The Weeknd Calls Out Recording Academy After Grammys Snub

The Weeknd has been forced to instrumentality the remainder of the play off.

On Sept. 3, a time aft performing a first, sold-out amusement successful Los Angeles, the "Blinding Lights" vocalist abruptly ended his 2nd performance astatine the city's SoFi Stadium, announcing helium had mislaid his voice.

"I can't springiness you the performance that I privation to springiness you close now," The Weeknd told the crowd, as reported by NBC 4 Los Angeles. "I'm gonna marque definite everybody's good. Get your wealth back."

He added, "I apologize, I'm truthful sorry, I emotion you guys truthful much."

Later that night, The Weeknd took to Twitter to further explicate the situation, and vowed to marque it up to his fans. 

"My dependable went retired during the archetypal opus and I americium devastated," he wrote. "Felt it spell and my bosom dropped. My deepest apologies to my fans here. I committedness I'll marque it up to you with a caller date."

The "Can't Feel My Face" performer's wellness concern comes 5 months aft helium headlined the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. He shared the prestigious time 3 headlining spot with Swedish House Mafia after Kanye West dropped out of his show for undisclosed reasons, conscionable days earlier the festival was acceptable to begin.

That aforesaid month, The Weeknd—whose existent sanction is Abel Tesfaye—teased connected Twitter that helium mightiness "pull a YE" and legally driblet his past sanction to lone spell by ABEL, referring to Kanye's October 2021 legal sanction change from Kanye Omari West to simply Ye. 

"I consciousness similar one should alteration my signifier sanction to ABEL astatine this constituent lol," helium tweeted on April 3, "Maybe propulsion a YE and conscionable legally alteration my sanction to ABEL. No past name. Like Madonna or Cher or Prince. I don't cognize it seems similar a lot."