★ The Weeknd ★ What You Need ★

generally speaking

I can't really bring myself to get too worked up about Barthel's post one way or another, but I would've been disappointed in ILM if no one posted it.

lol otm

oh lol you were the one who posted it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIB_JTv32-U

kindof curious about hearing this but the cover is too terrible so i have to get over that i suppose

okay so i was regretting opening this thread until i listened to that^^^

say my name remix + enya = ?

meshell ndegeocello is real rnb?

the florence + the machine remix is pretty dope fuiud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otl1vgxjBgs

<3

is thursday worth checking out?

"initiation" is good but what the fuck is that album art

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lss6crKzwI1qag7ejo1_500.jpg

vocal gimmick is too gimmicky and ruins the song for me

also its close enough to dubstep to trigger an automatic "abort! abort!" reaction

"yo, i turned this song on, and seriously turned around my girls clothes was on the ground...that night i was raped...I LOVED IT"

so is he going to cherrypick the best jams from HOB/Thursday etc. for a real album?

I like the vocal gimmick

screwed vocals are like catnip to me

http://soundcloud.com/princeclubmusic/love-jackson-original-mix

^thank you, based godayo

i want to somehow hold him accountable for that cover art. wtf, honestly

wait what cover art are we talking about

the "silence" one, apparently the cover for his new mixtape. i mean i guess i shouldn't be surprised at a weeknd cover having rapey vibes but that crosses a line imo

dayo that love jackson track rules!!!

i dont mind screwed vocals at all, i just think the way it sweeps back and forth in "initiation" is cheap and annoying

yea dayo point me toward moer like that track anytime plz

haha likewise! I just got it from the mix physical therapy did for opening ceremony

http://www.openingceremony.us/entry.asp?pid=4187

not sure what exactly the cover art is. this is floating around also

http://www.undergroundcharisma.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/The-Weeknd-Echoes-of-Silence-cover.jpg

screwed vocals are like catnip to me

http://soundcloud.com/princeclubmusic/love-jackson-original-mix

― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Sunday, October 9, 2011 3:48 PM Bookmark

Damn son, where did you find this?

dayo literally says exactly where he found it two posts before your post

lol

DRAMATIC

you cant find that on the internet, gr80

lol

(dj drop reference)

man 'thursday' is kind of crummy goth'n'b

Haven't spent much time with Thursday yet, since I'm still hooked on HoB. Nothing really grabbed me the first time through, but then again, nothing really grabbed me on HoB the first time through, either.

Also, he's got a remix of "Marry The Night" coming out on the new Lady Gaga remix disc.

is still cracks me up that at some point the anonymity veil was dropped and 'they' became 'he' -- i like to imagine him introducing himself like "hi i'm the weeknd"

HAHAHAHA

http://mthrfnkr.com/post/16544118574/looking-at-the-state-of-r-b-is-like-seeing-your-ex

In 2011 we saw a lifeline for R&B arise - Alternative R&B - R&B with an alternative twist and a slight indie aesthetic. Artists like The Weeknd, AlunaGeorge and Creep began to resuscitate a genre that had been kindnapped by producers like Guetta and corrupt record label execs who were obsessed with glossing everything with a tacky euro-dance pop sheen.

...

The Weeknd recalls Micheal Jackson but if he was on a permament comedown, AlunaGeorge are basically Aaliyah + Timbaland if the former was still alive and Frank Ocean is a modern day Marvin Gaye. Thanks to these a lot, critically R&B has made a comeback...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhttp://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101229043821/headhuntershorrorhouse/images/3/3d/Exploding_head.gif

damn i probably should have voted for one of these albums in the poll. i'm w/jaxon and gr80.

In 2011 we saw a lifeline for R&B arise -

lol

imagine said in Charlie Rose voice

so, what lessons did we learn from this entire phenomenon?

lol

i listened to an alunageorge song and she deserves much better than to be included in that sentence. she also sounds nothing like aaliyah+timbaland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmXZuv5BaHg

Overwritten, and I know Weeknd isn't well liked 'round these parts, but c'mon. Surely Abel Tesfaye > David Guetta, no?

they both have their moments. abel has less of them. i'll stump for "when love takes over" to the death.

Surely Abel Tesfaye > David Guetta, no

Bismark > Stalin

who is alunageorge and does she or he sound like aaliyah and timbaland

read three posts upthread

oh my bad