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Show Review: The Weeknd’s After Hours til Dawn

On Saturday, July 30, The Weeknd (aka Abel Tesfaye) finally arrived at FedEx Field outside Washington D.C. for a soldout crowd. The two-hour performance came after numerous cancellations, the second one preceded with a promise that The Weeknd was committed to delivering something “bigger and better.”

The 32-year-old singer has been on six previous tours for more than six top-performing projects. The “After Hours til Dawn Tour” included some of The Weeknd’s greatest hits, with an emphasis on newest albums Dawn FM and After Hours.

The tour comes shortly after (debatably) the height of the singer’s career – when “Blinding Lights” earned him both the title of Spotify’s second most streamed song of all time and the Super Bowl 2021 halftime show.

Stadium shows are rare and special experiences by the biggest names in music. A stadium tour is (one of) the ultimate achievements in an artist’s career.

The Weeknd embraced his stardom with the “After Hours til Dawn” tour. With production, transitions, dancers and a twohour long setlist, Tesfaye’s attention to detail shined through and created an experience that exceeded the characteristics of just any concert.

The Weeknd embraced his stardom with the “After Hours til Dawn” tour. With production, transitions, dancers and a two-hour long setlist, Tesfaye’s attention to detail shined through and created an experience that exceeded the characteristics of just any concert.

We might have noticed that there was something universally, perversely relatable about the Weeknd’s music when songs from his 2015 album appeared on the 50 Shades of Grey soundtrack and were nominated for a Kids’ Choice Award. To think that Abel Tesfaye—who rose to fame somewhat anonymously with sweaty mixtures about Alizé for breakfast and pills that burned his brain—would one day go on to play the Super Bowl would have felt bizarre to even his fans. But after a long album rollout for 2020’s After Hours wherein the singer had his face made up with bruises, blood, and bandages, there he was on the most-watched telecast of 2021—92 million people tuning in—looking like a quarter-billion bucks. A decade after his initial rise to fame, he had ascended to true Starboy status, glistening in a red sequin suit, performing hit after hit from his catalog, pop’s antihero taking his rightful place on the throne.

Conceptualized around listening to a retro-pop radio station in purgatory, Abel Tesfaye’s fifth album is the most thoughtful, melodic, and revealing project of his career.

Dawn FM is a concept album, sort of.

In interviews, Tesfaye has said that the album plays like listening to a kind of adult contemporary radio station as you sit in a traffic jam in the tunnel, only the tunnel is purgatory and the light at the end of the tunnel is death. For the most part, Tesfaye earns this framework—he doesn’t toss out half–baked theories on the meaning of life as much as he prods at the looming dread and terror inherent to it. He filled his early-career songs with metaphorical self-destruction; on “Gasoline,” he sings about setting himself on fire: “It’s 5 a.m./I’m nihilist/I know there’s nothing after this,” he drones in a disarming British accent, bluntly

summarizing his entire discography. His previous itch was for drugged-out oblivion, but Dawn FM is all about annihilation. Interspersed with his real-life neighbor Jim Carrey playing a blissed-out radio DJ and parody commercials for the afterlife, Dawn FM takes the Weeknd on a literal death drive.

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“Good vibes seem to be in the air now Somebody starts jumping, we all follow on Come down, it’s coming down but for now we move On and on and on and on and on and on and

on and on”

“I could do a better job myself Can we just try, to like, do it all ourselves?”

“It’s sad that I Prepare to be so young ‘til the end of time

I realized

When I struggled to get out of my room last night Got on my phone

And I begged for my brother to take me home

When he asked why

I said I’d rather be here alone”

“Groove, let the madness in the music get to you Life ain’t so bad at all If you live it off the wall”

A concept album is a collection of songs written by a musician or group that is based around a central theme or concept. These themes can be compositional, lyrical, instrumental, or narrative. The term can be subjective though; the widest definition would encompass all soundtracks, tribute albums, Christmas albums, etc., but in general, the term is applied to rock and popular music albums made from the 1940s onward that contain a centralizing theme. This is different from

non-concept albums, which contain standalone, unrelated tracks.

‘Crybaby’ by Melanie Martinez ‘IGOR’ by Tyler, The Creator ‘Blurryface’ by Twenty One Pilots ‘The Black Parade’ by My Chemical Romance

PinkPantheress (born 18 April 2001) is an English singer and record producer. Her songs, which are frequently short in length and include samples of music from the 1990s and 2000s, span a number of genres, including bedroom pop, drum and bass, alt-pop, and 2-step garage.

piri & tommy (stylised in lowercase) were an English drum and bass group, formed in 2021. The group was formed of Sophie “piri” McBurnie and Tommy Villiers. The pair charted at number 99 in the Official UK Charts with their single “on & on”. They released their debut mixtape froge.mp3 in October 2022.

PinkPantheress and Charli XCX are fans of the group. They have received a total

of over 31 million streams on Spotify, and can be heard frequently on the BBC Radio 1 playlist.

Princess Diana - Ice Spice

Mini Mix Vol. 3 - Magdalena Bay

72 seasons - Metallica

NEVER ENOUGH - Daniel Caesar

No Idols - Domo Genesis & The Alchemist

Double Fantasy - The Weeknd

The Weeknd and Ariana Grande’s ‘Die For You (Remix)’ Is a Remix to Die For

The remix proved to be a massive success by surpassing 30 million streams on Spotify, becoming Grande’s fastest remix song to reach this mark. Days after the release of the remix, The Weeknd became the first artist to surpass 100 million listeners on Spotify. If anything, “Die For You (Remix)” goes on to show that duets between The Weeknd and Ariana Grande never

fail to impress, even if she has more of a supporting role in this remix. His agile, flexible falsetto and her sultry, whistle tones successfully — and will hopefully continue to — join forces to bless our ears and remind us of the true powerhouses they have always been.

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