The Weeknd Thread ( "Hurry Up Tomorrow" Coming Soon)

[stick]

first half got me stuck

Just did some quick math and that's roughly 24 hours worth of listening. A WHOLE DAY. It's only been leaked for like 3.5 days .

 

[primetime21]

Honey please!!!!
You never thought you'd ever see my face again
But your love just swayed the lies
When he stared into your eyes
He just might be too good for you
You're almost dead to him
You're sleeping with a frozen heart
Well baby girl it's over now
And you can always count on me
Your uncheckable, unrestrained to touch
So immune to love
And it feels so priceless to me
That you're always free
That you'll take me in
Now, I'm everything, your everything
I bet you'll take me in
I know you'll take me in now
The same place I left you in
I bet you'll take me in
I know you'll take me in, I know you'll take me in
The same place I left you in


:x

this song has been on repeat all day

man I love this album

 

[a blinkin]

Dude spent one out of the past 3 days listening to this joint.

Someone get The Weeknd on NT just to see this thread

 

[deleted]

The guitar in the outro to Love in The Sky really makes me think of MJ.

 

[JustBlaze.]

how are y'all not feeling Live For? I cant stop playing it

This dude cant miss man. The album is a legit 9/10

All of this.

 

[primetime21]

Kiss Land > 20/20 Experience

 

[cragmatic]

I didn't really listen to any tracks from this other than Live For until now... and I'm really digging John Carpenter too.

Adaptation as well.

I don't think I feel the entirety of HOB or Thursday like everyone else....

 

[delete1234]

Kiss Land > 20/20 Experience

Oh that's easy. JT voice was never that good to me..Timberland is the main reason I even listen to him. Weeknd got that voice where anything he say sounds live.

 

[certifiedsw]

No way in hell Kiss Land is better than House of Balloons......

 

[delete1234]

No way in hell Kiss Land is better than House of Balloons......

This too.

 

[Gordonson]

COMPLEX | Interview: Illangelo Talks About "History of Man," Working with The Weeknd & Elijah Blake

Only posting the parts relevant to this thread obviously.

Spoiler: Interview!

You've been an integral part of The Weeknd’s career. What do you remember about those first experiences working together?

The funny thing with me, I have a pretty terrible memory. I'll meet people and I’ll have no idea where I met them before. That’s also because I'm so ******g focused on my work, it would be hard for me to remember my work and other stuff. But when it comes to The Weeknd, to that moment in time, that’s something I could never forget.

We never hesitated with anything we did. The first time we met we did “Crew Love,” and we did it within like 30 to 45 minutes. There were the keys, there was him singing, and once he finished singing, we chopped up his vocals and laid it out. Then us playing with the kick drums, nobody ******g does that. I just did it because that **** sounded cool. We just did it, no hesitation.

Later on that week we ended up doing a few other songs. We did a very early version of “Glass Table Girls,” which is not at all what “Glass Table Girls” is now. We did “Gone,” which is pretty similar to what “Gone” turned out to be. We did a few different songs within that week, and there was no hesitation, which is exactly why those songs sound the way they do.

With you guys putting out three projects in one year, did you create one project, stop, and then start with a new one? Or we’re those all songs you had been continuously working on and then it worked out that they fit these three specific mixtapes?

No, not at all. House of Balloons was an extremely focused project. Once that ended we dived right into Thursday. All three of these projects, we essentially locked ourselves in the studio.

While we were working on Thursday, there were a lot of distractions. The whole world wanted to know what was happening with The Weeknd. Thursday probably took a little bit longer than it needed to come out. We had presidents from every record label fly out to see us in Toronto. It was just a really intense moment in time.

Echoes Of Silence, that was a project me and Abel essentially did in one month, from the end of November to just before Christmas. eek) That was a combination of us starting out in Montreal for a week, and we just worked everyday until Christmas when we put it out. We definitely worked towards each project specifically.

The Weeknd revealed to Complex earlier this year that “Crew Love” was originally meant for House of Balloons. What was that like for you to see that progression where “Crew Love” went from being a track for a mixtape to being on one of the biggest albums of the year?

I suppose for me to explain this right, I have to tell you something more. I’m not originally from Toronto; I’m from a city called Calgary, Alberta, it’s on the West Coast of Canada. I was doing music out there for eight years and it came to a point where I realized I was not going to reach my goal of what I wanted to do with my life. I realized I have to go to Toronto. I moved to Toronto at the start of 2010 and I had saved up some money. It wasn’t much, but my goal was, I’m going to move to Toronto and I have one year to make this happen, so go.

It was December of 2010, me and Abel connected and we did “Crew Love.” That was killer for me, that was amazing. I finally got to collaborate and do something with an artist that I genuinely love. Now, I was still going to move back home because “Crew Love” wasn’t “Crew Love” at that point. “Crew Love” was a song me and Abel had done, that’s it. I went back home for Christmas and I was telling my family, “I’m working with this guy, he’s incredible.” I’m like Abel’s number one fan. I’ve had lot of love for the projects, so that’s why I really dedicated myself for as long as I have, right?

Yeah.

When I came back in January, because my lease was up in February of 2011, I still thought I was going back home. I remember Abel told me a couples times, “Dude, you’re not going back,” and I was, “I think I might have to go back.” I was flat broke and there was still no House of Balloons out at that point.

I started working with Doc and Abel on House of Balloons, we finished up that project, and I still didn’t know. You don’t know. House of Balloons came out and it was just like, “Wow.” The reception that we got from House of Balloons is something that I’ve dreamed about. That album got the exact kind of reception you always want to get.

It was maybe in the middle of January I was told, “Drake might take ['Crew Love'] for his album.” When I heard that I was so excited, because earlier in 2010 I was putting together songs for Drake, like instrumentals, and none of them really stuck. I guess it was just really sort of that magic with “Crew Love” that did it. The only thing I was upset about was that no one was going to hear it for a year.

That’s true, you guys basically sat on it for a year.

I really wanted people to hear it, but 40 ended up taking “Crew Love,” working out the second verse, and ended up doing a lot of great things to the record. What Drake did was incredible, so for me the wait was totally worth it.

The next year is when you guys put out Trilogy, which was essentially all the tracks you guys worked on in 2011. For you, was that a big thing that you were undertaking?

To me, that was a big moment in 2012. We were just going to put out the mixtapes but in a packaged state, and I just felt we couldn’t do that. Because House of Balloons and everything was done in such a way of, “This is what it is, now take it,” I wanted a moment to go back and tweak some things I felt were never really right with the original release.

Practically all of 2012 involved either me being on the road with Abel or being in the studio going through each song and tweaking things out. That took so much time and focus out of me. There were some moments where it was actually miserable for myself, because going back to these records was just a bigger undertaking than I expected it to be. Some of the feedback I’ve seen has been, “Oh, they changed so much.” I laugh when I see that because we really didn’t. The album is just not distorted anymore. One of the big factors was to clean up a lot of the vocals to make things a little bit more present. Sorry, I lost my thought. What was the original question?

Did you find this to be a very enduring task?

It was a huge task. At the time, 27 songs to go back one by one to tweak things out to get them right. If we were going to commercially release Trilogy, I would never want to do it in a cheap way for the fans. Like, “Oh, the mixtapes were all free but you can buy them and we’re going to charge you and it’s going to be the exact same.” At the very end of it, all of a sudden we get thrown, “You guys need to do bonus songs.” There was a fight put up to not do the bonus songs. At the end of the day Abel came back and said, “You know what, we’ve got to do these bonus songs.”

I did those bonus songs in record time. I think that week in August was probably one of the most stressful moments in my life from delivering and handing it in. That’s not even mentioning we got the entire Trilogy mastered once, and it wasn’t right. I went back a second time to New York to get the album mastered and flew back to Toronto to put together three bonus songs all within a certain deadline. It was absolutely ******g ridiculous. So yeah, it was huge.

With you being so focused on History of Man this past year, does that mean we will be hearing Illangelo on Kiss Land?

You won’t be hearing me on Kiss Land, no.

What was the decision behind that?

It’s something I’d rather not talk about. | )

That’s fine, it’s just that you had such a deep collaborative body of work with The Weeknd. You probably thought that question was coming, didn’t you?

Yeah, it’s just a very difficult one for me to talk about. I suppose...Yeah, it’s a hard one for me to talk about.

From the outside looking in, he’s working with different producers on this project so I figure you guys are going in two different directions. Could you say at least that’s true?

No.

That’s not the case?

No, not the case. It’s not the case because there were several situations, like when Abel had the songs that he did with Jeremy Rose, those are all songs that still passed by me that I still worked on. When we got the song from Clams Casino, that was still a song that I took and worked on as well. So other producers in the mix, absolutely not. In fact, I actually really encourage that, so no, that’s not the reason why.

Do you feel this is something that’s never going to be discussed, or you just don’t feel it’s the right time?

I don’t think it’s something that will be discussed.

Okay last question, honest opinion: How do you feel about the records that The Weeknd has released thus far from Kiss Land?

You know what’s hilarious, I actually have not listened to it.

Really?

It’s not that I've chosen not to listen to it, I just haven’t gotten around to listen to it. And to be more honest with you, I would rather wait to hear the full body of work before I listen to one or two songs that he’s put out. I’d rather wait to take in the whole album.

Full Interview

 

[miamiboy]

first half got me stuck

Just did some quick math and that's roughly 24 hours worth of listening. A WHOLE DAY. It's only been leaked for like 3.5 days .

Eminem - Stan Pt.2

 

[a blinkin]

You guys think there's hope they'll get back to work together?

 

[grandtheftbike]

the first 4 songs are absolutely ridiculous

i think i probably played professional 5x as much as the other songs

 

[Gordonson]

You guys think there's hope they'll get back to work together?

We can only hope |I

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

It's really freaking depressing to read stuff like that....

Very mysterious vibe to it all too.. it's not like he's bitter towards the Weeknd...

I feel like they are such a part of my life it hurts to read that kind of stuff.. they will be back eventually, it's that kind of irrational faith that you have when you believe in something so much hahahaha

 

[datrealballa12]

2 am, sipping something and vibing to this...all too relatable

 

[checks mcgee]

Cannot stop playing Professional :x

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Looks like we're getting more Wiz and Weeknd.. from KTT

The conversation was mainly focused on Blacc Hollywood, and the Pittsburgh native revealed that you can expect more Weeknd x Wiz on the new album. "Yeah he is [on the album]," Wiz said. "I was sitting with him at the VMAs, we got destroyed, so drunk. It was unprofessional. We gunna do some records for this album, and he actually gunna get in the video this time." 

 

[henz0]

No way in hell Kiss Land is better than House of Balloons......

It is though

 

[ii flash ii]

That was a good read... Its going to be bother me knowing that they will never discuss what happened

 

[rrickrude]

how can u already compare kissland to house of balloons??
two listens in i guess i need 10 more of kissland in its entirety. I purposely didn't listen to any tracks until the full album was out. First 2 tracks are fire but still need the rest to marinate. This wasn't needed with the other albums/mixtapes.

 

[ill legal operation]

That Illangelo interview was weird...

 

[krisboyz781]

It is though

Not even close, it takes second place though

 

[mitchellicious]

What's the consensus on Kissland so far?

I'm in Japan till the 16th and can't listen