Gone is 7 mins of the Weekend being on drugs, the idea with Thursday was to prove that HOB was not a fluke and his team can just make hits with ease. He's said in interviews he doesnt even know what he really said at some points, they just recorded it in one take, also XO is the Weeknds Cliqe and now label similar to Drakes OVO, XO stood for XTC and OxyCodone
that’s one of the reasons why gone is one of my favorite weeknd songs to this day. gone is so raw, the beat change, the third verse just sounds like your so wasted and faded that nothing makes sense and that’s why it’s so relatable. gone was a complete freestyle, he didn’t know what he was saying at times and it’s so raw and heartfelt nothing compares.
XO stands for Ecstasy and OxyContin. The Weeknd turns something cute and loving into something dark and twisted, the same way his music and voice sounds like it’s from heaven, but the lyrics are from hell. The same comparison can be made with House Of Balloons, on the surface it sounds like a kid’s birthday party, when in reality it’s Abel’s drug ridden lifestyle
@@Henryvalencia024 no he doesn't Michael Jackson had a soulful powerful and rough voice the weeknd voice can sometimes be weak he relies on tuning allot he has his own vibes
TRACKLIST TIMESTAMP: LONELY STAR- 1:31 LIFE OF THE PARTY- 4:45 THURSDAY- 8:00 THE ZONE- 9:54 THE BIRDS PT.1- 14:19 THE BIRDS PT.2- 16:07 GONE- 18:00 ROLLING STONE- 20:30 HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS- 22:50 VALERIE- 25:22 HAVE A GREAT DAY! XOTWD
nah this takes place over 2 years, hob is he finds a girl named valerie, he convinces her to do drugs, they party, then valerie leaves abel (the weeknd) to go with her boyfriend, he goes to a stripper club and brings someone home (wicked games) for coming down and loft music he sending voicemails to valerie, she responds on the knowing saying she loves her boyfriend not abel, but he knew this. For part 2 (thursday) Valerie falls in love with abel after a bunch of bad stuff happened to her. But abel loves something else more (sex, drugs and achohol) Valerie says she will be the weeknds (abels) forever if he does not fuck anyone else but her only on thursdays, but he can any other day. He eventually tells her she should leave because he does not love her enough, and then for part 3 on dd a dirty diana (look up what that means) makes him have sex with her on a thursday, and while abel is on a call the dirty diana tells valerie that hes fucking her instead, and valerie leave. The weeknd wants valerie to come back on outside, and says she wont want to go outside ever after fucking him. On xo/the host he gets a hoe (term used in song) to come to xo and have sex with him. But on initiation he says she most first get super high and be put on drugs then get gangbanged by all the people in xo. Thats all i know
Rolling stone is dedicated to his fans ( og fans especially ) “ Until you're used to my face And my mystery fades I got you, ooh So, baby, love me, oh Before they all love me Until you won't love me, oh Because they'll all love me, ooh I'll be different, oh I think I'll be different, ooh I hope I'm not different, oh And I hope you'll still listen But until then Baby, I got you” basically saying he’s going to get so big that he has to change his music to become more marketable, he predicted his future and made a song about it.
@@DakMan3 Exactly. After Hours is the reconciliation of his commercial and his musical artistry. I can’t wait for the next project. It’s gonna be a long 2 or 3 years
Man i was too young back then like 6 years old and now that im 16 and gone back to listen his old songs i really wish i found him when he started when he was still a mystery where people didn’t even know how he looked like. I can only imagine how that could’ve felt like.
House of Balloons is deffo his most accessible album/mixtape out of the three mixtape. Thursday is more experimental and the enjoyment depends on your mood I feel like. Echoes of Silence is his saddest mixtape to date and his best in my opinion, its the perfect mix between House of Balloons and Thursday. By the way there is a definitive story Abel is telling throughout the three mixtapes
Can we talk about rolling stone for a second? I love that song dearly. whenever the music video for Rolling stone came out, Abel put out an open letter to his fans about the music video/the song. in the song he sings "until you're used to my face and my mystery fades, i got you". this is him coming to terms with no longer being underground and eventually becoming mainstream. despite signing to a record label and maybe even seeming like he was being "a sell out" - in his open letter he puts, "You will continue to get what you fell in love with, and I will continue to give you what you asked for". I remember watching the music video and then reading his explanation on it in his open letter. Makes me really appreciate him as an artist, and despite how experimental his music may get, it's the same Abel deep down
This record is my favourite out of the three but from experience I know that I'm in the minority. House of Balloons usually steals the show for most people.. I just love the sinister and dark approach that Abel takes and of course, the Drake feature (which made me check out The Weeknd in the first place!) so it'll always hold a special place for me.
I agree. HOB was my favorite, but i listens to thursday and EOS more and i’ve realized that thursday is actually my favorite. now that i think about it, HOB might be overrated. don’t get me wrong it’s still a classic and i love it, but it’s obviously the most overrated out of the 3
Thursday , birds pt 1 , and birds pt 2 tell a dark story if you join the lyrics. This guy wrote these songs when he was 20 or 21. What a fucking legend
Another great reaction Jon! Rolling Stone is an outstanding track, especially when you delve into the lyrics. He's talking to his fans and ackowledging that he and his music will soon be very different and he'll no longer be the unknown man in the shadows. Crazy to think he predicted exactly how his career would pan out just 5 months after the release of his first mixtape...
Dont stop at Echoes you absolutely HAVE to do Kissland, arguably his best with House of Balloons, heavily inspried by Vangelis score for Blade runner and by a trip to Japan he took, production wise and lyric wise it's him at his most creative
Honestly, I love this. It's a first time reaction so songs many of us consider throwbacks. That's something that's not too common on UA-cam since so many pages are trying to stay current, while neglecting quality songs from the past
Lonely Star has always been my favorite weeknd track & I find it interesting that most critics don’t place it very high on their lists. Not a knock to anyone obviously music is subjective I just feel like the tone it sets as an opener with the constantly building instrumental & it’s lyrics is insane
When I say Trilogy changed my life, people tend to not understand unless they've heard it themselves as well. I'm only 21 so I heard it as a pretty young teen, and I will say it awakened me in SO many ways. His music is something that will be timeless, I can already tell. I found your first video on my recommended page, but I'm definitely subscribing after this. Can't wait to see the rest of your reviews!
If you were in highschool during THAT 2010/2011 era with The Weeknd and Drake both just starting, their music has a different meaning to you. Their music represents an entire era/generation, and completely changed the course of music. This album is an ALL TIME GREAT!!!
Valerie is probably top 3 Weeknd songs in my opinion. Literally indistinguishable from Michael Jackson in certain moments. I'm at the edge of my seat anticipating Echoes of Silence (best of all 3 IMO) so excited!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO KISSLAND IF YOU WANT A MOVIE. SHITS IS LYRICALLY HIS BEST WORK TO DATE. THE ENTIRE ALBUM IS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE FILMED IN LIKE ASIA.
just look at his early music like this, Each mixtape gets darker. Kissland is the darkest phase of his sorrows and pain. You feel it and hear it in his voice and the sounds.
you're gonna LOVE Echoes of Silence. the production takes a HUGE jump forward, his voice is more of the focal point of the tracks (less reverb and distortion), and he covers the King of Pop himself on the first track. i can't wait for your reaction to EOS. And you HAVE to do his first studio album 'Kiss Land'
also I've noticed you say you dont relate to alot of the tracks but you still enjoy them. A lot of us feel the same way, the reason the tracks still impact on you because the energy and what hes feeling is relateable more so than the content. Great video my man keep it up
Thursday. The story of a girl that becomes too attached to a man with a vile lifestyle. She loses her sanity and takes the life of another of his prey as well as her own. Then we’re hit with his regret and loneliness after it all. This regret and themes of “nothingness” come to full fruition in the third tape
House of balloons is him and his friends throwing a house party and Thursday is he meets a girl at the party does every crazy shit and goes on an emotional and mental rollercoaster with her towards the end the middle the party dies off and it’s then two still going hard
The idea behind Rolling Stone is actually a letter to his XO fans telling them he's going to be different (musically) and he also said "I hope you will still listen" hoping his OG fans would still listen to his music although it's a bit different from what we're used to. But XOTWOD for sure!
Echoes of Silence has more elements of traditional hip hop and R&B sprinkled with what made house of balloons so great, personally my favorite. Love how they flip drakes voice from the zone on the end of Initiation. Most people would say 1. House of Balloons 2. Echoes of Silence 3. Thursday Less time was spent on Thursday, and if I’m not mistaken, this is the one Drake took records off of for his own in Take Care. So, imagine records like Crew Love and Shot For Me on this mixtape.
Tavius Clark I think Crew Love, Shot For Me, The Ride, Practice and Good Ones Go was all meant for House Of Balloons. That’s just from my memory though lol
Dude the zone, while being high on XTC/MDMA is literally a whole experience. Like I cannot explain in words what you are feeling when you are listening to it.
Hi there, we XO OGs love ALL of Trilogy. Every single song. Obviously HOB is something special because is the very first one but Thursday and Echos are absolutely gold too. The more you listen to the songs, the more you love them. Can't really explain it. Can't wait to see how you react to Kiss Land :)
I wish I remembered the first time I heard all The Weeknd songs for the first time :( he's all I basically listen to and it still gives me chills after 7 years...
A lot of ppl don't mention this as their favorite weeknd album but this was always my favorite bc I was at the time and place where I was experiencing a lot of what he was talking about, taking a lot of drugs and getting around, being broke, living for the thrill, and just generally a dark time and everything about the darkness of this album resonated with me and still touches the dark places that I still carry. It was the soundtrack to my life. This album had the influence and atmosphere of a drug induced haze full of highs and lows and why it isnt like as the others bc it's not as relatable to those who havnt experienced this.
First time i ever watched someone listening to music but i just couldnt help feel excited for you as i remember myself hearing this for the first time 🔥
you've been comparing him to Michael all this time and now we all hyped cuz we know the next track is D.D. loved both of these reactions, XO is with you, love
Ever since 2011, Thursday has been my favourite of the 3. House of Balloons and Echoes of Silence are very very close to it! All 3 have to be some of my favourite albums/eps ever to exist! 10 years on and I keep going back to them.
Rolling Stones is a letter to his fan, you have to see the Isco video as well bc it was directed to represent the lyrics. Basically he’s saying that, although he enjoys being an underground artist, he understands that to grow as an artist as well as becoming successful, his music would have to change and become more mainstream. He realized a lot of his original fans with leave him bc of it, he he also understands that he loved a rough life and that he deserves to become successful. All in all, he hopes that despite becoming mainstream, that his fans will still love him
Dude you gotta listen to Drake's Take Care album, the Weeknd really shaped a lot of the sound of the album, in his words he was hungry and just gave drake a lot of his stuff cuz he was really hungry back in the day, Take Care is also imo Drake's best album to date. Love the videos
"I feel like every time he opens his mouth he's either cheating on a girlfriend or getting people to do coke."
Never heard a more accurate description
I’ve never seen a comment with 406 likes with no reply’s 😂 woops 😳
Yea thursday is most indulgent album lots of partying
"These poor girls", the album
Underrated comment
dead
Truth
Faxxx
until echoes of silence, then it's "poor abel"
If you didn’t know Rolling Stones is a letter to his fans
Actually it was just the music video that was a letter to his fans
Mardonkey i just think the song as a double entendre and one of the entedre is letter to his fans
Percy Jnr Johnson nope. Here’s the letter -> www.google.com/amp/s/genius.com/amp/The-weeknd-open-letter-to-fans-annotated
Mardonkey there’s an actual letter he wrote to the fans with the track ->
www.google.com/amp/s/genius.com/amp/The-weeknd-open-letter-to-fans-annotated
@@cleaneduppanda6525 yea i know this letter he posted it before posting the music video the song was long recorded before the letter
my mum hearing Valerie for the first time: "oh I haven't heard that Michael Jackson song before, is it new?"
Byrd Flu same
“Is it new” 😂😂😂
X X X lol I caught that too
Automatically liking it due to you posting it on Thursday.
Yes
4 years later I’m watching this on a Thursday
why am I smiling watching his reactions like I’m a mom proud of her son’s work lol
I've been nodding, smiling, and saying "mhm mhm".
Fatima Al Zaabi lmao yes!!!😂
Yo I'm a guy, and I still feel proud of Abel😂
Trust
me 😭
Gone is 7 mins of the Weekend being on drugs, the idea with Thursday was to prove that HOB was not a fluke and his team can just make hits with ease. He's said in interviews he doesnt even know what he really said at some points, they just recorded it in one take, also XO is the Weeknds Cliqe and now label similar to Drakes OVO, XO stood for XTC and OxyCodone
Ankit Patel XOTWOD
it was over the course of 40 minutes. 40 minutes of the weekend high off watever singing watever. like an artist blindfolded making a painting
that’s one of the reasons why gone is one of my favorite weeknd songs to this day. gone is so raw, the beat change, the third verse just sounds like your so wasted and faded that nothing makes sense and that’s why it’s so relatable. gone was a complete freestyle, he didn’t know what he was saying at times and it’s so raw and heartfelt nothing compares.
Kelbas god I would pay so much for that recording holy shit
the beauty of XO is that it has two sides, hugs a kisses to cover up the real, much more dark meaning of Ecstasy and Oxy
XO stands for Ecstasy and OxyContin. The Weeknd turns something cute and loving into something dark and twisted, the same way his music and voice sounds like it’s from heaven, but the lyrics are from hell. The same comparison can be made with House Of Balloons, on the surface it sounds like a kid’s birthday party, when in reality it’s Abel’s drug ridden lifestyle
I’ve been a fan of his since the first album and I didn’t even know that🤣 I feel like a fake fan
Oxytocin*
Oxycodone*
Lol how did I not know this until now?
Yes this comment is spittin facts. Abel's music can be sung with the most heavenly vocal and the darkest lyrics
If you think he sounded like Michael Jackson on this, just wait until you hear D.D.
Shhhhh... It's coming
😂😂😂no spoiling it to him.
@@MORNINGSTAR190 yeah he does
@@MORNINGSTAR190 you need to clean your ears.
@@Henryvalencia024 no he doesn't Michael Jackson had a soulful powerful and rough voice the weeknd voice can sometimes be weak he relies on tuning allot he has his own vibes
He is incredible, trilogy is musically and mentally insane. He is my life
me too i just got XOTWOD tattoo
XO
XOTWOD
he’s my life too
He ain’t yo life. You wish it was
Heaven Or Las Vegas is so underrated.
Facts
VERY
YES.
Yesss🔥🔥🔥
Major fact
"Really sounded like Michael Jackson on this track"
hasn't heard D.D. yet..... get ready
I love Jon’s “Fuck off”, “Leave me alone” and “He is killing me” when he listens to Abel 😃
TRACKLIST TIMESTAMP:
LONELY STAR- 1:31
LIFE OF THE PARTY- 4:45
THURSDAY- 8:00
THE ZONE- 9:54
THE BIRDS PT.1- 14:19
THE BIRDS PT.2- 16:07
GONE- 18:00
ROLLING STONE- 20:30
HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS- 22:50
VALERIE- 25:22
HAVE A GREAT DAY! XOTWD
Saving the day as per usual
Desire Not all heroes wear capes, thank you!!
Humanity is still existing because of people like you
goat
🖤XO🎶FOREVER🖤
I laughed with you when you called him a sexy vampire 😂😂
I always felt like HOB is the party, Thursday is the high & EOS is the come down.
nah this takes place over 2 years, hob is he finds a girl named valerie, he convinces her to do drugs, they party, then valerie leaves abel (the weeknd) to go with her boyfriend, he goes to a stripper club and brings someone home (wicked games) for coming down and loft music he sending voicemails to valerie, she responds on the knowing saying she loves her boyfriend not abel, but he knew this. For part 2 (thursday) Valerie falls in love with abel after a bunch of bad stuff happened to her. But abel loves something else more (sex, drugs and achohol) Valerie says she will be the weeknds (abels) forever if he does not fuck anyone else but her only on thursdays, but he can any other day. He eventually tells her she should leave because he does not love her enough, and then for part 3 on dd a dirty diana (look up what that means) makes him have sex with her on a thursday, and while abel is on a call the dirty diana tells valerie that hes fucking her instead, and valerie leave. The weeknd wants valerie to come back on outside, and says she wont want to go outside ever after fucking him. On xo/the host he gets a hoe (term used in song) to come to xo and have sex with him. But on initiation he says she most first get super high and be put on drugs then get gangbanged by all the people in xo. Thats all i know
Randomized i think your story’s a little off cause valerie kills herself in birds pt 2
That’s facts
@@terrymason.yt1232 woahh
@@wattt4535 she kills abel
Rolling stone is dedicated to his fans ( og fans especially ) “ Until you're used to my face
And my mystery fades
I got you, ooh
So, baby, love me, oh
Before they all love me
Until you won't love me, oh
Because they'll all love me, ooh
I'll be different, oh
I think I'll be different, ooh
I hope I'm not different, oh
And I hope you'll still listen
But until then
Baby, I got you” basically saying he’s going to get so big that he has to change his music to become more marketable, he predicted his future and made a song about it.
@@DakMan3 Exactly. After Hours is the reconciliation of his commercial and his musical artistry. I can’t wait for the next project. It’s gonna be a long 2 or 3 years
Man i was too young back then like 6 years old and now that im 16 and gone back to listen his old songs i really wish i found him when he started when he was still a mystery where people didn’t even know how he looked like. I can only imagine how that could’ve felt like.
@@konradhomiak3700 damn we already getting it lol
@@fxlln It seems like it. Kanye never drops on time, but at least the Weeknd always puts his money where his mouth is.
Tears in rain is going to get you in kissland
Jonathan Mendez and wanderlust
Tears in the rain is what I listen to when my soul hurts! 💚💛💙#XO🖤
They all feel the same!
@RC hey, no one will love you like her
@AshXo it's pointless like tear in the rain
everyone says this is the weakest tape of the three but honestly it’s my favorite. it’s really ambient and darkly beautiful.
yea
my fav tape of all time
💯💯🔥🔥🤌
it's not weak at all
I'm ready for him listening to Initiation
this_stuff_in myhead same
LMAO SAME
Omg SAME LMAOOO
He gon be shook 😂
Did you like his reaction?
House of Balloons is deffo his most accessible album/mixtape out of the three mixtape. Thursday is more experimental and the enjoyment depends on your mood I feel like. Echoes of Silence is his saddest mixtape to date and his best in my opinion, its the perfect mix between House of Balloons and Thursday. By the way there is a definitive story Abel is telling throughout the three mixtapes
Echoes of Silence song is still my favorite song by him till this day.
What's the story?
My dear melancholy is the saddest..
@@MrOmarthegangsta www.wattpad.com/amp/211341548
@@KENDOE119 no. No it's not.
Can we talk about rolling stone for a second? I love that song dearly. whenever the music video for Rolling stone came out, Abel put out an open letter to his fans about the music video/the song. in the song he sings "until you're used to my face and my mystery fades, i got you". this is him coming to terms with no longer being underground and eventually becoming mainstream. despite signing to a record label and maybe even seeming like he was being "a sell out" - in his open letter he puts, "You will continue to get what you fell in love with, and I will continue to give you what you asked for". I remember watching the music video and then reading his explanation on it in his open letter. Makes me really appreciate him as an artist, and despite how experimental his music may get, it's the same Abel deep down
This record is my favourite out of the three but from experience I know that I'm in the minority. House of Balloons usually steals the show for most people.. I just love the sinister and dark approach that Abel takes and of course, the Drake feature (which made me check out The Weeknd in the first place!) so it'll always hold a special place for me.
I cant decide, my first intro to him was high for this from HOB but songs off of EOS like initiation and same old song, bruh i can't even decide
benjamin ramsey bruh i don’t fucking blame you that song is great
I agree. HOB was my favorite, but i listens to thursday and EOS more and i’ve realized that thursday is actually my favorite. now that i think about it, HOB might be overrated. don’t get me wrong it’s still a classic and i love it, but it’s obviously the most overrated out of the 3
Ayo mertzy lmao
@@Jdmcclaran05 suprised to see him here lol
Why is Lonely Star so much underrated in my opinion
Definetely in my top 10
check out Exodus song
Thursday , birds pt 1 , and birds pt 2 tell a dark story if you join the lyrics. This guy wrote these songs when he was 20 or 21. What a fucking legend
First time I did drugs. To the two chainz album version. I’m a lawyer now. I play my clients that song to amp them up
@@tonytigerr8160 this sm saul goodman shit
Kiss Land is almost like a horror themed album so it's perfect for this month to react to it.
Wait til ya hear Kissland on the Kissland album
i was about to comment this
AngelG10Soccer lol 😇
Best album!
My favorite song of all time
PLEASE I NEED THIS
Another great reaction Jon! Rolling Stone is an outstanding track, especially when you delve into the lyrics. He's talking to his fans and ackowledging that he and his music will soon be very different and he'll no longer be the unknown man in the shadows. Crazy to think he predicted exactly how his career would pan out just 5 months after the release of his first mixtape...
Abel's voice is my favourite male voice still singing today
The Birds Pt. 1 is hands down my favourite weeknd song of all time
I agree
one of them
Definitely up there
This series is already legendary, please do Kissland aswell btw (the meaning of the whole album is really insane tbh) you da best 👊🏻
UNSUB
ELVIS MARTE watch the video to the and :)
Kissland is arguable his best piece of work as a whole imo
Dont stop at Echoes you absolutely HAVE to do Kissland, arguably his best with House of Balloons, heavily inspried by Vangelis score for Blade runner and by a trip to Japan he took, production wise and lyric wise it's him at his most creative
Honestly, I love this. It's a first time reaction so songs many of us consider throwbacks. That's something that's not too common on UA-cam since so many pages are trying to stay current, while neglecting quality songs from the past
!!!!
The Zone - one of my favourite songs of all time, gives me goosebumps to this day
You HAVE to listen to Kiss Land. I'll think you'll appreciate it the most of his work as it's just as dark but the song writing is much more poetic.
Lonely Star has always been my favorite weeknd track & I find it interesting that most critics don’t place it very high on their lists. Not a knock to anyone obviously music is subjective I just feel like the tone it sets as an opener with the constantly building instrumental & it’s lyrics is insane
I love Lonely Star! Loft music too is very underrated! (Imo, I like it better than HOB)
fax
hearing initiation for the first time is going to be a life-changing experience
When I say Trilogy changed my life, people tend to not understand unless they've heard it themselves as well. I'm only 21 so I heard it as a pretty young teen, and I will say it awakened me in SO many ways. His music is something that will be timeless, I can already tell. I found your first video on my recommended page, but I'm definitely subscribing after this. Can't wait to see the rest of your reviews!
I'm luckier I guess I've heard all of them at 17
I had no business listening to HOB when I was in middle school but it changed my mind forever XO
Vebhav ch im luckier tho i heard all of them @ 14
ur so right 🥺💖
Vebhav ch I heard them at like 14 I didn’t hear it at 21. im saying im 21 now!
I'm so glad you're listening to old Abel. A true gem!!
Thursday is actually my favourite but I can understand why it isn't for others. Crazy vibe
It's really angelic. Considering the lyrics a lot of ppl don't see the genius of fusing those two together.
yea
Can't wait for the EoS reaction, by far the saddest and to me his most personal work i think.
Hope u will do Kiss Land as well, it's a killer album
Might as well make the weeknd szn! His other albums; Kissland, BBTM and starboy are bangers!
100%
If you were in highschool during THAT 2010/2011 era with The Weeknd and Drake both just starting, their music has a different meaning to you. Their music represents an entire era/generation, and completely changed the course of music. This album is an ALL TIME GREAT!!!
I was 8 and still listening to all of it 😂
I was in 10th or 11th grade I remember
Really enjoying listening to my favorite artist with you man . Haven't seen a Weeknd reaction vid in ages.
Valerie is probably top 3 Weeknd songs in my opinion. Literally indistinguishable from Michael Jackson in certain moments.
I'm at the edge of my seat anticipating Echoes of Silence (best of all 3 IMO) so excited!
He put a lot of emotion in that song
I forgot this was a reaction and I just got lured back into the songs DAMN THE WEEKND FOR BEING AN AMAZING ARTIST
Man reliving the feels of Trilogy through your reactions is truly enjoyable
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO KISSLAND IF YOU WANT A MOVIE. SHITS IS LYRICALLY HIS BEST WORK TO DATE. THE ENTIRE ALBUM IS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE FILMED IN LIKE ASIA.
Yes. Yes. And yes
PLEASE DO!!!!
PLEAAASE DO IT !!!
Hummad Syed agreed. 190% his best work
It’s not his best... but it is amazing
LETS GO JON!!!!!!!!! BEST IN THE GAME BUBBA
Gone is one of my absolute favorites of Abel tbh, nothing like lying down, closing ur eyes and just listening to that
Life of the party is my 3rd favorite song of all time
just look at his early music like this, Each mixtape gets darker. Kissland is the darkest phase of his sorrows and pain. You feel it and hear it in his voice and the sounds.
For sure EOS into Kissland is rock bottom
Valerie is DIFFERENT! Omg so happy you’re reactions to these mixtapes 🤞🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
you're gonna LOVE Echoes of Silence. the production takes a HUGE jump forward, his voice is more of the focal point of the tracks (less reverb and distortion), and he covers the King of Pop himself on the first track. i can't wait for your reaction to EOS. And you HAVE to do his first studio album 'Kiss Land'
You can see that Jon was a rockhead since Heaven or Las Vegas and Life of the Party were under his favorite tracks
also I've noticed you say you dont relate to alot of the tracks but you still enjoy them. A lot of us feel the same way, the reason the tracks still impact on you because the energy and what hes feeling is relateable more so than the content. Great video my man keep it up
His scream @26:35 always gets me. The emotion he put in that song is unmatched
Thursday. The story of a girl that becomes too attached to a man with a vile lifestyle. She loses her sanity and takes the life of another of his prey as well as her own. Then we’re hit with his regret and loneliness after it all. This regret and themes of “nothingness” come to full fruition in the third tape
dang
I don’t know about your interpretation of The Birds tbh because the Lonely Star girl is also Valerie at the end
I love watching ppl listening to his music for the first time makes me feel like it's my first time 💘I get to fall in love all over again.
I beg you let the songs play out into each other in echoes of silence, from Montreal to Outside to Xo/ the Host and then Initiation
Its beautiful
that’s a religious experience
I'm so ready for Echoes Of Silence now !!!!
House of balloons is him and his friends throwing a house party and Thursday is he meets a girl at the party does every crazy shit and goes on an emotional and mental rollercoaster with her towards the end the middle the party dies off and it’s then two still going hard
This is a story that spans over like 2 years.
The idea behind Rolling Stone is actually a letter to his XO fans telling them he's going to be different (musically) and he also said "I hope you will still listen" hoping his OG fans would still listen to his music although it's a bit different from what we're used to. But XOTWOD for sure!
Echoes of Silence is my favourite, can't wait for you to listen to it!
I missed that little “I love guitars” soundbyte.
You honestly have the best, most authentic reactions to The Weeknd tracks. Love it
Once you are done with trilogy, you have to react to Kiss Land.
Echoes of Silence has more elements of traditional hip hop and R&B sprinkled with what made house of balloons so great, personally my favorite. Love how they flip drakes voice from the zone on the end of Initiation.
Most people would say
1. House of Balloons
2. Echoes of Silence
3. Thursday
Less time was spent on Thursday, and if I’m not mistaken, this is the one Drake took records off of for his own in Take Care. So, imagine records like Crew Love and Shot For Me on this mixtape.
Tavius Clark I think Crew Love, Shot For Me, The Ride, Practice and Good Ones Go was all meant for House Of Balloons. That’s just from my memory though lol
Scott Farrell yeah those were meant to be on HoB
Scott Farrell yeah either way I think some songs that we love on HoB end up on Thursday, just a testament to how much great music he was making
The Weekend's 1st 3 mixtapes really take you to another place
Trilogy and Kissland are my top two albums of all time
Same here. I even get a tattoo of that 2 album on my arm
Yessss got both tatted, nothing touches them
Dude the zone, while being high on XTC/MDMA is literally a whole experience. Like I cannot explain in words what you are feeling when you are listening to it.
Hi there, we XO OGs love ALL of Trilogy. Every single song. Obviously HOB is something special because is the very first one but Thursday and Echos are absolutely gold too. The more you listen to the songs, the more you love them. Can't really explain it.
Can't wait to see how you react to Kiss Land :)
thank you for doing this. it’s bringing much needed nostalgia of hearing these mixtapes for the first time.
Rolling stone is my personal fav on this tape!
All the songs are the songs on this album are absolute perfection istgg
do Kissland that’s the his 2nd album it’s 🔥🔥🔥 too
Some of his best lyrical work to date!
its actually his 1st studio album.... house of baloons, thursday and echoes of silence are mixtapes...underground
Kissland is his first album. Trilogy is just his mixtapes combined in one for a whole 2nd album.
I wish I remembered the first time I heard all The Weeknd songs for the first time :( he's all I basically listen to and it still gives me chills after 7 years...
The Zone gotta be top 5 all time
It is.
Crew love >>>
For sure
Chill he has waaaaayyyyy better songs
I mean opinions can be subjective - but not even his Top 10!
A lot of ppl don't mention this as their favorite weeknd album but this was always my favorite bc I was at the time and place where I was experiencing a lot of what he was talking about, taking a lot of drugs and getting around, being broke, living for the thrill, and just generally a dark time and everything about the darkness of this album resonated with me and still touches the dark places that I still carry. It was the soundtrack to my life. This album had the influence and atmosphere of a drug induced haze full of highs and lows and why it isnt like as the others bc it's not as relatable to those who havnt experienced this.
THE ONLY SONG MISSING IN THIS MIXTAPE THAT SHOULD'VE BEEN REALEASED IS
THE BIRDS INTERLUDE !! 😩
Analuz Chino FACTS
we deserve a studio version for sure
@@mahmudaziizi9134 we had to wait like 6 yrs for the xo/down low cover so be on the look out in 2022😭😭😭
truly
I was signing up a customer saving them money on natural gas when I got this notification. This too made my day!
First time i ever watched someone listening to music but i just couldnt help feel excited for you as i remember myself hearing this for the first time 🔥
Thursday is my favourite out of the 3. A trippy ride.
I always come back and watch these videos it makes me so happy to see reactions when I know whats coming up
The first time I listen to Thursday all I could think after was that whole project was a vibe
these make me so happy. thank you for appreciating his music 🖤
Woke up from a nap - frickin Thursday reaction dropped LETS GOOOO
Thank you for sharing this experience with us. It felt as if I was again listening for the first time! Goosebumps throughout the whole video
Watched every second of the video
Keep it coming bro
Echoes of Silence it's my favorite mixtape, can't wait to see your reaction to Montreal and echoes of silence.
you've been comparing him to Michael all this time and now we all hyped cuz we know the next track is D.D.
loved both of these reactions, XO is with you, love
Ever since 2011, Thursday has been my favourite of the 3. House of Balloons and Echoes of Silence are very very close to it! All 3 have to be some of my favourite albums/eps ever to exist! 10 years on and I keep going back to them.
Life of the party was the first ever song be the Weeknd I ever heard been a huge fan ever since
Rolling Stones is a letter to his fan, you have to see the Isco video as well bc it was directed to represent the lyrics. Basically he’s saying that, although he enjoys being an underground artist, he understands that to grow as an artist as well as becoming successful, his music would have to change and become more mainstream. He realized a lot of his original fans with leave him bc of it, he he also understands that he loved a rough life and that he deserves to become successful. All in all, he hopes that despite becoming mainstream, that his fans will still love him
As soon as fall hits, I play nothing but this trilogy lol 😂
Winter for me, fall is for kissland
And summertime for me🎵🎶🎶 Weeknd SZN
It's that time of year! also, found that i commented on this hahaha
Enjoying again, watching someone hear this for the 1st time. What I'd give to hear these for the first time again!! XOTWOD 💜
Dude you gotta listen to Drake's Take Care album, the Weeknd really shaped a lot of the sound of the album, in his words he was hungry and just gave drake a lot of his stuff cuz he was really hungry back in the day, Take Care is also imo Drake's best album to date. Love the videos
It's always amazing seeing someone discover the magic that is The Weeknd!!
Loved your reaction
It's great to watch a reaction like yours since I've had the same reaction years back.
Just watching all ur abel reactions and it’s making me remember how good EVERY SINGLE SONG is 😍