The Weeknd will be in the house, if not the White House.The Grammy-winning Toronto artist will be a guest at the prime minister's reception in Washington, the night before Justin Trudeau is hosted at a state dinner by President Barack Obama.Abel Tesfaye's morose blend of profanity, sexism and proscribed behaviour will lend to the impression that Canada has changed; that this is not the boring little brother, living in the attic bedroom that Americans have grown complacent living alongside.The interest is not just among those potential émigrés who broke the Canadian embassy's website with inquiries, after Donald Trump's strong showing on Super Tuesday. It's not even Weeknd fans, who consider lines like: “I f@#*ed two b#*ches before I saw you” to be an indispensable addition to the language of Shakespeare.