★ The Weeknd ★ What You Need ★

tell your friends is a p deec terius fix but i always think how he would 100% say phantom in this couplet

Used to roam on Queen, now I sing Queen street anthems
Used to hate attention, now I pull up in that wagon

"tell your friends" sounds like a r. kelly shit talking song to me but eh everytime i think something's reminiscent of kells ilx tells me it's the-dream

as if that wasn't a huge vector of influence on terry!

what i'm saying

just heard the hills on local hiphop/r&b radio now and I thought it was right tbh

lol and then CFMF on the other urban station like a minute later. Not right imo, that song kinda sucks

it def sucks. it has some superficial appeal but only insofar as you can ignore how underwritten and underperformed it is.

also that lame-ass descending counterpoint vocal on the chorus that comes in after the first eight bars is weak even as something to spice up a final go-around, but the fact that it happens from the second chorus on (and a total of four times) is where CFMF becomes actively comical. and using the exact same pre-chorus three fucking times in a song is such overkill, esp when you throw a low-pass filter sweep behind one of 'em and make it work overtime as a bridge (so that your song, by the way, literally ends with: pre-chorus, chorus, pre-chorus, chorus). it's the type of try-hard anthem i imagined i would like the first time i heard the opening, but it's total boredom before it even gets to the first verse

Cfmf is amazing knock it off

maybe if the craterous landfill of western chart pop in 2015 is the only contemporary chart pop you follow

(disclaimer: talking about pop specifically made for the charts, not the crossover stuff that sometimes winds up there – western rap radio is a very fertile crescent rn)

the point however is cfmf is a good as hell

insufficiently familiar w/ grammar too tho

oh lol sorry don't drink and message board

gawd, what a lousy review of (the indeed sophomorically titled) album in the New Yorker. Is carrie battan a Pitchfork person? Her paternalistic, banal shit therein suggests as such around…what year did they decide to talk about Ne-Yo and trey Songz again? was the year of PR&B 2011?

I was gonna post here to make fun of it too. She puts the cliches in the windows like new toys.

resale ticket prices for this dudes tour are out of control ime

I like a few of the songs on the album but I don't understand the monstrous appeal of The Hills at all - it's arguably Abel at his most contrived. What do people love about it?

People loving 'honesty.'

and "hooks."

lol

saw this tour last nite, p good his voice still sounds great even in a big arena
every teen girl around us knew every single word to every song but i guess thats not surprising
minor complaint that he turned glass table girls into kindof a rock song :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usSj7U6vOtM

kmt

http://screenprism.com/assets/img/article/starboy.png

first the dj q album now this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cs5aF63WIAARI7k.jpg

^my sentiments exactly

i like the single

yeah it's alright

it's good

It's a pop song.

Wizkid should sue

or mavado i suppose

the verses are pretty good, hook feels a little limp compared to "can't feel my face" (though what wouldn't?)

mostly i think it's pretty hard to pick up on any traces of daft punk so i feel like this is mostly a flex on his part and he prob has better shit in the holster

I like his voice on this but the whole "I'm a muhfuckin starboy" chorus makes him sound so... small, in a mean mugging selfie kind of way. .

https://twitter.com/MNEK/status/778861282237767680

the weeknd ate my hamster

biffy clyro pic suitably much shittier looking at least

feat daft punk is def a flex but i was greatly relieved not to hear them so it's cool

have already forgotten this song anyway. lot of waiting around for the lookwhatchadone! meth shiver

i finally decided to listen to "i can't feel my face" for the first time
it's p catchy
starboy seems decent, both songs really fancy but he seems like a piece of shit misogynist but i spose that's supposed to be the appeal?

starboy feels forgettable to me

anyone from the rap caviar wave tht isn't a pos misognynist pls step fwd

haha rap caviar wave

who is in that wave

anyone that goes hard seemingly
https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/5yolys8XG4q7YfjYGl5Lff

haha yeah i subscribe to that playlist

Starboy feels like a classic already.

ilx needs a thinking guy emoji button

No

https://twitter.com/MNEK/status/778861282237767680

the weeknd ate my hamster

― r|t|c, Thursday, September 22, 2016 3:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whotf is Biff Clyro lol

Starboy feels like a classic already.
― Popture, Friday, September 23, 2016 11:06 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

suggest halpert

lol

is there a double entendre i am missing or does abel think the name of the movie is "the wraith of khan"

he seems to be in a pretty jaunty mood in the video! also lol @ daft punk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Na4j8AVgA

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cxf-O9VVQAElM4y.jpg