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
I liked it, cad otm here and in Super Bowl thread
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
i didn't love the performance... very weird to see a super bowl halftime show where the singer is jammed off to one side on a static stage like he's headlining a festival. i found it pretty boring for that reason... once he finally got onto the field it was fine, nothing that special. seemed like he tried to do something cool as opposed to something that was fun. i've seen better from him on TV tbh
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 9 February 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
didn’t like it either tbh, good voice ruined by a pretty bad sound mix, he can’t dance and has no stage presence or charisma to speak off, so not a good idea to do a solo show like this.
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
speak of*
I didn’t really know his music before, I recognized the big hit which I really liked and has been stuck in my head all day. So mission accomplished over here I guess
― brimstead, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 23:28 (three years ago) link
I'm ten years late on house of baloons. I love this album. wtf was I listening to in 2011? I don't know.
― akm, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 03:32 (three years ago) link
Was def into the mixtapes at the time. It’s some weird type of nostalgic hearing them now though
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Sunday, 21 March 2021 16:15 (three years ago) link
Rereading the posts from the start of this thread 10 years ago, it’s funny to see how so many people thought the weeknd was a group at first. Who would’ve thought he’d be headlining the Super Bowl half time show 10 years later!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 21 March 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
new one is just a repeat of the last except a bit worse. same well-crafted retro production but the songs aren't too convincing overall & it doesn't have the same highlights either.
― ufo, Friday, 7 January 2022 05:54 (two years ago) link
i hope Robert Beatty made a bunch of dough for this album cover
― alpine static, Friday, 7 January 2022 06:09 (two years ago) link
oh wait, is it the old man pic? i thought it was this: https://www.target.com/p/the-weeknd-dawn-fm-target-exclusive-cd/-/A-85668841
maybe it's both. idk...
old man pic is the main cover, that's a target exclusive cover
lol at him getting mike love's son & bruce johnston to do some totally inconsequential beach boys oohs on a track that does not resemble the beach boys at all
― ufo, Friday, 7 January 2022 08:54 (two years ago) link
somehow all of this new weeknd stuff has made me get back to this 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ8yZmgKIHU
― krewki, Friday, 7 January 2022 11:12 (two years ago) link
the best stuff on after hours were where he was least interested in the 80s thing and instead moved towards 90s garage rhythms so of course there's none of that here
― ufo, Friday, 7 January 2022 11:41 (two years ago) link
I'm not hearing what's supposed to sound "80s" about this album.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 7 January 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link
i like that he's pushing super hard in this direction & leaving the dirtbag R&B thing behind, i just wish the production and songwriting were better. i like plenty of max martin stuff but purposefully placing him in the same context as quincy jones doesn't really do max many favors as a producer, honestly. you can't really hear any instruments breathe on this, it's all very monolithic and smushed together. sign of the times, of course, but i want to love a project like this and it leaves me a bit cold. it feels telling to me that "i feel it coming" is still his best disco-y type song & it came from daft punk in the wake of them meticulously recreating 70s studio musicianship. these weeknd records really need some of that touch. in general i still think starboy has his best songs, tho after hours is prob better front to back as an album. gonna keep trying w/ this one tho
― J0rdan S., Friday, 7 January 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
OPN has more production credit on this than Martin, though both are involved on nearly every track. Haven't heard it yet, but if it's an album's worth of No Nightmares that's not a bad thing at all.
Shame about the cover though
― octobeard, Sunday, 9 January 2022 01:02 (two years ago) link
I should say production and writing credit. Lopatin is listed as a writer for all but two tracks
― octobeard, Sunday, 9 January 2022 01:03 (two years ago) link
I've listened to it twice and I don't remember any of the songs yet.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 9 January 2022 01:08 (two years ago) link
‘how do i make you love me’ is so sick
― flopson, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 05:12 (two years ago) link
― flopson,
Agreed. The rest of the album is the usual meh.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 10:42 (two years ago) link
Gasoline through Sacrifice is a really solid run imo. The rest hasn’t really stuck with me so far. Admittedly I didn’t spend time with the last album so I don’t have the comparison point.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 13:01 (two years ago) link
yeah i like most of the album quite a lot, especially the “bangers”. one of my most listened to mixes last year was lopatin’s bbc essential mix which was all italo electro minimal synth and techno. at the time i thought it was a bit of a curveball for him but it makes sense that he was working on this album at the time
― flopson, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 16:09 (two years ago) link