Jan 31, 2025

TOMORROW IS TODAY

@WeekndSXN

 

Jul 2, 2024

Cover:

Singles:
1. DANCING IN THE FLAMES (September 13th)


2. TIMELESS (FEAT. PLAYBOI CARTI) (September 27th)


3. SAO PAULO (FEAT. ANITTA) (October 30th)

 

Feb 7, 2025

Take Me Back To LA while driving at night is so good. It’s feelings like this that make me stay alive.

 

Sep 13, 2024

@WeekndSXN music video for Dancing In The Flames out now

 

Feb 2, 2025

 

Jan 31, 2025

The transition from Baptized in Fear to Open Hearts is

 

Jan 31, 2025

It’s a shame “Stretch That Tiny, Little p----” didn’t make it to the album.

 

Jan 31, 2025

d---, I have a lot to say about this album and don’t know where to start. Hopefully this all makes sense as I am very tired and scatterbrained right now. Before I get into it, I just gotta say there was some unexpected sounds from The Weeknd on this album and it just goes to show how creative and versatile he is to still be switching it up even on his final album. Despite the bad rollout this is a great album and I don’t know how I’d rank it yet.

Ever since I found out about the direction of this album, I knew I would resonate with it. That’s why I’ve been putting “The end is near.”, “The end is here.”, “#ReadyForTheEnd” in my posts this month. I just feel spiritually connected to this album. I believe music is a very spiritual thing. The themes of religion are also heavy on this album.

The Weeknd is one of my favorite singers, and it’s not just because of his voice or his songs, but also because of my connection to him. Ever since I was a teenager he was shaping my perception of relationships with women. When he dropped My Dear Melancholy, it was perfectly timed with a breakup I was going through similar to his. Hurry Up Tomorrow has also dropped during a perfect time in my life.

This whole trilogy starting with After Hours weirdly mirrors the journey I’ve been going through in my life starting in 2020, the year After Hours dropped. In 2019, I was beginning to reach one of the lowest parts of my life, even becoming more suicidal than ever before. Then COVID happened in 2020 and I feel like I lost years of my youth to that s---. I knew I needed to get better before I actually hit rock bottom and killed myself.

This whole trilogy is about recognizing and deconstructing your flaws, recognizing trauma and the cycles it creates, taking your mask off to look in the mirror and be honest with yourself about your life and who you are, and ultimately facing all of those demons instead of running away from them. These are all things I’ve been doing these past few years. I rarely feel suicidal anymore, I’ve recently been facing some very big traumas in my life, I’m in a position where I’m going to be making more money than ever before and have more success than ever before, etc. I still have my moments where I fall back into the darkness like what’s displayed on this album, but in the grand scheme of things I can find the light again. Ironically, to have a rebirth, you have to k--- off parts of yourself that are bringing you down or no longer serving you.

That’s who “The Weeknd” really is: a representation of all the bad parts of oneself and how crazy it is that this darkness is glorified and deemed “cool” in our world. Abel Tesfaye has spent nearly his whole career trying to get rid of “The Weeknd” and he finally did it on this album. He is reborn as a new person. It’s bittersweet because with The Weeknd dying a part of me is also dying due to that connection I had with him, but ultimately that’s actually a good thing.

Spoiler: Spoilers about the ending

The ending of this album serves as a reminder of how these cycles can still continue though, with the ending of the song “Hurry Up Tomorrow” perfectly transitioning into “High For This” from his first mixtape as I suspected would happen. It can really lead to many interpretations of the ending. One could say that Abel finally worked hard to k--- off The Weeknd and has been reborn again as Abel Tesfaye. But it transitioning back to “High For This” begs the question: was all his hard work worthless? Did he k--- himself only to still be reborn as The Weeknd anyway? Will The Weeknd always be a part of him? It just goes to show that in some cases, despite your best efforts, you can’t actually heal or change. Is self-improvement real?

 

Jan 30, 2025

TRACKLIST

 

Oct 30, 2024

This song is f---ing horrible lol

 

Jul 18, 2024

There are three chapters in this tale.

 

Feb 17, 2025

I appreciate it, man!

I felt the other way around about Em's album. TDOSS needed a Weeknd feature

 

Feb 17, 2025

yeah I've heard people say it reminds them of Rolling Stone

her being on the album period was a pleasant surprise

I put up my own review of the album

 

Jan 31, 2025

Yeah to his success lol. Weeknd doesn't have to emulate everything the guy did. He can be his own artist. We don't need him out there eating little boys butts

 

Jan 31, 2025

Enjoy The Show has some of my favorite lyrics on the album

 

Jan 31, 2025

One of the best albums I've heard in a very long time which makes the album roll out even more head scratching unless he.just didn't care because he knew he was going to sell. Either way this album is amazing.

 

Jan 31, 2025

Wake Me Up was the perfect first single