The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness (Discussion Thread)

[Big Mel]

Just finished listening, and I can see why it's title what it is. Beautiful fukking album. I always look at The Weeknd as a Shakespearean like tragic character. You see the dark path that said character is on, and you know that their demise is all but imminent due to the life that they lead, but still as a spectator, a reader, an observer, you're rooting for a different outcome to the story.... This album is his proverbial light to his previous albums dark days.

If you're expecting 'in your face' blatant vulgarity throughout the album like his previous works, well then you're bound to be disappointed. Instead, a lot of the douche baggery, and vulgarity is much more subtle and hidden underneath whole stories in which he's telling. There's a lot more organization to the madness....

The only songs that I can honestly say that I don't really care for is "Losers" and "Dark Times", two songs by which have features that I don't like - no fault to Abel. He did his thing on both tracks .

I give this album a solid 4/5. He OFFICIALLY deaded that "all of his music sound the same" talk with this one.

I can't wait till he roll through the Chi for 'The Madness' tour. This is stadium music. In the meantime, I'll be buying 3 copies come the 28th.

#XO

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[thernbroom]

We need them unreleased tracks

When Kiss Land stalled, the Weeknd fell into a creative rut. "I just kept getting more and more depressed," he says. He considered relocating from Toronto to Seattle in search of a "super-drugged-out Nirvana vibe." Instead, after writing and scrapping an album's worth of material, he started spending more time in Los Angeles and listening to his label. Republic got him a choice placement on the 50 Shades of Grey soundtrack with "Earned It" and set up a duet with Ariana Grande on her club-ready single "Love Me Harder," produced by synth-pop wizard Max Martin. "At first I was kind of iffy about it," the Weeknd says of the collaboration, which would have been unthinkable in the old days. "Five years ago? Definitely not. I was the young starving artist that wanted to do it all by myself."

 

[Triangularbirds]

BLOCKED.

no one gives a fukk who you block fukk nikka

 

[Paper Boi]

this is better than kissland. kissland is stuck between his original sound and pop.

this embraces his original sound and pop. he doesn't try to mix them.

 

[Big Mel]

no one gives a fukk who you block fukk nikka

YOU BLOCKED. HEAUX.

 

[We Major]

Acquainted

 

[23Barrettcity]

this is better than kissland. kissland is stuck between his original sound and pop.

this embraces his original sound and pop. he doesn't try to mix them.

I like kiss land but it wasn't that creative just felt kind of like he was trying to market his "sound" to everyone looking back . I still bump kissland but this album is beautiful . Feels more like a growth musically and of his persona , which he even addresses on the album . Granted that robbery stuff might be duck tales

 

[jaydolf spitler]

BLOCKED.

 

[Populair]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Camoflauge]

I've come to the conclusion that Kissland shyts all over this album.... King of the fukking Fall shyts all over this album

The only songs I can really fukk with is The Hills, ICFMF, Shameless, Tell Your Friends and Prisoner the rest is just hot garbage.

Kissland flowed so beautifully from Professional to the end no skips on the album (I like Live For)

Kissland had so many quotables on it this album is just a bunch of pop beats with the Weeknd singing 4 lines in each fukking song with the exception of some.
fukk even Love Me Harder was harder then this tape.

I'm still hoping (probably a reach) that the "-" beside Angel is the 2nd part to it because the album just feels like its missing something, feels empty. It feels like he was uninspired on it.

The anti simp gawd showed glimpses of who he actually is on this tape but thats it, it was just glimpses. Get this weed plate the fukk outta here

And this is coming from a fan that's been there since before anybody noticed his name was The Weeknd not the weekend

 

[ineedsleep212]

As much as I am a fan of the Weeknd and the scumbaggery, I can't help, but wish I felt some other r&b artist who makes interesting non generic ish that could balance out the "They tell me not to fall in love, that shyt is pointless, yea that shyt is pointless" talk. I'm mainly saying this cuz everything is about a nut now lol.

Who knows? In the future, we might get a Weeknd singing a different tune while being as honest and vulnerable exploring different type of emotions and shyt. Like a dope album specifically about one broad from before to the beginning to the end and after the relationship or some ish.

 

[CrimsonTider]

As much as I am a fan of the Weeknd and the scumbaggery, I can't help, but wish I felt some other r&b artist who makes interesting non generic ish that could balance out the "They tell me not to fall in love, that shyt is pointless, yea that shyt is pointless" talk. I'm mainly saying this cuz everything is about a nut now lol.

Who knows? In the future, we might get a Weeknd singing a different tune while being as honest and vulnerable exploring different type of emotions and shyt. Like a dope album specifically about one broad from before to the beginning to the end and after the relationship or some ish.

You don't listen to R&B if you did this wouldn't be a complaint

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

As much as I am a fan of the Weeknd and the scumbaggery, I can't help, but wish I felt some other r&b artist who makes interesting non generic ish that could balance out the "They tell me not to fall in love, that shyt is pointless, yea that shyt is pointless" talk. I'm mainly saying this cuz everything is about a nut now lol.

Who knows? In the future, we might get a Weeknd singing a different tune while being as honest and vulnerable exploring different type of emotions and shyt. Like a dope album specifically about one broad from before to the beginning to the end and after the relationship or some ish.

Tyrese Black Rose is about 1 woman in particular

 

[NvrCMyNut]

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[AlphaOne]

Brehs the fire tracks on this album

Can listen to acquainted on repeat all day.