The Weeknd reveals new album 'is probably my last hurrah as the Weeknd'

Call out his name, just don’t call himthe Weeknd.

“I’m going through a cathartic path right now,” he told the outlet.

I’ll still make music, maybe as Abel, maybe as The Weeknd.

But I still want to kill the Weeknd.

I’m definitely trying to shed that skin and be reborn."

“The album I’m working on now is probably my last hurrah as the Weeknd…

This is something that I have to do.

As the Weeknd, I’ve said everything I can say,” he said.

This isn’t the first time the Weeknd has publicly toyed with the idea of changing his stage name.

i feel like i should change my stage name to ABEL at this point lol."

He then added that he’ll “maybe pull a YE and just legally change my name to ABEL.

Like Madonna or Cher or Prince.

I don’t know it seems like a lot.”