★ The Weeknd ★ What You Need ★

It's a pop song.

Wizkid should sue

or mavado i suppose

the verses are pretty good, hook feels a little limp compared to "can't feel my face" (though what wouldn't?)

mostly i think it's pretty hard to pick up on any traces of daft punk so i feel like this is mostly a flex on his part and he prob has better shit in the holster

I like his voice on this but the whole "I'm a muhfuckin starboy" chorus makes him sound so... small, in a mean mugging selfie kind of way. .

https://twitter.com/MNEK/status/778861282237767680

the weeknd ate my hamster

biffy clyro pic suitably much shittier looking at least

feat daft punk is def a flex but i was greatly relieved not to hear them so it's cool

have already forgotten this song anyway. lot of waiting around for the lookwhatchadone! meth shiver

i finally decided to listen to "i can't feel my face" for the first time
it's p catchy
starboy seems decent, both songs really fancy but he seems like a piece of shit misogynist but i spose that's supposed to be the appeal?

starboy feels forgettable to me

anyone from the rap caviar wave tht isn't a pos misognynist pls step fwd

haha rap caviar wave

who is in that wave

anyone that goes hard seemingly
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/5yolys8XG4q7YfjYGl5Lff

haha yeah i subscribe to that playlist

Starboy feels like a classic already.

ilx needs a thinking guy emoji button

No

https://twitter.com/MNEK/status/778861282237767680

the weeknd ate my hamster

― r|t|c, Thursday, September 22, 2016 3:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whotf is Biff Clyro lol

Starboy feels like a classic already.
― Popture, Friday, September 23, 2016 11:06 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

suggest halpert

lol

is there a double entendre i am missing or does abel think the name of the movie is "the wraith of khan"

he seems to be in a pretty jaunty mood in the video! also lol @ daft punk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Na4j8AVgA

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cxf-O9VVQAElM4y.jpg

"I Feel It Coming" is so good

yeah that one sounds awesome

18 tracks seems like a lot

I am still amazed this guy's career survived Kiss Land

He has a great voice!

he always had a really strong fanbase but i do remember thinking that maybe he had blown his shot at pop stardom with kiss land

"I Feel It Coming" is so good

Some sweet wordplay from Abel
Abel is introducing us to his sweet new asian girl by bragging about her ability to either drop it low, or go down low (on him). He says “low, mane” to sound like the popular asian dish known as Lo Mein.

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Milan
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That is racist :)

there's a track on STARBOY that sounds like luomo

He has the definition of an average voice.

^seriously? the definition of an average voice is like... the dudes that sing in parquet courts.

after "party monster" i was ready to abandon this but "false alarm" kinda flows between bad taste and good taste in a way i find compelling. i mean i guess that's this guy's thing really but it works really well for me when the chorus sounds stolen from a lost bad rabbits song

"reminder" is like... the third song on this album with the exact same phrasing?

ok it's righted again with "rockin'" which i assume is the track josh thinks sounds like luomo

thing is now that *everything* in pop sounds exactly like this the weeknd has lost his one selling point*

* for me, I suspect for much of his fanbase the selling point is that here's a guy who proudly admits he's an asshole through which they can vicariously be an asshole. or teen choice award voters, I guess? (I doubt they're mutually exclusive, too)

worst non-lo mein lyric on this album is "david carradine / i'm gonna die when i cum"

lol

who's not an asshole these days I wonder.

you either live long enough to be the villain or you're bruno mars

* for me, I suspect for much of his fanbase the selling point is that here's a guy who proudly admits he's an asshole through which they can vicariously be an asshole.

I think this was a big part of his initial appeal. Now I think the appeal is mostly that his last LP had some legit jams on it, though, right?

maybe true for "Can't Feel My Face" where you could swap with any Max Martin track but it's the only explanation I can think of for "The Hills"

(speaking of, "False Alarm" was a standout until I realized its gimmick was the exact gimmick in that single)

it works really well for me when the chorus sounds stolen from a lost bad rabbits song

ok I'm listening to the Bad Rabbits album now and WHAT IS THIS

lol that's a derail, maybe i'll start a thread about it even though i imagine most people will think it is Bad

halfway through the opening track I was surprised you hadn't already!

Ridiculous Tears For Fears sample on 'Secrets'.

'Rockin' could've easily been on that second Disclosure album.

star boy
reminder
rockin
secrets
true colors
love to lay
lonely night
ordinary life
nothing without you
die for you
i feel it coming

this would be a good album

the inherent absurdity of the weeknd is p much summed up by him thinking "i'm a muhfuckin' starboy" is a macho thing to say (also, yknow, all his other problems everyone has noted for the past 6 years)

song ain't bad tho, havent tried the album