The Weeknd Has Ariana Grande to Thank for This Next Step in His Music Career! (via JustJared)
, my chance to show him ‘I can play this game,’ y’know? But when we got in the room together, we didn’t really connect as much. Then someone invited him to a show I did at the Hollywood Bowl, and he saw 15,000 people singing along, and I think he was like, ‘OK, there’s something I’m not getting.’ So we sat down again, and the first song we created was ‘In the Night,’” he explained.
He also said the song “Faith” from his new album is about the darkest moment of his life, which was around the time of recording that“So, [the song 'Faith'] is about the darkest time of my entire life, around 2013, 2014…I was getting really, really tossed up and going through a lot of personal stuff. I got arrested in Vegas [for punching a police officer; he later pleaded no contest]. It was a real rock-star era, which I’m not really proud of.
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