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Underrated channel man, brilliant analysis. I think After Hours is a climax in the story of the 'The Weeknd's' character. He has reached a point where he must decide if his demons will pull him down or he will let them go. He has to decide and we have to decide with him. The Weeknd according to Abel is the character who portrays the darker themes, he is an alter ego for The Weeknd.

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I think he knows that why he hasn't released it yet

Same... Still processing how mind blowing is this album I just can't let go

Will never truly leave this era just like House of Balloons. I love After Hours soo much from the music to the album concept

i feel that. to me i feel the after hours will never end

AH is great album. But please, do not compare any album to Thriller. There is none, and likely never will be.

@@DA-fx2ip there definitely can be one. and i think it’s subjective. obviously no album will BE LIKE thriller because that era is gone and music has changed and evolved, music being put out now just sounds different. but there can and most likely will be a new Thriller sometime if there hasn’t already been one.

@@dannysankyu I think I should have clarified. I'm not talking about the quality of the music. Thriller was 9 tracks, 7 were HITS. If Thriller was released today it would have smashed everything. And Thriller is still universally acclaimed 40 years later. Thriller is one of again, it is a disservice to AH to compare it or say "this is xyz's generations thriller".

@@DA-fx2ip i wasn’t talking about quality either. if Thriller were released today it probably wouldn’t smash everything either, that’s like saying if Halo: Combat Evolved or GTA San Andreas were released today, then they’d be incredible games. They wouldn’t. They’re outdated, and the only reason anyone says both the album and those two games i mentioned are so good is because of nostalgia and how great they were for their time. Thriller is really good, and i do love it 100%, but to hold it up to this pedestal like this is a bit much. I’m not sure how comparing an album to Thriller and saying “It’s the Thriller of this generation” is a disservice either if AH is a genuinely very good album.

@@dannysankyu Thriller isn't "dated" though. Nor is it "nostalgia". It's a 9 track album where 7 were top 10 singles (before the streaming era), and 40 years later it still is in rotation for many music fans (Casual and hobbyist). With how much more accessible music is now, you don't think it's performance would be even better? AH's incredible performance, imo is really only carried by Blinding Lights, and let's not let that take away from a great album, one of the best in the past decade. But c'mon now; The Girl is Mine, Thriller, Billie Jean, Beat It, Human Nature, PYT....No album is touching that six track run. Thriller is one of a kind, there is no album that should be compared to it. Different eras, yes, but the different eras is more to AH's benefit than Thriller's.

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Come on now, as a coherent album it might be comparable but song by song, trilogy is unbeatable especially echoes and house of balloons tapes, love after hours tho it’s probably just behind trilogy and kissland

@@fazanchaudhry9907 I’m not just basing it off song to song. Don’t get me wrong Trilogy is a 10/10, same with MDM (though it’s not an album) which is another 10/10. But After Hours is just on another level. The creativity, the sound that it has, the feeling it brings, it’s just so dark but so bright at the same time. 11/10

@@AngelNOTAngle I agree after hours is really good as a full album but even with that, I’ll be honest I can’t remember the last time I flipped on a specific song, it’s more like I’ll listen to the entire album rather than one song, whereas trilogy or kissland has so many independent god tier tracks on top of a nice story but yeah after hours story wise and theme wise I’d agree is by far the most well done, but yeah house of balloons itself has like 6 songs I like more than any song on after hours, kissland has 7, echoes has like 3 or 4

Personally, I think Trilogy has a lot of “empty space” that doesn’t need to be there. It felt like every other song had an outro that was over a minute long, with not much going on during said outro, such as Loft Music, Lonely Star, Heaven or Las Vegas, and especially Gone. (Probably one of my least favorite songs on the three EP’s). But, there are some songs like The Birds Part 2 and Echoes of Silence where it feels less like obvious padding. And then, there’s songs like Glass Table Girls, The After Party, and Loft Music’s outro that just feel... incomplete. Not unfinished, necessarily, but ones that could certainly have more to them. Going back to Gone, it’s over eight minutes long, and I’d dare to say that at least half of its length is “wasted”. I still appreciate a lot of the lyrics, a lot of the better songs throughout the EP’s, and the massive amount of continuity the 30 songs hold together, but I think XO’s need to accept that it’s imperfect, and that he’s certainly improved with his actual studio albums. Even Kiss Land, which was his first work released after Trilogy, feels way more polished.

@@prettierjesus3119 I can definitely see where you’re coming from, I like the grimy unfinished feel trilogy has tbh, it makes it feel more real as it wasn’t even supposed to be made considering the weeknds life and situation, can’t agree with the songs feeling unneeded. Different moods for me requires different songs and trilogy has multiple for each feel. But yeah the weeknd definitely cleaned up his production for kissland, good but didn’t need it imo it felt amazing during trilogy.

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Yeah I wish Missed You was a little longer but Bruh thank God for those bonus tracks cause damn they add to the heat of the album

I wish he included Take Me Back to LA (Myself). That would’ve been the PERFECT ending to After Hours.

@@checksoverstripes2498 the song seems to fit in the album if it was intended to be apart of it, not as a deluxe song. Cause if you're seeing this in the present it would contradict Dawn FM's idea of regretting and forgiveness.

@@Ro_kly or maybe After Life

I agree I think this is his redemption arc and you can even tell when you hear his verse hurricane in the new Kanye West Donda album that he wants to be a better person so we will prob get happier songs with this next album

I think The Dawn is the next part to After Hours, kind of like How Kissland was the next part after Trilogy.

@Zero idk, the transition from Bbtm to Starboy was like him killing off his old self and becoming a whole new person. In the dawn able is still his after hours self with a different twist in a different area. Kind of like how After Trilogy Able still looked similar and was his old self, just in a new different place.

@@mr.youtubetoast4062 in the future, you're right. His trying to fix himself, now he has to decide if he wants to go back to his After Hours self, or be a better person.

Definitely. I’ve got an idea for a Beauty Behind The Madness video so keep a look out for that

@@mintrommovies i'd also love trilogy, particularly the three mixtapes leading into the remastering

@@mintrommovies I need one for Beauty Behind the Madness video it’s a classic

@@mintrommovies can't wait

Through that I realize that the artist named Abel Weeknd try to find true happiness That make me keep the faith After many years I found through this artist that through him music magic CONTINUE I LIKE HIS VOKAL I LIKE LYRICS AND MUSIC MY MESSAGE TO HIM IS. WEEKND CREATE YOUR OWN HISTORY PROTECT YOUR DREAMS AND YOUR SOUL AN UNKNOWN TRUE FRIEND OF YOURS CONTINUE LOVE FROM GREECE

You know he’s talking about the devil right

@@keltonmitter7692 on in that he’s fighting it.

I always read that it was him hating this lifestyle of partying now that he’s grown up and that it’s cause the loss of his relationship yet he’s consumed by it anyway, maybe I’m wrong.

If you watch the Snowchild video at the end he walks right back into the Heartless video, so you could be onto something…..

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Same they both make sense though

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Thanks man!

Thanks! Yeah this album was the best during those early lockdown months, I have good memories of my first few listenings

Dawn FM exist + a new album in the trilogy is coming

she aint worth being depressed bro just saying theres more fish in the sea just go find another one thats worthy of you and never EVER settle for less than what you want

Cheers I appreciate it bro

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@@Hamzethegoat it really is☺️

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n9FoopR_xtrVaZs.html Check this one out, it phenomenally broke down how the whole album is telling a story. I didn’t realize this while listening, I just felt every song was fire, didn’t know it was a whole story

Means a lot bro thank you

I think it was meant to subtly commentate on LA police culture, too, and how police are more present than they need to be. (The lights being those of the car sirens.)

That was BBTM, also. He sells his soul in CFMF (burning to death from the lighter) then tries to leave his old self behind, depicted by him quite literally burying his old self in TYF’s. Afterwards, he tries to escape his “resurrection”, likely because he regrets it, but he fails, seeing as the same guy who killed him in CFMF shows up in the house in The Hills. Then, you could argue that Starboy is how it’s starting to affect him. (Especially since he sort of re-enacts him “killing” his old self at the beginning of the video.) Again, he’s starting to regret it, as depicted with him using the pink cross to destroy mostly everything in the mansion, especially his old work. The frequent references to cars and panthers, on the other hand, is likely referencing how it’s turned him into a greedy person who wants nothing more than fe and success. I haven’t really figured out what most of the other music videos, whether for the main album or the MANIA video mean, but here’s some thoughts about what I think he may be trying to say. •Party Monster: Him becoming more mainstream is turning him into, well, a party monster. He’s making “party songs” instead of more “deep” songs. And, this is just my opinion, but songs like Rockin’, True Colors, Attention, and Six Feet Under don’t feel as authentic as some of his older songs, almost as if they were made to be “mind numbing”. •False Alarm: The song talks about a woman who wants nothing more than men to leech off of for money, and the music video is of a bank robbery. I’m just guessing, obviously, but maybe Abel was doubting his ability, and felt like he was “robbing a bank” by making a profitable album that wasn’t as focused on quality as his previous two, or his EP’s. •Reminder: He feels like just another celebrity at this point. He’s surrounded by a bunch of other popular male singers in the video, and he’s starting to seep into the general greed and egotism many modern singers fall into, such as by wearing that pretty showy jacket that he did in the video, and quite literally having to remind you of who he is. I’ve yet to figure out what Secrets or IFIC’s videos are trying to say, or fully understand what MANIA was trying to say, though.

Are you talking metaphorically?

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