El Nigga

5y

Streaming going to have kids in 20 years believing Blinding Lights was bigger than Thriller

fauntleroy

5y

well...it was.

El Nigga

5y

Streaming going to have kids in 20 years believing Blinding Lights was bigger than Thriller

fancy lacriminal

5y

Tesfaye: I started writing the next album during the pandemic, which felt like we’re all in this scary, unknown territory. And I wanted to make music I thought sounded like going outside — I was obsessed with that feeling. I just felt like I didn’t know how to make this album until now. It probably would be too ambitious for me prior. I knew what I liked, but I felt like I didn’t have the skill sets to deliver that type of project until now.

Tesfaye: Picture the album being like the listener is dead. And they’re stuck in this purgatory state, which I always imagined would be like being stuck in traffic waiting to reach the light at the end of the tunnel. And while you’re stuck in traffic, they got a radio station playing in the car, with a radio host guiding you to the light and helping you transition to the other side. So it could feel celebratory, could feel bleak, however you want to make it feel, but that’s what The Dawn is for me.

you know I love it when you're angry

El Nigga

5y

Streaming going to have kids in 20 years believing Blinding Lights was bigger than Thriller

KingOfPop

5y

Hard to explain but this feels so forced. It's not even remotely close to being the biggest song ever, it's probably not even his biggest song

It's a hit don't get me wrong, it just doesn't feel like this cross-generational global mega hit an award like this would suggest it is

And I don't think covid plays a part in that

KingOfPop

5y

Hard to explain but this feels so forced. It's not even remotely close to being the biggest song ever, it's probably not even his biggest song

It's a hit don't get me wrong, it just doesn't feel like this cross-generational global mega hit an award like this would suggest it is

And I don't think covid plays a part in that

renzo

5y

If you're outside of the US and Canada you can definitely tell it's a global mega hit

SHAQUILLE

5y

To them it just might be. Y’all gotta learn to move forward and realize the s*** you grew up off isn’t always gonna be what it was

Cam Skattebo Fan

5y

Nothing forced about it, they’re not saying this is the biggest song to ever be released, it’s just a mathematical calculation of its chart performance on the Hot 100, which dominates every song in its history.

Also, if Blinding Lights isn’t his biggest song, what is? Lmao

Pinhead

5y

remember when was KTT making “king of the fall” jokes when the song dropped in it’s second week on billboard

KingOfPop

5y

Lmao

Can't Feel My Face could quite easily be argued to be a bigger song.

There's more to a 'hit' than BB100 performance.

SHAQUILLE

5y

To them it just might be. Y’all gotta learn to move forward and realize the s*** you grew up off isn’t always gonna be what it was

El Nigga

5y

Streaming going to have kids in 20 years believing Blinding Lights was bigger than Thriller

KingOfPop

5y

It's not though, and everyone knows it. Thriller was a moment in music - the short film, the music industry recession, MTV..

BL got a few streams while everyone had nothing better to do or nowhere to go.

quadra

5y

Was fun while it lasted

Now the title belongs to Travis for this decade

Cam Skattebo Fan

5y

What makes you say CFMF is bigger than BL though