PHILADELPHIA — The Weeknd is supposedly sick of himself.

Or at least Abel Tesfaye — the Canadian pop star who opened his “After Hours Til Dawn” tour at Lincoln Financial Field in July 2022 and returned for a two-night engagement on Wednesday — says he’s grown disenchanted with the character of “The Weeknd.”

In January, Tesfaye told Variety he would ditch his longtime alias because, “It’s a headspace I’ve gotta get into that I don’t have any desire for anymore.”

With his 2025 album “Hurry Up Tomorrow” completing a trilogy that began with “After Hours” in 2020 and continued with “Dawn FM” in 2022 — and with his three-year world tour wrapping up in September — the Weeknd has said he will soon no longer be the Weeknd.

To which any halfway skeptical observer of the history of showbiz retire

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