The Weeknd is getting mocked for his response to Rolling Stone’s ‘The Idol’ exposé

Is the Weeknd mad at Rolling Stone, or is Rolling Stone mad on the Weeknd?

On Wednesday, the Weeknd, who serves as co-creator on HBO’s upcoming sequence “The Idol,” responded to a Rolling Stone article that claimed there’s hassle in paradise for the manufacturing.

The Grammy-winning artist, whose actual title is Abel Tesfaye, tweeted shortly after the exposé went stay: “@RollingStone did we upset you?” together with a clip from the present through which his character shades the journal.

The response was a retort to Rolling Stone’s scathing exposé that claimed HBO’s “The Idol” is plagued with points. The investigation featured 13 sources near the manufacturing who all appeared to share the identical sentiment: “It was, let’s simply say, a s— present.”

Rolling Stone reported that the manufacturing suffered fixed delays, reshoots and rewrites. And after Tesfaye felt the present was heading an excessive amount of right into a “feminine perspective,” authentic director Amy Seimetz abruptly exited. Then Sam Levinson signed on, and the present’s premise drastically shifted to one thing manufacturing sources stated was offensive, likening the brand new model to a rape fantasy.

Within the clip that the Weeknd shared in his response, his character from “The Idol,” Tedros, is snuggled as much as Lily-Rose Depp’s Jocelyn whereas they speak with Dan Levy’s character, whose title has not been launched.

“So Rolling Stone got here again to us a couple of cowl, and I feel it’s value pursuing,” Levy’s character says.

“Rolling Stone, aren’t they a little bit irrelevant?” replies Tedros.

“It’s a heritage model. I feel it’s fail-safe,” Levy’s character says.

“Yeah, I dunno. I really feel prefer it is likely to be type of previous its prime,” replies Jocelyn.

“No person cares about Rolling Stone,” says Tedros.

So far as burns go, the Weeknd appeared to have this clip prepared and ready. However the diss didn’t land nicely on social media, the place Twitter customers are slamming it.

“The Weeknd (who seems to be enjoying a barely exaggerated model of himself) and Lily-Rose Depp (who seems to be enjoying a barely exaggerated model of herself) have each performed a slew of journal covers, together with Rolling Stone!!” tweeted NBC tech reporter Kat Tenbarge.

@sarahdevin criticized the Weeknd’s response, quipping, “advert hominem arguments prob work nicely on set in a male-run rape fantasy biopic, however not a lot as an official assertion.”

“22.1K Quotes and 80% not in your facet. Abel, possibly delete and fake this by no means occurred? Like, even when there are screenshots sooner or later… deny deny deny!” @sassygayroot quote-tweeted the unique submit.

And senior Rolling Stone author Brittany Spanos tweeted, “thoughts you the weeknd delicate launched his pivot [to] appearing in a rolling stone cowl story.”