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Dawn FM is a concept album, sort of.
from aria
by Annalee Mora
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. 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.
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, altpop, and 2-step garage.
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