★ The Weeknd ★ What You Need ★

hahaha remember "the weeknd"

some people don't like them. they have fagginess issues. it's not good. some people don't give a shit and still like it

lol so hard @ right hand dude

c 0.40

official videos are bumming me out.

also i listened to the mixtape last weekend in my car after irl watching the end of a party through smoke/hanging out with girls on pills and was like "i kind of hate the weeknd right now"

too easy

Were balloons at this party, gr8080?

That one girl has Mike Stanton teeth.

(Not a dis, btw.)

what's the ilm verdict on this? why are they so annoying?

think the answers you're looking for can be found in this very thread

drake's chorus on this is straight out of 'house of balloons' imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2qLTsYr39c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z1yM-JWjQA

there's a sped up version of glass table girls on one of the magician mixtapes and it sounds pretty good

i haven't listened to this yet, but here's some older stuff as The Noise
http://www.weallscheme.com/2011/05/25/the-weeknd-the-noise-ep-mixtape/

glass table girls is a phenomenal song

I dunno about phenomenal, but it's the best thing on the album, plus or minus "What You Need".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_YyRBYZjM

Lol I had lunch with a lawyer friend who is massively into post-dubstep et al but doesn't listen to R&B much and he was like "there's this amazing album by this group called the Weeknd have you heard?!?!?"

― Tim F, Friday, April 8, 2011 11:25 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

mentioned to this dude i didnt really know after football the other week that i'd been listening to the new beyonce, he goes... "oh right are you into r&b? do you know... electrik red?" i was like OMG WUT YES WHAT ELSE U DO U LIKE and he says erm just the weeknd mainly

turned out he wasnt a big r&b fan at all really and just d/led e.r cos he read about it in the guardian one time

one of my friends emailed me an e.r thing in the guardian, pretty sure it was by the lex

yeah i assumed

this guy was a "yes i have always enjoyed quality pop music" sort to be exact

the friend who emailed the article was a pop justice reader :/

probably the same guy

let's cut him off

feel a bit proud and a bit guilty

ah what are u gonna do

i agreed the weeknd were fucking brill fwiw, couldnt be bovd

I went back to House of Balloons recently after not listening for a while and the consternation over this guy seems sillier than ever.

yeah its not really a big deal at all. it must have dropped on a slow music week ¯\(o_O)/¯

It's a good album, but feels kind of minor, I guess? But the hand-wringing it inspired on multiple fronts was ridiculous. I pretty much feel like if you hate the Weeknd, you should also hate Miguel.

Has Miguel been bigged up by Pitchfork?

Not afaict.

But who gives a fuck what Pitchfork thinks about an r&b act?

Not me. Some people seem to though.

Miguel can actually sing tho, Weeknd dude's voice is hella obnoxious

Miguel also isn't played at bars I go to and I don't have ppl all the time telling me if I like r&b I should really check out the weeknd

also I think the songs are legit bad and stilted still. This is a room to grow group at best

Lol I meant "miguel" again in my rhetorical ex

He doesn't have my favorite voice in the world, but I don't have anything against it, either. Miguel is a better singer tho.

xp Afaik no one I know IRL who isn't an ILX poster has any idea who the Weeknd is in my world of the subrbs.

"It's a good album, but feels kind of minor, I guess?" sums it up for me pretty perfectly

also: "in my world of bars i go to"

Miguel can actually sing tho, Weeknd dude's voice is hella obnoxious

This really.

in my world of software geeks and classical singers, I'm excited if someone knows who Beyonce is let alone The Weeknd

Could also mention miguel has hits so obv i'm not the only one who hears a diff

The point about my world of bars was that bars that don't normally play r&b suddenly would only play weeknd. annoying and dumb trend chasing imo

Well yeah, "All I Need Is You" and "Sure Thing" are better songs then anything the Weeknd is doing, but my point was that they are basically working in the same milieu, rather than any direct comparison.

About the most obscure music I've heard in a bar in this town is Vampire Weekend. :/

in my world of whatever the fuck it is i do, i've never heard anyone even MENTION weeknd IRL except for one of my assistants and this was yesterday.

Did they pronounce it "weakened"

more like "weaksauce"

no, just "weekend"
she was surprised drake was involved in any way.

Not buying the correlation between Miguel and The Weeknd. They occupy totally opposite emotional plains: Miguel's album is lovelorn and saccharine, where The Weeknd is harsh and spiteful. Two very different moods; it's very possible to feel one but not the other.

But who gives a fuck what Pitchfork thinks about an r&b act?

― 51 suggest gang (The Reverend), Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:44 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

1) :(

2) its not just pitchfork, i mean i get that u & forks dont have "cool" (note the scare quotes) friends but like, ok, from today's chicago reader, from its primary music critic:

"Much of the other 75 percent of my music listening has been taken up by the most fascinating R&B record since D'angelo's Voodoo. An album-length sneak preview of what pop radio will sound like in 2012."