i like new party but i get its not for everyone.

But yeah, i agree everybody itt hyping this is probably 17 and have never heard a synthpop song ever. There is nothing surprising or special about this track.

feels like a mashup between take on me sound + false alarm rhythm and tone.

yeah he doesnt really innovate anymore i give u that. but the man knows how to write a melody, thats for f***in sure. and his voice will always be top tier. thats all i need to call someone a great pop artist.

and facts. their songcraft were on the beatles level imo. the beatles f***ed up so many careers LMFAO mustve sucked being a musician back then

Drake our king anyways but XO is heavy in the city through Nav, LaMar, Cash, etc

i love weeknd but he been lacking substance for years now.

He used to be the man innovating in the game. But in the last 5 years he has been lazy with his sound. Its like he is just taking from past cultures instead of adding his style.

Its like, whats the purpose of getting new music if its gonna sound like music from the past?. The weeknd wasnt about that.

But aight, i know yall b****es gonna digest this thing with the lame excuse of "making pop cus he likes it", like we dont have a million pop artists doing better music already.

nah this definitely some flower power type song lmfao

Word lmfao for sure. On the other hand i feel like every single 60/70s story i hear is just legendary musicians hanging out or getting into hijinx together. Must’ve been insane the amount of creative energy going on

Yes give me synth pop

not gonna lie. i aint feelin this snippet at all. 80s synthpop just aint my thing at all and abel doesnt add any value or innovation to that genre.

i was hoping mdm was his farewell to the synthpop sound, but i guess i was wrong.

i have no ill intentions towards abel, but if he releases another starboy type album then i hope it dont do well commercially so he realizes that people are tired of that sound. hopefully he'll go back to doing R&B, even the pop r&b s*** he did on bbtm is better than this.

You know it’s gonna do well commercially tho. This is what he does now. Kiss Land reception ruined whatever Trilogy abel was going to transition into.

Sounds HEAT

“I said oooooo I’m blinded by the lights”

Such a b**** ass move. Frank never had to, everybody was saying he was never gonna be big and look at him now. He may not be a "pop superstar" but he is seen as one of the best artists in the world, a cult artist that everybody respects. The best part is that he does numbers, blonde went #1 .

Weeknd could have been in the same lane but fear and avarice made him choose mediocrity.

Just wait till you cruise through the city after a huge party with this song playing out your night

can't wait for this s***

This sounds absolutely godly. Can’t wait

If anyone can pull off a huge pop Anthem in this day and age its Abel. We need songs like this. And we don't know what the rest of the album will sound like at ALL. MDM was also not forgettable and was true to him

that melody he does at 0:11

idk how niggas hating on this. s*** sounds beautiful

nah b all im imagining listening to the snippet is me speedin down the highway in the dead of night, this gon HIT in the city nights.

you guys been smoking big d***. pnd by far better, than some soundtrack simp movie sounding ass weeknd song in 2019

i was excited by the dark title but its trash

Sounds corny as f*** just like that fkn mustache

I'm just saying that compared to his previous first singles (Starboy, The Hills, Kiss Land) this seems like it'll be the most by the numbers and predictable.

Hey Mercedes
Spiel blinding lights