You're completely right about comparing the album to a horror movie. Abel himself said that it was inspired by horror movies. "When I think about Kiss Land, I think about a terrifying place. A lot of it is inspired by filmmakers like John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, and Ridley Scott, because they know how to capture fear. When you hear the screams in the record and you hear all these horror references and you feel scared, listen to the music because I want you to feel what I’m feeling. Kiss Land is like a horror movie." - The Weeknd Kissland is my personal favorite project of his. "Tears in the Rain" and "Adaptation" are probably my 2 favorite songs of his discography.

Kiss Land is definitely more experimental than most of his albums.

Timestamps 👌 Professional - 01:06 The Town - 4:26 Adaptation - 7:27 Love In The Sky - 08:46 Belong to The World - 12:09 Live For (Ft. Drake) - 13:57 Wanderlust - 17:00 Kiss Land - 19:26 Pretty - 22:44 Tears In The Rain - 25:26 XO ❤

The Town is a favorite of mine from him production-wise on this album. The piano breakdown is the first of Many aspects of horror vibes on this album. Hes a big fan of horror movies and he wanted this album to reflect it. Trilogy was a big success, and he took a lot of inspiration from Tokyo in this album. Most of the artwork you'll see for this album is written in Japanese. This is also the album we were introduced to Oxy, a cute little lime green, kinda anime inspired version of a red panda, which because sort of a mascot for this album. So this is like a Trilogy mixtape on a larger scale with a bigger budget... like a movie. Trilogy was very claustrophobic. Like his dark, sensual, sinister presence was more so close up on you, whereas KissLand is more like his aura has taken over a large city and you can't really escape it. I think this is why it's more of a favorite amongst us OG XO fans than other albums.

Kiss Land is one of those albums that get better and better the more often you hear it. It started being one one of my least fav ablums by abel and ended up sharing my number one spot with house of balloons.

This album was supposed to capture his experience leaving Toronto, because he’d never left town before. Kiss Land is about his experience in Japan, about the fear in the world he sees. He was very inspired by John Carpenter, a horror film director, which is why the songs can get very tense or scary in the case of the screams in Kiss Land. At least from what I can remember from the interviews. Also the music videos really help to see the full picture for pretty, he also has a bunch of small teaser videos leading up to Kiss Land like John Carpenter, The Airport, The Restaurant, The Flower shop.

That opening with wanting the beat for Adaptation to go into Love In The Sky was ME AF.

You definitely have to react to at least a few of his featured songs. Might Not - Belly Feat. The Weeknd Drinks on Us - MikeWill, Swae Lee, Abel Or Nah - Ty$ Feat. Wiz & Abel Pass Dat - Jeremih Feat. The Weeknd In Vein - Rick Ross Feat. The Weeknd Remember You - Wiz Khalif Feat. The Weeknd Bedtime Stories - Rae Sremmurd x The Weeknd 6 Inch - Beyoncé & The Weeknd I’m Good - Lil Wayne & The Weeknd Hawaii- Maluma & The Weeknd Low Life - Future x Abel Curve - Gucci Mane & The Weeknd FML - Kanye & The Weeknd One of those Nights - Juicy J x Abel Pullin Up - Meek Mill & The Weeknd Wake Up - Travis Scott & The Weeknd Bonus tracks Drunk In love remix - The Weeknd Trust Issue remix - The Weeknd

"Kiss Land" is untouchable in my book. This is how I became a fan of Abel.

So, Professional is my second favorite opener of an album second only to Alone Again. Your vibe matched mine, every time I hear it. I found major weight behind the line "Everything you've been thru made you stronger, and every day you learn about yourself, and nothing's really played out how it's supposed to, depending on somebody else's worth, and now you know the value of a dollar" apart from the actual dollar being an actual amount or currency, that line is just so powerful to me. It's always resonated with me. I may get it tattooed. It'd be my first one.

Great reaction.. this album is my personal favorite out of all of them and that’s not an easy decision.. I fell in love first listen but I hear a lot of people say that this one had to grow on them listened to it a few times and then fell in love with it

Tears In The Rain was the sleeper for me on this album. Many people I talked to online growing up with this album was trashing me because this had to grow on me. It's come to be the saddest song on the album. When the one you love dispises you and you have no choice to take all that fault, guilt and self loathing and learn to live with it... Adaptation. So fucking happy to share this experience with you. I can't pick one or the other between this and Echoes. Whichever I listen to at the time is my favorite lol. Like I said, this is a bigger, larger version of Trilogy. Easily a continuation of his previous story. He's very much himself but outside of those four walls of 65 Spencer ( the address of what we know as The House Of Balloons, where he lived and created the Trilogy in the 6, Toronto). He brought what happened in that house to the rest of the world and took over the world. Onward to Beauty Behind The Madness. Hits on Hits on Hits on Hits on Hits on Hits. I'll see you there, hun. XO

The weird beat in the middle of The Town honestly grew on me, to the point it's my favorite song on the project. Very effective use of to jar the listener before he pulls them back in with soft lyrics. Also like the microphone setup you have a lot of reviews don't use. It does well to call attention to you when you're about to speak.

the professional is my favorite track of all the weeknd songs starts like a dramatic play the lyrics unfolds the plot the is a twist for he is not only talking about himself

I love kissland but I think you’re really going to like My dear melancholy more when you get to it ! Great reaction btw

Live For. This isn't my favorite OVOXO collab but it's still a banger. I love that it sounds meditative like you'd hear it in a spa or something. I also love that he brought the claps back in like how he did in The Fall. Yep the strip is alive lol. "If pole dance was an art, do you know how many fuckin artists I know?" Good track. Solid verses.

I didnt fw the town on first listen also, but after listening to whole album many time it is now my most played off kiss land. The piano part is definitely a grower :)

Ayeee it's the Kiss Land reaction. This is my 2nd favourite Weeknd project after Trilogy (if we combine all three). It's beautiful. Can't wait to live through another first reaction. Will probably comment again.

My all time favorite RnB album!!!!! Thank you for reacting to this!!!

Your voice 😍so effortless!

This album grows on you. The whole album.

10:17 Your voice!!! Those little moments are my favorite parts of your videos!

U know what ur talking about. Subscribed 🔥🔥🔥

The next album is my favourite. Beauty behind the madness has a bunch of hits, cant wait for that reaction

Love the videos! As someone who enjoys Abel’s catalog a lot, it’s great to watch someone hear it for the first time. I think where Kissland differs from trilogy, is the emotional content of it. Songs like “tears in the rain” and “adaption” have themes of remorse and taking ownership. He seems to have left someone behind on this journey and those songs seem like a reference to a specific person or situation-ship. Can’t wait for you to get to BBTM!

I see you coming through with the vocals 😉

Wow you have a great ear for picking up on things in the music first listen! I loved your insight. And your voice is really good too! Hahaha. Keep going with The Weeknd!

Kissland and Tears in the Rain are my personal favorites that I still listen too on a regular basis.. This album is definitely a grower the more and more you listen

Lol I just finished watching your trilogy reactions good timing!

Yayay glad to find your channel! Keep on keeping on doing Weeknd material! XOTWOD

LOVE YOUR HONEST REVIEWS 🔥🔥🔥

At all of his albums this one has the most layers and gets better with more listens

love your reactions. pls react to more of the weeknd!

This album is really produced well

Love your signing voice btw. It's ASMR AF.

Town is my favourite ...the ambience it has is insane

Also he has a bonus track on here with Kavinsky called “Odd Look” that you need to react to!

*I’m more than fine with your conclusion. Echoes of Silence is my favorite mixtape from The Weeknd and Kiss Land is my favorite album that he’s done so it’s a win win.*

YES, please watch the videos of this album. You’ll like them. My favourites are Pretty and Belong to the world

now we wait for beauty behind the madness

ngl I respect your opinion :) and ngl I loveee your reactions :)

Kissland is a whole cinematic masterpiece.The next album beauty behind the madness is different from his older work.

KissLand. So, about that horror aspect... Lol ikr. I paused when your eyes lit up. This is my favorite song on the album. Production is PERFECT for this album. Sums up the entire vibe for me tbh. This is actually the debut single of the album, I believe, or at least one of the first songs he released from it. When I first heard the first 20 seconds, I knew then I'd love this album. Didn't disappoint me either. Also, the second half of the song, he released as the teaser for the album. It was a distorted video clip of him on the studio swaying from side to side just vibing to the instrumental. He called it "John Carpenter" who we know is the father of horror as we know it and the man who directed Halloween and also did the infamous piano theme for Michael Myers. The breakdown in The Town is an homage to horror. Sidenote: lyrics lol. "When I got on stage she swore I was six feet tall, but when she put it in her mouth she can't seem to reach my..." Then the next thing he says is a play on the word ball (s) (ing). Slick. It's not something to relate to... Even if you try. I took it as a warning as well. This isn't the life you want to live. There's good feelings as well as bad in the darkness. Painful pleasures.

Keep going

Enter bbtm let’s go baby !!!!!!!!!!!

“It’s a horror movie” exactly what he was going for 😂

Eyy Kim B you got a beautiful voice😁, but i really love your reaction to the album, its one of my all-time favorites.

kissland is a grower give it time it will surpass eos for u

0:00 YURRRRR

My favorite one followed by trilogy. 🤩

Wanderlust. This is another MJ inspiration, yes. I slightly prefer the Pharrell remix to this song over this one but only slightly. I hope you reacted to it in this video (I'm commenting as the video plays, as you can probably tell by now in your videos). "Prescious little diamond, I belong to you." It's almost a declaration of love in itself. Those two are starting to develop something as the night(s) go on.

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Belong To The World, the original "she belong to the streets" lol you nailed it! So this song samples a song called Machine Gun by a group called Portishead. They say he sampled it without their knowledge. I think that got settled tho. You should see that video.

Yes , react to the music video for Pretty ! It’ll give you a better idea of the meaning

while I enjoy echoes of silence more especially for its individual songs kiss land sometimes edges it out for me due to how cinematic it is. echoes is a vibe but kiss land is an experience and a treasure especially since he hasn't preformed any of the songs on there since that era.

9:13 fav song AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

My dear melancholy should be next

echos of silence has more of my favs than kissland but I gotta give the crown to house of balloons😂 beauty behind the madness is next ahhh🥰

There’s also a music video for the song Kiss Land but it’s very explicit

Kimmmm, I beg you please react to the videos of Love In The Sky, Belong To The World, Live For, Kiss Land and Pretty🖤💚

I’m a simple man.. I see a Kim B, The Weeknd and I click and like lol

FUCK! PERFECT TIMING! Up 1am in ALL my feelings then Bae wanna upload. *turns off Euphoria for this...

Can you please react to the Pretty music video??? It’s soooo good and we would love for you to see it!

😈😈😈😈😈 it’s time

I wanna hear you do a cover to Love I’m the Sky & XO/The Host

The girl this album is about is a stripper, the professional, listening again you'll hear the stripper the whole time. Also, his songs get better over time since it's such a different sound than you expect. His videos help the story. Kissland is about him killing the stripper who he thought was the one so tears, unlike in Thursday when the girl kills herself. Hence horror themes. #xotwod

XOTWOD 🖤 🖤

Here for the stripper reference reaction and it didn’t disappoint! Lol

This album is really good my favorite song is tears in the rain its so good. Also the album is about he is touring in japan in adaption he says he has to adapt to the fame and also cheats on his girlfriend, as well in belong to the world, in pretty he comes home and finds his girl cheating on him, in tears in the rain he cant find another girl who loves him like her and not has to adjust to the fame. I hope this was informative

20:10 that face 😂😂

I hope you ended up watching the music video to Pretty. On first listen it sounds one way, but like in all horror movies, there’s a twist or double meaning

2.15 i was expecting that reaction 😂😂😂

Pretty. You gotta see the video, first off. Love hurts sometimes. When he's not self conscious and insecure about himself, he thinks the girls world revolves around him but when he gets hurt by her coming from under his spell, it's not safe for either of them, it seems. I'm gonna go find the translation to the ending of the song for you. Brb... When a fucking white dove sings its song, that's all we hear. The days roll by like string in the wind. Tangled in my web, I reveal them again. 10 years my friend, nothing else matters. She was nothing but a kid at that time. Suffering from a broken heart. A very deep pain. This is where I saw her. Alone. Ready to destroy her 17 years. Best way I can decipher is that she was pure and innocent before a certain point in her life, assuming after he go his fangs into her. Now, she could give a fuck less about anything else going forward because he probably fucked her life up and broke her heart and now she's numb to it all, just like he is. Maybe a callback to "you become Awaken like the rest of us."

With more listens you appreciate it more. Dope reaction tho

xo

He does have a music video for this song 🤣, it’s pretty graphic and Intense if you care to watch

The “Pretty” video makes you listen to the song totally differently lol

Hi 👋

React to the video for pretty 🔥🔥🔥 real cinematic ish

Beauty behind the madness next?

XOTWOD

Hello Kim 🙌..❌⭕️❤️ The weeknd -coming out strong ft. Future . The weeknd- Unfazed ft. Lil Uzi Verty. The weeknd - I am good ft. Lil Wayne. The Weeknd -Might not ft. Belly . The weeknd - One of those Nights ft . Juicy J. The weeknd- Drinks on us ft. ( Swea Lee & Future) The weeknd - Bed time stories ft. Rae Sremmurd. The weeknd - Price on My head ft. Nav. The weeknd - some way ft. Nav . The weeknd - over now ft . Calvin Harris. The weeknd - Remember you ft. Wiz Khalifa. The weeknd - Low life ft. Future. The weeknd - Or Nah ft .{ Ty Dolla $ing, Wiz Khalifa}. The weeknd - Love me Harder ft. Ariana Grande. The weeknd - Lust for life ft . Lana Del Rey . ❤️❌⭕️ The weeknd - Crew Love ft. Drake . The weeknd - King of the Fall ❤️🔥🔥❌⭕️. The weeknd - power is power ft. { SZA , Travis Scott}. The weeknd - Hawái ft. {Remix } The weeknd - In Vein ft . Rick Ross. XO 🔥🔥if you wanna check them out

You have to react odd look

yep straight horror movie album

you gotta watch the video for pretty

He only peform songs of kiss land in asia

You don’t like these songs now but just wait til your 5th listen ay bom

Ur only reacting to the weekend cause it gives you views. u must have seen how other reaction channels gets tons of views off the weekends name.

During the recording of Kissland, Abel often watched pornography whilst writing/singing.