the Weeknd is highkey killing it this year

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Certain R&B fans, usually mf's, will never 'get' Abel because he doesn't make that learned how to sing in the church R&B music.

Basically he can't really sing

 

[Budda]

The solanges album with the africa funk(great album)?

Yes that one, agree, sometimes i feel she makes better music than her sis.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Weaknd stans are so embarrassing

 

[bnm8907]

I still fukk with this

 

[ImChrissyB]

I think he's great 'in the studio' but live he's bleh...not so much..He has great cadences but his voice is shaky at times in person.

 

[onelastdeath]

Basically he can't really sing

Peter

You don't even believe that.

 

[feelosofer]

Certain R&B fans, usually mf's, will never 'get' Abel because he doesn't make that learned how to sing in the church R&B music.

Not true, I'm older and I appreciate what they are doing, I just feel like he lost something when crossing over, my mother is a child of the 60's and I put her on the Weeknd back in late 2011 and she was feeling it, good music is good music. They definitely tap into some complex emotions.

Let's not get carried away now

He's kinda right, though, he is pretty influential in hip-hop/r and b amongst the under 30 crowd and he has already got clones sprouting up, and he kinda has elements of mid 90's Prince (when he was more experimental), a little Michael in terms of his singing (obviously not nearly as skilled but he taps into the emotions Michael did), and some PM Dawn. I remember people saying he was the future of R and B and they were ultimately right.

 

[Remote]

Not a fan.

Dude's the english Romeo Santos.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

I don't see it for him. He sounds terrible.

 

[Tae]

A blogger/music reviewer once said that The Weekend makes R&B for white chicks, and I think that is the majority of his audience so it makes sense.
He is hipster R&B not the soulful R&B most blacks are familiar with and since the majority of the R&B audience is black it also makes sense why he has not conquered the genre as many thought he would.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

i don't get the hype. he is mediocre at best. absolutely nothing special about his music these days

They are tone deaf.

 

[Dat Migo]

Abel

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Basically he can't really sing

I see the Ethiopian influence in how he sings but that teddy afro dude sings a ton better so its not really an excuse.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Shoulda listend to Drake in the first place

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Basically he can't really sing

Eh...what is singing, really?