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Is The Weeknd Really Changing His Name? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: The Weekend continues to work on new music as he
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Speaker 2: prepares for the debut of his highly anticipated in newial
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Speaker 2: The Idol, alongside Lily Rose Depth. But is his stage
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Speaker 2: name The Weekend about to become a thing of the past.
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Speaker 2: While he's hinted at it before. In a new cover
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Speaker 2: story with w Magazine, the man born able to as
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Speaker 2: fay A suggests he might soon be known as Able
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Speaker 2: professionally as well, saying I'm going through a cathartic path
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Speaker 2: right now. It's getting to a place and a time
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Speaker 2: where I'm getting ready to close the Weekend chapter. I'll
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Speaker 2: still make music, maybe as Able, maybe as the Weekend,
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Speaker 2: but I still want to kill the Weekend, and I
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Speaker 2: will eventually. I'm definitely trying to shed that scan and
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Speaker 2: be reborn. The album I'm working on now is probably
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Speaker 2: my last hurrah as the Weekend. This is something that
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Speaker 2: I have to do as the Weekend. I've said everything
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Speaker 2: I can say. The Idol hits HBO Max June four.
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