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Official video for The Weeknd's Rolling Stone, which is a lot less coke-addled than the homemade YouTube videos of tracks from the Trilogy would have us believe.
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Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
There is something abour more mainstream covering r'n'b/hip hop tracks that gets me really excited. I think it's the unexpected realisation that artists listen to genres complete other to the music they make. High For This is arguably one of the biggest tracks of 2011 and it completely revolutionised what we called r'n'b now. Xaphoon Jones production makes it suited to Ellie's stlye, so although it still sounds dark, it's still as electronic as we kow her to be.
Ellie Goulding - High For This (The Weeknd Cover)
Saturday, 24 December 2011
The Weeknd, signing of Drake, has been working over time in the last few months. Echoes of Silence is the third in a string of mixtapes since March this year, as well as the material he had done previously.The first track D.D. is an an acronym of Dirty Diana which he covers convincingly. It is almost as if the music he has been making is an extension of this and it reminds us all that Michael Jackson was way ahead of his time. Of course, Abel makes it his own by using deep synths and his soaring background vocal.
It's impossible to say all of the tracks sound fresh because we've have two offerings of a similar thing, but it shows a uniformity because it is a trilogy after all. It is becoming obvious how his style developing and you almost feel proud to be a part of it. It is going to be interesting to see how the Balloons trilogy varies from future material, but for now we have nine new songs to add to our collection.
XO.
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