★ The Weeknd ★ What You Need ★

Gotta justify past interest in trash I guess

"everything since House of Balloons has been trash"

this is m/l otm tho

i'm not saying they're wrong (although i could never really stomach the early stuff to begin with), i'm just saying even the stans have turned on him.

omg this song

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I should listen to lyrics more often, I feel like I'm missing some great comedy

did he really just sing "she need to change bladder"

are we sure this isn't a Weird Al alias

via rapgenius:

[Verse 1]
I usually love sleeping all alone
This time around bring your friend with you
But we ain't really going to sleep at all
You ain't gonna catch me with them sneak pictures
In my city I'm a young god
That pussy kill be so vicious
My god white, he in my pocket
He get me redder than the devil 'til I go nauseous

[Hook]
She asked me if I do this every day, I said "Often"
Asked how many times she rode the wave, "Not so often"
Bitches down to do it either way, often
Baby I can make that pussy rain, often
Often, often, girl I do this often
Make that pussy poppin', do it how I want it
Often, often, girl I do this often
Make that pussy poppin', do it how I want it
Often

[Verse 2]
Infatuated by the fame status
She wanna ride inside the G-Class Grain, matted
I come around, she leave that nigga like he ain't matter
That girl been drinkin' all day, need to change bladder
She's just happy that the crew's back in town
She 'bout to go downtown for a whole hour
If I had her, you can have her, man it don't matter
I'm never sour, I'm just smokin' somethin' much louder

[Hook]

[Bridge]
Oooh, the sun's risin' up
The night's almost up
The night's almost done
But I see your eyes
You wanna go again
Girl, I'll go again
Girl, I'll go again

[Hook]

a song that cries out for line-by-line annotation if I've ever seen one

"Often"
"Not so often"

track isn't so bad if you jettison all the lyrics but jesus, this as poisonous a song as this year has to offer and that's keen competition

i guess if your pussy rain, it's time to change bladder

[Verse 2]
Infatuated by the fame status
She wanna ride inside the G-Class Grain, matted
I come around, she leave that nigga like he ain't matter
That girl been drinkin' all day, need to change bladder
She's just happy that the crew's back in town
She 'bout to go downtown for a whole hour
If I had her, you can have her, man it don't matter
I'm never sour, I'm just smokin' somethin' much louder

this verse is p stupid but I really like it, enough to listen to the entire song, ahem, often

is there some better remix or edit out there ?

The new Weeknd song is, bad

"the morning" still feels nice

what is wrong with the new song

It's...it's bad. It's bad and not good

he says 'friend zone' in it lol

I'm still gored with an icepick to the forehead every time "Earned It" starts on the bus every morning.

had no idea the buses in Miami played music

shuttle

we're all about that bass

"Earned It" is top 5 this year

Weeknd's sell out crossover material is cool enough with me

working w Max Martin. hmm

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/magazine/can-the-weeknd-turn-himself-into-the-biggest-pop-star-in-the-world.html?_r=0

‘‘These kids, you know, they don’t have a Michael Jackson,’’ he says. ‘‘They don’t have a Prince. They don’t have a Whitney. Who else is there? Who else can really do it at this point?’’

I know we've reached the point where "selling out" no longer has the stigma it once did, but this is one of the most cynical things I've read all year. "I changed my sound because I wanted to be as popular as humanly possible."

he had a top 10 hit with Max Martin late last year, in addition to the new one that is at #2 on the charts. i think those songs are better than any of the cool mixtape stuff, so hooray for pop crossover.

lol you are going to eat those words when some awful, hateful smash single from the upcoming album is inescapable this winter

this dude's music had become so fucking stale, thank god he's trying to become a pop star instead of some sadist fantasy for virgin hypebeasts

i don't think it's cynical as much as it was a realization that he had made 85 of the same songs

this dude's music had become so fucking stale, thank god he's trying to become a pop star instead of some sadist fantasy for virgin hypebeasts

― J0rdan S., Monday, July 27, 2015 5:04 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm; anyone surprised that this guy would sell all the way the fuck out once he got the chance is an incredibly poor judge of character

The last time I rooted for something as vile as The Weeknd to top the pop chart was when I rooted for Joe Lieberman's death in 2007.

a realization that he had made 85 of the same songs

and continues to? "earned it" is the only real exception, both the new shits sound similar to his overall aesthetic if not as narcoticized

im mostly surprised he can remain popular with hair that's basically adam duritz but...worse and zero stage presence

yeah I love that in his mind becoming Michael Jackson is as easy as willing himself to be Michael Jackson. Never mind the part where Michael danced and entertained and delighted and made great songs

I don't hear MJ in "Can't Feel My Face" at all! In the chorus he sounds like Steve Miller!

otm; anyone surprised that this guy would sell all the way the fuck out once he got the chance is an incredibly poor judge of character

agree with this, but this wasn't the conventional wisdom around him at all. Critics badly misread him and his intentions, classifying him as an "indie" artist for a long time despite lots of evidence to the contrary

Who? The blinkered ones might be his fans.

dude was on Drake's album in 2011; he was ready.

looking through this thread is fun, also would like to point out that i was otm:

2011 is definitely “Year of the Asshole"
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:15 AM

Critics badly misread him and his intentions, classifying him as an "indie" artist for a long time despite lots of evidence to the contrary

He was classified as an Indie artist because he released his music independently, on the Internet, through his own independent record label.

I thought he was considered an indie artist because he sampled Beach House.

i never recall a drop off in quality so *fast* as his in my life. from House Of Balloons to Kiss Land in a few years.. i've just never known anything like it.
Kiss Land was just.. jaw droppingly shit.

I don't hear MJ in "Can't Feel My Face" at all! In the chorus he sounds like Steve Miller!

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, July 27, 2015 2:16 PM (3 hours ago)

it's the way he ad libs 'and i love it' in the background of some iterations of the chorus, a truly painful imitation

that said it is indeed better than his prior music

i never recall a drop off in quality so *fast* as his in my life. from House Of Balloons to Kiss Land in a few years.. i've just never known anything like it.
Kiss Land was just.. jaw droppingly shit.

― piscesx,

so one of the few artists to go from garbage to shit in a few years

looking through this thread is fun, also would like to point out that i was otm:

2011 is definitely “Year of the Asshole"
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:15 AM
― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Monday, July 27, 2015 5:34 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you weren't ambitious enough to be otm, it's clearly Decade of the Asshole

imo House of Balloons was his strongest, there's still some stuff that's held up on that though i never bought into it as an album experience. Thursday was godfuckingawful NIN-parodic circus music, made no sense that the hype train didn't derail there. Echoes was a bit of a redemption, some good stuff and "Initiation" has to be his most (/only) innovative and interesting song. but Kiss Land was beneath shit, just a complete abomination – the only decent thing associated with it was that Pharrell remix bonus track.

his new stuff doesn't strike me as much better. not going to read that article but the quotes pulled here def suggest someone reaching far beyond his stations, esp considering the one time i've seen him live (in a stadium, opening for a Florence show i reviewed in Philadelphia...all that space swallowed him whole, like he could barely get a note in).

it's weird that people in this thread are suggesting that whether or not the guy is a good live performer will have any effect on him running the pop charts. i mean...have you SEEN some of the other people who've achieved the success he's going after/has already attained?

didn't notice anyone saying anything to that effect. for my part, the live criticism is apropos of: ‘‘These kids, you know, they don’t have a Michael Jackson. They don’t have a Prince. They don’t have a Whitney. Who else is there? Who else can really do it at this point?’’

Do they not have Beyonce in Canada or something

you weren't ambitious enough to be otm, it's clearly Decade of the Asshole

― teenage good-ass kinja turtles (some dude), Tuesday, July 28, 2015

eh, every decade is the decade of the asshole. we're going through a studied weeding of assholes from pop culture through fringe intelligentsia atm on the way to a more meaningful reorganization of norms; i think 2011 was a definite final kick of thoughtless asshole freedom before enough voices began to be encouraged and supported to say "HEY THAT GUY'S AN ASSHOLE" and a statistically meaningful chunk of the (online) population responded "hm, indeed, that guy IS an asshole". In 2024, it will be an olympic sport.

I turn on CNN and it's full of assholes!