Update: Weeknd speaks about it

Vision board from 9/17/21

Tracklist from November of last year, album was still called "The Dawn"

"Gasoline" writing process:

tracklist was nearly final on November 14, nice

Sacrifice shifted over 2 spots
Starry Eyes & Someone Else swapped
assuming Heard You Were Married is 12, it got swapped with Don't Break My Heart, and EAT is absent
then the Ariana & Ty$ bonus track scrapped

Lost City is a fire title. Wonder what it sounded like

L to anyone who said this was rushed out

Euphoria sample

Ok dis chicken scratch

Lmao fr

Someone please transcribe

No Travis track?

dam Ariana and Ty would’ve been nice to hear on this. I would’ve also liked to hear what he did with kali

mmm so i guess ITSE and Starry Eyes aren't so much a two-part track after all

interesting that the intro was also once in the middle of the album. almost as if the concept wouldn't kick in until then. Here We Go Again the last track in November cause he knew that s*** don't fit in

a version of this album w/o Out of Time

Eat my head ???

Eat My Heart

Seems like we got this best scenario here honestly. Ariana on here would have been cool though.

I’m taking all those features over them rap n*****s

At the bottom of the first pic it says

"Keep 14-16 tracks (label)"

If what I read is correct, here's a reminder, concrete proof that the final say in his projects isn't up to him, but to the label.
After all, labels didn't let Michael go free, what made you think The Weeknd would be treated better? lmao

That's why I still say Abel needs to go independent to have 100% control and artistic freedom. Until then, he will never have it.

Here's what quite probably went down in Republic higher ups office with that Wendy Goldstein b**** and the other Scrooge McDuck execs in Republic in the meeting they held with Abel for the finished 2014 super-drugged-out Nirvana vibe album(s)

Damn, a Kali Uchis feature would've been huge for her

Ty$ and Weeknd is a great duo and I feel like Ty$ could stylistically shift to the tone of this album better than Wayne and Tyler did. Still love the album nonetheless, by virtue of the Ty$ being a bonus it prob wouldn’t have been particularly congruous with the rest of the album anyhow.

100%

Ty Dolla is an amazing artist and it’s really a shame that the only song they have is Or Nah