“I heard ‘Climax', that Usher song, and was like: ‘Holy fuck, that’s a Weeknd song'" The Weeknd has revealed he was “angry” when he first heard Usher‘s track ‘Climax’ in 2012 because he thought it sounded like one of his own songs.
The Toronto singer, real name Abel Tesfaye, told Variety: “I heard ‘Climax’, that Usher song, and was like: ‘Holy fuck, that’s a Weeknd song.'” Although he said “it was very flattering,” that the R&B singer had seemingly riffed on his sound, he admits he also “got angry.” The 2012 track was released less than a year after The Weeknd released ‘House Of Balloons’, his debut mixtape.
In the same interview, The Weeknd opened up one of the “darkest” periods of his life, culminating in the singer getting arrested in