The Weeknd Confirms It: Oneohtrix Point Never Is a Genius
The Weeknd Confirms What We Always Knew: Oneohtrix Point Never Is a Genius
David Brandon Geeting
Two weeks ago, two men were photographed together backstage at the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida. In the picture, they’re embracing with a kind of palpable sincerity you can’t fake; smiling, euphoric, like they’ve just pulled off the heist of the century and they’re only now able to breathe again for the first time even as one puffs on a comically fat cigar.
One of these men is, arguably, the biggest male pop star on the planet and, in all honesty, the only artist who even comes close to deserving that title today. The other, well, isn’t. In relatively short periods of time that run almost parallel one first appearing in the late ’00s, the other in the very early ’10s both have been plucked from bedroom obscurity and catapulted to a kind of stardom it’s hard to imagine that either quite expected. One of t