i expected something sonically distinct, not a rehash. to be fair, i haven't been listening to the snippets so this could be an outlier, i've heard that it is. bad choice for a first single though.

It just sounds like something that would've been left off dawn fm for good reasons

Dancing in the Flames is just one single. It’s not indicative of the entire record. There are plenty of other songs that have been teased that sound nothing like it.

Also, DITF doesn’t really sound like anything on After Hours or Dawn FM. It’s way more upbeat and tonally optimistic.

This is the final album of this trilogy, I don’t know why a sound like this wasn’t expected

I love it i dnt understand the hate i do get where people say they want something different but get over it ths is where hes been at for over 10 years now

he been making kidz bop lol

It’s one thing if people don’t like the song. That’s totally fair and valid.

But people that were expecting something different, especially from the last album in a synthpop-heavy trilogy, just makes absolutely zero sense to me

Hoping the song gets the take my breath treatment and is different on the album but even TMB had more going for it in it's single version

its just super corny lol

even for pop abel

stans think this a gotcha but it literally sounds like he ramblin on hans zimmer soundtracks s*** is wack

its funny bc i acc like this chorus but the verses are v forgettable and as others have said the 80s pastiche is so played out and has been done better / more creatively by others like a decade ago

It's especially not a gotcha considering the other songs he premiered are like a hundred times better and more exciting so why woild this vanilla ass song even make it

BBTM was his sellout album

And the hills +cfmf clear this joint easily

He doesnt have to resort to a charlie puth song on a youtube beat for a hit

I'm ready for Weeknd to be done with this sound. After Hours was great, I couldn't bring myself to care much for Dawn FM and now a round 3?

Much less as a first single

and the streets saying another max martin single incoming in ~2 weeks

Yippeeee

F*** does Mike Skinner know? Lol

Max Martin gotta go man it's been 9 years

OVOXO type beats in big 2024 would be much more corny millennial ngl

This thread full of booty juice takes

Had to double check at the avi