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Favorite Weeknd Project?

  • House of Balloons

    Votes: 38 42.7%
  • Thursday

    Votes: 5 5.6%
  • Echoes of Silence

    Votes: 4 4.5%
  • Kiss Land

    Votes: 17 19.1%
  • Beauty Behind The Madness

    Votes: 5 5.6%
  • Starboy

    Votes: 6 6.7%
  • My Dear Melancholy

    Votes: 7 7.9%
  • After Hours

    Votes: 7 7.9%

  • Total voters
    89
My bottom 5

Live for
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Losers

Earned it

Heaven or Las Vegas (maybe I need to give it more spins but I remember always skipping this song)

uhhh i can't think of a 5th song for my bottom 5
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Heaven Or Vegas was listened to so many times on road trips to Vegas 
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The production is just so evil 
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Puts you in the mood to commit sins 
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When the sun was setting on the way to the Strip and this song was blasting. Perfect song to play in the middle of nowhere desert 
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Heaven Or Vegas was listened to so many times on road trips to Vegas :smh:

The production is just so evil :smh:

Puts you in the mood to commit sins :smh:  

When the sun was setting on the way to the Strip and this song was blasting. Perfect song to play in the middle of nowhere desert :smh:  

Dudes saying they miss the debauchery, but skip/don't appreciate HoLV :lol: :smh:

I'm paying for all my father's sins
So i'ma thank him for you...

I never prayed a moment in my life
Girl I'm rewarded with you


Some of you deserve BBTM. You all not ready for the destruction that Heaven or Las Vegas brings.
 
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Strictly talking albums, I can only really name 3 that I skip

Losers

DD

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I also never play ICFMF because I'm bound to hear it somewhere at some point during the day. I don't mind the song but there's no urge for me to ever play it on my own
 
Kiss Land is a prime example of growth IMO, it just wasn't received well by the main stream. If you're using commercial success as a barometer of growth, then we aren't having the same discussion. I don't care about being well received by middle America, that doesn't prove anything to me in terms of growth as an artist and musician 
I've been seeing this a lot here lately. KL is just a continuation of what he already did. I don't see the growth.
 
This is how I feel about Initiation slander. But this is NT :lol:

Man, I don't understand the dislike for Initiation either. That's one of the tracks I thought the general consensus agreed was dope. Sonically it's nothing like I've ever heard before. I remember having to close out iTunes and starting it over/listen through headphones just to make sure I wasn't bugging out. :lol:

But the track itself is straight filthy. Telling these thotties they have to willingly get passed around just for a chance to **** with him. These are people's daughters, b. :lol:
 
Kiss Land is a prime example of growth IMO, it just wasn't received well by the main stream. If you're using commercial success as a barometer of growth, then we aren't having the same discussion. I don't care about being well received by middle America, that doesn't prove anything to me in terms of growth as an artist and musician 
I've been seeing this a lot here lately. KL is just a continuation of what he already did. I don't see the growth.

Kissland was a cohesive album. The sound was Kissland. It was consistent and dark all the way through (except wanderlust which in itself showed he was capable of making pop songs). It was his story more fleshed out

I appreciate what he did with BBTM. But its not my cup of tea. It always is strange to me when people are like "i want drastic growth i want the artist to grow and do different things". I have never really understood that philosophy. We get albums once every 2 years or so at this point? I want the dark beats i want the debauchery i want all that. Once every two years i want to get lost in that mindset. I dont' want a pop album. Those are a dime a dozen.

I still think BBTM is one of the better releases this year. But i already like Travis Scotts album better. I think Futures album is on par with it. By the end of the year it will be lost in the top 100 releases in the 40s or so
 
It's becoming clear that some of us just equate things a bit differently. I don't think Wanderlust is a pop song. It's just as dark as the rest of Kiss Land, just more upbeat. What I'm getting from some of you guys, though, is upbeat = pop. I guess I look at the delivery of the entire song (ie lyrics, beat, etc). Just like IMO BBTM isn't a full on pop album, but rather a reimagined way to deliver the same message people became fans of in the beginning.
 
I've been seeing this a lot here lately. KL is just a continuation of what he already did. I don't see the growth.
Wash your face b

Kissland is like a score to a movie

Production wise it's his most cohesive project to date. Listening to it transports you to a different setting sonically, the world of Kissland

The inspiration from industrial, japan, blade runner, horror movies is apparent

The first 5 songs are ******* seamless

Lyrically it showed he was able to write about debauchery through a different lens, in a less literal/explicit way. It's his strongest writing to date. Many of the songs are writen from a 2nd /3rd point of view, where a lot of trilogy was written from a first person perspective.

It showed he was able to produce a way different sound than the trilogy

If that isn't growth i dunno what is

Everyone isn't wrong
 
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It's becoming clear that some of us just equate things a bit differently. I don't think Wanderlust is a pop song. It's just as dark as the rest of Kiss Land, just more upbeat. What I'm getting from some of you guys, though, is upbeat = pop. I guess I look at the delivery of the entire song (ie lyrics, beat, etc). Just like IMO BBTM isn't a full on pop album, but rather a reimagined way to deliver the same message people became fans of in the beginning.

The sound is ultimately what makes a pop song a pop song tbh.
 
Man, I don't understand the dislike for Initiation either. That's one of the tracks I thought the general consensus agreed was dope. Sonically it's nothing like I've ever heard before. I remember having to close out iTunes and starting it over/listen through headphones just to make sure I wasn't bugging out. :lol:

But the track itself is straight filthy. Telling these thotties they have to willingly get passed around just for a chance to **** with him. These are people's daughters, b. :lol:

But, it's his payback for her curving him before he got on. Now she has to pay. Brilliant and savage :pimp:
 
A lot of songs on BBTM sound compromised to appeal to the masses

Like being different just for the sake of it rather than trying to make the best possible album

This is like wakka flocka trying to produce a EDM album

Nobody wanna hear that ****
 
I've been seeing this a lot here lately. KL is just a continuation of what he already did. I don't see the growth.

I have to disagree. Kiss land was him perfecting that sound and that style. Like someone else said, it sounded like a score to a movie. He puts you into a place with track 1 and you never leave that headspace throughout the entire album. It's an album that you have to be in a certain mood to hear and maybe that's why it didn't do as well commercially. I've never cared about what a critic said. Kiss land is a masterpiece.
 
When Kiss Land first dropped I think it took a little bit of time for folks to realize exactly what they were listening to. I don't think it was Trilogy-ish at all, it is very different

I don't see how it was a continuation of what he already did, I'd like to hear an explanation of that
 
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