The Weeknd is still able to take us places not a lot of hitmakers would feel comfortable going
, resurfaced on the red carpet of the Toronto Film Festival with a thin mustache and poofy, 'fro-like hairdo, suddenly looking a whole lot like Bruno Mars.couldn't help but chuckle about the comparison, making an Instagram meme of the occasion, poking fun at his new quasi-doppelgänger.
Such a statement would've been close to unimaginable in the early 2010s. Bruno Mars crashed onto top 40 in 2010 with familiar and accessible hits and the confidence of a man who'd always been there, while The Weeknd emerged a year later still shrouded in shadows, with inscrutable and extremely R-rated jams that were unplayable on radio.
While The Weeknd ending up a Mars-ian FM staple would've seemed unlikely at best in 2011, it was clear from before we ever even saw his face that he was a star of some kind. Debut mixtapearrived that year like a transmission from R&B's future, a set of explicit, ghostly and gorgeously malevolent mini-epics, with explicit lyrics about drug, sex and hellish existential anguish, and musical influences from hip-hop, indie and even shoegaze.
For two years afterwards, though, The Weeknd's buzz receded. Two subsequent mixtapes followed in short succession, ultimately collected on the
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