The Weeknd Scrapped An Entire Album About Selena Gomez

The Weeknd wrote an entire album worth of “upbeat” songs while dating Selena Gomez, but the world will never hear it.

The singer released “My Dear Melancholy” in March 2018, an album rife with breakup songs.

“Prior to ‘Melancholy,’ I had a whole album written, done, which wasn’t melancholy at all because it was a different time in my life,” The Weeknd revealed to Time in an interview released Thursday. “It was very upbeat — it was beautiful.”

However, he says that because he’s “moved past” that part of his life, he never wants to croon about it ever again.

“I don’t want to perform something that I don’t feel,” he said, adding that listeners will “never” have access to the songs.

“I don’t want to open that Pandora’s box, talking about relationships,” he said of the tracks, but admitted the recording process was “therapeutic. You want to get it out. It’s like you close a chapter.”

Gomez and The Weeknd, 28, split in October.

While the singer claims he’s currently single, he’s been spotted canoodling all over the Cannes Film Festival with his supermodel ex Bella Hadid, who he dated for two years before taking up with Gomez.

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