Album Rating: 4.0

"Maybe I'll just check the trilogy after this for the fuck of it"

Do this. The best thing that came out of After Hours for me was that it convinced me to check House of Balloons and goddamn is that pushing hard to be an insta-5. And I don't even like R&B all that much.

Agreed HoB makes this look average by comparison

Y’all just refuse to see the benefits that can come from a project being a multi-million dollar endeavor. Lesser artists literally can’t afford to make an album that sounds this good, same holds true when comparing it to Trilogy-era weeknd, imo.

Not that money makes an album good, but in The Weeknd’s case, it certainly helps him fully realize his sound.

Album Rating: 4.0

There's certainly something to be said for production, but it doesn't replace songwriting. HoB and really the entire trilogy is way more interesting. This album has 4-5 great songs but also a lot of forgettable, supremely-glossed fluff.

Maybe I just have expensive taste, but I prefer Oreos over Cookies-n-Creme flavored wafer thins.

Idk, what you call fluff is a style hundreds of millions of people are digging and rallying behind rn, for good reason. Just look at the numbers he’s putting in.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

This really works as an album. Probably his most cohesive studio album



@noler: yeah I always find it hilarious when people are throwing "shade" at celebrities online, when those celebrities have a bigger impact than the keyboard warriors will ever have. For better or worse

Album Rating: 2.5

"a million flies can't be wrong!" argument. Strong case.

Album Rating: 4.0

absolutely agreed. i honestly ignored his whole career after HoB came out until this

rabidfish would hate Thriller if it came out in 2020

Album Rating: 2.5

art is a product of its time. Another terrible argument to be made.

Bout the same to me. Both wildly successful and wildly good commercial records, that enlightened hipsters will (or have) inevitably shit on.

Does that mean all popular music should be admired and adored by default because others like it?

no.

you're using that as justification of quality tho so by saying no you're just contradicting yourself and spouting fountainous turds out your ass like a butt geyser

Album Rating: 2.5

Except thats exactly what you meant.

Theres no merit at all in being a contrarian, sure, but theres none either for not being one.

It means something having a following, in and of itself, is a terrible reason to not like a project.. In fact it’s the opposite. It should, at the very least, be incentive to check it out.

Something having a following can only be a positive, or a non-factor. Other factors (obviously) still apply.

Your comment seemed to respond to Sowing though, and he mentioned nothing about a following; he just disliked the perceived fluff. Following was mentioned by you as a defense.

As someone who tends to favor bandcamp artists of little note in the industry, following is moot to me, and it certainly doesn't indicate quality.

I don’t care how annoying the fans are.

I’m more talking to rabid now.