Se klipp från intervju med Zane Lowe om skivan, nykterhet, scenrädsla och att klippa håret.

Imorgon släpper The Weeknd sitt tredje studioalbum “Starboy” och i mitten av februari kommer han till Stockholm med support av Lil Uzi Vert. I samband med albumreleasen mötte Abel Tesfaye nyligen radiopersonligheten Zane Lowe på Beats 1 Music för en djuplodande intervju om skivan, nykterhet, scenrädsla och att klippa håret. På skivan medverkar bland annat Kendrick Lamar på låten “Sidewalks” och under intervjun berättade The Weeknd om inspelningsprocessen:

“He’s a genius. He is really a genius. He’d walk around. He’d play the record over and over again. I played him songs, the Starboy theme of course, which he incorporated into his verse. He would just walk around. We had food. He’s writing his verse in his head. He would go into his phone, look at it a few and then put it back and start walking around. He then at one point he went into the studio booth and I closed the door and I could hear him yelling his verse in his head. He was really committed, you can tell he put his all into. It wasn’t just a random Kendrick Lamar verse, it was something special because again, I don’t like to say this all the time, but we’ve known each other for a while and it’s crazy how we started connecting on this record.”

Se även nysläppta kortfilmen “M A N I A” med musik från albumet “Starboy” – där vi hör snuttar av låtarna “All I Know” (med Future), “Sidewalks” (med  Kendrick Lamar), “Secrets”, “Die for You”, “Party Monster” (med  Lana Del Rey) och “I Feel It Coming” (feat. Daft Punk).

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