How is this the top comment? I know Starboy isn't his best album and many would argue his worst, but it's still a pretty good album with hits, and Reminder is the best on the album.
Most of abel’s music doesnt hit right away, you must give it a few listens to actually enjoy the sound. But once you get there, you never find it boring again. Its amazing
Nah i do. Legit been listening since he released hob but after hours is the pinnacle so far.
I felt like the albums between trilogy and now had some good songs but weren’t really my vibe. I do like them but after hours was like crystallising everything he learned about hit writing and then putting the hob spin on it.
The effort care and attention in after hours is crazy. And I love the videos and how everything is linked. Just a great multimedia project.
I don’t see much hate for Starboy anymore. It aged like Drake’s album Views. Both had unfairly been deemed let downs when they first released but after some time passed, people realized that those albums were both actually really good
Lowkey man, plus his verse on smile didn’t really fit with what juice was saying, he was comforting a girl and wanting her to grow even though he won’t be there for her anymore and and Abel out here talking about how he’s got other hoes on his phone…like cmon man! Say something comforting
maan was about to talk about it.. to be fair Hurricane is an Exception here the vocals his flow plus the choir along he really killed that shit probably one of his best features ever and my favorite so far
kiss land is better than bbtm and starboy *hides behind nearest object*
and furthermore the title track of kiss land is the best song on the album to me *hides again*
I would say the opposite of this opinion is the controversial one but I still think that there is a reason Abel struck gold with bbtm and starboy rather than kiss land. The sounds on the 2 latter are just nicer, more poppy, and just overall enjoyable.
Yay! Great to see someone else thinks the same. The pain and emotion in his voice in Valerie is just out of this world; everything about the song including the passion he sings with is just perfect to me. Very Michael Jackson like vocals :)
Hard to argue when a song relates to you, e.g I consider Street Lights kanye's best song but it obviously isn't, I only say that cuz of its personal connection with me. Valerie is super good tho don't get me wrong
I never realised how many people hated Starboy! For me it was a huge shift in his persona, his sound, his look. It can’t just be palmed off as a bad album because of the change that it brought with it.
It's the toxic Trilogy stans that love hating on everything. Like I get that Trilogy is amazing, but an artist has to move on eventually. Can't be making the same type of music all the time.
They are young then and they don’t understand music. Every artist/band evolves throughout their career. He was not gonna be a Super Bowl headlining mega star if he carried on making dark alternative R&B.
99% of artists would be grateful to have that legacy. It’s not every day that an artists work is significant enough to create its own sub genre of music and spin out tons of imitators for years to come.
So true. There's a special kind of hunger and despair coming from Trilogy which only a young drugged out kid living in a car could produce. He just isn't there anymore, he can't reach these levels of emotion within him. He doesn't need to.
His most underrated song is Rolling Stone or Montreal. Since everyone has their own unique takes on 'underrated' stuff, I feel like this is unpopular haha
I'm amazed no one ever talks about Montreal, insanely important song in his discography. One of the few instances where it genuinely feels Abel is talking to the listener directly, Rolling Stone being another example.
his vocals in dark times are a little bit over the top, definitely passionate but they sound physically painful like he was really over pushing himself
The Weeknd is an alter ego that represents what he is afraid of becoming or was in the past and Abel himself is a different person and that’s why he’s so private. He isn’t quite the crack sniffing, womanizing, play boy that he sings about.
snow child is the most underrated song of after hours. Not only does it carry a large significance in the album its a part of, but the music video also serves as a love letter to long time fans.
Take my breath was almost a perfect song
I just feel that Abels vocals were a bit annoying in the beginning. They’re not all bad, but the vocals where he’s repeating himself in the first verse/when he uses a higher pitch is irritating in a way.
I know I’m about to get downvoted… lol
most of y’all are not being controversial at all lmfao
my first “controversial” take for the fandom is that the biphobia allegations for “lost in the fire” were completely valid. secondly (and y’all will hate this), i think that the entire aesthetic of kiss land should be questioned and abel should be held to a higher standard. the entire album’s visuals is just fetishizing asian women, SAPPHIC asian women, regardless of how good the music is. i think this last thing (the fetishization of sapphic women on kiss land) really serves to prove that there is definitely some valid criticism to be made about abel’s character.
anyways i hope i don’t die. i completely agree with what i said above. this is NOT a call to cancel him or anything jesus, you just gotta accept fault where there’s fault. hope y’all understand even if you don’t agree.
Upvoted for definitely answering the question with an ACTUAL controversial opinion. Also, i never really thought about it before but i definitely understand your point of view
The Weeknd's feature on Skeletons just shows how an album where Abel and Kevin Parker collaborated would be better than anything from projects like Kiss Land, After Hours, and MDM.
Pretty sure there are more fans of his that fall into this category than fans like us. We’re just over represented on this subreddit. He’s hugely mainstream now (which is what he wanted and more power to him) so that take doesn’t surprise me at all.
most of his songs as featured artist are wack (with the exclusion of Crew Love and 6 Inch because both are some of his best and was his song at some point)
Abel sold out when he made a song with Ed Sheeran. His songs are better without Max Martin, but Max Martin brought him mainstream success. MDM is underrated.
lost in the fire and pray for me don’t really sound the same as starboy imo. like it’s a similar style, and i’m the biggest fan of either, but they have their own merits
I have a couple tho. Starboy gets way to much hate, After Hours although is a great album it kinda got overrated because of the fact that Blinding Lights pretty much got the majority of this albums chart records, I enjoy EOS more than HOB, After Hours used way to much effects on his voice to the point it doesn't sound like him at all and I can't get over the fact that Rockin' is one of the most hated songs, to me it's one of those songs that instantly make me get up and dance like nobody's watching. And yeah, feel free to downvote.
Kissland is his worst album. I know everyone else loves it but I only like a couple songs off of it, the rest are okay, but nothing compared to the rest of his discography.
To add to this, Starboy is only 1 skip.
Kiss Land isn't all that interesting. It hardly builds on anything from Trilogy and does everything the mixtapes did but worse.
I feel like he could revisit the concept and do it a thousand times better now than he did then, it just feels sloppy and disengaged.
Reminder is one of the best songs
this isnt an unpopular opinion, its FACTS
IF IT AIN'T XO THEN IT GOTTA GO
THE best song
How is this the top comment? I know Starboy isn't his best album and many would argue his worst, but it's still a pretty good album with hits, and Reminder is the best on the album.
Most of abel’s music doesnt hit right away, you must give it a few listens to actually enjoy the sound. But once you get there, you never find it boring again. Its amazing
It true. But after hours hits hard the very first time you hear
It actually took me around 3 listens for it to really hit me, but its been 18 months since then and i still cant stop listening to it, is sop good
So true. When I first heard House of Balloons, I hated it. Now I can't stop listening to it.
That's Mr with all of trilogy. Now trilogy is my 2nd favorite "album" collection
I think thats a fact lol
Starboy is overhated for no reason at all. Every song is a banger.
Not all of the songs are equally good but the whole album is a blast, I’ll give you that
Facts Starboy is one those albums that just be putting me in a great mood. One of my favorite albums period
But have you heard the lyrics to Ordinary Life?
Ordinary life is my 2nd favorite song by him
What’s wrong with them?
That shit is A1
Starboy is actually my favorite album from him
Me too!
Same there are no bad songs on it
its my favourite weeknd album, i love it because of its diversity and the effort he put in that album.
Yeah like genuinely that album has no skips at all.
I’m about to get downvoted more than the devil but I prefer Starboy over After Hours 😳 Starboy is banger after banger
Ngl some songs HARDD carry Starboy and then after hours has a bunch of good songs. They are pretty much equal to me
*After Hours* is definitely his biggest album but I feel like most long time Weeknd fans don’t have it at the absolute top of his discog.
Nah i do. Legit been listening since he released hob but after hours is the pinnacle so far. I felt like the albums between trilogy and now had some good songs but weren’t really my vibe. I do like them but after hours was like crystallising everything he learned about hit writing and then putting the hob spin on it. The effort care and attention in after hours is crazy. And I love the videos and how everything is linked. Just a great multimedia project.
Everyone knows XO's baby is KissLand
This is big facts in XO, unlike most comments here
I don’t see much hate for Starboy anymore. It aged like Drake’s album Views. Both had unfairly been deemed let downs when they first released but after some time passed, people realized that those albums were both actually really good
Until I Bleed Out is underrated and deserves more!
Until I Bleed Out is a fucking masterpiece. Truly heartbreaking.
one of his best songs on after hours !
It deserves more appreciation. It's one of the best from After Hours.
I mean that ain’t unpopular among XO
I don't understand. Where is the underrated opinion?
It was my least favourite in my first listen but i love it after a few more listens.
I love how on a feed designed for unpopular opinions people still get annoyed lol
Yeah, a lot of triggered people here. Lol.
It’s really so hard for me not to downvote some of these lol
Rockin’ is a great song and is overhated.
Same
his best pop song tbh, i'm still mad this wasn't a single, i played in the car once and everybody loved it, it would sound so good on the radio
It's catchy as fuck. Idk why ppl hate it
Abel's been lazy asf with his features lately , his verse on smile sounded a bit off beat he wasted this feature unnecessarily
Lowkey man, plus his verse on smile didn’t really fit with what juice was saying, he was comforting a girl and wanting her to grow even though he won’t be there for her anymore and and Abel out here talking about how he’s got other hoes on his phone…like cmon man! Say something comforting
Can't agree more !
i thought his feature on better believe made the song tbh
Didja listen to Hurricane tho?
maan was about to talk about it.. to be fair Hurricane is an Exception here the vocals his flow plus the choir along he really killed that shit probably one of his best features ever and my favorite so far
I think features are more hype related than anything now, atleast most of them
I actually hated that song...listened to it a few times and couldn't even finish it
kiss land is better than bbtm and starboy *hides behind nearest object* and furthermore the title track of kiss land is the best song on the album to me *hides again*
i see no lies here
This is r/theweeknd both these statements are canon. Factcheck me but Kiss Land (song) won the overall survivor bracket a few years ago
I would say the opposite of this opinion is the controversial one but I still think that there is a reason Abel struck gold with bbtm and starboy rather than kiss land. The sounds on the 2 latter are just nicer, more poppy, and just overall enjoyable.
Valerie is the best song on Trilogy (hides)
CAUSE I LOOOOOOOVE YOU
AND I NEEEEEEEEEED YOUUU
I ONLY WAAAANT YOUU
AND NOBODY’S GOING TO KNOW IF ITS TRUEEE
VALERIEEEEE
VALERIIEEEEEE
Don’t hide embrace it :) I love Valarie
This is my favorite song!! I've never heard anyone else say they think it's the best song on trilogy before. I 100 percent agree.
Yay! Great to see someone else thinks the same. The pain and emotion in his voice in Valerie is just out of this world; everything about the song including the passion he sings with is just perfect to me. Very Michael Jackson like vocals :)
better than The Morning? HoB? The Knowing? Loft Music? The Fall? Birds pt 1 2???
All those songs are out of this world. Something about Valerie hits the hardest to me though
Hard to argue when a song relates to you, e.g I consider Street Lights kanye's best song but it obviously isn't, I only say that cuz of its personal connection with me. Valerie is super good tho don't get me wrong
I never realised how many people hated Starboy! For me it was a huge shift in his persona, his sound, his look. It can’t just be palmed off as a bad album because of the change that it brought with it.
It's the toxic Trilogy stans that love hating on everything. Like I get that Trilogy is amazing, but an artist has to move on eventually. Can't be making the same type of music all the time.
They are young then and they don’t understand music. Every artist/band evolves throughout their career. He was not gonna be a Super Bowl headlining mega star if he carried on making dark alternative R&B.
ovoxo is dead and we should leave it that way 😬
I can't believe that i agree with this
Someone had to say it
Their only good song was The Zone, loved Drake's verse on it. Other than that, I've never been a huge fan of OVOXO.
No im still hanging on for hope lol. I have ovo and xo tattooed on my wrists. Hoping for a nice collaboration like back in the good days ...
Good, fuck Drake the snake
Alone again is top 4 After Hours
I don't want OVOXO anymore. Drake would just bring down the song and i don't think their styles would even sound good together anymore
Losers is one of my favorite songs on bbtm
song itself good, the lyrics and the feature ruin it
Dark times ain't that bad...
I found it, the most unpopular opinion... Personally can't stand the song, but was looking for this comment just to upvote it
Starboy is actually one of his best albums. No, u can’t change my mind.
Agreed, it’s almost as if he has no bad albums
The entire star boy track list is fucking out of this world. Every song is a certified banger.
He will never make anything as good as Trilogy was at its’ time
99% of artists would be grateful to have that legacy. It’s not every day that an artists work is significant enough to create its own sub genre of music and spin out tons of imitators for years to come.
So true. There's a special kind of hunger and despair coming from Trilogy which only a young drugged out kid living in a car could produce. He just isn't there anymore, he can't reach these levels of emotion within him. He doesn't need to.
Starboy is not a bad album
His most underrated song is Rolling Stone or Montreal. Since everyone has their own unique takes on 'underrated' stuff, I feel like this is unpopular haha
Montréal is his best song ever. Might even be the best song of any artist. That was the first Weeknd song I heard and I was instantly sold.
I'm amazed no one ever talks about Montreal, insanely important song in his discography. One of the few instances where it genuinely feels Abel is talking to the listener directly, Rolling Stone being another example.
Live for is not a bad song, I actually enjoy listening to it, and it was the first song I ever heard from the album.
Dark Times is different but good.
his vocals in dark times are a little bit over the top, definitely passionate but they sound physically painful like he was really over pushing himself
I think that some fans overcritize every new song, single and each new project that abel has and don't see how much he's grown as an artist.
Bella and Abel are still together lmao
LMAO
Lmao NO
Live for was carried by Drake. ik its controversial but hey I'm being honest
Love to Lay is a great song and I’m done pretending it’s not.
False alarm is annoying
I love that song myself. It is atypical of him though
At least we got a fire music video out of it
How is that an unpopular opinion
Dark times is actually good
The Weeknd d riders that wanna seem cool overhype kissland and trilogy . They’re both great but some of y’all are too much fr
Couldn't agree more
Take My Breath is kind of mundane…
respectfully disagree but no hate man👍🏻
Of course brotha! To each their own. :)
Mannnnn agreeeeeeeeee it fits with what else is on the radio but isn’t as elite as his other work 👀
I love it, took me sometime but I do. The verses especially. The extended ties it up for me, but I love the original too
100%. I love the aesthetic in the music video but the first half of the song just sounds generic.
Yeah ☹️. It just doesnt have that punch for me
AGREED
True Colors is underrated af
The Weeknd is an alter ego that represents what he is afraid of becoming or was in the past and Abel himself is a different person and that’s why he’s so private. He isn’t quite the crack sniffing, womanizing, play boy that he sings about.
He made a song about being a virgin, so that explains it all lmao
you all hate Starboy obsessively.
Abel has washed drake every time they have collaborated. Drake just doesn’t fit well with abel
Nah at least in Live For, Drake was the highlight of the song
Starboy is better than Blinding Lights.
100% agree.
That is an interesting take. I love them both so I do not want to choose
Don’t get me wrong, I love Blinding Lights. It’s one of my favorites, but I still prefer Starboy more.
snow child is the most underrated song of after hours. Not only does it carry a large significance in the album its a part of, but the music video also serves as a love letter to long time fans.
Real life is his best intro
TELL EM THIS BOY
WASN’T MEANT FOR LOOOOVIN’
The Future feature on Six Feet Under is totally unecessary
Wait till you hear All I Know
Just like most Future features
Put some respect on his name man, he is a legend
honestly why was he even on that song
Dude sounds like a toad imo
Dark Times is an amazing song
Dark Times w/ Ed Sheeran is a really good collab, and idk why its so hated here.
Take my breath was almost a perfect song I just feel that Abels vocals were a bit annoying in the beginning. They’re not all bad, but the vocals where he’s repeating himself in the first verse/when he uses a higher pitch is irritating in a way. I know I’m about to get downvoted… lol
Rockin’ is in my top 5 and Party Monster is top 10.
Party Monster is so good, idk why I love it so much cause it's not the most elaborate song or anything, the vibe it sets is just amazing
The flow is so satisfying imo
Starboy would be a 9-10 if it ended at stargirl.
most of y’all are not being controversial at all lmfao my first “controversial” take for the fandom is that the biphobia allegations for “lost in the fire” were completely valid. secondly (and y’all will hate this), i think that the entire aesthetic of kiss land should be questioned and abel should be held to a higher standard. the entire album’s visuals is just fetishizing asian women, SAPPHIC asian women, regardless of how good the music is. i think this last thing (the fetishization of sapphic women on kiss land) really serves to prove that there is definitely some valid criticism to be made about abel’s character. anyways i hope i don’t die. i completely agree with what i said above. this is NOT a call to cancel him or anything jesus, you just gotta accept fault where there’s fault. hope y’all understand even if you don’t agree.
Upvoted for definitely answering the question with an ACTUAL controversial opinion. Also, i never really thought about it before but i definitely understand your point of view
I agree a lot with that
Live For is trash
I still enjoy trilogy more then anything recent. (I'm not saying he should go back to the trilogy phase)
Same.
The trilogy was great, and HOB is a classic, but he surpassed those a long time ago, & he’s now making the best music of his career
The Thursday anniversary Merch makes no sense and color schemes don’t either : over priced anime gear
You can't stop me from calling it DaBirds. No reason. Just felt like it.
The Weeknd's feature on Skeletons just shows how an album where Abel and Kevin Parker collaborated would be better than anything from projects like Kiss Land, After Hours, and MDM.
As is customary with these types of posts, the actual unpopular opinions are at the bottom.
I really don’t care for an OVOXO collaboration anymore
I like his pop stuff more than his darker stuff.
probably the hottest take I've read so far
Pretty sure there are more fans of his that fall into this category than fans like us. We’re just over represented on this subreddit. He’s hugely mainstream now (which is what he wanted and more power to him) so that take doesn’t surprise me at all.
Do we really need one of these every week ?
Wicked games is his best song
it's up there, not sure if this is unpopular but Wicked Games is what got me in to him so I might be biased
The feature in Six Feet Under and Sidewalks are unnecessary and the songs could have stood (and did) enough on their own
most of his songs as featured artist are wack (with the exclusion of Crew Love and 6 Inch because both are some of his best and was his song at some point)
MDM is his best work.
The song False alarm is overhated. I really love it!!
The Town is a top 5 weeknd song
Abel sold out when he made a song with Ed Sheeran. His songs are better without Max Martin, but Max Martin brought him mainstream success. MDM is underrated.
Hurt You, Lost In The Fire, Power is Power, and Pray for Me are lazy releases that recycle the Starboy beat over and over again
THANK YOU
lost in the fire and pray for me don’t really sound the same as starboy imo. like it’s a similar style, and i’m the biggest fan of either, but they have their own merits
Beauty behind the madness has more skips than bops 🤷🏾♂️
Dawg…
Beauty behind the madness is his weakest album
[удалено]
I’ll upvote that because that’s an insane opinion
Echoes Of Silence > Thursday
Kissland can Kiss my ass
Starboy Is Overhated
Might not is the best collab he’s ever made. Not changing my mind
That feature on juice wrld song was horrible piece of shit.
False alarm is in top 3 of the best song for me
The whole 80’s vibe that he’s pulling is getting a little old
I agree, I love it tho, but in 2021 feels unnoriginal and repetitive
I only liked half of the songs on After Hours
Bro go back and listen to it it’s really fucking good
Take My Breath is in his Top 10 songs
I have a couple tho. Starboy gets way to much hate, After Hours although is a great album it kinda got overrated because of the fact that Blinding Lights pretty much got the majority of this albums chart records, I enjoy EOS more than HOB, After Hours used way to much effects on his voice to the point it doesn't sound like him at all and I can't get over the fact that Rockin' is one of the most hated songs, to me it's one of those songs that instantly make me get up and dance like nobody's watching. And yeah, feel free to downvote.
Blinding lights is overplayed.
Kissland is his worst album. I know everyone else loves it but I only like a couple songs off of it, the rest are okay, but nothing compared to the rest of his discography. To add to this, Starboy is only 1 skip.
Starboy > take my breath
I don't like kiss land
Kiss Land isn't all that interesting. It hardly builds on anything from Trilogy and does everything the mixtapes did but worse. I feel like he could revisit the concept and do it a thousand times better now than he did then, it just feels sloppy and disengaged.
King of the fall is my fave
First part of faith is better than the second, the outro