Albums The Weeknd - After Hours (Discussion Thread)

[CrimsonTider]

People listening to Weeknd to hear him be angry, spiteful, resentful, or dismissive of women is just depressing.

There is plenty of casual misogyny on a lot of these records, in all actuality. People mature as they age, and hopefully, don't have the same views of the world as they did when they were younger.

I want to hear good music

there’s 4 songs on here worth saving/adding to a playlist

 

[High quality poster]

Mid? Seriously? The fucc is wrong with y'all?

Saying its mild is giving it more props than it deserves... it just sounds like bad 80s new wave.

 

[Alvin]

For those who have listened to it all the way through, what songs are these two snippets?

 

[THE 101]

I was actually sleeping on Blinding Lights...sounds way better to me in the context of the album. That and In Your Eyes back to back is that 1980s cocaine music

 

[23Barrettcity]

The growth

I stan a progressive artist

This album is fire . As a long time weeknd stan he delivered an album true to his sound and still progressing with a different sound . The people who want him to make the same songs over and over why ? Just listen to those songs

 

[010101]

the usual

repetitive vapid empty lyrics wrapped in bleeding edge production & studio magic

in hindsight he's never really been the star of his own music

the visuals & soundscapes obscure that fact

it is perfect for the plastic airheaded masses & all that bs self inflicted ennui

i can enjoy it but the level of stanley shenanigans around abel is jokes though nikka tell some new stories you sappy fake sad fukk ha

*

 

[Mortal1]

This is pretty good.

 

[Sad Bunny]

Snow child sounds like something he's done before.

Same flow and tone and content as a prior song but I can't remember which song.

After hours and hardest to love might be my favorite songs and the second half of Alone Again

 

[Sad Bunny]

the usual

repetitive vapid empty lyrics wrapped in bleeding edge production & studio magic

in hindsight he's never really been the star of his own music

the visuals & soundscapes obscure that fact

it is perfect for the plastic airheaded masses & all that bs self inflicted ennui

i can enjoy it but the level of stanley shenanigans around abel is jokes though nikka tell some new stories you sappy fake sad fukk ha

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I see what you are saying and I was thinking the whole time while I was listening to this the music is not as honest and raw as Frank Ocean's music.

Blonde is a masterpiece and I could feel his pain through the music.

 

[010101]

I see what you are saying and I was thinking the whole time while I was listening to this the music is not as honest and raw as Frank Ocean's music.

Blonde is a masterpiece and I could feel his pain through the music.

frank is much more thoughtful in his work

abel is stuck thematically it's entered the realm of caricature

maybe he's aware of that

it's audio fast.food at the core lyrically & vocally bleh

the people who seriously connect with this shyte are mentally ill ha

*

 

[TheGodling]

Of first listen it's still very much pop but it's nowhere near as poppy as Starboy was. Not everything's hitting but there's some really dope shyt sprinkled all throughout this.

But if I OD, I want you to OD right beside me
I want you to follow right behind me
I want you to hold me while I'm smiling
While I'm dying

 

[Sad Bunny]

frank is much more thoughtful in his work

abel is stuck thematically it's entered the realm of caricature

maybe he's aware of that

it's audio fast.food at the core lyrically & vocally bleh

the people who seriously connect with this shyte are mentally ill ha

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Yeah and people keep quoting his "I want to OD" lyrics as if it's something special lol

Anything that reminds them of 2012 Weeknd gets them excited.

 

[010101]

Yeah and people keep quoting his "I want to OD" lyrics as if it's something special lol

Anything that reminds them of 2012 Weeknd gets them excited.

yeah it's peak level cringe lyrically

i just listen & laugh

ha

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[newarkhiphop]

Snow child hard... y’all can’t keep all that other shyt tho

only song I bought

 

[Carlton Banks]

After sitting with it more, I'm liking it more... Faith is my shyt