Talk to me about Giorgio Moroder’s film scores, and his Donna Summer projects, and what drew you to him for this new album. When you talk about GM’s DNA being in all your music, is that more spiritual, actual, inspirational? Or?

I don’t think any producer has ever been able to balance pop music and film composing quite like Giorgio Moroder. He’s always been THE bar. The melodies for the films he has scored are absolutely infectious — and play a big role in my music

When do y’all think he officially stops going by “The Weeknd”?

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That experience was validating. Interestingly, my boss back then, Ben, remains a vital part of my creative team 15 years later.

Had no idea Ben (Swantek) was his AA boss before being his CD

yeah that took me off guard lol

that's wild wtf

i won yet again lol

my trilogy was profoundly shaped by events unfolding in real time; it wasn’t deliberately planned.

@maruchinn remember that you had posted about his team pushing that he always knew what he wanted to do with this Trilogy from the start?

He said on the interview that it wasn't that, as we already knew.

Explains the whole aesthetic for the original works, outside of Abel just working there.

I think it’s the first time Ben has been mentioned of originally being his boss there

Glad he's kept him around for so long

He does incredible work

Some of these pics could of been some hard album covers

Him and Drop are the dream team fr

Back in 2023 OPN described the album as Futuristic Intensity.. we got that on the album but it's not like the whole album is like that. Still wonder if what they were working on was scrapped completely or it's for the first Abel record.

Yeah that s*** is crazy

Those pictures are such f***ing heat too

MERCH DROP

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