And Abel had to jump many hoops to release it, cause Republic didn't approve it as a song worthy to be released. Luckily, Lipman (Republic CEO), who happened to like dark-sounding stuff, intervened.
Abel has too much potential to remain under a label, and not go independent. If it wasn't for Republic, maybe we would have gotten that 2014 "super-drugged-out Nirvana vibe" scrapped album with Doc. Post 2013 Abel has given me the impression that he's easily amused.
I've noticed that many collaborators of his say often in interviews that Abel is a workaholic, always recording. He's not dropping as frequently as a workaholic would. So I wonder how many dark projects are held back cause they're not the label's "money-making" standarts. And I wonder why he's still so goddamn stupid to remain under a label, it doesn't make sense to be artistically constrained, neither financially doesn't make sense, cause major artists under a label make at most 15% of the profit of their own work. These are probably his best years.
/Rant off
Happy 5th anniv. to one of the only few proper cases where he balanced the "dark"/the sound his fans fell in love with, with the commercial, and in a way evolved. Sadly in his 5+ year career as a superstar I can probably count with one hand all his proper songs where he achieved this.
He drops pretty frequently
Earned It or I think the Ariana song
Earned it wasn't a sellout song.
And his verse on Ariana's s*** was raunchy af
please define selling out to me headass
Young thug avys always have the worst takes
About half of it is
God damn how do you continually make such s***ty posts.
Are you thugger? Because i don't want to assume all thug avys make bad takes
This marks the beginning of his sellout
So after making a bunch of s***ty takes you change your name and avy from a young thug avy to a Weeknd avy.
You really are a goofy Man up and stand by your s***ty takes
damn, remember bumping that s***ty live version from coachella in my car for like two months until the official came out... time flies
Classic. Remember this leaking and being blown away by the chorus
My friends and I played this version to death
!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMziO8kGQcWhole lotta dash
damn, remember bumping that s***ty live version from coachella in my car for like two months until the official came out... time flies
“Mood Music”
I Feel It Coming>>> but it's top 3
I put I feel it coming around number 4 or 5. Starboy better
damn, remember bumping that s***ty live version from coachella in my car for like two months until the official came out... time flies
noooooo cap
damn, remember bumping that s***ty live version from coachella in my car for like two months until the official came out... time flies
Then the music video dropped in the middle of class ...
ima huge weeknd fan, and to this day i've never heard the eminem remix of this
i refuse