Hurry Up Tomorrow is a similar act of leave-taking. It is touted as the last album that Abel Tesfaye will make as The Weeknd. Bowie is a reference point. The Canadian is an admirer: he titled The Weeknd’s 2016 album Starboy in tribute to Ziggy Stardust’s anthem,

On what might be his last album as the Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye revisits much of the sonic and thematic territory that has defined his career, singing of his darker impulses and debauchery over moody synth-pop beats.

For a decade and a half, the Toronto singer and songwriter Abel Tesfaye — d.b.a .The Weeknd — has explored the flip side of that feel-good story in sometimes-excruciating depth. The Weeknd’s music, from his atmospherics-drenched mixtapes that launched his career to the pop gems that propelled him to the Super Bowl stage in 2021,

Lionsgate is sharing first-look photos from "Hurry Up Tomorrow," a psychological thriller film starring The Weeknd and Jenna Ortega.