The Weeknd - Dawn FM (Discussion Thread)

[Killer Instinct]

As someone who didn't like the HOB era and didn't get into his music until he started going mainstream... i can respect that.


This man has crafted a pop masterpiece (and those words are not synonomous in this day and age... it's almost oxymoronic).



I was telling peeps how the 'Rona spawned a new age renaissance period.

 

[Lord Beasley]

unstickied so quickly

i dont get how folks keep saying the album had no single. take my breath was out last year

 

[Marc Spector]

Sacrifice and Out Of Time have serious Daft Punk vibes

 

[jerzboy]

1st month in music, I don’t think this will be topped. Said the same thing about After Hours and from my point of view was right. In the pop space, no one is close... Legit with BBTM, After Hours and now Dawn. Starboy dope too, but not on the other 3 levels.... appreciate greatness bruhs; even if his vocals are mid, he makes great music

 

[High quality poster]

1st month in music, I don’t think this will be topped. Said the same thing about After Hours and from my point of view was right. In the pop space, no one is close... Legit with BBTM, After Hours and now Dawn. Starboy dope too, but not on the other 3 levels.... appreciate greatness bruhs; even if his vocals are mid, he makes great music

Mid vocals with a team of cac writers, what’s to appreciate?

 

[L@CaT]

1st month in music, I don’t think this will be topped. Said the same thing about After Hours and from my point of view was right. In the pop space, no one is close... Legit with BBTM, After Hours and now Dawn. Starboy dope too, but not on the other 3 levels.... appreciate greatness bruhs; even if his vocals are mid, he makes great music

Alone at Prom is the better 80’s influenced dance album

 

[jerzboy]

Alone at Prom is the better 80’s influenced dance album

prom is dope. Feel like they were aiming for diff shyt. Prom def has more soul to it.

 

[Redwood]

I'm sorry I doubted you after that first spin Abel.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

.......................

 

[OfTheCross]

let us heal, Abel

LTTP.

THis shyt hardbody.

I tried it last week on the big speakers while I was working but it wasn't hitting for me.

I got it one in my headphones rn at work and it's great.

Gonna give it another go on the big ones later

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

prom is dope. Feel like they were aiming for diff shyt. Prom def has more soul to it.

What do you mean by soul?

 

[jerzboy]

What do you mean by soul?

short form answer, more black.. long form answer, more feeling to the singing. Melodies more R&B and the vocal production.

 

[Piff Perkins]

haven't played any of it since it dropped...

Me either. Album is forgettable and feels tailor made to appeal to specific demographics and get festival money. Good for him but at the same time...Abel can literally do whatever he wants. I'm not saying he should go left on some Kendrick or Frank Ocean shyt. But this feels like such a weak move. Last album felt like a blend of Abel's shyt with synthpop, electronic music etc. Illangelo is all over the album. Max Martin is on a couple tracks: Blinding Lights, ie one of the biggest songs of the last decade...and then two of the corniest, cheesiest songs on the album (In Your Eyes, Save Your Tears). So for this album Illangelo is gone, and Max Martin is now on virtually every track.


I get trying to find that next hit with the guy you made magic with but...there are no hits on this album. Sacrifice debuted 11, fell to 22 in its next week. Gasoline didn't do anything. So you've got this expensive, big sounding album with nothing truly big to show for it. And a tour that keeps getting delayed and delayed. To the point it's now a stadium tour because arenas are booked out/unavailable. Is he gonna sell out stadiums? I think he can but...this is not the album to sell out stadiums with. With no hits. For a tour that will (hopefully) start in the summer, so 5-6 months from now. At a point where the music climate could be completely different. Drake could drop again, Kendrick will have dropped, SZA will have dropped, Rihanna might drop, Beyonce, etc. A lot is riding on this and it seems like there's a chance it just doesn't work...

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

short form answer, more black.. long form answer, more feeling to the singing. Melodies more R&B and the vocal production.

I did not find that album soulful at all. It sounded very popish

 

[jerzboy]

I did not find that album soulful at all. It sounded very popish

Tory?