listen to the weekend for sheils. charity evening.

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I feel like this maximalist pop/rnb/rap sound must have come about via Kanye West

It's made for an elaborate stage show in a football stadium with giant HD videos creens
 
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Mike Dean, whose been working with Kanye since Graduation, is all over this so no wonder it makes me think of Kanye.



Fundamentally I have that same feeling that the Weeknd himself is an uninteresting sort of presence, except as a textural element in the soundscape. Perhaps that's part of what being a pop star is, nowadays, or one model of it—blending with the production, beyond a personality.

His imitation of Michael Jackson forces you to remember how much presence (Whatver you think of him and his music) MJ had.
 
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There's less Oneohtrix on this I think, you get the occasional outbreak of psychedelic electronica, I could do with more of it
 
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This which came out last year is the best thing on it so far, Pharrell is involved and Carti



As usual the weeknd is probably the least interesting thing on it

Directed by Gunner Stahl and LouieKnows, who both previously had worked frequently with Playboi Carti,[11] the video depicts the two musicians performing with young women inside a dark, blacked out soundstage, briefly followed by visuals of the previous album, After Hours, depicted as "Hell", the first part of Divine Comedy.
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It's what Dante would have wanted
 
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The weekend does have that acoustic-YouTube-cover-of-a-pop-song singing style that the internet made a thing where the little intonations and strains and vibratos that make up exciting but brief moments in a traditionally good vocal performance become the entire performance and there's actually very little straight singing and what your left with is an ineffectual whimpering mess.
 
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He's not much older than me so he was around for the ukulele craze of the early 2010's where suddenly you would see someone strumming along in the halls in every break period between classes and every girl you knew was doing these cutesy little covers of popular songs
 
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Why is he the most popular artist in the world, do you think?
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He's not that bad I think. When I was delivering food and listening to the radio there'd be songs of his that would come on and I wouldn't tune the dial
 
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So all you need is to be not that bad?

I guess Ed Sheeran has made a career out of that sort of thing though. Bland and tuneful.
 
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I think people do still crave songs more than anything, despite hip hop still being the most popular genre. He's one of the few actual mega stars that's making Songs and I think that catapults him
 
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The weekend does have that acoustic-YouTube-cover-of-a-pop-song singing style that the internet made a thing where the little intonations and strains and vibratos that make up exciting but brief moments in a traditionally good vocal performance become the entire performance and there's actually very little straight singing and what your left with is an ineffectual whimpering mess.
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This is the way my dad describes Jeff Beck's guitar playing, except he likes it. Every note in the late stuff is modulated in some way, bends, using the whammy bar, etc.
 
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This is the way my dad describes Jeff Beck's guitar playing, except he likes it. Every note in the late stuff is modulated in some way, bends, using the whammy bar, etc.
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Future said he raps the way he does because the moment when someones voice starts to crack is always the most exciting part of a freestyle and he wanted to make that the moment the entire thing
 
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