DEEP DISCOG DIVE: The Weeknd
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:37 Prologue
01:52 House of Balloons
05:21 Thursday
06:49 Echoes of Silence
08:54 Kiss Land
12:13 Beauty Behind The Madness
15:13 Starboy
18:28 My Dear Melancholy,
20:16 After Hours
24:23 Dawn FM
28:56 Conclusion
Just to clarify, Ethiopian is a nationality not a language. The Weeknd was taught Amharic which is one of the main languages in Ethiopia.
Yes! I was just gonna say this- hopefully he can fix that
up! hope mic sees this
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: please listen to Dawn FM in a car. Something about it turns the experience from “I’m listening to an album by the weeknd” to “the weeknd is a ghost and he has possessed my car’s radio antenna oh god”
YES. i listened to it in the car for the first time and it changed everything for me
I wasn't convinced about the record until I happened to hear Sacrifice in a car. Flipped me upside down
I first listened to it whilst on a 2 hour drive and holy shit. I was ascending into heaven to say the least. Cried twice and couldn't tell you why. It's such an experience.
Definitely. I listened to it after my dad and I fixed my car and it was one of the best moments I've had with him.
exactly, especially at night
On the topic of weird samples Abel did, I'm surprised that Out of Time didn't get a little shoutout on Dawn FM. I was genuinely confused and thought I accidentally added Midnight Pretenders to queue, but it goes really well within the album.
Same! It so odd but I also kinda get it, using a city pop song into this album with a radio concept. I think they did a great job also and honestly one of my favorites from the album!
I lost my shit when I first heard that iconic opening
Out of Time is Abel singing over a vaporwave song and you can’t convince me otherwise. I want to see that genre get actual mainstream crossover without being treated as a meme.
Not sure if we’ve any Craic Boi Mental fans here but Craic Boi used that same sample in his 2019 song Polos Is Still Life, which cracks me up every time
That sample goes so hard
once again, "In the Night" goes under the radar. one of my favorite tracks of his, and a pretty big hit too, but didn't even make The Highlights.
In The Night is my single favourite Weeknd song. It sounds awesome, and its portrayal of its lyrical content is better executed than it has any right to be.
Also, “I don’t think you understand” calls back to Andre 3000’s “Y’all don’t wanna hear me, you just wanna dance” in all the right ways.
That song is fantastic , one of the first songs I heard from him, now I adore him!
yeah
I love that at first i didn't like Gasoline, and after a few listens became one of the highlights of Dawn FM. And Less Than Zero became really quickly my favorite Weeknd song
I think Less Than Zero has the potential to be a huge hit if he makes it a single
The meaning that I took from gasoline is why I like it. He’s basically saying he’s in hell anyway so when he dies just burn him basically
Less than zero is my favorite The Weeknd song too
Surprised that no one has recommended this, but I for one would LOVE a Weird Al DDD. He’s done so much when it comes to music and comedy that he almost single-handedly represents it (save for Bo Burnham, Richard Cheese, and possibly Spinal Tap).
I've actually been thinking about this one for quite some time. He has a rich history and a lot of his originals get swept under the rug.
Bro a Weird Al DDD would be so much damn fun. He has a very solid discography
YES! weird al is never taken seriously as a musician (the curse of making really good parodies) but he's such a talented guy with way more of a fanbase than you might think.
Oh wow! I can’t believe I never thought about it
I’d like to see Ninja Sex Party too
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It’s Mambo number 5
Mf looked and sounded so defeated.
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We needed Kissland as a fanbase. Had he jumped to pop features and BBTM directly after Trilogy I just don’t think it would have worked.
it’s so under appreciated it pains me. top 2 album from him with so many amazing songs. and i agree i don’t think going from eos to bbtm would work
I know it isn't really Abel's song but Stargirl Interlude deserves to be recognised as probably the interlude in an album
YES!
Oh yeah, its an interlude in the album for sure
With how big The Weeknd is now I sometimes forget people didn’t really know about him before I Can’t Feel My Face, and some maybe didn’t start paying attention till Blinding Lights. But this man has been amazing since 2011 and I still think Trilogy is his best work to date. So wild watching his star rise over the past few years.
Yo, same here. Trilogy is the magnum-copus!
Love this. You should make a DDD with Lana del Rey. I’d love to see your takes on her evolution throughout the decade. And you’d also get a lot of views hahahah
Her online behavior lately has been super messy and embarrassing, but I don't entirely disagree with her that she's consistently never gotten the credit she's due, because her fanbase is the exact type of women society LOVES to belittle. Most other female artists get a mixture of unfair hate and indignant defense, but Lana was like Ke$ha (before the DR. Luke stuff came out) where it was just universally accepted you were allowed to shit on these women as much as you wanted without even trying to follow it up with something nice about them. And with Ke$ha, it really was mindless pop garbage being pumped out for the sake of hits. But Lana was out there baring her soul and getting treated like a walking punchline
As someone who struggled with limerance and being attracted to men who brought out my daddy issues, Lana's music taps into a feeling I feel like is really rare to be acknowledged in mainstream media. It's not love, it doesn't even feel like what you were told love was supposed to feel like, but its all you god damn have so you cling to it to keep from drowning. And you feel like a fool, because you know you're being "messy' and "*that* girl".
It reminds me a lot of the backlash the song "prom queen" by beach Bunny got. People who make anthems for broken teenage girls get treated as if they're *encouraging* being broken, as if the only songs for teen girls need to be hearing are "strong empowered anthems". Women who refuse to hide their trauma, who refuse to put up a strong face about it, who admit they feel weak and helpless and stupid a lot.....they're shoved to the side for another generic song that pretends the majority of adult women are doing just fine, actually.
Lana is the ANTITHESIS of the trend to push constantly superficial messages of empowered woman, girl bosses, etc She is the traumatized woman laid bare.
@@ruminationstation4200 Wow. Thank you so much for sharing this. And you’re absolutely right. I think that in some ways she’s ALWAYS ahead of her time cause she chooses to look inward, to her muse, to her deepest and oldest influences, to poetry, to literature etc other than to look at what her contemporaries are doing.
I think she’s finally getting her flowers for the door she’s opened. Yes, her vulnerability was very “dressed up” and that’s what made people cynical of her. But it’s not any less real, and now the mainstream audience sees it.
Her music definitely allowed “fragile” and “damaged” women to find the beauty in their life and realize that it’s okay to not have their shit together all the time. But as Lana evolved to a more mature and wise Lana, the audience saw in her an example of strength. Of someone who bypassed and survived an incredible amount of hate and cynicism.
So yeah, you’re absolutely right.
yesss i also wanted to ask for a video with Lana
I would KILL for a deep discog dive on Mitski. I’ve listened to all of her albums pretty recently and she’s amazing.
"I Feel It Coming" is straight up one of my favorite songs ever. It's not often we get big pop hits about Passover!
"Afikomen
Afikomen, babe"
the deluxe version of After Hours imo makes the album so much better because those three songs feel like they wrap up the themes of the album very well
@@topkali2118 until i bleed out? weak closer? I think you need to relisten to it with an open mind.
You're absolutely right.
Dawn FM means so much to me. It was released the night following a really hard day. I was sent home from school because I was exposed to covid the day before my school's play (that I had a somewhat large role in) had opening night. Months of work and relationships just crumbled in a matter of minutes, leaving me just as alone as I was when After Hours dropped. I had nothing else to do at home, so I decided to stay up and listen to Dawn FM as it released. The comfort that this music gave me was really strange, as I wouldn't have expected it from The Weeknd of all artists. Anyways, thanks for doing a DDD on The Weeknd, it was a nice reminder of how music has saved me in a lot of situations.
dawn fm is the weakest of Abel's albums though
@@jaspersroom1934 so? It means something to this person because of their circumstances.
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1. Thanks to everyone who voted for Abel in last month’s poll! I’m picking the artist for next month, but feel free to suggest who I should cover in the comments!
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I think either Sufjan Stevens or The Mountain Goats would be cool!
JAY-Z
It'd be so cool if you could cover The Oh Hellos or Set It Off! Especially since the latter released an album last month :]
Please cover Alice In Chains!
Maybe Lorde?
I'm super happy to see Abel grow as an artist and evolve to the music he wants to make. I'm excited for this new trilogy he's making
Folie a deux underrated af 👀
When my mum first heard Blinding Lights, and I said I loved that song, she expressed surprise that I liked 80's music. I told her it was much more recent than that, and she said: "No, I remember listening to this when it was new."
Damn song so iconic it Mandela Effected my mum
Aha says "Thanks"
Admittedly, the Daft Punk collaborations and an amusingly fitting mashup of Blinding Lights and Through the Fire and Flames is what slowly started my interest in the Weeknd, so this video will surely be really appreciated. Hoping to see a Muse DDD soon btw, probably after their new album drops.
Wouldn't a muse one be depressing they haven't made a good album since the 2000s
@@dillontaylor2569 Dude, don't come for Muse's throat like that.
You're *right* but still.
@@GoneRampant Don't want any arguments or negativity about the quality of their post '00s output please. Based on personal experience and mostly aside from the singles, almost all of their albums took a while to fully grow on me and genuinely appreciate on their own merits. This includes most of Showbiz and the non-heavy material from OOS and Absolution. And there are select tracks from The 2nd Law and Simulation Theory that are among my favorites from them. If anything, it'd be quite interesting to see MTS's take on the whole thing very soon.
@@KremBotop I'd be more inclined to agree about their post 00s catalogue if they'd leaned harder into the experimental sounds they were flirting with but you can tell they're still trying to write festival setlist friendly hits and it comes off sounding cheap and almost a parody of what they're going for, I agree that it would be interesting to here Mic's thoughts however.
@@KremBotop And I knock them for trying to write festival bangers but they were one of the best headline acts I've ever seen 💖
I LOVE how you, Mr. The Snare, use the SAME text when talking about things you already said in previous videos. In 3:48 the intertextuality with the "Music That Defined the 2010s" video, and at 23:30 app. the reference specifically to "Blinding Lights" made in the Best Albums of 2020 video. Great DDD as always.
Was listening to Gasoline right when I checked my subscription feed- what a treat! always lovin the videos Mic!
definitely top 3 dawn fm
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MDM is the greatest record ive ever heared. Every song is incredibly personal, believeable and full of emotion. I was never there is in opinion the best and most underrated the weeknd song.
My fav is privilege
My fav is I Was Never There, just talks about the real trauma that men have in their life.
"I'm a Virgin" is, unironically, one of my top three songs by The Weeknd.
I've never heard Weeknd outside of his big singles and After Hours album. This video makes me want to dig into his discography.
How’d it go??
@@AngelXO96 House of Balloons is in my top 10 music projects of all time now. BBTM and Starboy are also on repeat for me. Kissland and Dawn FM are good but not my cup of tea I guess
You gotta do Mac Miller asap 😭 an incredible transformation of sound and his music pretty much tells his whole story. Also I think Tyler’s episode needs a redo 👀
Mac has like 12 projects on Spotify. Maybe he should just stick to his six albums.
@@pepearown4968 idk i feel like that’d be a disservice to Mac. A lot of his growth came from mixtapes. In that scenario, you’d be completely ignoring K.I.D.S, Macadelic, and Best Day Ever. And Faces was technically released as a full album but that was also just a mixtape at first.
@@MrBlackLenses No disrespect. It just seems like an awful lot to cover in one single video.
Considering she is going into motherhood and hasn’t made an album in a while, I don’t think there would be a better time to do a DDD on Rihanna!
Although if you really wanted to make something huge and special… Michael Jackson? I could imagine that having to be like a 1 million subscriber milestone or something though.
Anyway, great DDD as always!
In my opinion, Anti, Rated R and Unapologetic are her only listenable albums. She's a hitmaker, not an artist.
I would Love to See one on MJ, I don’t think any artists music has aged as well as his has.
@@Isaiah-FA3 Yeah, he was years ahead from everybody
I agree, sacrifice isn’t big enough, they play it on the radio then go you out of time. Just is underrated, tho I do enjoy starboy, dawn fm, and after hours because of their similar styles!
It is a big shame that the Dawn FM singles aren't getting that much radio play, since they're constantly getting overshadowed by the After Hours singles, but that doesn't mean that one is better than the other, in my opinion they're both equally great 👍
@@juniedaniel6428 exactly, I jus can't really pick a favorite Abel album or stuff, like this man jus keeps evolving in sound, vocals and everything and he just gets better and better... Yunno, and even though I jus started this XO ride with him, I'm ready to go till I overdose 🔥🔥💯
We need a They Might Be Giants, Queen, and Led Zeppelin DDD!
Darn right!
A DDD on Siouxsie and the Banshees should be in order. They have such an extensive history
Dawn FM was one of my favorite albums to come out recently, and that came as a shock as I was never really into Abel's themes of drugs and despair coupled with the dark production. I know that a lot of people love his older stuff and maybe don't enjoy his recent offerings because of how pop friendly they are, but I think that he reached a good compromise by maximizing this pop appeal and keeping in touch with his earlier themes in a smart way. Anyways, The Weeknd is a very interesting artist and his career progression made for a good retrospective. Great vid again Mic! I love the DDD series and can't wait see what's next.
I love both his old and new stuffs. Depends on the mood if I'd be hearing his old songs, or would be jamming to new ones.
I wish you were able to appreciate Kiss Land more. I think the fact that it's in a weird position in his discography makes it very overlooked considering there aren't any big hits on it and it's generally overlooked in his catalog, but it's my personal favorite. The album is a true masterpiece from top to bottom and I think it's lyrically his best too. He tells such a clear, vivid, and direct story about his experiences throughout his first tour.
I feel as if it is structured very similarly to House Of Balloons. The first tracks are setting the stage, it really gets deep towards the third quarter with , the songs right before the outro are him "coming off of" the high of the album, and the last song is where he loses control of his emotions and they get the best of him.
I've been listening to the discography of many artists lately, The Weeknd was one of those recently. I was doing a mini tour of Canadian artists, Starting with Carly Rae Jepson, going to Justin Bieber, and then Abel here (and then got out of Canada and went to Barbados ☂️). A lot of Weeknd songs started to blend in with each other because of the similar content of many of them but it was an interesting time, especially Dawn FM which as a concept was just very interesting. Learning it was Jim Carrey narrating through the album made me go "what?!" lol
Ethiopian isn’t a language. The language he learned was Amharic, one of the languages spoken in Ethiopia
Okay hear me out, Dawn FM is a better than After Hours as a whole, but after hours has better singles and is an easier listen
I low-key feel the same way, but wasn’t sure if I was ready to admit it lol
@@De_La_Soto as soon as I listened to it the first time I knew lol
Hard disagree but still really like Dawn fm
I can't agree nor disagree with you because those two albums are like my joy ❤️, but fr I'd say... Both 👩🏾🦯😂😂
I only liked the singles on After Hours, wasn’t a fan of the rest. Dawn FM is perfect from beginning to end. I love that Abel is bringing concept albums back.
A Car Seat Headrest DDD would be great, especially given how obscure their first records are
My favourite thing about Abel that few people talk about is how much of a nerd for music and cinema he is. His horror movie influences, his passion for French house (like Daft Punk and Gesaffelstein), the interest in 80's music in general (and not just the obvious artists) - it's all there. For an artist his size, the fact that he doubled down on his influences over the years and brought them to the mainstream proves that he has a genuine interest for them.
Kissland is being hated for no real reason. Adaptation, wanderlust, pretty, belong to the world, tears in the rain are absolute gems
The Weeknd and Bruno Mars NEEEED to collab. Im not joking its kind of driving me crazy that they havent yet like its sooooo freaking obvious to me ESPECIALLY after silk sonic and dawn fm. Sun and Moon those two
Omg I've never thought of that until this comment but yes why has that not happened yet?
I fuckin' love 'Sacrifice', to me it's feel so fuckin' funky that I couldn't stop thinking that this is 'Thriller'
I see the mj influence on Sacrifice.
DDD on MJ when?!
I love the series!!! I’m super interested to see if you’ll cover BROCKHAMPTON now that they’re officially over (they teased a last album ever later this year but with them you can never be sure)
there's two, actually
I'm canadian, and I first heard The Weeknd on a obscure music blog in 2011 which linked to High For This and Wicked Games and my mind was BLOWN. His voice was unbelievable and I fell in love with his atmospheric sad beats. I was hooked from that very moment and I haved followed him ever since. At the Superbowl, when the snippet from House of Balloons came on, morphing to the finale with Blinding Lights, it brought me back to that moment and I almost cried ! I do agree After Hours is his best album yet. Anytime he collaborates with Max Martin or Ohneotrix Point Never, they make absolute bangers. I love how the 80's synth sound suits his style and his voice perfectly, and I hope he does continue in the same vein for his next projects.
Fun Fact: The Weeknd actually donated his extra e to Bladee!
I'd love to see you cover ABBA next
The Weeknd is one of my all time favourite pop artists. I have never NOT liked his songs.
Out of time is my one of my favourite Weekend tracks. A bop, I was glad he released it as a single.
Really surprised you thought After Hours and Dawn FM were so dissimilar because they seem like they flow right into each other imo.
Either way, loved the video!
I feel like if you understand the story progression from trilogy that follows through into dawn fm, the transition from after hours to dawn fm hits a lot harder
I'm a huge fan of you, sir! Your videos are amazing..
A deep dive on Billy Joel would actually be amazing, he’s kind of underrated nowadays and has an interesting life story to compliment the creation of his discography. Plus he’s my favorite artist!
House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls is probably my favorite song ever. I have two memories attached to experiencing it: 1. when i saw him in lollapalooza chile he played Glass Table Girls and i was fortunate enough to annoy everybody as i rapped every single line from heart. 2. i was staying in my boyfriends house when abel did the Superbowl Half Time and he doesn't have cable so he found an obviously super legal way to stream it on the internet. i had to listen to it on his computer with headphones while he was studying and when the chorus of HoB started i screamed at the top of my lungs with excitement and my bf had no idea why.
Heartless is probably my favorite song by him, and it's usually forgotten. I'm glad you like it too!
My most played in my house when I wanna have a little fun.
The weeknds evolution is insane
I literally knew everything in this video, but I still loved hearing you assemble Abel's life into such a good video! Well done!
The Weeknd is my favorite & I’m thankful you did this.
Omg, I was just reviewing his discography the last weeks, so, I'm happy you drop your analysis now
I'm so happy you made this and I found it. I have been listening to The Weeknd for some years now, yet this made me put together all the parts of his career and see it contextualized. Also, I learned a lot of new things. Plus, I agree with a lot of your opinions, especially "Sacrifice" being an overlooked hit. Thank you for making this! :)
I saw his tour this year , amazing
I am so thankful for this video. I love your videos ever since the defining music of the 2010s and boy i am hooked to your video style.
I'm out of words on this video, anytime I see a video explaining Abel's music and stuffs I always feel so happy and proud for him I don't know 🥺🤧, but yeah... I'mma go listen to all his songs again 😭😭👩🏾🦯
Thank you so much for including a playlist, trying to listen to all the tracks you mention during DDD gets hectic lol
I would love to see a Madonna, Pet Shop Boys & a more in depth Bjork DDD.
@LouisBashford Yeah, let's all vote for the blueprint of female popstars for the next DDD, either that or Queen.
Love love love PSB, would be a monster of an episode for Mic though (14 mainline studio albums, most of them with double/triple length "further listening" releases, plus many other projects/records).
@@rosaliet3252 He made a one hour long video about the beatles, i think he can do it.
I mean both of them would be crazy long videos besides I think in this day and age Madonna doesn't get paid her dues for being the pop pioneer that she is
@@louisbashford8048 I don't know about you, but I've heard plenty of people praising Madonna for being so influential.
I was literally just thinking about how I wanted you to do a DDD on The Weeknd last night since I've been meaning to get into his music but didn't know where to start, this literally couldn't have come at a better time!
As a fan since 2011, before he got signed, this was really well made. I have seen him at every single tour since 2012 and I have enjoyed seeing him evolve so much. Can’t wait to see him again this summer.
I LOVED the 2020 Top 10 Albums edit. Great Video
YAAAY . Procrastination material 💜 you always come through
I dont know why, as much as I loved After Hours, I love Dawn FM even more.
Great video. For me, Dawn FM is Abel's best album yet. It's so catchy and the flow is amazing, I just can't stop listening ever since it came out, something that has not happened with his previous projects.
when he says "its a happy house, we're happy here in a happy house" i feel shivers down my spine like it feels haunting.. you feel like theres someone screaming in the background with everyone drinking and smoking and abel manipulating to make everyone think that its happy there...
Yo, saw in an early video that you wanted to cover the beach boys at some point, so I'd definitely love to see that sometime if it's still on the table, their discography/history is pretty interesting. Love the videos, excited to see what's next!
I got tickets for his tour at the end of August and I'm looking forward to seeing him and Doja open for him! This definitely encouraged me to explore his discography more, as I'm mainly familiar with the singles.
oh hell yeah ive been waiting for this one! maybe next time you can cover the rest of the week!
Just an all around legend. Every album is good and every album has memorable songs. Most of them honestly. His music isn't for everyone but people who have been in those darker places understand.
Great video! After Hours is a good recommendation as an entry point into The Weeknd for sure.
For the next DDD, you should do Tom Waits! I feel like it would be a pretty huge undertaking because he has such a large discography but it would be so cool!
The Weeknd is the best artist of this generation. Fight me.
we need a beach house deep discog dive after talking about the samples
I wouldn't call It a ripoff, but the melody of Blinding Lights shares an incredibly similar melody to the guitar solo on Thee Oh Sees' Withered Hand.
So it HAS been with us in some form for a while.
I find the song blends well with Take Me On by A-Ha too
My favourite thing about Abel is the self awareness in his lyrics. Nobody does it quite like he does. His music has gotten me through some of my darkest moments. That's his genius.
Great DDD as always, I've alway considered Abel as one of the most iconic mainstream artists of our time. Especially with how he has evolved over time and I've honestly loved every single different sound he's tried over the years and i think he's a genuinely phenomenal songwriter and vocalist. Also glad you briefly mentioned his Lana Del Rey collaborations (you should do a DDD on her at some point by the way) since imo they have great chemistry together and I'd love them to do a full album together one day
I love these vids and I would LOVE if you did this for Lana Del Rey because I’d love to see your thoughts on her discography, especially Honeymoon, Norman Fucking Rockwell, and Blue Bannisters
The missing E was actually stolen by lorde
I really appreciate these DDD vids Mic. Thanks to your vid on Daft Punk, I got deeper into their work and became a fan. I checked out Dawn FM after your MMM video because I liked what I heard and was intrigued by the album's concept. I ended up really enjoying it! I picked up the CD and I'm gonna grab the vinyl once it drops. I have been curious about his previous work, as I had only really heard the hits. This video has been great and I look forward to more. Hopefully you get the chance to read this.
Thursday is my favorite Abel project, people don't realize this but Abel tells the most enchanting story in this mixtape through his lyrics. I think this mixtape encapsulates who The Weeknd was and is. The tracks on the mixtape take you through a story and the lyricism is just heartbreakingly beautiful. The instrumentals on the Title track Thursday, the story of The Birds, and the message to the audience through Rolling Stone, the ego track Heaven or Las Vegas(with a hint to his father) and the vocals on Valerie. He put his whole heart and soul into this project and seeing him do this so early in his career made me fall in love with him.
The Weeknd is so talent as well as the guy who does Dark R&B pretty well. 😍 Dawn FM is my fave release of 2022. Also, do a DDD for Bruno Mars.
im in fucking love with dawn fm man. Is currently my most played album by a long shot. The first 9 tracks are all absolute bangers. Even after that the only bits i could have done without was every angel is terrifying and lil waynes rap. Sacrifice imo is the single most infectious groove ive heard this decade. Overall it feels like his most complete project to date, with strong thematic ties, lush production, awesome instrumentals, and a clear narrative arc.
I still play it from beginning to the end almost every single day and still don't get tired if it.
Gasoline makes me feels so many emotions I literally tear up.
Wonderful video.
Fun fact. The song Echos of Silence ends with a woman begging The Weeknd not to go. It's not the Weeknd begging her not to go.
This is my favorite new subscription, great content!
you style is *chefs kiss*
I came to know his music by listening to his Call Out My Name and when I deep dive more and now dancing to a bunch of his work. His a versatile singer.
Unexpectedly got recommended but I don't regret it, love the weeknd!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Wow, I'm early. Love these vids, keep em coming
I am early! Excited to watch this, these are one of my fave things on UA-cam
Epic breakdown. 🔥🔥🔥 The Weeknd 2011 Still inspires my music to this day.
Wish I could give this video more than 1 thumbs up. You put most of my thoughts about Abel's music into words and I found myself agreeing with nearly everything you covered here, especially about Sacrifice not blowing, that song is just pop perfection. Only gripe is you wanting to cut a lonely night from starboy, that song channels the best of MJ
You gained my respect for having the track After Hours up there as one of the best Weeknd songs period
i love your videos and especially your humor
this series is honestly some of the best content on this platform, i watch every episodr even if it's about an artist i'm not otherwise interested in. may i suggest mccartney's solo work for a future dive? you could even include wings albums if you wanted to make it even more monolithic
Nice, ive been going through his discog too, been really enjoying his new stuff though i prefer the darker, more atmospheric material on his older albums like trilogy
The first song I heard of this man was The Fall. It was playing in a radio when I was a toddler. And the very next year my father took me to a vinyl shop where lots of vinyls were being sold and Trilogy was one of the best-selling there. It was super-expensive, and I always used to see how my father's senior executive officers used to buy that album with so much passion in their hearts. Lol they laughed at me when I said that I also wanted to buy that album, because..... you know, those NSFW lithograph pictures in the booklets, the drugs and the sex and all in his lyrics!! But that doesn't mean I don't like his newer stuff!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THANK YOU FOR MAKING A VIDEO ABOUT THE WEEKND! I know that not a lot of his fans like the new direction he made with BBTM, Starboy, and DAWN FM, but I personally loved every single project Abel did and I hope that he'll continue venturing off to newer sounds and directions. DAWN FM is my favourite album of his and IMO he just keeps getting better and better.
I remember listening to Call Out My Name for the first time when I did my Weeknd discog dive. I remember hearing the first chorus happen. Obviously it blew me away, I was just stunned at the explosion of vocals and sound.
The second verse is about to end, and I say to myself: “But there’s no way he can top the first chorus vocally, it’ll just be the same thing.” Then bam, the reverbed vocals came in, and chills went throughout my body. That part made me feel like I was ascending.
I think Call Out My Name is my favorite Weeknd song since i’m a bigger fan of his slower tempo tracks, but no song has made me feel the way that one did in a while, and sometimes I still get that feeling when I listen to it. Breakup song of the century
You'll love Echos of Silence track if you haven't already. Talk about deep lyrically ughh
Die For You is another great one.
@@angie-jo1mn ah yes echoes of silence is one of my favorite weekend projects, so many amazing songs and that one is just the cherry on top. And die for you has been my favorite off starboy for so long now, amazing song :)
@@aaronrichards2477 As You Are is also so damn good I tear up every time!
Am glad your doing a DDD on him, he is one of my favorite artists.
My very first song I heard from him was Losers. I was super into it and was told that it was a unreleased song that "he only played live at that apple music show". Imagine my surprise to find it on madness.
I had a memory from high school the other day when my friend told me the Weeknd got a haircut and how that felt like big news. And it brought me to listen to after hours again four the first time in a while. And I'm sure I speak for many people that that album was a big soundtrack to the memories in quarantine: playing warzone and never sleeping.