The Weeknd: The Official Thread

[Medio]

Y'all out here saying KissLand is wack

Don't know how fan of the "old" Weeknd can listen to this album and not fukk with it. Pretty is a Top 10 song of 2013. The concept, the production. The song itself and the video is unbelievable. fukking unbelievable. If you truly get that shyt, then fukking hell. It's fire.

There's me talking about Pretty. I ain't even got onto Belong to the World.

these are my sentiments exactly, i said the same thing. if you didn't like kiss land you were just hipster or a fickle fan

 

[klutch2381]

Gonna give this a few spins in the coming weeks off this statement, but I remember listening to it for a few weeks and feeling very about it.

(Coming from HUGE fan of the Trilogy)

People be on that bullshyt. . I know folks who are HUGE Weeknd stans. I'm talking can recite every lyric and song by heart and they aren't into Kissland like that. I can easily see why people may not like it. Man, listen to the instrumentals on the first 3 tapes: Next, Montreal, The Fall, House of Ballons/Glass Table Girls, Wicked Games, The Party and the Afterparty, Loft Music, High for this, The Knowing, What You Need, The Morning, Gone, The Zone, Birds part 2, The Host, Outside, etc. Even if them joints didn't have lyrics the beat would still have you like:

The beats coupled with Abel going the fukk in created an incredible ambiance and mood that was fukking undeniable. Invite a shorty over who isn't even familiar with dude and fukk around and have the Party and the Afterparty on or some shyt, and she'll be straight status. Kissland isn't like that. The beats are overly simple (with a few exceptions) and it's a way more subtle with it being a more lyric driven effort. It doesn't have the same ambiance as the Trilogy, nor give you the same feeling just of one listen or the general aura of the music; cheap rainfall effects in the background doesn't change that.

Listen, I like the album. It's probably the most played album on my iPod the last 2 months or so. I just can see how people who got into the Trilogy don't feel it. It's way different. It's like how people reacted when Kanye went from Graduation to 808's and Heartbreak (one of my favorite albums all time). Of course most people reacted like is this? Even I was like go with this minimalist shyt, Abel? It took me over a month to get into it. You're fronting hard as hell if you can't see why people didn't go crazy over this joint.

 

[jaydolf spitler]

nah kissland wasn't that great to me. it was clearly the lesser of the 4 in my opinion

 

[Microfracture]

Unrelated note....went back and listened to that "Valerie" he was feelin himself

 

[Richard Wright]

I started off hating kiss land and now think it is by far his best release. It takes more of a contribution from the listener.

 

[Da King]

I started off hating kiss land and now think it is by far his best release. It takes more of a contribution from the listener.

House of Balloons is still his best but I agree that this album isn't some shyt you can just spin once and get hooked on it, grows on you, no homo

 

[malbaker86]

I wasn't feeling KissLand but i'm going to go back and spin it a few times

 

[thernbroom]

5 hours ago
@TheWeeknd: February = new age, new xo gear, new music

 

[Ineedmoney504]

i looked at kissland from just the music, not the artist, cause if u looking for the shyttin on bytches weeknd this aint it, its just a great project

 

[Microfracture]

Weeknd must not like money. Needs to fukk around and release that Wanderlust to radio you can't tell me that wouldn't get spins.

 

[WickedGames]

I can see why people who liked the Trilogy might not like Kissland.
I can also see that some people are f*ck niqqas.



KissLand

 

[Brock Landers]

IMO his best song, had to share this remix

 

[Brock Landers]

Also Thursday is his best body of work thus far

 

[HARLEM AL]

Just saw The Pretty Video for the first time..... Holy shyt, that video is fukking dope

 

[thernbroom]

new remix on the way

Ain't nobody tryna save her
Baby get that paper