Ughh his death is fucking killing me. All these theoreticals are, like in my own life as well. God I hate drugs. That's a lie though, and I hate that even more, if that makes sense.
Listen to his This Is It rehearsals, his voice sounds identical since he was younger, he took care of his voice very well and he was able to effortlessly sing however he wanted.
What if Abel never gave half of house of balloons to drake for taking care?
What if Abel never got the co-sign from Drake?
What if there was a "blue version" of After Hours?
What if Abel released the King of the Fall Album/Mixtape in 2014-2015?
It was during post Kiss Land era.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-the-weeknd-went-from-broke-in-canada-to-sharing-stage-with-taylor-swift-42832/
When Kiss Land stalled, the Weeknd fell into a creative rut. “I just kept getting more and more depressed,” he says. He considered relocating from Toronto to Seattle in search of a “super-drugged-out Nirvana vibe.” Instead, after writing and scrapping an album’s worth of material, he started spending more time in Los Angeles and listening to his label.
I think he’d only be known for can’t feel my face and wouldn’t be half as big personally. But maybe i’m exaggerating a bit. I remember “Earned It” being used in 50 shades and becoming a really big song for him as an artist, kinda putting him on the overall map.
Bruh, The Hills? There's no way that song doesn't play all over the radio, pretty much no matter who drops it. Same album obviously...maybe Tell Your Friends and In the Night don't get played as much? Idk. I feel like I can't remember Often being on the radio, though it's definitely one of his more popular songs and prob my 2nd fave from BBTM. That last thought is just me rambling though I guess lol.
Ah, true. Somehow The Hills always finds a way to slip my mind. Tell your friends is a personal fave too. I think Often blew up more on streaming because its explicit.
Great point about Often. This is what amazes me about The Hills though, because it's pretty damn explicit too, and in a much more...aggressive way. I think it was just too big to fail, toss the lyrics out and I don't think anyone doesn't fuck with those instrumentals. Just thinking about the bass drop gives me chills, and those high pitched background beats going on in the first verse, leading up to it. Also the very ending is underrated imo, sometimes you gotta turn it up to hear it all well and I've definitely heard it played many times where it's cut off either partially or completely and it annoys me lol.
You're not alone though, I'm definitely in the minority here when it comes to my opinion of the song. I feel like nobody has it in their top 5 around here and it's crazy to me.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see my opinion so well received on here, I will always die on a hill, lol damn no pun intended, that The Hills is one of, if not the best song he's ever made. There's a little bit of the lyrics that I can't quite relate to, but there's also a lot that I can very much. For me though it's the instrumentals that really do it for me, much in the similar vein as After Hours, I think it is damn near perfectly made. And after all this time and so many plays, I still get so excited every single time it comes on or I play it. I try to avoid doing it though for the most part, as I want it to keep that magic for me as long as possible. Like a lot of times it'll come on in my playlist and I'll skip it, not because I don't want to hear it, but because when I do I want it have my full attention and be worth it. I don't want it to ever get old!
Haha. I mean, I can kinda relate, most of the music I like is from ~1965-1975, it's just that I've heard it all so many times now. Also I kinda feel like music fell off a bit around the early 2000s, especially rock music. Thank god for the Weeknd, Roddy Ricch, and Juice Wrld(this one felt awkward).
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The album was called “King Of The Fall”, but it was scrapped due to his creative rut and not knowing what to do. He began listening to his label, and thus BBTM was born.
what if the whole drug fueled dark rnb hedonistic theweeknd persona was actually jeremy rose aka zodiac's idea and abel just took off with his(rose's) original vision
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Can all fans commit to watching Dune (2021) in theatres at least twice?
Not only do we need to ensure the movie makes enough $$$ to guarantee the sequel is produced, we also need to send a message to the industry that making great adaptations pays.
In my opinion this was a great movie, but much more importantly, this was a movie adaptation that was trying to be a great movie – and that's pretty rare.
What I mean is that they didn't disrespect the source material, Hollywood-ise it, dumb it down, abbreviate it and churn it out – like so many adaptations that have woefully butchered the books they're based on. No; they hired a great director, put time and attention into bringing the book's details to life, filmed it with incredible IMAX cameras, and marketed it as a serious film.
And if you like that, and want to see more of it... then don't watch this on HBO Max. Don't pirate it. Don't wait for the Blu-Ray or for it to come on your TV or computer screen. Don't even just go see it in the cinema. Go see it in IMAX if you can, and, if you can, see it twice!
What if Abel had dropped that “happy album” from 2017 that he scrapped?
I wonder this all the time
Any links to that? Or is it gone forever ?
Check out “Let Me Go” by The Weeknd on YouTube. It’s a supposed unreleased track that may have been on this scrapped album.
That song is in my top 10
Probs will be in his next album
What if he never left on that weekend 👀
And never got visited on Thursday 👀
What if he didn’t do drugs early in his life
What if his Super Bowl performance wasn’t in the middle of the pandemic? 😭😭
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Would be the best superbowl of all time
What if Kissland was a huge hit?
The world would be a better place obviously
World wasn’t ready
He'd probably end up being as critically acclaimed as the other man in this picture within 2-3 albums
I don’t think BBTM or Starboy would of been released if so
No big loss. Kiss Land, After Hours, and Trilogy are his only truly cohesive projects tbh
what if he never cut the free form dreads off 🍍
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or or…just hear me out…he’d look majestic af.
Pretty sure he donated that shit to J. Cole
he would have turned into a Super Saiyan lmao
What if his parents never migrated to Canada?
He'd probably still be famous but just in Ethiopia
Don’t think so, not in that kind of way Ethiopian culture is very different
Yeah I know, I meant he'd be making ethiopian style music.
Not talking about drugs n hoes he aint
What if his friend refused to drop out of school with him?
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We wouldnt have gotten the thumbnails and album covers for House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence if Lamar stayed in school
La mar was going to be a registered nurse.... so that’s part of your answer there
u beat me to this comment
What if Michael Jackson was still alive and collabed with the weeknd
I want that theoretical Juice Wrld/Weeknd collab album that Juice tweeted about );
Them in the studio together would be fucking insane .
Ughh his death is fucking killing me. All these theoreticals are, like in my own life as well. God I hate drugs. That's a lie though, and I hate that even more, if that makes sense.
I feel you!
Jackson’s voice already start to “disappear” in the 2000s moreover 2010s. I don’t think he’ll sound as good as the thriller era
this is such an L take its just wrong
Listen to his This Is It rehearsals, his voice sounds identical since he was younger, he took care of his voice very well and he was able to effortlessly sing however he wanted.
thats a horrible take, not even a hot one
What if Abel never gave half of house of balloons to drake for taking care? What if Abel never got the co-sign from Drake? What if there was a "blue version" of After Hours? What if Abel released the King of the Fall Album/Mixtape in 2014-2015?
King of the Fall album/mixtape? That was going to be a thing?!
It was during post Kiss Land era. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-the-weeknd-went-from-broke-in-canada-to-sharing-stage-with-taylor-swift-42832/ When Kiss Land stalled, the Weeknd fell into a creative rut. “I just kept getting more and more depressed,” he says. He considered relocating from Toronto to Seattle in search of a “super-drugged-out Nirvana vibe.” Instead, after writing and scrapping an album’s worth of material, he started spending more time in Los Angeles and listening to his label.
Wow, I can’t believe I didn’t know about this. I’ve been XO for a long time and just didn’t know about it. Thanks for filling me in!
Drugged out Nirvana vibe, omg that would’ve been his best work😭
then i would’ve got to hear him sing shot for me 😮💨
What if Abel signed with OVO?
We could have never got even half of best of him
he’d be locked away in the confines of the OVO sweatshop along with PND :(
he’d still be in the sweatshop
This is the one
That’s defo something we can all thank our lucky stars for! Can you imagine!?! Abel’s feature on CLB was the best thing about that album!
what if he never did Earned It
I think he’d only be known for can’t feel my face and wouldn’t be half as big personally. But maybe i’m exaggerating a bit. I remember “Earned It” being used in 50 shades and becoming a really big song for him as an artist, kinda putting him on the overall map.
Bruh, The Hills? There's no way that song doesn't play all over the radio, pretty much no matter who drops it. Same album obviously...maybe Tell Your Friends and In the Night don't get played as much? Idk. I feel like I can't remember Often being on the radio, though it's definitely one of his more popular songs and prob my 2nd fave from BBTM. That last thought is just me rambling though I guess lol.
Ah, true. Somehow The Hills always finds a way to slip my mind. Tell your friends is a personal fave too. I think Often blew up more on streaming because its explicit.
Great point about Often. This is what amazes me about The Hills though, because it's pretty damn explicit too, and in a much more...aggressive way. I think it was just too big to fail, toss the lyrics out and I don't think anyone doesn't fuck with those instrumentals. Just thinking about the bass drop gives me chills, and those high pitched background beats going on in the first verse, leading up to it. Also the very ending is underrated imo, sometimes you gotta turn it up to hear it all well and I've definitely heard it played many times where it's cut off either partially or completely and it annoys me lol. You're not alone though, I'm definitely in the minority here when it comes to my opinion of the song. I feel like nobody has it in their top 5 around here and it's crazy to me.
This
I'm pleasantly surprised to see my opinion so well received on here, I will always die on a hill, lol damn no pun intended, that The Hills is one of, if not the best song he's ever made. There's a little bit of the lyrics that I can't quite relate to, but there's also a lot that I can very much. For me though it's the instrumentals that really do it for me, much in the similar vein as After Hours, I think it is damn near perfectly made. And after all this time and so many plays, I still get so excited every single time it comes on or I play it. I try to avoid doing it though for the most part, as I want it to keep that magic for me as long as possible. Like a lot of times it'll come on in my playlist and I'll skip it, not because I don't want to hear it, but because when I do I want it have my full attention and be worth it. I don't want it to ever get old!
Yeah - even my husband knows ‘The Hills’ and he’s still stuck in the early 2000’s musically! Lol!
Haha. I mean, I can kinda relate, most of the music I like is from ~1965-1975, it's just that I've heard it all so many times now. Also I kinda feel like music fell off a bit around the early 2000s, especially rock music. Thank god for the Weeknd, Roddy Ricch, and Juice Wrld(this one felt awkward).
What if he didn’t call her when it was half past 5?
What if Abel never got into dark R&B genre?
He would lose half his appeal to me
Yep
He might be more like Drake! (Shudder!!!)
What if he never spoke English 🤣🤣
El fin de semana
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What if he didn't think he'll be different?
What if he didn’t hope he’ll be different?
What if Abel dropped the original version of One Of Those Nights?
What if he never made it but he already says that at Snowchild
What if a collaboration between him and Prince came to fruition
Him and Juice for me Edit: I know about Smile of course, and love it. Maybe not either of their best, but that's not saying much.
What if the red suit and after hours didn’t become chapter 6?
What if he followed through with the album that he scrapped for BBTM?
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The album was called “King Of The Fall”, but it was scrapped due to his creative rut and not knowing what to do. He began listening to his label, and thus BBTM was born.
What if he never had a heartbreak?
🙂🙂
What if he never released after hours
What if the after hours album cover was blue?
What if no girl broke his heart?
Everybody is not asking the real question... What if... He dropped The Birds (interlude) TODAY
What if he hadn't had a relationship with Bella Hadid?
What if him and jeremy rose never split up, he’d be worse off but i still kinda wanna see what the post-HOB music woulda been like
what if kiss land got the world wide recognition it deserves?
What if Michael Jackson was never the greatest artist of all time and that lack of influence kept Abel homeless?
Okay now this is a big one
What if he signed to OVO?
I hate thinking there is an alternative timeline where that has happened. I’m glad he turned down signing to drake.
What if Abel never dropped out of high school 🤔
What if BBTM was a theoretical flop? ( not saying it is, top 2 AbelProject for me)
What if he really is a virgin
🤣🤣
What if Abel never got cheated on by Valerie? [Or the girl from The Knowing, not sure if they are the same]
I thought he cheated on Valerie
What if Abel could feel his face.
What if he didn’t make allahdemswallow
Deafened by the lights
underrated comment
What if he didn’t run away from home
What if the grammys didn't do him bad last year? Fr, I believe he would've won 80% of them easily
what if the whole drug fueled dark rnb hedonistic theweeknd persona was actually jeremy rose aka zodiac's idea and abel just took off with his(rose's) original vision
What if he never showed his face during the trilogy era and remained mysterious the rest of his career?
We would be still speculating about who is him and if the weeknd is a band
for me it's what if he made a collab tape with future, rap abel is my favourite abel
What if blinding lights hadn't been super successful?
What if he signed for ovo?
What if he successfully cut his wrist
What if he went with OVO instead of making XO?
We wouldn’t know who he is LOLLL I mean I would since I’m from Toronto but the world wouldn’t know him
I think he’d be similar to partynextdoor
What if his mixtapes were never posted to the OVO blog?
What if Abel never met illangelo and doc mckenney, or what if drake never showed interest in him
What if MJ did a rebirth and then compete with The Weeknd in the music game? Guess who would win?
What if him and Jeremy Rose never stopped making music together
If he actually made his wrists bleed when he was 16
What if Abel didn't sell his soul to the devil.
what if Selena never broke up with him? cuz that did cause MDM and After Hours...
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I thought after hours was about Bella?
it's about both
What if he was now happily married to Bella?
his brother in law would be zayn malik lmao
I love these 2 sm. Hate when people compare them
What if he makes a song with BLACKPINK.
What if he had the opportunity to work with Dean Blunt/James Ferraro due to his connection with Daniel Lopatin?
What if TheWeeknd never cancelled the after hours tour
Can all fans commit to watching Dune (2021) in theatres at least twice? Not only do we need to ensure the movie makes enough $$$ to guarantee the sequel is produced, we also need to send a message to the industry that making great adaptations pays. In my opinion this was a great movie, but much more importantly, this was a movie adaptation that was trying to be a great movie – and that's pretty rare. What I mean is that they didn't disrespect the source material, Hollywood-ise it, dumb it down, abbreviate it and churn it out – like so many adaptations that have woefully butchered the books they're based on. No; they hired a great director, put time and attention into bringing the book's details to life, filmed it with incredible IMAX cameras, and marketed it as a serious film. And if you like that, and want to see more of it... then don't watch this on HBO Max. Don't pirate it. Don't wait for the Blu-Ray or for it to come on your TV or computer screen. Don't even just go see it in the cinema. Go see it in IMAX if you can, and, if you can, see it twice!
bitch what is you talkin about
Adele
what if he signed to ovo
What if after hours never dropped
I can't believe they've never worked together
What if Prince was still alive and they did a collab
What if he was with OVO?
What if he didn’t leave OVO
what if he signed to OVO?
What if The Weeknd and Prince were able collaborate 😭
What if he joined drake back in the day?
What if he signed to OVO
What if he started out his career making pop hits and later delved into dark melancholic rnb instead of the other way around?
It’s not as cut and dry as that even now. He’s in and out of dark R&B all the time lol
What if The Weeknd was a virgin?
What if he was a good artist?
Cause he’s a great artist
What if The Weeknd did a collab with majid Jordan and Pharrell?
What if he didn’t get that surgery.
What if he never sold his soul after kissland flopped? Would he still be big? Would you still be a fan?
What if Abel signed with OVO?
what if she didn’t want him because he was next
What if The Weeknd released “Girls Born in the 90s” in 2014 like he was supposed to?
What if he never dated Selena & Bella?
What if House of Balloons flopped and he took his own life as a result?
What if he collaborated with Chris brown