He wants to get all screwed up, in all the ways one gets all screwed up, but it don’t mean much to him. You get bright dance tracks in “Secrets” and “A Lonely Night.” “Party Monster” scopes out a woman with “Angelina’s lips” and “Selina’s hips.” You get the interesting “Love To Lay” as well as two Daft Punk collaborations, the title track and “I Feel It Coming.” You can interpret that The Weeknd is positioning himself as a sort of “arch enemy in style” to Pharrell Williams, the shade to Pharrell’s sunlight.īut even in the songs that desire to get as down and dirty as can be, or in the songs that reach for a level of ecstatic headspace, The Weeknd seems strangely anhedonic and remote. To give you an example, like the previous record you get a “featuring” with Lana Del Rey (“Stargirl Interlude”). Someone coined the phrase “noir pop” and that sounds about right.Įverything nonetheless sounds like a plan, a timeline with specific deliverables, and Tesfaye hits every one of them so precisely that, even though he has one of the most soulful voices in modern music, much of the record sounds devoid of heart. The instrumentation on the album is bright yet cold, like a blue neon sign with sketchy wiring, skittering out now and then. He still sings with Michael Jackson’s sweet tone while expressing some very dark thoughts. With the new album, he has arrived at the place where those ambitions have paid off in terms of public adulation, but to me there isn’t a wide variation between Beauty Behind The Madness and Starboy. The first three mixtapes comprise a sort of trilogy in themselves, sharing an ethos in design and content that I think speaks to Tesfaye’s big-picture ambitions. This is The Weeknd’s sixth release but, on the ledger, only his third official album. I’m not sure why it isn’t hitting me the way I suspect its creators want it to. On the surface he presents yet another fine-tuned and polished pop album with a dark heart.
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We get a taste of daft punk’s usual, playable robo-tech beats intermingled with The Weeknd’s hook: “Look what you’ve done / I’m a motherfucking starboy.” We don’t think we’ll get it out of our heads for the next week.The Weeknd, or Abel Tesfaye if you’re keeping score, returns after the success of Beauty Behind the Madness and breakout single “Can’t Feel My Face” with Starboy. Needless to say, the hype for the upcoming Starboy is real.Īs for the single, it’s the chorus where daft punk can be found - that steals the show. In December of last year, The Beauty Behind the Madness became the most-streamed album of 2015 with over 60 million listeners tuning in. The album is a follow-up to The Weeknd’s chart-topping 2015 project, The Beauty Behind the Madness.
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The new track shares a name with The Weeknd’s upcoming solo project, Starboy, which drops November 25. Rumors have been circulating for a while now about a collaboration between The Weeknd and Daft Punk, and we finally have confirmation with their new song, “Starboy.” Oh and Daft Punk, everyone’s favorite singing robots, hopped on the track too. Abel Tesfaye - The Weeknd - cut his hair on Wednesday and released a new single on Thursday.