@@ReactionTherapyOfficial hey on the topic of his older stuff, wicked games would be a good one to react to it deals with like emotional numbness in relationships
A Quick backgrounding on The Weeknd: He grew up in Ontario, Canada with a rough family life. When he was 17, he ran away from home and lived with friends. During this time he was doing drugs, going to parties, doing things with girls, etc. He wanted too do rap but realized that his singing voice is better. He then released 3 EPs House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence. He posted them on TH-cam and later combined them and created his first album Trilogy. He talks about his life struggles with partying, sex, drugs, etc. He then started getting more popular. Started singing with Drake, which made him have an even larger following. Anyways, since then he has made a couple of different albums. You can really tell the progression he has made when you listen to his earlier stuff and then listen to his newer stuff. Anyways I hope this helps!
The time line is off Trilogy is not really his first album that was the compilation of all three mixtapes you're right with three songs added to give 30 songs but when Trilogy came out he was already doing stuff with Drake as a matter of fact there's a song off of Trilogy with Drake and before he ever released his first studio album he gave Drake basically several songs that was supposed to be on House of balloons and Drake put them on take care Drake wanted to sign him but the weeknd wanted to go a different direction and wanted to be on his own so The Weeknd signed with Republic a joint venture given us XO Republic. So then he released Kiss Land which was his Studio debut which ironically a lot of us XO fans love but not one song off of that album charted on the Hot 100 he then started doing more songs in the background leading up to Beauty behind the madness like king of the fall trust issues which was a remix of a Drake song Drunk in Love and often. So then his career took a huge leap when he collaborated with Ariana Grande and earned his first top 10 hit With Love Me Harder then he scored his second top ten hit with earned it from Fifty Shades of Grey witch he also put on Beauty behind the madness which that album gave us two of his six number one hits with the Hills and I can't feel my face. So ever since no song charted on Kiss Land he's went on the chart 88 of his 91 song on hot 100 remarkably only five songs since the release of Kiss Land have not charted he turn into one biggest stars in music with 6 number one hits 14 top 10 hits 44 top 40 hits 4 number one albums with Beauty behind the madness, Starboy, my dear melancholy, after hours , and 3 albums that reached the number two spot with his debut album Kiss Land his Greatest Hit album the highlights and his current album that just released on January 7th Dawn FM and compilation of his three mixtapes Trilogy witch reached number 4 xo intel we od
The way I interpret the whole “I pray when I look inside the mirror and see someone I love” is that he sees what he’s turning into due to his mistakes and his addiction, he talks about a lot of things in his album. Also the “I take half a Xan and I still stay awake” is a sort of shout out to Drakes line in Sicko Mode where he says “I take half a Xan 13 hours till I land, had me out like a light” so it’s sort of like The Weeknd is showing the difference in drug use between the two.
Elaborating on the mirror bit, I think he is also reflecting on how his actions are affecting his loved ones hence the him mentioning “someone I love.” As for the xan part, half a Xanax would make most people sleepy but he says that he can still stay awake after taking it which shows that because of his drug abuse, he has built up a resistance to them. Not saying any of your analysis was wrong, just wanted to add my own take on it.
The weeknd is my favorite artist and I really liked n enjoyed your reaction to this song ! Keep up the good work that u are doing, You’re appreciated ! 🙏🏽
The song is about the weeknd, falling back to his old ways, of doing drugs and living an unhealthy lifestyle. We here him talking about doing a lot of drugs in the song, and in the end where he’s in the back of the flashing car, he overdosed and is being driven around, in an ambulance.
The Weeknd is an incredible vocalist and artist. Much of his early work was dark, moody and honestly sounds like being in a haunted strip club. He is in character based on this After Hours album.
Great reaction Tom - I’m still playing catch-up on some of your uploads! So having a ‘Reaction Therapy’ Saturday! Lol! Abel is super talented, not one of my personal top 5 artists (defo top 10 though) but that’s just a preference thing - I totally get why he’s so popular, my husband is a huge fan! Everyone is so helpful in the comments so I’m sure you’ll have lots of info on Abel now! I can’t believe you’ve only been doing this 7 weeks! You guys definitely have something special with the channel!
The Weeknd is definitely in my top 5, so happy you reacted to him. I'd recommend starting from the beginning with The Weeknd, he tells his story and shows his transformations in his later albums. I don't want to spoil it but his appearance is part of the story he's trying to tell. He's so raw and touches on a lot of serious subjects. In my head he's still underrated! XO He's saying, "I ended up in the back of a flashing-car" I'm not 100% but I think he's talking about a cop car. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
@@ReactionTherapyOfficial I would say, in this order, High For This, The Morning, Tell Your Friends, Starboy, Call Out My name, Alone Again, and Gasoline. This might not be the best lost but I think it's a great progression!
@@ReactionTherapyOfficial I would say wicked games, I can't feel my face , the hills, secrets, I feel it coming, pray for me, starboy, faith, until I bleed out, Gasoline.
If you look at his face from the start of the video he's talking about get all these drugs back out but the idea of it is hurting him because instead of using the drugs recreationally like he used to in the past, he's using them now as a coping mechanism for the pain he's feeling from how his life has gone to shit. When the camera zooms in, up, and around him that first time he's saying "I've been sober for a year now it's time for me to go back to my old ways, don't you cry for me thought I'd be a better man but I lied to me and to you." So he's accepting he's been putting up a front in his relationship and life. At one point he says he'd choose Vegas if they offered Heaven's Gate which is a callback to an older song of his. He did say he ended up in the back of a flashing car, both this song and Heartless are right in the middle of the album and it's kinda like those two songs are him peaking on the drugs he talks about at the beginning of the song "I feel everything from my body to my soul." I hope this helps.
Love watching your breakdowns of whatever you watch. Jacob Lee “guidance” and find the video. Keep ‘em coming so I can keep watching and enjoying your points of view
4:20 he says if he „od“ which means overdoses he wants the girl to od with him and follow him.. the weeknd has many toxic lyrics but i love his music! Would love to see you to react to more of it
love your videos, i highly recommend pulling the lyrics for songs like this or turning the subtitles on, since the song is hard to understand due to the high pitch singing.
When he toned down he was basically humbling himself because he knows what he has done I've been struggling with depression and ADHD so when I sing this and others its almost like its reassuring myself I'm strong enough to change myself
from a psychology standpoint, the weeknd is a VERY fascinating artist (alongside Billie Eilish in my opinion). the 'characters' the weeknd (Abel) portrays in his music and music videos, the constant symbolism and the recurring themes of going back to 'old ways' and being involved with drugs to numb the pain is both heartbreaking and fascinating as Abel often (if not always) bases his music on his own experiences. his 'after hours' era (2019-2021) was very consistent with imagery- his persona with the bloody nose/beat up face, his mannerisms/acting and his attire. I recommend listening to certain tracks from this album (which are heavily influenced by the 80's sounds. 'snowchild' is definitely one that is more lyric-heavy and more blatantly personal, blinding lights' may be one you've heard on the radio, 'heartless', 'after hours' (which is a song + short film), 'save your tears' and 'hardest to love'.
Dude please do the morning by the weeknd his older material is golden. The House of balloons 🎈 , echoes of silence and Thursday eps are his best work!!!
Loved the reaction. I hope you will react to more stuff from the Weeknd, he is my favourite artist by far. I love his music. Some suggestions: Twenty Eight, Nothing Compares, Less Than Zero, Out of Time, Save your tears, and many more amazing songs...
also back in 2015 the weeknd was going on like a vegas rampage and he ended up punching a police officer and getting arrested which is the flashing car, and his after hours album is themed on vegas so him going back to his old ways represents him trying to numb what he’s going through by partying and living like how his fans used to know him as, sex, drugs, and freaky music🙏
I’ve probably heard this song over 300 times and always thought he was speaking to someone else… never put together the duality of the lyrics & how he may be speaking to his other half. Beautiful analysis. If you could do more the weeknd that’d be great
Love how well you explain everything man. Thank you for that. I have some recommendations: Justin bieber - life is worth living Xxxtentacion - everybody dies in their nightmares Justin bieber - lonely
@@ReactionTherapyOfficial thank you! It really means a lot to see someone from older generations listening and helping younger generations that struggle. God bless you man.
YES ! this is perfect! love ur reaction ! i think u and the weeknd is a match made in heaven because of he's struggles with himself and as a psychotherapist! yet he is so aware of the sides in him the dark and the light ^^he was born into darkness so he is going to find that light in everyway possible or try to hide from his reality himself as a person also by doing bad stuff to him / others unfort. would love for u too listend more to him and learn about or maybe not learn in your profession but too know "this" man more and whats the common things as a human from bad to good ! low self-esteem etc. perhaps
Do more of The Weeknd songs, his lyrics are very deep, he puts a vision in front of you. You have wicked games, love in the sky, Rolling Stone( my favorite), Valerie, house balloons/glass table girls, the knowing, 28, loft music, and etc. That’s just the Trilogy album, which is just his mixtapes mastered with a few new songs
The weeknds story is great because it can almost be the story of any young male struggling, living on the streets at a young age. From fighting addictions, heartbreak, and lowself esteem, it can almost be anyone's story but as an artist he brings these stories and characters to life no one else can. As he said himself, his music is what most young men think but will never say outloud
It is interesting to hear you react to this song without context. His album After Hours is about a character that tries to escape heartbreak and goes on a wild drug-fueled road trip to Vegas and as the album goes on he gets further and further down the black hole and ends up dying by the end of the album. THis is part of a trilogy of albums and his character is revisited in his new album DawnFM where he has died and is now in Purgatory trying to wortk his way through hsi regrets so he can get to heaven
So The Weeknd is Abel’s creative nonfiction version in which he amplifies his own experiences and creates cinematic universes with the lyrics music videos and character building. This red suit character goes through a whol journey in after hours in the lyrics and the videos of the songs
i’m so late to this video, but at the end, he is indeed singing about how he actually did end up in the back of an ambulance ! this song transitions into blinding lights on the album. and it is about him ending up in the ambulance.
Congrats on 50K and so quickly!! I have a recommendation. If you watched the Juice Wrld into the abyss doc. There is an unreleased song by the name of “Monsters In My Basement” Juice Wrld. It is just a snippet but I think you and the audience would really enjoy your take on it!
Definitely didn’t end up in a good place. At the end of the After Hours concept album in which this song is in, he actually dies in the final track. He released the following concept album that is directly tied to After Hours called Dawn FM a few weeks ago in which he is in purgatory looking back on the regrets of his life and making peace with everything to finally make it to the after life which will be the next album. Jim Carrey is a main character in the album and the final track “phantom regret by Jim” is one of the most profound beautiful pieces of work I’ve heard that really had me evaluating my own life. Please react to the album or at the very least the final track “phantom regret by jim”. The Weeknd and jim wrote it. Love your approach- can’t wait to see more weeknd videos!!! Please excuse my brevity and typos. I’m passionate ;)
Abel is singing to the drugs. He wants the drugs to die with the old Abel. This song was done live. He is great at singing about his life experiences through his songs. Excellent artist.
Congrats on 50k!!! You should check out Fiction by Lund, he’s an amazing artist that has some music with deep meaning kind of similar to what you’ve already checked out
Hi you should now juice world made a collab with weekend the song Smile. One of my favorite. My second favorite of weekend is the collab with future song name low life.
Please react to "Frankie Teardrop" - by Suicide That song came out in 1980 I believe or 1979 but that song still scares me listening to it at night and I think it's based on a newspaper article when the singer was reading correct me if I'm wrong anybody. Chills through my spine with Frankie Teardrop! 😱
Please! Review any Canserbero's song. He was great venezuelan rapper and lyricist one of the greatest artist in my country. Thanks for the video and the amazing content.
the only reason i’m still on this garbage planet is because of the weeknd. perfect discography. id love to see you react to his older songs. specifically professional, i hold that song so close to my heart.
I've been a diehard fan of Abe since HOB, and it's because I feel him and I lived thorugh such similars lives and evolved the same time. Addiction the same time, toxicity at the same time, sobriety the same time. He is my favorite artist EVER because of the truth he is constantly laying bare to his own mind. The darkness. But faith is my favorite song from After Hours, because the struggle of trying not to revert and regress back to the bad behaviors. Plus, "I take half a xan and I still stay awake" BEST DRAKE DISS in one line. And I take the Bruno Mars comparison as a diss. Abe is a billion times better.
I have a request, not the usual type of stuff you react to, but I figured given your profession it would be a great one to react to James blunt - monsters, song is nothing but raw emotion written for his father who features in the video I’m yet to see someone react to this on TH-cam and not get emotional and cry a little
I took the ending as his ways (old him) drugs, party life etc.. now his in a “flashing car” (ambulance) maybe from an over dose. XO TILL WE OVERDOSE iykyk
this is like the 7th time i've been asking you to react to me, YJO benjamin - WRONG WAY, and i'm going to keep on doing it until you react to me😁keep up the good work btw
Also you absolutely NAILED IT. There are two sides of him. Abe is almost the bad part of him, the greedy and selfish one. While The Weeknd is proud of himself. The one who steers him in the right direction.
The Weeknd is the bad one, Abel is the good one. The Weeknd was promoting/teasing his upcoming album that time named "After Hours". which talks about his sins, pain, regrets, long story short, he's pertaining to hell. the album dropped on 2020. two years later, he released "Dawn FM". a conceptual album that primarily talks about the lessons that he learned (character development) and the pain, guilt and shame that he has experienced. long story short, it is purgatory and it is about his self reflection, self realization, self forgiveness, and about finding God. and lastly, this year, 2024, he's been teasing about the last album which will be the last part of his trilogy. based on his ig stories/posts, the upcoming album is about the after life, rebirth or paradise or (heaven), where he will be resurrected as a new being because he found God. i also think his trilogy is based on "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, which tells a story about a character named "Dante" and his journey from hell to purgatory and to paradise. i think in The Weeknd's upcoming trilogy, After Hours is hell, Dawn FM is purgatory, and the upcoming album which is the last installment of the trilogy, will be heaven or paradise. (he teased this on his ig post). those were just my theories as a fan that are based on his teasers, and here are some facts. "The Weeknd" is just a character that Abel (The Weeknd's real name) portrays. it's a character that he created to connect with people. The Weeknd is not Abel. it's just a character. he said in an interview that the upcoming album will be his last album as "The Weeknd". he said that he'll still make songs, but as Abel, not as The Weeknd. the last album will be his last hurrah as The Weeknd. i hope this somehow gave answers to your questions and confusions. have a good day, and God bless us all! 🙏✨
Hey man. Love the videos you do, and I like how even if you don't elaborate fully on what you're hearing, I can tell you understand the lyricism to a song and the multiple meanings behind it. King ISO just dropped a new album; he's one of my favourite artists. Maybe not PG-friendly enough for the channel, but he also did an album back in 2016 called 'Autophobia,' and I was wondering if you could maybe listen to the SONG called 'Autophobia' by him? That or 'Don't Let Go.' Both from the same album. Extremely curious to see your thoughts on them, as they both deal with mental health and personally things that I'm currently relating to. Thanks for the entertainment and mental relief; Winter
The whole album is about drugs, alcohol and not to do them. All of the videos he is in the same outfit and beat up face. Each song is a part of the story
You should listen to “Bad Guy” by Eminem. I think it’d be cool for you to listen to it since you’ve listened to Stan because it’s basically Stan Pt. 2. The last verse is super emotional but I don’t want to spoil anything so I’ll leave it at that. But I’ve stumbled across your videos and they are AWESOME :)
the weeknd also dropped a new album, every song is phenomenal
Really? When did it drop?
@@ReactionTherapyOfficial earlier this month
@@ReactionTherapyOfficial it's called DAWN FM. Please do an album reaction pleaseee
I would love if you'd listen to his earlier stuff? Especially High For This!!!
Yeeeessss !!!!
Yeah
I’m in! Let’s do it!😊👍
@@ReactionTherapyOfficial hey on the topic of his older stuff, wicked games would be a good one to react to it deals with like emotional numbness in relationships
He ain’t got an answer for the shit on trilogy
whn he said, "the band called, 'The Weekend'" I smiled ☺
Sorry about that😩😩😂
@@ReactionTherapyOfficial no your fine! 🖤
A Quick backgrounding on The Weeknd:
He grew up in Ontario, Canada with a rough family life. When he was 17, he ran away from home and lived with friends. During this time he was doing drugs, going to parties, doing things with girls, etc. He wanted too do rap but realized that his singing voice is better. He then released 3 EPs House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence. He posted them on TH-cam and later combined them and created his first album Trilogy. He talks about his life struggles with partying, sex, drugs, etc. He then started getting more popular. Started singing with Drake, which made him have an even larger following. Anyways, since then he has made a couple of different albums. You can really tell the progression he has made when you listen to his earlier stuff and then listen to his newer stuff. Anyways I hope this helps!
This helps a lot! Thank you😊👍
He hails from Toronto, Ontario. :)
@@deee6095 I totally forgot. I always think that since he speaks French he is from Quebec ☠️
@@dontknow8548 I totally get the confusion! Your mini summary of him is great :)
The time line is off Trilogy is not really his first album that was the compilation of all three mixtapes you're right with three songs added to give 30 songs but when Trilogy came out he was already doing stuff with Drake as a matter of fact there's a song off of Trilogy with Drake and before he ever released his first studio album he gave Drake basically several songs that was supposed to be on House of balloons and Drake put them on take care Drake wanted to sign him but the weeknd wanted to go a different direction and wanted to be on his own so The Weeknd signed with Republic a joint venture given us XO Republic. So then he released Kiss Land which was his Studio debut which ironically a lot of us XO fans love but not one song off of that album charted on the Hot 100 he then started doing more songs in the background leading up to Beauty behind the madness like king of the fall trust issues which was a remix of a Drake song Drunk in Love and often. So then his career took a huge leap when he collaborated with Ariana Grande and earned his first top 10 hit With Love Me Harder then he scored his second top ten hit with earned it from Fifty Shades of Grey witch he also put on Beauty behind the madness which that album gave us two of his six number one hits with the Hills and I can't feel my face. So ever since no song charted on Kiss Land he's went on the chart 88 of his 91 song on hot 100 remarkably only five songs since the release of Kiss Land have not charted he turn into one biggest stars in music with 6 number one hits 14 top 10 hits 44 top 40 hits 4 number one albums with Beauty behind the madness, Starboy, my dear melancholy, after hours , and 3 albums that reached the number two spot with his debut album Kiss Land his Greatest Hit album the highlights and his current album that just released on January 7th Dawn FM and compilation of his three mixtapes Trilogy witch reached number 4 xo intel we od
The way I interpret the whole “I pray when I look inside the mirror and see someone I love” is that he sees what he’s turning into due to his mistakes and his addiction, he talks about a lot of things in his album.
Also the “I take half a Xan and I still stay awake” is a sort of shout out to Drakes line in Sicko Mode where he says “I take half a Xan 13 hours till I land, had me out like a light” so it’s sort of like The Weeknd is showing the difference in drug use between the two.
Thanks for the take!😊👍
Elaborating on the mirror bit, I think he is also reflecting on how his actions are affecting his loved ones hence the him mentioning “someone I love.” As for the xan part, half a Xanax would make most people sleepy but he says that he can still stay awake after taking it which shows that because of his drug abuse, he has built up a resistance to them. Not saying any of your analysis was wrong, just wanted to add my own take on it.
@@lucasbrown3525 it’s cool I’m not sensitive my boy, always open to interpretations and opinions
YESS THE WEEKND, PLEASE MORE
Letsgoo the weeknd is one of my favorite artists! The livestream for 50k was lit!! 🔥🔥 thank you so much again!
Thanks so much!!!!!!!😊👍
All weeknd albums needed!!
Im so incredibly happy that you're doing The Weeknd reaction now! Between him and Juice Wrld, they're easily my favorite artists!
Thank you!😊👍
The weeknd is my favorite artist and I really liked n enjoyed your reaction to this song ! Keep up the good work that u are doing, You’re appreciated ! 🙏🏽
Thank you so much kee! And thanks for watching😊👍
The song is about the weeknd, falling back to his old ways, of doing drugs and living an unhealthy lifestyle.
We here him talking about doing a lot of drugs in the song, and in the end where he’s in the back of the flashing car, he overdosed and is being driven around, in an ambulance.
Thanks for this😊👍
Ur comment is 2 years old, pretty dumb of me to reply but he’s in a police car not an ambulance
@@M0eLesterno he’s in the ambulance, not the cop car, he’s in the ambulance because he overdoses
@@baconnub_art No, he is in the back of a police car. Incident from 2014/15 when he hit a cop in Vegas and got arrested
The Weeknd is an incredible vocalist and artist. Much of his early work was dark, moody and honestly sounds like being in a haunted strip club.
He is in character based on this After Hours album.
But the lyrics are not part of a character...at least I don't feel like they are.
@@PixelPlay16 agreed.
Trilogy was such a good album and so was bbtm
Don’t change how you do it at all Tom!! Absolutely spot on, the rawness is what makes this channel special!!
chill, chills all over my body.
Hardest to love and sacrifice by the weeknd are amazing
Great reaction Tom - I’m still playing catch-up on some of your uploads! So having a ‘Reaction Therapy’ Saturday! Lol!
Abel is super talented, not one of my personal top 5 artists (defo top 10 though) but that’s just a preference thing - I totally get why he’s so popular, my husband is a huge fan!
Everyone is so helpful in the comments so I’m sure you’ll have lots of info on Abel now!
I can’t believe you’ve only been doing this 7 weeks! You guys definitely have something special with the channel!
The Weeknd is definitely in my top 5, so happy you reacted to him. I'd recommend starting from the beginning with The Weeknd, he tells his story and shows his transformations in his later albums. I don't want to spoil it but his appearance is part of the story he's trying to tell. He's so raw and touches on a lot of serious subjects. In my head he's still underrated! XO
He's saying, "I ended up in the back of a flashing-car" I'm not 100% but I think he's talking about a cop car. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
Nah i believe it`s an ambulance.
That makes sense too. Thanks
Thanks for the comments, I’d love to see an order of songs to follow the journey of the weekend??😊
@@ReactionTherapyOfficial I would say, in this order, High For This, The Morning, Tell Your Friends, Starboy, Call Out My name, Alone Again, and Gasoline. This might not be the best lost but I think it's a great progression!
@@ReactionTherapyOfficial I would say wicked games, I can't feel my face , the hills, secrets, I feel it coming, pray for me, starboy, faith, until I bleed out, Gasoline.
If you look at his face from the start of the video he's talking about get all these drugs back out but the idea of it is hurting him because instead of using the drugs recreationally like he used to in the past, he's using them now as a coping mechanism for the pain he's feeling from how his life has gone to shit. When the camera zooms in, up, and around him that first time he's saying "I've been sober for a year now it's time for me to go back to my old ways, don't you cry for me thought I'd be a better man but I lied to me and to you." So he's accepting he's been putting up a front in his relationship and life. At one point he says he'd choose Vegas if they offered Heaven's Gate which is a callback to an older song of his. He did say he ended up in the back of a flashing car, both this song and Heartless are right in the middle of the album and it's kinda like those two songs are him peaking on the drugs he talks about at the beginning of the song "I feel everything from my body to my soul." I hope this helps.
Wow! Very well said, thanks so much for that insight, it helps a lot!😊👍
Love watching your breakdowns of whatever you watch. Jacob Lee “guidance” and find the video. Keep ‘em coming so I can keep watching and enjoying your points of view
Some songs off his album After Hours would be cool
you should do more of his stuff!
4:20 he says if he „od“ which means overdoses he wants the girl to od with him and follow him.. the weeknd has many toxic lyrics but i love his music! Would love to see you to react to more of it
love your videos, i highly recommend pulling the lyrics for songs like this or turning the subtitles on, since the song is hard to understand due to the high pitch singing.
When he toned down he was basically humbling himself because he knows what he has done
I've been struggling with depression and ADHD so when I sing this and others its almost like its reassuring myself I'm strong enough to change myself
from a psychology standpoint, the weeknd is a VERY fascinating artist (alongside Billie Eilish in my opinion). the 'characters' the weeknd (Abel) portrays in his music and music videos, the constant symbolism and the recurring themes of going back to 'old ways' and being involved with drugs to numb the pain is both heartbreaking and fascinating as Abel often (if not always) bases his music on his own experiences.
his 'after hours' era (2019-2021) was very consistent with imagery- his persona with the bloody nose/beat up face, his mannerisms/acting and his attire. I recommend listening to certain tracks from this album (which are heavily influenced by the 80's sounds. 'snowchild' is definitely one that is more lyric-heavy and more blatantly personal, blinding lights' may be one you've heard on the radio, 'heartless', 'after hours' (which is a song + short film), 'save your tears' and 'hardest to love'.
Dude please do the morning by the weeknd his older material is golden. The House of balloons 🎈 , echoes of silence and Thursday eps are his best work!!!
Loved the reaction. I hope you will react to more stuff from the Weeknd, he is my favourite artist by far. I love his music.
Some suggestions: Twenty Eight, Nothing Compares, Less Than Zero, Out of Time, Save your tears, and many more amazing songs...
More of the Weeknd please! Especially his old albums like trilogy and kissland for example 🙏🏼
The weeknd hides how wildy broken he is inside with really fire pop music these days just wait till he hears the trilogy.
I just watched ur NF video lol but it's 3 am i guess I have to watch this one tomorrow
😂😂😂
Great stuff bro , keep up the good content
This is the 'live version' of the song he did with Vevo, along with Alone Again & In Your Eyes - with Kenny G.
definitely a subscriber , great informative reaction and I’m a big The Weeknd fan 📈🙏🙋♀️
also back in 2015 the weeknd was going on like a vegas rampage and he ended up punching a police officer and getting arrested which is the flashing car, and his after hours album is themed on vegas so him going back to his old ways represents him trying to numb what he’s going through by partying and living like how his fans used to know him as, sex, drugs, and freaky music🙏
I love the weeknd lol
I’ve probably heard this song over 300 times and always thought he was speaking to someone else… never put together the duality of the lyrics & how he may be speaking to his other half. Beautiful analysis. If you could do more the weeknd that’d be great
Love how well you explain everything man. Thank you for that.
I have some recommendations:
Justin bieber - life is worth living
Xxxtentacion - everybody dies in their nightmares
Justin bieber - lonely
Nice requests! Thanks for watching drew!😊👍
@@ReactionTherapyOfficial thank you! It really means a lot to see someone from older generations listening and helping younger generations that struggle. God bless you man.
I was literally gonna go and comment on the peep video to react to The Weeknd lol.His older stuff you can absolutely see the pain in him.
YES ! this is perfect! love ur reaction ! i think u and the weeknd is a match made in heaven because of he's struggles with himself and as a psychotherapist! yet he is so aware of the sides in him the dark and the light ^^he was born into darkness so he is going to find that light in everyway possible or try to hide from his reality himself as a person also by doing bad stuff to him / others unfort.
would love for u too listend more to him and learn about or maybe not learn in your profession but too know "this" man more and whats the common things as a human from bad to good ! low self-esteem etc. perhaps
Wicked Games would be a great song for you to listen to, one of his earliest songs released
I love the interpretation of tragedy at the end. Sounds like either a police car or ambulance
Do more of The Weeknd songs, his lyrics are very deep, he puts a vision in front of you. You have wicked games, love in the sky, Rolling Stone( my favorite), Valerie, house balloons/glass table girls, the knowing, 28, loft music, and etc. That’s just the Trilogy album, which is just his mixtapes mastered with a few new songs
Thank you very much for this.🙏 XO
The weeknds story is great because it can almost be the story of any young male struggling, living on the streets at a young age. From fighting addictions, heartbreak, and lowself esteem, it can almost be anyone's story but as an artist he brings these stories and characters to life no one else can. As he said himself, his music is what most young men think but will never say outloud
Basically the song before blinding lights explaining how he made it in the back of the ambulance
I would love to see your reaction on his old song ‘Rolling stone’ and his new song ‘is there someone else’
love your videos , regards from dominican republic !!!!! you should react to more songs by the weeknd
can't wait to watch! you should try cigarettes by juice wrld 🙂
Dont ask for leaks/unreleased songs or he will have a problem and maybe his channel can be banned.
@@whitezzpt yea
no leaks
@@whitezzpt oh, sorry
@@Hoopsgaming2k25 sorry
Some kid cudi next would be awesome. Do it alone, solo dolo, all along, trapped in my mind
It is interesting to hear you react to this song without context. His album After Hours is about a character that tries to escape heartbreak and goes on a wild drug-fueled road trip to Vegas and as the album goes on he gets further and further down the black hole and ends up dying by the end of the album. THis is part of a trilogy of albums and his character is revisited in his new album DawnFM where he has died and is now in Purgatory trying to wortk his way through hsi regrets so he can get to heaven
So The Weeknd is Abel’s creative nonfiction version in which he amplifies his own experiences and creates cinematic universes with the lyrics music videos and character building. This red suit character goes through a whol journey in after hours in the lyrics and the videos of the songs
im happy to see the old man enjoying listening to the new generation songs
Thank you!!!😊👍
The Weeknd is my favorite band
i’m so late to this video, but at the end, he is indeed singing about how he actually did end up in the back of an ambulance ! this song transitions into blinding lights on the album. and it is about him ending up in the ambulance.
Congrats on 50K and so quickly!! I have a recommendation. If you watched the Juice Wrld into the abyss doc. There is an unreleased song by the name of “Monsters In My Basement” Juice Wrld. It is just a snippet but I think you and the audience would really enjoy your take on it!
Thanks so much for the comments and request!😊👍
Please react to Juice Wrld - “Robbery” when you get the chance! Congrats on 50k!!
Definitely didn’t end up in a good place. At the end of the After Hours concept album in which this song is in, he actually dies in the final track.
He released the following concept album that is directly tied to After Hours called Dawn FM a few weeks ago in which he is in purgatory looking back on the regrets of his life and making peace with everything to finally make it to the after life which will be the next album. Jim Carrey is a main character in the album and the final track “phantom regret by Jim” is one of the most profound beautiful pieces of work I’ve heard that really had me evaluating my own life. Please react to the album or at the very least the final track “phantom regret by jim”. The Weeknd and jim wrote it. Love your approach- can’t wait to see more weeknd videos!!!
Please excuse my brevity and typos. I’m passionate ;)
Abel is singing to the drugs. He wants the drugs to die with the old Abel. This song was done live. He is great at singing about his life experiences through his songs. Excellent artist.
Please more Weeknd
You should watch PTSD by GHerbo ft juicewrld, chance the rapper and Lil Uzi Vert
Please, please do more Weeknd!! High For This or After Hours 🖤XO
you should do “ Sail by Awalnation “
Watch videos with lyrics just so you catch all the words love your videos of juice wrld now The Weeknd ❤️.
Do Monomate - Neurosis III off the album Grand Album.
It’s so awesome.
Congrats on 50k!!! You should check out Fiction by Lund, he’s an amazing artist that has some music with deep meaning kind of similar to what you’ve already checked out
Thank you!!!!😊👍
Yay!!! I love The Weeknd 😭 Itll be nice if you would react to “Call Out My Name”
Rico Story by Speaker Knockers
you can find playlists on youtube with the whole after hours story through the songs in order
Hi you should now juice world made a collab with weekend the song Smile. One of my favorite. My second favorite of weekend is the collab with future song name low life.
House of Balloons and the entire trilogy by the Weeknd would be great reactions. As well Kissland is a great album by him
I agree. Understand his whole story.
Pauses right before the drop.
Abel went straight to hell at the end
This song is dark and tragic at the same time.
Should react to future too!!!!!
I wish you would reach out to the bigger audience. People need to hear that there is help out there.
How do I do that?
Abel did the music video himself we wrote the music together!
Please react to "Frankie Teardrop" - by Suicide
That song came out in 1980 I believe or 1979 but that song still scares me listening to it at night and I think it's based on a newspaper article when the singer was reading correct me if I'm wrong anybody. Chills through my spine with Frankie Teardrop! 😱
You should do nf- intro iii
Its his best song
"the band is called the weeknd" 😂
You should have a look at sadboyprolific dead and cold or midnight thoughts
you should listen to “lost” by Ollie. i love his music.
Please! Review any Canserbero's song. He was great venezuelan rapper and lyricist one of the greatest artist in my country. Thanks for the video and the amazing content.
Interesting choice, thanks!😊👍
or fake smiles by phora :)
the only reason i’m still on this garbage planet is because of the weeknd. perfect discography. id love to see you react to his older songs. specifically professional, i hold that song so close to my heart.
It's all tied into faith because he says he lost his faith. He's going back to his old ways (taking drugs) as a result of this.
I've been a diehard fan of Abe since HOB, and it's because I feel him and I lived thorugh such similars lives and evolved the same time. Addiction the same time, toxicity at the same time, sobriety the same time. He is my favorite artist EVER because of the truth he is constantly laying bare to his own mind. The darkness. But faith is my favorite song from After Hours, because the struggle of trying not to revert and regress back to the bad behaviors. Plus, "I take half a xan and I still stay awake" BEST DRAKE DISS in one line. And I take the Bruno Mars comparison as a diss. Abe is a billion times better.
mac miller - Good News highly recommend to check out
it would mean a lot if you reacted to disappear by eli
React to hardest to love, be the weeknd also!
I have a request, not the usual type of stuff you react to, but I figured given your profession it would be a great one to react to
James blunt - monsters, song is nothing but raw emotion written for his father who features in the video
I’m yet to see someone react to this on TH-cam and not get emotional and cry a little
You’re going to be happy soon! I’m already ahead of you😊 very nice choice 👍
I took the ending as his ways (old him) drugs, party life etc.. now his in a “flashing car” (ambulance) maybe from an over dose.
XO TILL WE OVERDOSE iykyk
this is like the 7th time i've been asking you to react to me, YJO benjamin - WRONG WAY, and i'm going to keep on doing it until you react to me😁keep up the good work btw
😂😂 thanks Jaynel!!
Also you absolutely NAILED IT. There are two sides of him. Abe is almost the bad part of him, the greedy and selfish one. While The Weeknd is proud of himself. The one who steers him in the right direction.
The Weeknd is the bad one, Abel is the good one.
The Weeknd was promoting/teasing his upcoming album that time named "After Hours". which talks about his sins, pain, regrets, long story short, he's pertaining to hell. the album dropped on 2020.
two years later, he released "Dawn FM". a conceptual album that primarily talks about the lessons that he learned (character development) and the pain, guilt and shame that he has experienced. long story short, it is purgatory and it is about his self reflection, self realization, self forgiveness, and about finding God.
and lastly, this year, 2024, he's been teasing about the last album which will be the last part of his trilogy. based on his ig stories/posts, the upcoming album is about the after life, rebirth or paradise or (heaven), where he will be resurrected as a new being because he found God.
i also think his trilogy is based on "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, which tells a story about a character named "Dante" and his journey from hell to purgatory and to paradise. i think in The Weeknd's upcoming trilogy, After Hours is hell, Dawn FM is purgatory, and the upcoming album which is the last installment of the trilogy, will be heaven or paradise. (he teased this on his ig post).
those were just my theories as a fan that are based on his teasers, and here are some facts. "The Weeknd" is just a character that Abel (The Weeknd's real name) portrays. it's a character that he created to connect with people. The Weeknd is not Abel. it's just a character.
he said in an interview that the upcoming album will be his last album as "The Weeknd". he said that he'll still make songs, but as Abel, not as The Weeknd. the last album will be his last hurrah as The Weeknd.
i hope this somehow gave answers to your questions and confusions. have a good day, and God bless us all! 🙏✨
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Hey man. Love the videos you do, and I like how even if you don't elaborate fully on what you're hearing, I can tell you understand the lyricism to a song and the multiple meanings behind it. King ISO just dropped a new album; he's one of my favourite artists. Maybe not PG-friendly enough for the channel, but he also did an album back in 2016 called 'Autophobia,' and I was wondering if you could maybe listen to the SONG called 'Autophobia' by him? That or 'Don't Let Go.' Both from the same album. Extremely curious to see your thoughts on them, as they both deal with mental health and personally things that I'm currently relating to.
Thanks for the entertainment and mental relief;
Winter
I would love to, I will check it out and see what we can do😊👍
@@ReactionTherapyOfficial appreciate you and keep up the great videos
love seeing peoples' perspectives on music
A great song to react to would be (when I'm gone) by Eminem keep the reactions coming 🔥💙
Cool. Could you do hate myself nf
he is saying "in the back of a flashing car". I'd recommend looking up the lyrics to better understand the song
The whole album is about drugs, alcohol and not to do them. All of the videos he is in the same outfit and beat up face. Each song is a part of the story
You should listen to “Bad Guy” by Eminem. I think it’d be cool for you to listen to it since you’ve listened to Stan because it’s basically Stan Pt. 2. The last verse is super emotional but I don’t want to spoil anything so I’ll leave it at that. But I’ve stumbled across your videos and they are AWESOME :)
Also Eminem is great for views, just saying 😂
Thanks so much William! Can’t wait to do more eminem!😊👍