The Weeknd

[Let the Light In 19,445]

Well only 2000 people ahead me, that's managable

 

i got tickets for minny 

Edited February 5 by Let the Light In

[cinnamon teeth 1,809]

happy to announce i was 60th in line  tickets secured

[Let the Light In 19,445]

Ok my top songs right now are:

-Take Me Back to LA

-Wake Me Up

-Without a Warning 

-The Abyss

-Open Hearts

-Timeless

 

[heroindealer 11,637]

My TOP 10 

 

1. The Abyss

2. Enjoy The Show

3. Given Up On Me

4. Take Me Back to LA

5. Timeless

 

6.Without a Warning

7. Baptised in Fear

8. I Can’t Wait to Get There

9. Reflections Laughing

10. Big Sleep

 

and honestly the whole album slaps, definitely one of my favourites and strongest works from TW 

[Let the Light In 19,445]

Bonus tracks Runaway and Closing Night slap too 

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I'm surprise how deeply I slept on his music untill now. I love this album so much, and I'm discovering the Trilogy, which I really enjoy.

Take Me Back To LA is my favorite so far but I enjoy almost everything, except Society maybe, and I'm so glad Dancing in the Flames was cut, this one is horrible.
MIKE DEAN is a real hero for me. I would love having more songs between Lana and him.

I made my own cut for the Hurry Up album with my favorite tracks, mixing First Pressing versions and Main versions :

On 2/7/2025 at 12:13 AM, Let the Light In said:

Bonus tracks Runaway and Closing Night slap too 

Runaway is so good

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My favs:

 

Open Hearts 

Wake Me Up

Cry for Me

Timeless

Sao Paolo

The Abyss

Take Me Back to LA

 

Some of his best work ever. 

 

Will need more time with the others. 

[Let the Light In 19,445]

Calling 2 LP version complete edition was a choice https://theweeknd.co/xostore 

 

im sorry @DeadSeaOfMercury

 

I just saw that they are still selling the first edition vinyls half the price, this is so fucked up

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2 minutes ago, Let the Light In said:

Calling 2 LP version complete edition was a choice https://theweeknd.co/xostore 

Not even surprised.

[Beautiful Loser 50,704]

I think it's a good time to let this Weeknd character he has created go. You can only do so many albums and songs with the same themes (girls, parties, drugs, drinks, love, broken hearts) before it starts to feel repetitive. I think he's done everything he can as The Weeknd, and I'm oddly enough not upset or sad about it.

I'm glad that one of the singles, Dancing in the flames, is not on the album. I never liked it. Speaking of singles, São Paulo was another song I didn't understand, I felt underwhelmed and a little disappointed the first I heard it (which was as a single and not at the live performance). Nothing I heard made me feel hyped for this album. But man, I'm glad to have been proven wrong, this is phenomenal, and when São Paulo enters... it all suddenly feels absolutely perfect. Anitta sounds like a little demonic creature, haunting Abel as he enters his version of the afterlife. I love it.
I'm very glad Lana's included on the album considering their friendship which has lasted for well over a decade. "She's the girl in my music and I'm the boy in her music", he once said, so I'm glad Lana could be included in this farewell - it would feel empty, or wrong, if she wasn't.

I think we are being treated very well on this record. It is a long record, I've rarely had time to listen through it all in one go in this little time since it was released, but eventually it starts to feel like the perfect length. It's like a letter to his fans as much as to this alter ego, and perhaps The Weeknd is talking to Abel as well.

Hozier is another artist I love and his latest record "Unreal Unearth" takes you through Dante's version of Hell, and it's interesting, I think, these two albums. The Weeknd's version of the after life is very different from Hozier's Dante Hell, they have nothing in common, but they both seem to bring up topics about what happens after life and judgement and such.

This album is great and a worthy goodbye to The Weeknd. I'm curious to see what musical direction Abel will go next, if it'll be something similar with different lyrical themes or something completely different.