Do ya’ll think Abel actually intended for this to be a trilogy before Dawn FM dropped?

I sometimes wonder that.
He said he planned it out, so I believe him, but sometimes things do seem a little like he’s filling it out as he goes; which makes sense to an extent. I remember the creator of Breaking Bad said that a big job they had was “feeling” what worked and embracing what they found.
I would love to interview Able and ask him how the idea formed and pick his brain about the influences and ideologies that shaped his Divine Trilogy.

Somewhat unrelated, but if we look at his discography as one long body of work, I think After Hours makes more sense as a retelling of the story so far and the start of a trilogy than the next logical installment.
Because on Starboy, he is already embracing his faith and exploring ways to become better, like on Die For You, where he discusses wanting to do what he needs to for a girl.
MDM is a temporary regression, but that makes sense in the context of the breakup, and I always saw that EP as more of a spur of the moment thing that was not planned, but After Hours makes no sense for the continual growth of The Weeknd after Starboy. He’s losing his faith? But he just restored it!
I think that makes me think the trilogy was always planned

In other news we are in the home stretch of a new Weeknd Album

hi yall

That video of Abel mumbling the lyrics to Starboy got me DEADDDDD. Mf was sounding like SpongeBob LMAO

Hey

sup king how are you

I’m alright

Voice has been gone the past couple days and I just feel groggy :(

Yes. He specifically said some chapters are longer than others before After Hours released. And he started teasing the sequel not long after After Hours released. I think this was in the works for a very long time

There’s literally nothing dumb about it. Literally all it does is track how many unique listeners you had in a one month period. I really don’t understand why some of y’all despise it so much

Yeah, somewhere after AH ended/before the creation of Dawn FM

too much singing bro?

Lmao nah the opposite

I’m a marching band director now so I’m telling all night most nights now

Those were pretty coherent especially aesthetically what do you mean lol
Just because there’s a different vocal style between songs doesn’t make them inconsistent

Snowchild is so so good.

Are we calling it the "Divine Trilogy" now? I think that's a good one 😎

The songs are two polar opposite genres who said anything about the vocal style

Lol, I just heard someone else call it that a couple times, and I thought that was a good name.
But yeah, if it’s good, I feel like why not use it, at least until a different title for all 3 comes out

when that beat hit

Who knows but we know Dawn FM wasn’t really a thing until 2021 and he made a different album before it so even if trilogy was planned, how exactly would each album be was thought of later

Wild to think he whipped up his most critically acclaimed album in such a short time

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