Firstly, infinite ROFL that Tesfaye has managed to take both a sample and lyric from The Smiths' sad-faced unrequited love anthem, “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”, and turned it into a sweetboy track which is essentially about fucking. Beyond The Smiths nod, “Enemy” offers some relatively sparse and crisp production, allowing the focus to stay on Tesfaye’s voice as it does its vulnerable lothario thing front and center. The operative phrase is “Girl I’m just trying to make you __ without a word,” and you may fill in the blank with high, numb, sleep, or cum. Like y… read more
Firstly, infinite ROFL that Tesfaye has managed to take both a sample and lyric from The Smiths' sad-faced unrequited love anthem, “Please Pleas… read more
Firstly, infinite ROFL that Tesfaye has managed to take both a sample and lyric from The Smiths' sad-faced unrequited love anthem, “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”, and… read more
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, popularly known as The Weeknd (born February 16, 1990 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian R&B/hip-hop musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He chose his stage name in tribute to when he was 17 years old, when, along with his friend La Mar Taylor, he dropped out of high school, took his mattress, and "left one weekend and never came home". However, his estranged former producer Jeremy Rose claims the name was his idea. The letter E was excluded to avoid trademark problems with the Canadian band The Weekend. The Weeknd gained wid… read more
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, popularly known as The Weeknd (born February 16, 1990 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian R&B/hip-hop musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He … read more
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, popularly known as The Weeknd (born February 16, 1990 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada), is a Canadian R&B/hip-hop musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He chose his stage name in tribute to when he was… read more