base talk What is The Weeknd doing? One of the worst rollouts?

[PYT]

Releasing a 4th single with another Apple ad and synth-pop sound but this time it's even worse... It can only be watched exclusively first on Apple Vision Pro... Someone saying this is his Witness 💀

Edited yesterday at 06:20 AM by PYT

[CherryBay]

Apple must being more than music royalties at this point then 

[ariananext]

seriously, i'm so bored

[tjspy]

A Radically Optimistic experience!

[watermelonshake]

I have no idea why he hasn't just announced the album release date, like what is happening

[piotrert]

what in corpo-shiling is this. recorded on iphone music videos are annoying enough, but this is next level

[TeeJay]

He has always been boring imo. Never got the hype around him.

[trainsskyscrapers]

Are we surprised? Not only is there fatigue from "Blinding Lights" (which is still played heavily on radio and has solid streaming numbers), his sleeper hits with Ariana Grande ("Save Your Tears" / "Die For You"), and that weekly onslaught of mediocre tracks from The Idol...  but you can clearly tell he wants this trilogy to be over.

 

I've noticed that pretty much every modern album era of his starts with that dual hip-hop / pop-dance set of singles, coupled with a left-field, darker promotional single to keep people guessing. This time around, the pop single "Dancing In The Flames" simply performed more like the underperforming "Take My Breath", rather than "Can't Feel My Face", "Blinding Lights", and "I Feel It Coming".

 

He has the top 5 hip-hop dual lead single already (Timeless), the slightly left-field promotional track (Brazilian funk-influenced "Sao Paolo"), and the stadium dance record ("Dancing In The Flames"). The album is coming.

Edited yesterday at 07:40 AM by trainsskyscrapers

[laqqinq]

This whole album/movie is a marketing ploy for his big multimillion-dollar Apple partnership

 

[Bicassie]

he a joke now

[Kayseri Mantisi]

Apple is ruining not just the technology but the music scene too now 

[BabyBenzz]

what a dud, he's flopping 

[Dolce Vita]

not a vision pro exclusive video

[Taylor fanboy]

Surprised UMG allowed him. 

[Smarticle]

 hopefully gaga didn't sign up for an iphone mv again

[Kayseri Mantisi]

4 minutes ago, Dolce Vita said:

not a vision pro exclusive video

if EVERY Apple Vision Pro user watched the video, it would've gotten 400K views at max  

[PYT]

1 hour ago, Kayseri Mantisi said:

if EVERY Apple Vision Pro user watched the video, it would've gotten 400K views at max  

Apple Vision Pro = $3499

 

Fans going bankrupt before the album release 

[ScorpiosGroove]

2 hours ago, watermelonshake said:

I have no idea why he hasn't just announced the album release date, like what is happening

bc he can't get a hit, all of the singles are flopping back to back so he's churning out random bait to see what sticks before announcing an album 

[KMO]

Well I had no idea he had a new album campaign going, let alone the fact that he's four singles deep into it?

 

I feel like his sheen wore off after his team/label tried really desperately to make key moments from his Super Bowl performance into viral video snippets for Twitter. 

[Supervillain]

The way his album pre-order was uploaded months ago without a release date is so…  

[GipJo]

1 hour ago, Kayseri Mantisi said:

if EVERY Apple Vision Pro user watched the video, it would've gotten 400K views at max  

More like 200K, unless Apple makes the video autoplayed when you put it on.

 

OT: The Idol clearly had some very negative impact on his career, goes to show you that acting is not for every singer, even for a music related project.

Edited yesterday at 09:40 AM by GipJo

[KMO]

2 minutes ago, GipJo said:

More like 200K, unless Apple makes the video autoplayed when you put it on.

 

OT: The Idol clearly had some very negative impact on his career, goes to show you that acting is not for every singer, even for a music related project.

and y'all are being generous here, assuming every AVP owner still actively uses theirs—or even turns it on.

[PYT]

6 minutes ago, KMO said:

Well I had no idea he had a new album campaign going, let alone the fact that he's four singles deep into it?

 

I feel like his sheen wore off after his team/label tried really desperately to make key moments from his Super Bowl performance into viral video snippets for Twitter. 

Wait this meme?

 

[illia]

19 minutes ago, GipJo said:

OT: The Idol clearly had some very negative impact on his career, goes to show you that acting is not for every singer, even for a music related project.

A song from The Idol (OOTG) is literally in top 30 Spotfy and has had fantastic longevity for months

No1gaf about that show or his character in it, his new singles are just not it 

Edited yesterday at 09:58 AM by illia

[PYT]

12 minutes ago, GipJo said:

More like 200K, unless Apple makes the video autoplayed when you put it on.

 

OT: The Idol clearly had some very negative impact on his career, goes to show you that acting is not for every singer, even for a music related project.

Idk I don't think The Idol affected it like that. I think people are just tired of his synth-pop sound. He's done it with 2 albums back to back already... This would be the 3rd album with him releasing synth-pop songs as his lead and likely last single.