The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness (Discussion Thread)

[Ribbs]

Anyone gotta link? Sharebeast seems to be down and my main site uses their links.

 

[krackdagawd]

Not feeling it and I've loved everything up to this point, I even thought kissland was dope.

 

[KeysT]

Anybody else hear hints of "The Joy" on the bridge of "Tell Your Friends"?

Kanye da gawd

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

Whose gonna fukk you like meee?



Shameless is somethin else brehs

 

[USSInsiders]

Yeah I don't the sound. They're not bad but this isn't my kind of shyt. Imo he's at his best with the dark and depressing stuff. Not a fan of this

Edit: As You Are ok this is hard tho

 

[Busby]

I've been listening to this album since it leaked and it really impressed me IMO. When he dropped the singles I didn't blast the hell out of em like everybody else did (with the exception of Worth It)

So when I listened to the whole album it sounded fresh as hell. And I know it's old to Yall but The Hills has me like

There isn't one skippable track on this album IMO and he found the perfect balance on who he was on the Trilogy and the mainstream sound.

This is WAAAAY better then Kiss Land.

to the REAL 6 God.

 

[ML29]

I'll listen to this on Apple tomorrow

 

[ineedsleep212]

I kinda love how In the Night is also a kind of dark pop song even though off sound alone you wouldn't think so.

 

[USSInsiders]

I'm disappointed

I understand he has to change his sound but some of the songs are just so blatant attempts at being hits its not even funny a lot of the beats are trash and the lyrics are just really terrible and he is really usually good at making lyrics but it does not sound like he wrote most of this album

most of these tracks are straight outta of the Eminem School of Corny White Girl Hooks.

All of the early songs that were used to promote the album are good. As You Are is crazy. This is too white girlish sounds for me.

 

[We Ready]

On Spotify now. I'll listen today.

 

[blazn101]

Sounds even better now that I can hear the mastered version..
Horns on 'Losers' and those drums on 'Prisoners'...

 

[zoo]

Sounds even better now that I can hear the mastered version..
Horns on 'Losers' and those drums on 'Prisoners'...

What were you listening to before? Not the group rip?

 

[blazn101]

What were you listening to before? Not the group rip?

Just got my mastered for iTunes version

 

[NotaPAWG]

As You Are would fit perfectly on Echoes of Silence god damn

Definitely my favorite song off this album

Side note: I don't get the criticism of dude selling out and going pop as if dude hasn't been making heavily Pop influenced Music from the beginning. Anyone making that claim obviously hasn't listened to some New wave or euro pop music.

People get so caught up on an artist making a certain sound that when an influence within said sound becomes more apparent they consider them a sell out or just say "so and so went __" so? Yeah obviously this album isn't as dark sounding as his previous shyt but does that make it necessarily bad? No. It's still great music so who the fukk cares

 

[Triangularbirds]

I kinda love how In the Night is also a kind of dark pop song even though off sound alone you wouldn't think so.

it feels like the most MJ song on the album