The Weeknd, Tove Lo And The Art Of The Hot Mess
The Weeknd courts our shadow sides on his new album, Starboy. Courtesy of the artist America loves a hot mess. Added by Oxford Dictionaries in August 2014, that phrase connotes "a person or thing that is spectacularly unsuccessful or disordered, especially one that is a source of peculiar fascination." The roots of hot mess attraction in popular music go as far back as the blues. We love transmissions from and about our shadow sides — secret pains, forbidden longings, destructive urges kept barely in check. Consider classic rock cyclones like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, who combined exceptional talent and all-too-human emotion. Excess, both offstage and on, fed their legends. Long before sex addiction became a commonly understood concept, Tesfaye and Nilsson write from a knowing per
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