F*** you OP for reminding me how fast 5 years have passed.

Album still a classic tho.

I love this album! it was my first abel project

I like it a little bit better than Starboy. I love how dance heavy it is. The album solified him as a mainstream pop star. Great album but it clearly showed his footsteps into pop. Didn’t perfect it yet.

you didn't like shameless?

starboy is more dance heavy

The page it leaked (I think?). I don’t remember this day too well lmaoo, I found out it leaked while I was at band camp and had to sneak away to listen to a lil bit

kanyetothe.com/forum/index.php?topic=342461.34074

A thing I noticed about leak threads then vs album threads now that don’t leak is that nowadays you get to see more of a song by song reaction to each track, like with the After Hours thread. Leak threads were a lot more hype back in the day but when an album doesn’t leak and (basically) the entire thread is all listening/reacting at the same time is also GOAT

This isn’t his worst album tho, that’s Starboy. Now that album’s all over the place fr

I remember it leaking. I gave in and listened to it

Its not the trilogy level but still a great project

overhated underrated classic

Pop classic changed the male pop music sound this era

TYF top 10 Abel.

5 year collection out now

shop.theweeknd.com

super underrated

442. Beauty Behind the Madness
Abel Tesfaye lets you know who he is right out front, no metaphors, on the Kanye West co-produced track “Tell Your Friends”: His life is about “poppin’ pills, f***in’ b****es, livin’ life so trill.” The Toronto R&B singer helped make pop music a darker place in the 2010s — “Bitch, I’m still a user,” he warns on his hugely successful second LP. His pristine, downy voice and spare, frosty electronic tracks suck you in, and Swedish pop genius Max Martin produces three tracks, including the bumping “Can’t Feel My Face,” a love song to cocaine as well as a massive pop hit.

rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/the-weeknd-beauty-behind-the-madness-3-1062791

this album was 442 while kissland is a better album

As you are is my fav from this album

I respectively disagree with this album choice , especially considering there’s no Trilogy or at the very least no HOB, BBTM’s easily his worst album

For the b**** from the post office that ripped my package open and stole my hoodie, you can suck skin off a f***ing d***