That’s the true title??

Abel never said that

I think they were referring to the interview they linked, where it was said that he was searching for a “nirvava vibe”

Maybe with the success of After Hours and Abel as a consolidated figure right now the label going to give him more creative control with more choices

Half of it is, other half was produced by Max Martin

Even Martin produced tracks have darker undertone in the context of the album, and Blinding Lights is literally the song for night driving

Pretty sure he already had the control, MDM and AH show it. Direction of BBTM was more of a conscious decision on his end imo

Nah true title was Ruff Ref 3

You're right

AH and MDM are pretty dark and hedonistic bodies of work, especially AH but im talking about a "Seattle" type of album 😂Abel said that year on Seattle was dark af so its Abel choice in not make this type of albums like you said and he have his reasons now that i think about it

What tracks are daytime music

Literally NOTHING on AH can be contrived as daytime music

Nothing

In Your Eyes and Save Your Tears imo

Great songs

Both give me a very specific night time club feeling lol

Interesting

Those songs are very funky and groovy, you can dance with them on a party so maybe you re right

Save your tears
Scared to live
In your eyes
Blinding Lights
Hardest to love

Couldn’t imagine bumping these at night, but arguing about this doesn’t really matter cus everybody has a different opinion about what night music sounds like. But these are all either to Disney-esque or too poppy to called night time music imo. The singles from BBTM all seemed way more like night time music to me than the songs listed above.

Lonely Thoughts (Ruff Ref 3), the one with a track length of 02:19

F***ing love it too. I think the May Læks were the 2014 D***ged Out album :P

Also love
Beautiful Desires (How Will I Know) (Ruff Ref 5)
It's Ending (Ruff Ref 1)
Insomnia (Can't Sleep)

I think Girls Born In The 90s is still the GOAT leak for me

That, Not Used To & Glass Tables are my top 3

Girls Born In The 90s

you b******, we were talking about the 2016 læks, now you got all the cool tracks haha 🤣🤣🤣

Not Used To is definitely top spot for me too

welp, on the matter of læks
I like the DBS OCT (with drums) edit by Ivan from KTT1 (shoutot bruh, wherever you are 🍻)
Down Low (R.Kelly Cover)
Out Here
Six Feet Under (pre-Starboy LP unpolished version)

OG 6 Feet Under is very underrated

Was very puzzled by the changes that were made to that track. OG was wonderful as is

Belly - Might Not (feat. The Weeknd)

I met Abel at a meet & greet in 2015 and asked him about this record, he said “it’s coming sooner than you think” haha, think it’s safe to say it’s never coming

The moans were a nice touch, but there's no way the radio would play it lol

Not like the radio played SFU at all lol