★ The Weeknd ★ What You Need ★

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

Dud

I don't like what he does in general (save for some productions/collabs with other artists which are ok) and this album seems pretty bad/boring (and much too long !) after the first few times.
but I have to admit I REALLY like "I Feel It Coming". My favourite thing he's ever been involved with by very far !

Secrets is his best track since the first mixtape IMO, or at least the first of his 'Weeknd Goes Pop' tracks that i've really liked.

xp man, I really don't give a hoot about the Weeknd and really didn't like 'Starboy' but 'I Feel It Coming' is so lovely. Yeah, it's Michael Jackson sings 'Get Lucky' but that's not a problem really.

I love how committed Daft Punk have been to getting songs that sound like Imagination onto top 40 radio

a two month crosspost

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/upshot/music-fandom-maps.html

anything stand out to anyone about this map

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni41PhM0df4

sick

that Sir Duke melody

thats the most trad R&B thing hes done ha

yeah i really like that

i don't know if ilm is ready to acknowledge how good "blinding lights" is

Sounds good, but gonna be a cranky old man about the blood & bandage look/marketing brand thing. Seems dumb to me

there's some really good stuff on the new album and the production is impeccable

all the 80s pastiche with perfect sound design ends up sounding very much like the last two 1975 albums lol

only oneohtrix point never to make me listen to the weeknd.
just heard the three songs they've made together and although it's visible 0pn's hand, I just can't stand Abel's voice and his performing approach, I'm sorry.

my favourites on here so far are "too late", "hardest to love" and "in your eyes"

gave it a listen. it's not a great album.

as a generally-cohesive showcase of an ~aesthetic~ it (mostly) works. the production is thoughtful + intricate throughout, even deeply compelling in particular moments. but despite him being a competent/occasionally impressive singer, his delivery seldom compels me to pay any note to the songs' lyrical content -- and when it does register, it's usually because it's so bad that it's impossible not to notice. i don't feel anything he's supposedly feeling.

"heartless," the very safe single which deliberately revisits his own very well-trodden territory, had started to grow on me slightly as a radio hit, but here it feels entirely out of place and nearly kills the mood set by the preceding tracks. definitely a dud.

there are good songs, including his current pop smash, which might be the best. overall the album's an interesting rendition of pop's resurgent nostalgia for a decades-old vision of a soon-approaching future*. but it seldom gives anything beyond that.

(* cf dua lipa's upcoming + appropriately titled album, which i have not heard yet but suspect could well be better than this)