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”
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.
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!
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
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
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
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
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! 2. Captions are being worked on and will be up in the next few days. Thanks for watching! EDIT 4/18/22: Captions are now live!
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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
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
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 👀
@@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.
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 🔥🔥💯
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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!
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
Save Your Tears didn't even get a mention which I feel is criminal but on an album full of bangers it can't get lost in the crowd. I love that driving bass line, and the bridge before the choruses, the "Take me back cause i wanna stay, save your tears for another" part, especially on the second time around instead of launching into the chorus it kinda jolts back, and repeats the same melody with "I realise that I'm much too late, and you deserve someone better". It feels like a glitch, or like the record skipped, it's so cool.
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.
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.
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
@@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 :)
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!
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 😭😭👩🏾🦯
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.
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.
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.
This was one that I suggested. The Weeknd is honestly one of my favorite artists and I’m glad that I started to listening to his music at the right time of my life (especially when I listen to HOB last year) and he honestly hasn’t put out a bad project (even with weaker projects like MDM and Kiss Land) my favorite Weeknd song is Die for you, and my top three favorite Weeknd projects are 3. Dawn FM, 2. After Hours and 1. House of Balloons
genuinely shocked that some people consider Kiss Land one of his 'weaker projects' - to me it's his second best and an astonishingly high 9/10, with Live For being the only song preventing it from being a 10. respect your opinion and all, but I think that album is just insanely under-appreciated
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
Although The Weeknd didn't write a song for Euphoria, he did create a show for HBO called The Idol with Euphoria creator Sam Levinson in 2023. And we all know how that went. (In other words; it's bad. Don't watch it.)
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.
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.
17:19 "False Alarm" makes way more sense if you're really, really into early '80s post-punk and synth-punk the way that Abel seems to be. While it doesn't quite sound like any one single band in those styles, if you made the production *way* more lo-fi, it would easily fit alongside bands like, say, Minny Pops, Malaria! or Portion Control, particularly with how spiky and dissonant the chorus is.
I found The weeknd in 2011 when i was 14. This is when no one knew what he looked like. I use to get on dad’s ipad to find out all i could about “the weeknd”! I remember being shocked yet insanely interested by the topic matter in his songs. So dark, yet soooo delicious. “Initiation” best represents how deeply disturbing his music can be. It’s a sinister rollercoaster that you wish would end, but you can’t seem to get off. Calling it “dark” would be a severe understatement! If he ever wanted a real chance at mainstream success, he definitely had to switch his sound up. I love how even though his sound is “pop” now, it’s still him! Same content and lyrics, but with added sheen and energy. I love when an artist goes pop and still retains what made them, “them” in the first place. I always knew his music was special, but I NEVER thought he’d be where he is today. His artistic and personal progression has been simultaneously inspiring and amazing to see. XO til I die!!!
Yep ! & that's why I can't wait for the After Hours Til Dawn Tour here in Jersey July 16th ×2VIP🎵🎶🌅 Hubby & me excitedd🤗 we can't stop talking about it and also our first concert together ever after 10+ years being working, hands on parents to 3 kids so it's our reward for 2022 and a week before my bday too! Sorry so long XOTWOD!!!
Abel to me is one of the best artists to come out of the last decade, his songs reflect one a very dark place in his heart and he shows it to all who wish to see it.
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.
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).
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
To me, Dawn FM feels like the appropriate follow up from After Hours. It's a continuing storyline of a number one musician succumbing to the dark side of the entertainment world and now becomes trapped in limbo, looking back on his life and coming to terms with his regrets. That's why the album starts to slow down in the middle
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...
I actually feel that it’s more immersive to start listening to The Weeknd from his first tracks to his most recent. His projects are like different chapters of a book and follow a story progression
Car Seat Headrest, Barenaked Ladies, They Might Be Giants, Modest Mouse, Fall-Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack, Marianas Trench, Open Mike Eagle, Aesop Rock, and Childish Gambino would all be good choices for a DDD
Fall Out Boy would make an interesting DDD. Going from emo (Grand Theft Autumn) to pop punk, then the change in sound, then to pop music of today. Id also love to see Death Cab for Cutie, Lil Wayne as potential topics
How cool is it that the channel Quality Culture put out an analysis of the story of The Weeknd last week and now we have a DDD for him. The universe must really want me to listen to The Weeknd.
House of Balloons still is one of my favorite mixtapes of all time. From start to finish it never bores me and it heavily influenced R&B and pop. The cover is also iconic and hard asf.
My first introduction to The Weeknd was actually a collab between him and Kavinsky with the song "Odd Look". That song had the beat and lyrical tone that I came to really enjoy with Weeknd.
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 has a lot of good songs, but there’s a special place in my heart for In The Night, the spiritual successor to MJ’s Smooth Criminal that gets a lot more right in both its centring of the woman’s story and its implicit but not overbearing acknowledgement of the guilt the narrator feels about his own entanglements with her than any portrayal of a victim of sexual abuse by a male popstar in a very long time. Also, the refrain “I don’t think you understand” reminds me of “Hey Ya!” in all the right ways.
The Weeknd was one of those artists that I didn’t listen to until he was mainstream. Starboy was the one that got my attention but After Hours and DAWN FM made me a hardcore fan
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
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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!
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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
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!
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Mf looked and sounded so defeated.
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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
"I Feel It Coming" is straight up one of my favorite songs ever. It's not often we get big pop hits about Passover!
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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
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I would KILL for a deep discog dive on Mitski. I’ve listened to all of her albums pretty recently and she’s amazing.
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.
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
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!
2. Captions are being worked on and will be up in the next few days.
Thanks for watching!
EDIT 4/18/22: Captions are now live!
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?
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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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
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 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 👀
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.
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
Was listening to Gasoline right when I checked my subscription feed- what a treat! always lovin the videos Mic!
definitely top 3 dawn fm
Xx
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
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.
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 🔥🔥💯
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.
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'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.
A DDD on Siouxsie and the Banshees should be in order. They have such an extensive history
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.
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
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
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..
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?!
We need a They Might Be Giants, Queen, and Led Zeppelin DDD!
Darn right!
Save Your Tears didn't even get a mention which I feel is criminal but on an album full of bangers it can't get lost in the crowd. I love that driving bass line, and the bridge before the choruses, the "Take me back cause i wanna stay, save your tears for another" part, especially on the second time around instead of launching into the chorus it kinda jolts back, and repeats the same melody with "I realise that I'm much too late, and you deserve someone better". It feels like a glitch, or like the record skipped, it's so cool.
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'm a Virgin" is, unironically, one of my top three songs by The Weeknd.
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.
A Car Seat Headrest DDD would be great, especially given how obscure their first records are
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!
I saw his tour this year , amazing
The Weeknd is my favorite & I’m thankful you did this.
The weeknds evolution is insane
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!
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 😭😭👩🏾🦯
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
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.
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.
This was one that I suggested. The Weeknd is honestly one of my favorite artists and I’m glad that I started to listening to his music at the right time of my life (especially when I listen to HOB last year) and he honestly hasn’t put out a bad project (even with weaker projects like MDM and Kiss Land) my favorite Weeknd song is Die for you, and my top three favorite Weeknd projects are 3. Dawn FM, 2. After Hours and 1. House of Balloons
genuinely shocked that some people consider Kiss Land one of his 'weaker projects' - to me it's his second best and an astonishingly high 9/10, with Live For being the only song preventing it from being a 10. respect your opinion and all, but I think that album is just insanely under-appreciated
Kiss Land and MDM is 100% NOT his weaker projects. Let's just say NONE of his projects is weak. REAL XO fans all know what's his top best work.
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 Weeknd is one of my all time favourite pop artists. I have never NOT liked his songs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I dont know why, as much as I loved After Hours, I love Dawn FM even more.
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
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.
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!
Ethiopian isn’t a language. The language he learned was Amharic, one of the languages spoken in Ethiopia
You gained my respect for having the track After Hours up there as one of the best Weeknd songs period
Fun Fact: The Weeknd actually donated his extra e to Bladee!
Although The Weeknd didn't write a song for Euphoria, he did create a show for HBO called The Idol with Euphoria creator Sam Levinson in 2023. And we all know how that went. (In other words; it's bad. Don't watch it.)
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.
I literally knew everything in this video, but I still loved hearing you assemble Abel's life into such a good video! Well done!
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.
17:19 "False Alarm" makes way more sense if you're really, really into early '80s post-punk and synth-punk the way that Abel seems to be. While it doesn't quite sound like any one single band in those styles, if you made the production *way* more lo-fi, it would easily fit alongside bands like, say, Minny Pops, Malaria! or Portion Control, particularly with how spiky and dissonant the chorus is.
i’d love to see an Iron Maiden DDD, they’ve got a deep discography and a very interesting story to talk about. also their music slaps.
I found The weeknd in 2011 when i was 14. This is when no one knew what he looked like. I use to get on dad’s ipad to find out all i could about “the weeknd”! I remember being shocked yet insanely interested by the topic matter in his songs. So dark, yet soooo delicious.
“Initiation” best represents how deeply disturbing his music can be. It’s a sinister rollercoaster that you wish would end, but you can’t seem to get off. Calling it “dark” would be a severe understatement!
If he ever wanted a real chance at mainstream success, he definitely had to switch his sound up. I love how even though his sound is “pop” now, it’s still him! Same content and lyrics, but with added sheen and energy. I love when an artist goes pop and still retains what made them, “them” in the first place.
I always knew his music was special, but I NEVER thought he’d be where he is today. His artistic and personal progression has been simultaneously inspiring and amazing to see.
XO til I die!!!
Yep ! & that's why I can't wait for the After Hours Til Dawn Tour here in Jersey July 16th ×2VIP🎵🎶🌅
Hubby & me excitedd🤗 we can't stop talking about it and also our first concert together ever after 10+ years being working, hands on parents to 3 kids so it's our reward for 2022 and a week before my bday too!
Sorry so long XOTWOD!!!
Initiation is brilliant
I'd love to see you cover ABBA next
Thank you so much for including a playlist, trying to listen to all the tracks you mention during DDD gets hectic lol
Abel to me is one of the best artists to come out of the last decade, his songs reflect one a very dark place in his heart and he shows it to all who wish to see it.
The Weeknd is the best artist of this generation. Fight me.
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 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.
Thursday is the most underrated and overlooked The Weeknd project.
To me, Dawn FM feels like the appropriate follow up from After Hours. It's a continuing storyline of a number one musician succumbing to the dark side of the entertainment world and now becomes trapped in limbo, looking back on his life and coming to terms with his regrets. That's why the album starts to slow down in the middle
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...
I actually feel that it’s more immersive to start listening to The Weeknd from his first tracks to his most recent. His projects are like different chapters of a book and follow a story progression
you style is *chefs kiss*
Dawn fm is his most perfect album till date . It checks all the boxes of the perfect album
Both the riff and the Alicia Meyers sample make "Sacrifice" an absolute bop
Car Seat Headrest, Barenaked Ladies, They Might Be Giants, Modest Mouse, Fall-Out Boy, Motion City Soundtrack, Marianas Trench, Open Mike Eagle, Aesop Rock, and Childish Gambino would all be good choices for a DDD
Fall Out Boy would make an interesting DDD. Going from emo (Grand Theft Autumn) to pop punk, then the change in sound, then to pop music of today.
Id also love to see Death Cab for Cutie, Lil Wayne as potential topics
How cool is it that the channel Quality Culture put out an analysis of the story of The Weeknd last week and now we have a DDD for him. The universe must really want me to listen to The Weeknd.
I LOVED the 2020 Top 10 Albums edit. Great Video
not the biggest fan of collaborations put in it but Dawn FM's cohesiveness and maturity after "After Hours" is a hell of a ride and I love it
Unexpectedly got recommended but I don't regret it, love the weeknd!!! 🔥🔥🔥
House of Balloons still is one of my favorite mixtapes of all time. From start to finish it never bores me and it heavily influenced R&B and pop. The cover is also iconic and hard asf.
For the longest time beauty behind the madness was my favorite. But as time has progressed After Hours really is his masterpiece. 😭😭
Am glad your doing a DDD on him, he is one of my favorite artists.
My first introduction to The Weeknd was actually a collab between him and Kavinsky with the song "Odd Look". That song had the beat and lyrical tone that I came to really enjoy with Weeknd.
I love After Hours and Dawn FM, but I genuinely think the Trilogy mixtape is the best thing Abel has ever done in his career so far.
Of course.
Yesss
oh hell yeah ive been waiting for this one! maybe next time you can cover the rest of the week!
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 has a lot of good songs, but there’s a special place in my heart for In The Night, the spiritual successor to MJ’s Smooth Criminal that gets a lot more right in both its centring of the woman’s story and its implicit but not overbearing acknowledgement of the guilt the narrator feels about his own entanglements with her than any portrayal of a victim of sexual abuse by a male popstar in a very long time.
Also, the refrain “I don’t think you understand” reminds me of “Hey Ya!” in all the right ways.
The Weeknd was one of those artists that I didn’t listen to until he was mainstream. Starboy was the one that got my attention but After Hours and DAWN FM made me a hardcore fan