You know when the Weeknd signed he already had his own independent label, right? Republic is just a distributor of XO and they all operate as a subsidiary of UMG. His deal probably allows him full creative control and ownership cause he came to the negotiating table with proof of concept (House of Balloons, Thursday, Echoes of Silence which were all released under XO). I don't know tho and you don't either

I think that’s pnd on the tracklist brehs

He doesnt have full creative control due to the fact that he previously stated he was only allowed to release the hills as a single cause one of the higher ups loves his old sound

Thank you for clarifying

Boy cappin crazy. S***s beyond real. Whoever leaked it about to disappear though. Divine boogaloo style

I might misremember though its been years since ive seen that interview and ive not been able to find it. Does anyone else remember him talking about The Hills, him releasing it as a single + what Republic thought about it? @Undisclosed @kiddash3r

the only tell i can see is that starry eyes doesn't come after is there someone else? on either of the tracklists even though it's clearly supposed to transition from that song and wouldn't make sense anywhere else lol.

If thats actually fake someone needs to touch grass

I feel like he lying lol

Would be weird to the mentioned artists if hes lying lmao. Imagine ty reading this like huh our track isnt real?

Yess its true!

Tho that was like 7 years ago,at this point(esepcially from MDM onwards) I'm fairly certain he has all the control he needs

if he actually did that, im sure the artists would understand why he did

Eat my heart huh

Someone had too much free time and a scanner to use

yeah that's what I thought

why is our boy lying like that

Gasoline "OG lyrics" sound way off tbh, if you try to sing em they are out of time

True, that was for BBTM so I can image the label being iffy after Kissland didnt perform too well. Especially cause Abel wanted to work with Republic to become a superstar

Yeah the source was sketchy af I guess this is fake if y'all think Abel would lie about this idk what to say

could still be an early version where it doesn’t transition or have a different instrumental. weeknd likes to just freestyle over instrumentals and then do the lyrics later

i just don't get what the point would be. unless he's really desperate for people to not look at his "vision board" lol.

Surely addressing it would bring even more eyes to it loool im betting on it being fake

That's what I thought but both starry eyes and is there someone else have final track length so that's counting the transitions

Also if this is fake I'm again convinced that those 2 were just one long track that got separated later