinema helped me write higher songs, however I believed my ticket out of the hood was music.”
