Hey everyone. Thanks so much for your support on the Trilogy videos… this means so much to me! Please humor just a few questions from me, I am looking for some of your thoughts: 1: I am aware we want more Weeknd discussion. That will come, trust me :). What I am curious to hear is what OTHER artists or albums you guys would be curious about watching content over. I’ve done Kendrick and Tyler recently but that hasn’t performed as well. Do these artists interest you? If not, who would? 2: I am going to release a comp of all three of the Trilogy videos in one long doc. In order to make the video new and fresh, I am either going to talk about the three songs added in Trilogy, or remaster my House of Balloons video (since I have grown as a creator a LOT since then and I would change a few things about it). My question is: WHICH one should I do? Remaster the HoB video, or talk about 28/Valerie/Til Dawn? It would mean a lot to me and contribute heavily to the future of what I am doing if you gave me your feedback in a quick reply, thank you dearly, my friends!
I would personally enjoy commentary on Frank Ocean ❤️ I feel like that has potential to perform well since Frank and Abel are kind of the two biggest names in the world of 2010s alternative r&b. And I think Frank and Abel’s fan bases have some overlap. Ps I love your commentary on Kendrick and Tyler too!!!
Ngl this is my favourite mixtape from the trilogy. It feels like everyone always views house of balloons as the point where everything changed for RnB. While I do think that there is some kind of truth to that I also think that echoes of silence should get as much as if not more praise for changing RnB as a whole.
I’m actually surprised you didn’t pick up on the pitch shifting up and down in Initiation representing the drugs they are taking… when he mentions weed or lean the vocals get deeper until he talks about doing a line and it starts getting higher and faster and going back and forth between the two as the experience goes on
Obviously. It doesn’t really matter that much that’s why he didn’t mention it but I’m sure he is aware of it. Initiation is literally a perfectly horrifying masterpiece of a song though.
Just watched your whole trilogy. These might be the best video essays I've ever watched and I do not say that lightly. And it's not just because it's about my absolute favourite subject. When I'd read other people's interpretations I'd agree mostly, but have little grievances here and there, e.g. the knowing being about heartbreak. But you have the exact same interpretations as me. And then some. I had to keep pausing to reflect on my own life and 8 year love affair with these projects. I feel I've learnt so much about myself, like a curtain of fucking glass has finally shattered. These videos have actually changed the way I see myself and I will never listen to these songs in the same way again. You've got real talent and I will be watching everything on your channel. Thank you for doing this series
You should review Kiss Land next. Seriously it is his most underrated album and on the same level with Trilogy as being his best works. That one would be really interesting to watch.
I've listened to H.O.B., Thursday, & E.O.S so much but, it's videos like yours that go in depth about each song from each tape that makes me have a new appreciation for it. Because for me personally and I think XXXtentacion even said this, we can't specifically relate to what he's talking about but it's the vibe and feeling that you enjoy. When you really take the time to listen to what he's talking about and read the lyrics to these songs (specifically the ones in Trilogy & Kissland) that so your so used to having just casually playing, you realize just how dark it is. The scariest part about the songs in his earlier projects is that it's real. There are girls that go through the same thing that the multiple women he sang about in all 3 mixtapes went through. There are guys that live the life Abel did back in the late 2000s & early 2010s for the exact same reasons Abel & the rest of his crew did. & over time those decisions you make take their toll and your left feeling like Abel in the title track E.O.S. Questioning everything that happened up to a certain point & fearing having that same exact feeling come back, even though it was the feeling you were trying to escape in the first place. That feeling being Loneliness. All those times of indulging in activities that bring you pleasure and serve as a distraction for a temporary amount of time won't let you escape for long. It's dark but yet sadly real & relatable for a lot of people. I can see why he say's he hates reliving this era because if he really was doing this stuff down to a T, that's crazy. Orrrr I could just be saying BS lmaooo it's 1:12am as I'm writing this, I need to go to sleep 🤣Great video bro! ~ XOTWOD
Thank you for adding insight to this discussion!! I had a great time reading your thoughts. You make a great point about the sad reality of the Trilogy world - this isn't just fantasy, people live like this! A shame, but a pill we must swallow seeing as we are others who live in the same world :)
The best part about XO/ The Host is he calls back lines from house of balloons and Thursday. Drakes north north up top that OVOand that XO line and the lines from house of balloons/glass table girls on return on the host as well
@ true…. True…. But at the same time, the end of the host directly goes into the initiation and what I was trying to say was that is actually from Thursday mixtape in drakes verse for “the zone” which is why I threw that in as a call back. Gotta love mixtapes, where does it end and begin?
pleaseee do the video on the 3 extra songs. also u should just do a series analyzing every album abel has. i think it would be a very popular series bc u explain his work so well!
i first heard high for this in the trailer for the final season of Entourage and i've been a huge fan ever since. I saw the trilogy concert, the kiss land concert, and the starboy concert. there will never be a finer musical creation than the trilogy.
When you talk about hair on the back of your neck stand up during The Host, for me it comes when he says “the nights almost done, and who you came with is already gone” as if he has just informed her that she’s basically trapped in this house with just Abel and the boys… and drugs… and what are you gonna do now baby? Walk home?
I hope you'll cover the new Trilogy when the last album of The Weeknd drops probably sometime next year. Would be interesting to see the meanings of After Hours, Dawn FM and ??? in a new light. Would so be here for that :D
You should definitely do a recap/ short analysis of the Mashup of all Mixtapes the Trilogy Album and talk about the three additional songs that are on it Twenty Eight, Valerie , Till Dawn (Here Comes the Sun) ! Love the three analyses for all three mixtapes though !
Thanks for these absolute bangers. I really love to watch you breakdown albums. I'd been following Ken's MMATBS breakdowns, and I really love your way of explaining. As a Weeknd fan, I'd be tuned to see further breakdowns :D. XOTWOD
I REALLY HOPE YOU SEE THIS, for three days straight I've been looking for the video in the first minute, I know it's an edited version of his "Road to release" documentary but I'm looking for this exact edited version. Thank you
EOS is my favorite out of the Trilogy! His voice is clean, the story gets even dark and the production is perfect! XO/The Host is my favorite. Montreal is my second favorite! Nothing tops Trilogy!
I’m glad I just found your channel a few days ago, and didn’t have to wait very long for this! You do such a great job diving in to the character of The Weeknd. The genius of Trilogy will never be able to be touched. Also, would love your insights into the bonus tracks
Couple thoughts: the Host is a really insightful title. As a proud bio major, a host is the organism that a parasite relies upon to survive. The narrator is the host, the woman is his victim who relies upon him to survive. Also, parasite implies that she means nothing to him and is actually someone who he wants to exact revenge upon. My boys actually had a double meaning. It could be what you discussed. But it could also just be a metaphor for drugs. He uses this same metaphor in Life of the Party and makes it more clear that he is referring to drugs. Also, we don’t hear the narrator discuss any of his male friends beyond any allusions to them that could be interpreted as a double meaning, minus his reference to his friends that make drugs in HOB/GTG. Conclusion: Abel is an insightful and introspective genius and prodigy. It is incredible for anyone to have this amount of perspective on life, let alone be able to so clearly communicate his precise thoughts through subtleties in his music. He was 21 and changed the landscape of 2010s music that also served as a scathing exploration and social commentary of hook up culture, seeking external validation, and self worth.
Absolutely fantastic job on these videos, I've been listening to the weekend since he released Trilogy and I've learned stuff from you that I didn't even think about. You went super deep on this and I appreciate that. XOTWOD
I can't believe you only have eight thousand subs! You're really great at breaking apart music, and analyzing them until they make cohesive sense. ALSO - if you know anything about Dante's Inferno, or American Psycho, or "No Exit." By Jean-Paul Sartre - Echoes of Silence ends on a similar theme of. "This is not an exit." There's no escaping this lifestyle. The irony that he's risen to the top, and can indulge in as much sin and hedonism as he craves - yet will never ever feel satisfied from it. His Hell, and in the end, his punishment for all of his horrible actions is simply apathy. Every shred of vulnerability in Trilogy, whenever his front falls a bit, poses as an opportunity to escape while he still can. But he inevitably misses the mark, and now he'll always be this way. Chasing something that he's never going to find.
I can’t believe the Weeknd has 110 million monthly listeners and is the biggest artist in the world yet cancel culture hasn’t tried to get him because of Initiation yet. 😂 And ironically The Fall is kind of predicting people will cancel him for it
Yo bro great video, the only thing I gotta say as a singer myself is you kept saying that he was using his falsetto, especially on the first 3 tracks. For the first verse and Hook of DD he only uses his falsetto on "heart" and "let me be" at the end of the verse and the end of the first hook. He uses a lot of chest and mixed voice on that song in particular. HOB/GTG the verses are almost entirely his falsetto. No shade bro just trying to help out 🔥
I enjoy your weeknd videos very much. There is something that I've been trying to figure out. Valerie is Thursday, who are the other girls? I'm looking forward to your Kissland video. Any eta?
Good analysis but when you said Abel was pleading the woman to not leave him on the EOS track- that was actually the woman telling him not to leave her life/lie. As her response to his question earlier of why is she such a mosaicist. He uses a higher pitch to show the switch in pov 28:22
It's ambiguous. And that is the point of the song. I don't find the concept of the track/project nearly as interesting under the premise of that interpretation, so I decided to talk about the other way!
XOTWOD! I, a 68 year old woman, loves The Weeknd! My boyfriend says I am obsessed with him. And he is right. I do hope Abel is lead to the Lord and truely knows God before too long. What a perfect person to influence today's youth! We all need thd Lord. X❤O
She's intentionally indoctrinated into an environment where she's taking so many substances that she can't make decisions on her own, and then proceeds to spend the night with The Weeknd and his crew. What would you call that?
Hey everyone. Thanks so much for your support on the Trilogy videos… this means so much to me! Please humor just a few questions from me, I am looking for some of your thoughts:
1: I am aware we want more Weeknd discussion. That will come, trust me :). What I am curious to hear is what OTHER artists or albums you guys would be curious about watching content over. I’ve done Kendrick and Tyler recently but that hasn’t performed as well. Do these artists interest you? If not, who would?
2: I am going to release a comp of all three of the Trilogy videos in one long doc. In order to make the video new and fresh, I am either going to talk about the three songs added in Trilogy, or remaster my House of Balloons video (since I have grown as a creator a LOT since then and I would change a few things about it). My question is: WHICH one should I do? Remaster the HoB video, or talk about 28/Valerie/Til Dawn?
It would mean a lot to me and contribute heavily to the future of what I am doing if you gave me your feedback in a quick reply, thank you dearly, my friends!
Personally, I would love to see your commentary on the bonus tracks and how they link to the story line
@@wikio5320 same here
I would do a remaster of the hob video honestly
I would personally enjoy commentary on Frank Ocean ❤️ I feel like that has potential to perform well since Frank and Abel are kind of the two biggest names in the world of 2010s alternative r&b. And I think Frank and Abel’s fan bases have some overlap. Ps I love your commentary on Kendrick and Tyler too!!!
I would love to see something on tame Impala
initiation is such a standout point in the trilogy as a whole
It makes me feel uncomfortable but it’s sooo good
that song is the most interesting song i’ve ever heard. it’s not even a song it’s a story
Ngl this is my favourite mixtape from the trilogy. It feels like everyone always views house of balloons as the point where everything changed for RnB. While I do think that there is some kind of truth to that I also think that echoes of silence should get as much as if not more praise for changing RnB as a whole.
I’m actually surprised you didn’t pick up on the pitch shifting up and down in Initiation representing the drugs they are taking… when he mentions weed or lean the vocals get deeper until he talks about doing a line and it starts getting higher and faster and going back and forth between the two as the experience goes on
Obviously. It doesn’t really matter that much that’s why he didn’t mention it but I’m sure he is aware of it. Initiation is literally a perfectly horrifying masterpiece of a song though.
I always viewed the mixtapes as a house party gone bad
Same
holy fucking shit man ur a fucking genius i never thought about that
Also Next is an interesting parallel to Wicked Games
Just watched your whole trilogy. These might be the best video essays I've ever watched and I do not say that lightly. And it's not just because it's about my absolute favourite subject. When I'd read other people's interpretations I'd agree mostly, but have little grievances here and there, e.g. the knowing being about heartbreak. But you have the exact same interpretations as me. And then some. I had to keep pausing to reflect on my own life and 8 year love affair with these projects. I feel I've learnt so much about myself, like a curtain of fucking glass has finally shattered. These videos have actually changed the way I see myself and I will never listen to these songs in the same way again.
You've got real talent and I will be watching everything on your channel. Thank you for doing this series
This comment made my month, for real!!!! I'm speechless. Thank you so much for the encouragement and kind words
Do Kiss Land And Beauty Behind The Madness next
You should review Kiss Land next. Seriously it is his most underrated album and on the same level with Trilogy as being his best works. That one would be really interesting to watch.
I speak for everyone when I say that I’ve been waiting so long for this 🥹
Yes I know
Yep
@@StrangeLegoStudios ..mmmm9lll9o9m99o99oo9999kmlkl9oooo
waiting for what? the album has been out
I've listened to H.O.B., Thursday, & E.O.S so much but, it's videos like yours that go in depth about each song from each tape that makes me have a new appreciation for it. Because for me personally and I think XXXtentacion even said this, we can't specifically relate to what he's talking about but it's the vibe and feeling that you enjoy. When you really take the time to listen to what he's talking about and read the lyrics to these songs (specifically the ones in Trilogy & Kissland) that so your so used to having just casually playing, you realize just how dark it is. The scariest part about the songs in his earlier projects is that it's real. There are girls that go through the same thing that the multiple women he sang about in all 3 mixtapes went through. There are guys that live the life Abel did back in the late 2000s & early 2010s for the exact same reasons Abel & the rest of his crew did. & over time those decisions you make take their toll and your left feeling like Abel in the title track E.O.S. Questioning everything that happened up to a certain point & fearing having that same exact feeling come back, even though it was the feeling you were trying to escape in the first place. That feeling being Loneliness. All those times of indulging in activities that bring you pleasure and serve as a distraction for a temporary amount of time won't let you escape for long. It's dark but yet sadly real & relatable for a lot of people. I can see why he say's he hates reliving this era because if he really was doing this stuff down to a T, that's crazy.
Orrrr I could just be saying BS lmaooo it's 1:12am as I'm writing this, I need to go to sleep 🤣Great video bro!
~ XOTWOD
Thank you for adding insight to this discussion!! I had a great time reading your thoughts. You make a great point about the sad reality of the Trilogy world - this isn't just fantasy, people live like this! A shame, but a pill we must swallow seeing as we are others who live in the same world :)
@@JacksonsMusicPalate Np man! & your 100% right!
"Don't you leave me I'll be high" hits deep fr
I recently discovered this channel and I’m so glad I did. This is the most insightful dissection of trilogy I’ve seen!!!
The best part about XO/ The Host is he calls back lines from house of balloons and Thursday. Drakes north north up top that OVOand that XO line and the lines from house of balloons/glass table girls on return on the host as well
The north north up top OVO XO was on the initiation outro
@ true…. True…. But at the same time, the end of the host directly goes into the initiation and what I was trying to say was that is actually from Thursday mixtape in drakes verse for “the zone” which is why I threw that in as a call back. Gotta love mixtapes, where does it end and begin?
Finally, I’ve been itching for this
pleaseee do the video on the 3 extra songs. also u should just do a series analyzing every album abel has. i think it would be a very popular series bc u explain his work so well!
i first heard high for this in the trailer for the final season of Entourage and i've been a huge fan ever since. I saw the trilogy concert, the kiss land concert, and the starboy concert. there will never be a finer musical creation than the trilogy.
it’s a crime that this video only has 16k views
When you talk about hair on the back of your neck stand up during The Host, for me it comes when he says “the nights almost done, and who you came with is already gone” as if he has just informed her that she’s basically trapped in this house with just Abel and the boys… and drugs… and what are you gonna do now baby? Walk home?
If those are the choices maybe she should have 😮
NM she was too gone 😮
The beginning of “same old song” also samples the guitar riff of smooth criminal by mj
I hope you'll cover the new Trilogy when the last album of The Weeknd drops probably sometime next year. Would be interesting to see the meanings of After Hours, Dawn FM and ??? in a new light. Would so be here for that :D
I need that Thursday shirt ASAP
You should definitely do a recap/ short analysis of the Mashup of all Mixtapes the Trilogy Album and talk about the three additional songs that are on it Twenty Eight, Valerie , Till Dawn (Here Comes the Sun) ! Love the three analyses for all three mixtapes though !
when you’ve been using Initiation as a sex song for the past three years without figuring out what it meant💀
It would be such a cool addition to complete all the other albums 🙏🙏
Please do Kiss Land next, your videos are great my friend and you deserve way more subscribers 👌
Unreal analysis
Ayye man I’m so glad you dropped this video. It’s a movie! I had to drop a like just for your hard work! Thanks
Trilogy is a movie 🍿
Thank you for your encouragement my dear friend, these comments mean so much to me!!
Thanks for these absolute bangers. I really love to watch you breakdown albums. I'd been following Ken's MMATBS breakdowns, and I really love your way of explaining.
As a Weeknd fan, I'd be tuned to see further breakdowns :D.
XOTWOD
I literally just searched your name for this video and you just uploaded it 😃
I REALLY HOPE YOU SEE THIS, for three days straight I've been looking for the video in the first minute, I know it's an edited version of his "Road to release" documentary but I'm looking for this exact edited version. Thank you
EOS is my favorite out of the Trilogy! His voice is clean, the story gets even dark and the production is perfect! XO/The Host is my favorite. Montreal is my second favorite! Nothing tops Trilogy!
Great videos about the trilogy this trilogy of albums have become some of my favorites in RnB
Great analysis. I am excited to see another albums of the weeknd because they are full of deep meanings
I’m glad I just found your channel a few days ago, and didn’t have to wait very long for this!
You do such a great job diving in to the character of The Weeknd. The genius of Trilogy will never be able to be touched.
Also, would love your insights into the bonus tracks
Best analysis of a piece of music I’ve ever watched. Keep up the good work 👍
P.s more Weeknd analysis!
I was waiting on your analysis for the last mix tape, I am proud of you for making it through all of them.
This man deserves more views 👏 🙌 😤
Been waiting on this
I'd love to see you do Kissland next! I love your The Weeknd videos, they make me see the mixtapes and songs in a new light 😊🤞
Bro you bodied this series 🔥🔥🔥
Couple thoughts: the Host is a really insightful title. As a proud bio major, a host is the organism that a parasite relies upon to survive. The narrator is the host, the woman is his victim who relies upon him to survive. Also, parasite implies that she means nothing to him and is actually someone who he wants to exact revenge upon.
My boys actually had a double meaning. It could be what you discussed. But it could also just be a metaphor for drugs. He uses this same metaphor in Life of the Party and makes it more clear that he is referring to drugs. Also, we don’t hear the narrator discuss any of his male friends beyond any allusions to them that could be interpreted as a double meaning, minus his reference to his friends that make drugs in HOB/GTG.
Conclusion: Abel is an insightful and introspective genius and prodigy. It is incredible for anyone to have this amount of perspective on life, let alone be able to so clearly communicate his precise thoughts through subtleties in his music. He was 21 and changed the landscape of 2010s music that also served as a scathing exploration and social commentary of hook up culture, seeking external validation, and self worth.
Please keep going your in depth with him is amazing I love your perspective
Absolutely fantastic job on these videos, I've been listening to the weekend since he released Trilogy and I've learned stuff from you that I didn't even think about. You went super deep on this and I appreciate that. XOTWOD
You have a talent for music analysis, great stuff!
been waiting for this 🙏🙏🙏
I can't believe you only have eight thousand subs! You're really great at breaking apart music, and analyzing them until they make cohesive sense. ALSO - if you know anything about Dante's Inferno, or American Psycho, or "No Exit." By Jean-Paul Sartre - Echoes of Silence ends on a similar theme of. "This is not an exit." There's no escaping this lifestyle. The irony that he's risen to the top, and can indulge in as much sin and hedonism as he craves - yet will never ever feel satisfied from it. His Hell, and in the end, his punishment for all of his horrible actions is simply apathy. Every shred of vulnerability in Trilogy, whenever his front falls a bit, poses as an opportunity to escape while he still can. But he inevitably misses the mark, and now he'll always be this way. Chasing something that he's never going to find.
I love weeknd
Great video 👍👍👍👍🎉
The Thursday shirt bro...need it
Redbubble!! Got it from an independent artist on there. Go support their work!! :)
I’m wondering if he is proud of his Mixtapes😮 because man that was amazing to watch and his sound is so unique
Ever since finding the weeknd back when no one really knew what he looked like, I’ve had this idea in my head of his being a vampire
I love all of your Weeknd videos 😀 ty for the videos
Grand video indeed!
I can’t believe the Weeknd has 110 million monthly listeners and is the biggest artist in the world yet cancel culture hasn’t tried to get him because of Initiation yet. 😂 And ironically The Fall is kind of predicting people will cancel him for it
Trilogy is our secret!
Because it sounds like just regular melancholic RnB music to surface level ears, so they'll never really spot it out.
@@MADD-MANX Initiation sounds nothing like any RnB song I heard, the song sounds evil lol
Praise God
Wooo love your vids man
Incredible 👏
Yo bro great video, the only thing I gotta say as a singer myself is you kept saying that he was using his falsetto, especially on the first 3 tracks. For the first verse and Hook of DD he only uses his falsetto on "heart" and "let me be" at the end of the verse and the end of the first hook. He uses a lot of chest and mixed voice on that song in particular. HOB/GTG the verses are almost entirely his falsetto. No shade bro just trying to help out 🔥
Keep up the great work bro your gonna go far
Same old Song one of my favorite songs on trilogy as a whole
This is amazing
This was epic
FINNALYYY
Kiss Land next 🗣️🔥🔥
Yes finally 🎉
Please do beauty behind the madness
Broooo these videos are so good. Just sup-scribed, please do one for kissland🙏🏽😭
Good vid
I enjoy your weeknd videos very much. There is something that I've been trying to figure out. Valerie is Thursday, who are the other girls? I'm looking forward to your Kissland video. Any eta?
Good analysis but when you said Abel was pleading the woman to not leave him on the EOS track- that was actually the woman telling him not to leave her life/lie. As her response to his question earlier of why is she such a mosaicist. He uses a higher pitch to show the switch in pov 28:22
It's ambiguous. And that is the point of the song. I don't find the concept of the track/project nearly as interesting under the premise of that interpretation, so I decided to talk about the other way!
XO/The Host best song on the mixtape
YESSSSS
FINALLY
I hope you'll make a video on kiss land. And continue the weeknd verse.
All seriousness tho I need that shirt
XOTWOD! I, a 68 year old woman, loves The Weeknd!
My boyfriend says I am obsessed with him. And he is right. I do hope Abel is lead to the Lord and truely knows God before too long. What a perfect person to influence today's youth! We all need thd Lord. X❤O
dawg😭😭😭
please make a video about kissland 🙏🏽🙏🏽
i love the t-shirt, where you got it from?
In my opinion Echoes of silence is his best project of all time
i agree
It indeed is.
XOTWOD💪
Where’d u get that Thursday tshirt
Whered you get that t shirt 😩
where did you get the thursday shirt?
yo I NEED this shirt, where is it from?
Where’s the shirt from tho🔥
i was so shocked when you said gangr*pe but it makes so much sense
SHIRT?!?!?
❤
I need to know where you got your shirt
Please do kissland
Where did you get that shirt
Question: How are there songs more disturbing than Initiation?!
Instead of explaining it I’ll just tell you to go listen to SINNER GET READY by Lingua Ignota
Damn
Bro echoes of silence is a conversation with the girl and she says baby don’t go home
I need DawnFm.
XOTWOD
ik I’m late but.. shirt from? Lmao
Great video but ion think initiation is actually about gang r*pe
It's not about gang rape. His "boys" are his drugs.
"Ride it out" is what she should do after taking all those drugs.
She's intentionally indoctrinated into an environment where she's taking so many substances that she can't make decisions on her own, and then proceeds to spend the night with The Weeknd and his crew. What would you call that?