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
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
lol that's a derail, maybe i'll start a thread about it even though i imagine most people will think it is Bad
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
halfway through the opening track I was surprised you hadn't already!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
Ridiculous Tears For Fears sample on 'Secrets'.
'Rockin' could've easily been on that second Disclosure album.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
star boyreminderrockinsecretstrue colorslove to laylonely nightordinary lifenothing without youdie for youi feel it coming
this would be a good album
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 November 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
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
― i've watched a lot of cats do weird and interesting things (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
Dud
― Ross, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:18 (seven years ago) link
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 !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 5 December 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Monday, 5 December 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 2 March 2017 10:19 (seven years ago) link
I love how committed Daft Punk have been to getting songs that sound like Imagination onto top 40 radio
― example (crüt), Thursday, 2 March 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link
a two month crosspost
― ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), Thursday, 2 March 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/upshot/music-fandom-maps.html
anything stand out to anyone about this map
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni41PhM0df4
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 March 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
sick
that Sir Duke melody
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:28 (four years ago) link
thats the most trad R&B thing hes done ha
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:29 (four years ago) link
yeah i really like that
i don't know if ilm is ready to acknowledge how good "blinding lights" is
― dyl, Friday, 13 March 2020 06:17 (four years ago) link
Sounds good, but gonna be a cranky old man about the blood & bandage look/marketing brand thing. Seems dumb to me
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 March 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
there's some really good stuff on the new album and the production is impeccable
― ufo, Saturday, 21 March 2020 04:19 (four years ago) link
all the 80s pastiche with perfect sound design ends up sounding very much like the last two 1975 albums lol
― ufo, Saturday, 21 March 2020 04:36 (four years ago) link
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.
― Nourry, Saturday, 21 March 2020 10:56 (four years ago) link
my favourites on here so far are "too late", "hardest to love" and "in your eyes"
― ufo, Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:32 (four years ago) link
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)
― dyl, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
a video has been put out for what i guess is the next single "in your eyes" -- starts with an unsurprising but nonetheless contemptible fixation on a woman's fear as she's stalked and threatened by abel's character, then i guess tries to subvert it by allowing her to decapitate him in self-defense. groundbreaking.
― dyl, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
I, personally, am very fascinated by how repellent people find The Weeknd and would love to see a deeper dive into how race informs his goth horror aesthetic and the reactions to it.
― DJP, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
Haven't seen the video, so can't comment, but I would also like to read such an examination.
The album sounds fantastic, but his vocals (which I have generally liked) are kinda weak and inexpressive on a lot of the songs. The songs themselves are maybe too uniform, but the highlights--"Blinding Lights," "Save Your Tears"--are strong.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Monday, 23 March 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
Does he choose who remixes his material? Chromatics, OPN, The Blaze as remixers is a great combo. Not sure how much their music aligns with The Weeknd fans, and still haven’t heard the remixes but it definitely piques my interest.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 23 March 2020 21:20 (four years ago) link
Ok, The Chromatics remix is cool. It’s curious to hear the contrast of the underground sensibility of Chromatics vs The Weekend’s mainstream approach. I don’t think it works 100%, but there’s potential in there. An original feature and production credits a la Daft Punk would have been more interesting than a remix.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 05:58 (four years ago) link
I think his singing is across-the-board weaker on this but the songs themselves are across-the-board better
― DJP, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
There’s a “The” Blaze now?
― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
They're really good and have dope music videos.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
don't recall if i've heard much else but "virile" is a classic for me
― dyl, Thursday, 26 March 2020 07:21 (four years ago) link
The half time show was actually really good.
― Bee OK, Monday, 8 February 2021 01:45 (three years ago) link
The mixing was off in the first 3/4 songs - which is business as usual in the halftime show - his vocals were very low, but it sounded good after the song with violins.
The set production was outstanding. Even if you don't care about the halftime show's music, it's always impressive to see these massive logistics and production in action and this might be the most impressive set production so far.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 February 2021 02:50 (three years ago) link
Would have loved to see Daft Punk in there, but I kinda liked that there were no guest artists.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 February 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link
i thought that was a great halftime show, even with the vocals being mixed too low at first. I have to say I completely forgot about the Weeknd's back catalog, this thread is a trip, you'd never think that guy would wind up doing the superbowl halftime show.
― akm, Monday, 8 February 2021 03:05 (three years ago) link
Not only did he did he do the halftime show, he also walked more yards than KC.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 February 2021 03:06 (three years ago) link
oh fuck I ruined my joke by writing that all wrong.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 February 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
not only did he do the halftime show, he also walked more yards than KC
there...
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 8 February 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, February 7, 2021 9:50 PM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm, they did an amazing job this year
― call all destroyer, Monday, 8 February 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link
to go from the start of this thread (almost exactly 10 yrs ago) to halftime sb performer is wild props to abel
― johnny crunch, Monday, 8 February 2021 03:17 (three years ago) link
my 3 and 5 year olds have been obsessed with the weeknd for the last month or two and this halftime show was very magical for them. They only listen to frozen 2 soundtrack, thunderstruck, and the weeknd 'top tracks' playlist.
― sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 8 February 2021 03:21 (three years ago) link
This guys persona has always been kind of odious so I have little warmth for him despite liking his voice and several songs. The halftime set was pretty good, more for the staging, design and choreography than anything he was doing as a performer though. Props to him for putting his own money into it, which surprised me. Cant imagine everyone doing that.
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 09:37 (three years ago) link
Isn't that what everyone does for the Super Bowl? Or is it usually paid for by the sponsors? The musical acts don't get paid as far as I know, and that production money must come from somewhere.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:10 (three years ago) link
no idea, i dont remember seeing much about superbowl performances in the UK until the 00s or so tbh...
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
my 3 and 5 year olds have been obsessed with the weeknd for the last month or two and this halftime show was very magical for them. They only listen to frozen 2 soundtrack, thunderstruck, and the weeknd 'top tracks' playlist.― sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, February 7, 2021 10:21 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― sell her Dior (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, February 7, 2021 10:21 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
read this as "tindersticks" at first and was like wow.
― treeship., Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
Oh, I guess the football people cover the production costs usually, but there's no fee for the artists beyond that: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a35405738/super-bowl-halftime-performers-money/
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
weird.
― candyman, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link