just finished the album. i love the mood and aesthetic he was going for. some of the flows were a bit basic for me but overall i think the songs are good. i will definitely listen several other times. personally i feel that stsrboy has higher highs but still a nice listen

What was your fav song?

favorite songs: hardest to love. snowchild (oddly i didn't like it at first but after listening to this one again i like it way more), blinding lights, and repeat after me

Hardest to love great choices man

Interesting about Starboy glad you enjoyed it tho

What’s your fav off Starboy?

rockin, sidewalks, stargirl and false alarm are my faves. in no order. wby?

Reallllll for the rockin love!!

People hate on that song but that’s also one of my favs, so many layers on that track. Die For You, Secrets, Lonely Night as well

Hardest To Love Best Song on After Hours

production on rockin is near perfect to me. so bouncy, it makes me wanna dance in a club fr. i love the whole album. and short film is goat

If you have tidal I highly recommend listening to Rockin in Dolby Atmos audio, wish I could link the direct track but you hear every layer of the production sooo crisp it really reinvents the song

i don't have tidal but interesting of you to say that. i will look it up tonight and see how i can hear that

I don’t feel it anymore the house I bought is not a home together we are so alone yeah yeah yeah yeahhhh

Untill I Bleed Out is slowly rising to the top of my fav songs on the album

If you're not with me, I feel bad for your team
You should cut them off, you can follow your dreams
Now the tour is done, I'ma have me some fun
Mix up that Xan with a kickstand
Strip club lit up 'cause the wristbands
Your friends so low if you ain't my dog :word:
Don't talk to mine if you ain't my dog
Mulsanne on deck with the emblem
I own that s***, no rental,
We f*** up, we f*** up, we f*** up, we f*** up the road

Just got round to listening to the Kenny G In Your Eyes remix

Wow

Rare occasion when a remix is superior to the album version

Dude has no bad songs it’s actually insane

Might be his most mature track ever for me

Let's for a moment compare Until I Bleed Out to his prior outro, Privilege (also a flawless Weeknd track)

On Privilege he heavily, albeit directly, alludes to returning/abusing d**** again in order to cope with heartbreak and loneliness. . . "I got two red pills to take the blues away" - the cycle he's been singing about since HoB essentially begins again

In contrast to this is Until I Bleed Out. . . "I don't even wanna get high no more I just want it out of my life". Despite being as heartbroken, as lonely, as he was on MDM, this time round, Abel resists the temptation (or is at least RESISTING) of substance abuse to cope with his reality since it has dawned on him how unsustainable this cycle is

Turn that 9 upside down it’s a 10 now

Damn I never really considered the fact the two projects basically end with Abel being in the exact same place he started, despite going a different route. Great post man

RIP Actavis

For me, it's what makes After Hours his most tragic project yet

MDM soundtracked the moment of heartbreak, as well as it's immediate consequences. And while MDM is undoubtedly bleak, it also has moments of Abel indulging in his trademark toxic behaviour in order to cope with the relationships sudden end - Try Me and Wasted Times ("I hope you know this d*** is still an option") I think exemplify this notion best.

Initially, we saw this bravado return when he chose Heartless as After Hours' first single - Heartless is such a toxic anthem through & through. But when you look at it within the wider context of the album, you realise how vapid his braggadocios performance is on that track - narratively, Heartless quickly reveals itself as nothing more than a moment of d***-induced mania. What sticks with you instead, is the abundance of vulnerability Abel sheds across the album, Too Late, Hardest to Love, Scared to Live all soundtrack moments of harrowing self-reflection.

And then as I said in my previous post, we reach Until I Bleed Out and realise that he's JUST AS lonely as he was on MDM, only this time he doesn't even have the d**** to comfort him.

For the first time ever, do we see Abel beginning to reject aspects of his life & of his music that previously were crucial and all-defining: an obvious example of this is when he rejects the notion of Hollywood grandeur that he once crooned about on The Morning on Snowchild. . . "Cali was the mission but now I'm leaving".

It's why for me MDM and AH are inseparable despite being separate 'chapters' in his discography. Not only are they sonically quite alike, but thematically and chronologically, they sort of collide with each other more so than any two projects he's released.

That track hit me so hard first listen.

The lyrics were really concerning

What genre is Wasted Times?

I realized recently it's prolly top 5