all discuss the tunes except gus discuss statsIt's interesting, The Weeknd feels like he is top of the world right now, at peak powers, entering his own Michael Jackson-level era. But if you look at the playcount on Spotify, we're talking like 20-60mil plays, which is like Caroline Polachek territory.
OTOH, his top couple tracks have 1.5 bil plays so there's just a huge tail-off in terms of singles listening vs album listening, that's a scale of 100:1
the last 3 weeknd albums were very catchy so I dont get what the big idea is
Im being very insightful on the le epic choons thread right nowwhat happened to the Americans? Once so thoughtful
I can usually tell if something is worth listening to on first listen but sometimes it wont 'click' for a few listens yaWhat do people make of the idea that the first listen is pretty "blind" and more of a "wearing in" of the album, that you can't know whether it's catchy, and can't distinguish between Just OK and Great until you've given it a few listens
It wasn't rewarded. I'm a slave to the training system of attention, quotations, and likes.what happened to the Americans? Once so thoughtful
this is the kind of thing where stan will reply with 4-6 thoughtful, agreeing posts and the rest of us despairMy friend Ben says that loving something is just a matter of learning to speak its language, see eg Stockholm syndrome—what do we make of that?
Let's listen to that nextthe last album that grew on me like that was Whole Lotta Red, the best rap album of the last decade
Ringleaderthis is the kind of thing where stan will reply with 4-6 thoughtful, agreeing posts and the rest of us despair