The consensus is that the show was a stinker and it was un acceptable for someone in his position

After last night I feel like I’m seeing frank thru a different lens and it sucks. Lots of stuff just seems narcissistic and difficult rather than some legendary artistic integrity kind of thing.
First off, imo it doesn’t take 7 years to make an album. Like, at a certain point u r either just fine tuning it endlessly or scrapping songs and adding new ones. I don’t think you can work a project like that into the ground for that long and it comes out that much better for it. It’s already rumored that he scrapped an entire album which now seems likely to me and just feels like either a lack of confidence or way too much overthinking. Both of which just seem so lame compared to the image I had of him in my mind.
I have no idea if this story is true but a few years ago I heard from a friend of a friend of a guy who worked on the boys don’t cry magazine that frank is incredibly difficult to work with. Apparently he had this crazy expensive car shipped out to a location oversees and custom painted for a photoshoot and after everyone flew out and arrived on set he cancelled the entire shoot because the didn’t like the shade of color on the car. That’s a story I heard like three years ago and at the time I kinda didn’t want to believe that would be his personality or how he would treat those he worked with cuz it straight up sounds annoying and rude but after last night It feels like something he would do even just based on his demeanor towards his band. The way he was waving his hand across his neck to have them stop playing at times struck me as rude and also like, why r u cutting them off? Did you guys not rehearse for this?
Even his most legendary move, screwing over his label with the endless/blond duo almost makes me feel weird now. Like it almost seems like he gets off on f***ing people in the industry over lol? I’ve always heard his label didn’t believe in him and didn’t give him a chance but now I’m like… “sus?” I always give him the benefit of the doubt that he has good reasons for everything but there was just no reason for anything that happened last night. Clearly there was a whole apparatus made for the ice skaters? Why cancel their performance? Did he really just not like their makeup? Clearly fans were just gonna watch livestreams thru other peoples phones? Why not let YouTube stream it? Set got cut short because the stage took so long to set up, but like, why even have those complicated, gigantic modular synth rigs just to have a guy play it briefly on a wack ass version of white Ferrari and then play tracks for like half the set anyway lol? No new music, no album announcement, no merch, barely any vibes even (oops forgot about twerking security guard). Why even play?
I feel like he finally cashed out on the patience of a lot of his fans last night and it’s a major bummer. I’ve always been a “let him cook” kinda fan and now I feel like I’m eating his food and it tastes like poo poo and also wondering if he is just an a******…

meant performance wise

yeah i’ve noticed weeknd fans don’t really have an appetite for quality

Tiktok post = opinion discarded

my brother in christ its been 7 years

what if it was on vine

Same thing

new pasta, yummy

Yeh bro enjoy ur quality in 20 fkn years clown

Bro not gonna drop until I'm dead. Can't believe this is my life

i knew it would be bad but he's actually getting cooked that's wild

vine wasn't that bad

I love pasta

i lowkey think this opens up a bigger conversation about today's climate and all the extras that some artists feel they have to do in addition to just releasing the music. like there has to be a whole new and exciting package to go along with it. the nigga curated and manufactured whole limited edition magazines for his last release. i can imagine he's trying to figure a way to 1up himself not only musically but also just conceptually, especially being indie. interesting times we're living in

looking back now, even nostalgia ultra on DSPs would be better than this bullcrap

that one hit a nerve?

me too!

ya cuz gen z was too young to use it haha burn

i'm really not banking on him ever dropping another album. maybe a collection of singles or some conceptual piece. but it doesn't really seem like he enjoys making music for consumption.