With the preponderance towards casual sex, binge drug use, and disaffected attitudes towards both, these are not subject matters you would expect to appeal to every paying quadrant of the market place. This brings us to the lyrics-these, too, would seem another strike against mainstream popularity. To say nothing of how he goes about singing these melodies: coldly drawling much of the time, it seems as though the are drugs talking, not him.Įven a song that questionably hints at something more than sex (“Acquainted”) does so in a mournful manner, with lyrics that stop just shy of admitting love in order to favor the causal brand (“to say that we’re in love is dangerous, but girl, I’m just glad we’re acquainted”). In fact, much of the singing we hear on this album follows a plaintive formula: for the slower songs, the Weeknd’s melodies tend to stab open intervals repeatedly-decidedly colorless, as they avoid instantly identifying the tune as minor or major-before settling on the end of a phrase, almost always falling lower in pitch, almost always hitting a minor note. Yes the song “Can’t Feel My Face” is obviously a mainstream hit, but that's not the number one hit right now: that mantle belongs to “The Hills” which has to be the loneliest, slowest, and least sexy chart-topper to feature lyrics all about copulation-with a buried, overly distorted hook to boot. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for iHeartMedia) Festival at MGM Grand Garden Arena on Septemin Las Vegas, Nevada.
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LAS VEGAS, NV - SEPTEMBER 19: Recording artist The Weeknd performs at the 2015 iHeartRadio Music.