With The Weeknd only finished slaying 2015with Beauty Behind The Madness, my #1 Album on my Best of 2015 list, he came back swinging with the lead single Starboy, and honestly he hit me right in the jaw and left me lying on the cold hard ground due to how good it was. The light but intoxicating beat, the Daft Punk feature, the visuals, I was ready to be snatched again when the album was to drop.
A week later I was still on a high from the first round but Daddy came back for more to **** me up with False Alarm. While many on ATRL didn't really connect with the song, I was blown away and is a perfect gym song. And that video! Was not expecting it at all when I clicked play, but was blown away and impressed with all the resources they were putting into this album.
He then followed up with Party Monster and I Feel It Coming which were both amazing in their own ways. And then the album. My goodness. Granted it is a little track heavy with 18 tracks, and it does suffer from filler around the first half, but the 1-2-3-4-5 punch beginning with Sidewalks is perfect. This album one my personal faves of the year, and I'm excited to see The Weeknd become the legend he deserves to be. He's a mother****ing Starboy.
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#3 - The Weeknd
With The Weeknd only finished slaying 2015with Beauty Behind The Madness, my #1 Album on my Best of 2015 list, he came back swinging with the lead single Starboy, and honestly he hit me right in the jaw and left me lying on the cold hard ground due to how good it was. The light but intoxicating beat, the Daft Punk feature, the visuals, I was ready to be snatched again when the album was to drop.
A week later I was still on a high from the first round but Daddy came back for more to **** me up with False Alarm. While many on ATRL didn't really connect with the song, I was blown away and is a perfect gym song. And that video! Was not expecting it at all when I clicked play, but was blown away and impressed with all the resources they were putting into this album.
He then followed up with Party Monster and I Feel It Coming which were both amazing in their own ways. And then the album. My goodness. Granted it is a little track heavy with 18 tracks, and it does suffer from filler around the first half, but the 1-2-3-4-5 punch beginning with Sidewalks is perfect. This album one my personal faves of the year, and I'm excited to see The Weeknd become the legend he deserves to be. He's a mother****ing Starboy.
#2 Worst album coming soon, this one isn't the worst due to quality like Thank You and Macklemore's excuse for an album, but rather the most disappointing release of the year for me.
Okay, so rewind back to February last year when Drake dropped his iconic mixtape If You're Reading This It's Too Late. Remember that album? I do, cause I played it constantly throughout the majority of 2015. Now fast forward to April this year when he dropped his heavily anticipated album Views. Remember that album? I sure don't. After Hotline Bling, One Dance and his two amazing mixtapes beforehand Views was shaping up to be one of my fave albums of the year... and then I heard it. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm saying that it was forgettable. For one it was way too long, and by the time I had gotten half way through I had forgotten a majority of the songs I had only just listened to. Nothing stood out for me. The only four songs I use are Controlla, One Dance, Too Good and Hotline Bling on occasion, the rest I don't think I ever listened to again, or felt the need to revisit them. To sum up, the only reason is it above Meghan and Macklemore is that I already expected trash, for Drake I expected 10/10, and he got nowhere near sadly.
I low key agree with what you said about VIEWS. I loved it at the start but then I quickly realised that it was just hype.mp3 and it was nowhere near his best. Take Care remains his magnum opus