The Weeknd's epic breakup album feels right for our cold, lonely times. Read our review
hits the best balance yet of the gloomy melodrama of the Weeknd’s early EPs or his 2018 release— at once lachrymose and sleek, cold but plush, like a lavishly ornamented fallout shelter.
The Weeknd met Lopatin, who also appears on two other tracks, during the filming of the Adam Sandler hit: Lopatin did the score, and the Weeknd played himself, in a scene where he’s getting ready to do a show, demanding the club turn “some fuckin’ black light on this fuckin’ stage,” as the crowd joins in his complaint. It’s a perfect metaphor for his career, creating a moment of mass spectacle from an extravagant performance of what Warren Zevon once called splendid isolation.
With its title reference to drugs and his frigid hometown of Toronto, “Snowchild” has a similar stark elegance. Tesfaye returns to his autobiography, reminiscing about his rise from money-hungry wannabe to rich benefactor, “spending all my money on these niggas that I brought up/Taking care of families for my brothers that are locked up.” The narrative progresses to Coachella and Tribeca, a deal with Mercedes, a mansion he never lives in with a pool he never dips in.
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