The Weeknd Explains Why He Cut Off His Signature Locks

Publish Date
Friday, 11 November 2016, 11:36AM

The Weeknd decided to chop off his signature locks recently and debuted it on the track cover for his song 'Starboy', well now he's gone and revealed why his beloved hairstyle is no longer.

He spoke to the Wall Street Journal, about how he he loves life with his new short do.

“I could only sleep on one side of my face [with the dreadlocks]. Now, the sleep is amazing. The shower is amazing, because I don’t have to spend two hours cleaning it. I didn’t know how much I wanted it until I did it,” he said.

He also revealed that people telling him not to cut his hair influenced him to do it.

“It was a long time coming. It didn’t feel right anymore…I told everybody I was getting rid of it, and everybody—literally, unanimously—they were like, ‘No, don’t do it! That’s your whole thing, that’s you.’ And the way they said that, I was like, ‘Oh, I’m definitely cutting it now.’”

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