The Weeknd Remembers the Time Taylor Swift Pet His Hair: 'She Was Just Drawn to It'
LatestMaybe you missed this cute anecdote about Taylor Swift petting The Weeknd’s hair for like 15 minutes.
It happened earlier this year at Sam Smith’s Grammy party, a night that The Weeknd recalls in a Rolling Stone cover story about his current breakout. He says:
“Everyone was hammered. Sam had just won, like, every Grammy, so he was having the time of his life. Max Martin actually left because everyone was so drunk. Unfortunately, that was the one month I decided to stop drinking. Everybody was having a great time, all these cool things were happening, and I was shaking, like — ‘Fuck, I really want a drink.’”
So, it’s established that everyone was drunk. The Weeknd was then introduced to Swift, who he says, “actually schooled me on my own shit.”
“She was like, ‘I’ve been listening to ‘The Morning’ for years — it’s one of my favorite songs ever! I mean, she might have just Googled it. But she seemed genuine.”
While impressing The Weeknd by spewing facts about The Weeknd, Swift for some reason kept petting his hair. There seems to have been no preface of “Can I touch your hair?” As with all things Taylor Swift, it’s a subconsciously offensive move (albeit while drunk), though The Weeknd didn’t find it that off-putting, or at least didn’t express it outwardly: