Following his Super Bowl half-time show, The Weeknd got a shoutout from the University of Toronto and it came with the cutest throwback picture of him. The image posted to Twitter highlights the global superstar's humble beginnings from a talent show in his hometown of Scarborough back in 2008, to his performance at the Super Bowl in 2021. The University of Toronto Scarborough took to social media to showcase their pride for the talented Scarborough native and did so in meme form. The photo is posted in two parts, the first shows a younger The Weeknd, simply known as Abel Makkonen Tesfaye then, on a stage during a Scarborough Campus Students' Union talent show in '08. The post has gotten almost 50,000 likes. local institutions were feeling proud of their hometown boy — particularly places in Scarborough, the east Toronto neighbourhood where The Weeknd grew up. Some high-profile Canadian names, like Toronto’s mayor John Tory, Toronto International Film Festival director Cameron Bailey, journalist Tanya Talaga and former MuchMusic VJ George Stroumboulopoulos weighed in, too.

一年一度的美国职业橄榄球大联盟(NFL)年度总决赛，俗称的“超级碗（Super Bowl）”，多年来一直都是全美收视率最高的电视节目，因此它也被国内众多网友称为“美国春晚”。自迈克尔·杰克逊在超级碗（1993）的表演轰动全球之后， 中场秀便成为流行乐坛的年度盛事之一。今年，来自加拿大多伦多的乐坛巨星The Weeknd成为超级碗中场秀的唯一表演嘉宾！