listen to the weekend for sheils. charity evening.

[Corpsey]

 

[version]

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

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
BRIAN ENO, A YEAR WITH SWOLLEN APPENDICES

 

[Corpsey]

He's also for both genders. I think all the other Song maker stars are just for women

This is interesting, too, cos his voice is androgynous—despite him constantly singing about knobbing birds

It probably helps that he looks fairly 'normal', too. He doesn't look like the male FKA Twigs. If he did then the ladz wouldn't be able to listen to him while downing stellas

 

[version]

It probably helps that he looks fairly 'normal', too.

 

[Corpsey]

When Lana Del Ray turns up on track 19 you think this would be better if it was a Lana Del Ray album with the same production

 

[Corpsey]

Knock off Kate Bush though she sounds

 

[shakahislop]

his voice sounds like a synth. like the tiktok autovoice has started singing

 

[Corpsey]

Italian composer and music producer Giorgio Moroder, known for his film scores like Midnight Express and Scarface, was a major influence on the album, particularly for the "operatic synths" used in the latter. The Weeknd himself described the album as "gothic" and "operatic".[11] Moroder told Variety in January 2025: "I'm thrilled to continue bridging the gap with Abel between the past and the future, creating something timeless yet innovative." The album features Moroder's contributions on keyboards, arrangements, and vocals.[11]

 

[shakahislop]

you don't end up relating to him. you just watch him suffering. we are twenty years deep into that mode of entertainment anyway

 

[shakahislop]

the anti-adele. you're not intimate with him. his suffering is cold not warm

 

[shakahislop]

with drake everyone was relating to how pathetic he was. the appeal was how short the braggadocio fell. with the weeknd there's not even braggadocio just a self-aware vulnerability. but within the north american black music nuum which is by default about making you aware of your power

 

[version]

He's retained a certain mystique relative to a lot of other stars. The art direction's intriguing too. It's all very glossy and tasteful whilst being quite strange. Vogue meets Lynch meets Hype Williams.

 

[shiels]

it's the bleakness of his voice i think. the despair in it

this is it aye, the voice captures beauty boredom and despair all at once, soul defeated and corrupted

 

[shiels]

This one and open hearts my favourite so far, that speed-Jackson bassline is brilliant with his voice

 

[shiels]

bloated over all isnt it, a bit too much of something sweet, sickly...but gorgeous moments, his sentimentality can flow over int being very Disney. depending on my mood i can float up into fantasy with him or rip out my headphones in disgust

 

[shiels]

Not as tight and weird and well sequenced as Dawn FM

 

[shiels]

Nightshift meets Changes

 

[shiels]

A lot of it sounds like a suicide note

 

[Corpsey]

He's retiring the weeknd persona supposedly

As if we care

 

[shiels]

As if we care

you do!