I understood those songs differently, though of course, it is a Weeknd project, not a Jagged Edge one, so there is a certain amount of "fukk boy" behavior regardless...
He speaks on all those instances with a lot of regret and angst, coping with the ending of real relationships with the tour lifestyle.
"Adaptation" finds him contemplating the life he chose, and the women he left behind. "The Town" isn't really misogynistic, so much as normal relationship/sex, through the eyes of a new star.
Belong To The World shows Weeknd fairly bothered by the woman he cannot love, he isn't happy at all.
"Pretty" is about a woman not wanting to wait for him, and his apparent grief over this, along with telling her she won't be the same, which of course is passive aggressive anger, post break up.
Almost all the songs have strong themes of the struggles of fame and relationships, and dealing with the isolation, emptiness of his new lifestyle.
Well in the Pretty music video he kills the ex...
Adaption and Tears in the Rain is a little remorse but it's selfish remorse and the character the Weeknd plays is always selfish...
In this case he just sad he missed out on a healthy life...he wasn't sad about what he did to his girlfriend...
Velvet Rope is kind of similar in themes but Janet is reaching out and seeking love and shyt
Kissland is different than any other project because The Weeknd always had like a party element...and everyone is having a good time until the drugs come out...then fukkery happens
Kissland is the first time where none of the shyt he talking about is fun...
In Professional he talking about strippers and prostitutes and himself...not enjoying there job of faking love and affection...in the Weeknd case guess he talking about pandering to his fans...and coming up by means of emotional manipulation
Most of the album is cold-hearted and not fun...he sounds miserable and content in his misery...
Live For is the only non antisocial track on there...where he talks about his friends and him coming up...then on the Kissland track he says he don't got any friends lol
Kissland is the only peak sleazy fun shallow Weeknd track on there...
Love in the Sky is a nice ballad...
I find the album cruel...but I liked the sound and the stories..he put effort in that isn't seen in his other projects
And he actually evolved from the guy gives a bytch a pill and run a train on her as she is coming down
To the guy that acknowledges he's a piece of shyt and his lifestyle is shytty but it's his lifestyle...as he snort his coke and fukk a model
The album reminds me of American Psycho
