Frank Ocean’s tardiness in delivering Blonde advantaged that other avant ‘n’ B star – The Weeknd, aka Abél Tesfaye. After 2013’s underwhelming ‘official’ premiere, Kiss Land, the Canadian-Ethiopian became pop’s most implausible crossover phenom. First, he lent his outlier cred to Nickelodeon princess Ariana Grande, duetting on Love Me Harder. Then the alt-balladeer unveiled the sumptuous Earned It for the Fifty Shades Of…
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