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The Weeknd cut off his hair, and Twitter is losing it
| September 22, 2016
The palm tree, the tsunami, the unidentified follicular object—whatever you called The Weeknd’s signature ’do, it’s gone.
Last night, Abel Tesfaye announced his new album, Starboy, the follow-up to 2015’s Beauty Behind the Madness, with a snippet of the title track, a collaboration with Daft Punk. Predictably, the Internet was more occupied by the elephant in the room—or, perhaps, the elephant missing from The Weeknd’s head.
Some people were in sheer disbelief:
Others plain didn’t like it:
But, for the most part, fans seemed to embrace the change:
Some interpreted the haircut as a good omen for the new record:
Inevitably, some people wondered whether he was still the man they thought they knew:
Real fans immediately asked the tough question: what’s being done with all that hair?
Others got philosophical: what does the haircut really mean for all of us?
Luc Rinaldi is a National Magazine Award–winning journalist based in Toronto. His work has appeared in Maclean’s, Toronto Life, The Walrus and Report on Business, among other publications. He has taught magazine feature writing at his alma mater, the School of Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University.
