No hate just wanted to use that smiley tbh
But Starboy made me so sad thinking that Abel was gone forever. The Kiss Land and Trilogy Abel anyways. AH was a return to form.
Man you gotta realize that not every artists goal is to break down the barriers of different genres of music.
Melancholy was as good as the tapes but yea other than that I agree
Wrong
2015 is when the “decline” began but I think he took some major steps forward with After Hours as far as creativity & world building go
I think it's more impressive the way his career has gone post Trilogy. Dude is next level huge s*** like that isn't easy to do I Trilogy is my fav Weeknd work but Afterhours and half of starboy and kissland I'd put on par.
man i was a HUGE fan after the trilogy. after kissland i felt like he sold out so i kinda skimmed thru the rest of his s***
MDM still the best thing he has released post Kissland imo. I'm good on everything else with the exception of a few songs here and there.
Extremely hot take: a lot of his mixtape output is just kinda nondescript 'moody' music and his actual song craft and output improved when he moved on from that
I agree