It’s crazy how 21 and 1989 are the only eras (album+singles) since Confessions to come close to it commercially

Moonshine a great song

Bruno Mars is for soccer moms

UJ and 24K are great

I don’t see how you can hear confessions or thriller or sign o the times and say The Weeknd is on the same level.

I love Abel, but let's not s*** on Bruno either.

At the end of the day being on top for like half a decade and only THEN coming out with Blinding Lights and doing the Super Bowl is objectively legendary material. People who can’t get over Trilogy can’t admit this

Yea exactly

He’s improving but he doesn’t have that natural performer gene

katy perry had 5 number 1 singles off 1 album, put some respect on katy perrys name

You wouldn't be comparing him if you didn't know deep down that they're basically the same safe and generic pop stars, take Justin Beiber for example I don't even like him but that's a legend

I said “album+singles”

why can't y'all like multiple artists? why you gotta pin each one against another

It’s all about what music you grow up with

Kanye probably the only one who can compare to MJ when it comes to overall persona. He and MJ are just facisnating people to watch and listen to. Extremely loved, hated and influential. A level of unique 98% of artists don't have. Pretty much everyone else listed doesn't have that quality. Like Weeknd as a person doesn't interest me that much, his music does. Same as Bruno.

human nature, tribalism.

Bruno's early work wasn't heavily doing music from the past

Bruno was a pop staple by writing pop hits + performing his ass off + beige a multi instrumentalist before he started doing old styles in a very flagrant way

push the genre forward at the same time, I think that’s an extremely important thing to keep in mind.

How has the weeknd pushed the genre forward?

Bruno is more like Michael and The Weeknd is more like prince

And no I’m not saying that either are on the level of their predecessors, but Bruno is better at the dancing singing whereas The Weeknd in my opinion cares more about doing something with the music

However Michael made better music than Bruno and prince had a lot more talent than The Weeknd

Didn’t say his music was mediocre. It’s just not groundbreaking.

I mean he’s obviously not on MJ or Prince tier at all

I don’t think he has any era near confessions but to be fair Usher has a relatively weak discography if you exclude that

Dude you’re a bozo who consistently hates on The Weeknd whilst giving no real criticism. The Weeknd is far from a “generic pop star” that’s some hater s***

This exactly. None of his albums really say or do anything

Trilogy was pretty groundbreaking idk how you can look at the influence of that project and not admit that

If i see someone call Doo wops and hooligans a classic and then discredit weeknd im exiting