Still can't believe The Weeknd achieved this...

[Shiva]

Dude really wrote a song using cocaine addiction as a metaphor for sex, had it go #1 in the country. People play the track completely uncensored on radio and in family friendly establishments... while other artists are getting references to weed bleeped out on air.



I've heard this played in retail spots and county fairs with kids present, and nobody questions it. Like does 98% of the country not know what "I can't feel my face" means?

Anyways the song's dope. Don't even ask me how

 

[H. Selassie]

Young GOATs gonna GOAT

 

[Big Mel]

I can't believe how terrible his music has become.

 

[CrimsonTider]

He didnt write that

but there is nothing astonishing about this.

Plenty of songs like this have been big hits

 

[Milk N Cookies]

Lol, touché. And on MTV they say 'p*ssy' on every episode of the Challenge.

 

[MufasaChoppa]

 

[Shiva]

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

Cheap Trick and Steely Dan made radio pop hits about drug addiction and whores. It's called subtly and creative lyricism.

 

[Rembrandt]

i love this song and it's still funny telling people the meaning behind it but fukk it. if we lost the trilogy era weeknd then i'mma need more songs like the hills from him and less songs like this.

 

[Freedman]

The average Person isn't sniffing that A1 perico to know anything about it numbing your face

 

[Shiva]

Cheap Trick and Steely Dan made radio pop hits about drug addiction and whores. It's called subtly and creative lyricism.

True, I'd say that was in an era where there were more metaphors in pop though so people could be sneaky with it

 

[Nostalgic]

It's not really all that surprising.

This was a former # 1 hit song and hit was about landmines.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

 

[Big Mel]

It's not really all that surprising.

This was a former # 1 hit song and hit was about landmines.

When I was a kid I did a remix write to that song called "99 red assed baboons"


True story.

 

[Kokoro]

He didnt write that

but there is nothing astonishing about this.

Plenty of songs like this have been big hits

Kinda like The Beatles with Lucy in the Sky