One line he’s singing “I’ll be different”, the next is “I think I’ll be different” and then finally “I hope I’m not different.”Īnd that brings us to the tape’s closer, “Heaven or Las Vegas”. Confusion sets in at the end though because he is still unsure of what he wants. He’s worried about how the ineluctable fame will have women want him for that reason and not for himself. The morning after the party, he starts questioning his feelings and thinks he might actually want this girl to love him. “Rolling Stone” shows Abel at his most vulnerable state. The possible shifting of his intentions show up here when he allows her to drink the codeine that he values so much. “Gone” is like “The Zone”, piecing together their next hook up. But her response in “The Birds Part 2” is that she already fell in love with him and wants him to wait till she loses her feelings for him before he inevitably cheats on her.īut with her statement “it won’t be long till I fall out of love” from the previous song, she insists that she doesn’t want this to explicitly end. Drake’s verse doesn’t necessarily tie in with Abel’s story but it fits the theme of the tape and closes out the song perfectly.Ībel feels the need to remind the girl in “The Birds Part 1” that falling in love with him will be useless, because he’s done this exact thing plenty of times. Their first time together is more influenced by the codeine he’s been drinking than actual feelings. The Drake-assisted “The Zone” is not only one of the best songs from the tape, but it also reiterates the fact that she isn’t anything more than a hook up to him. The title track “Thursday”, reiterates that she’s not different from the rest and that his feelings for her drastically change from day-to-day. She’s starting to become exactly what Abel wanted her to be from the innocent, lonely girl to a drug-induced whore. “Welcome to the other side,” he cries out in “Life of the Party” – a signal of the transformation the girl has made since the previous song. After getting some drugs in her system, she starts bringing his plan to life. The girl doesn’t have much of a past because of a lack of relationships, so Abel takes her under his arm and shows she can have whatever she wants. In the opener “Lonely Star”, Abel meets what could be his next hook up. However, the story’s antagonist doesn’t provoke the same feelings that the other girls do.
Still heartbroken from a previous relationship, the nine-track project unravels as a story, documenting Abel’s process of finding girls to hook up with. The entire tape sort of plays off “Wicked Games” from House of Balloons. Unlike the first mixtape, Thursday should make a very good first impression. With many more listens, it can be among one’s favorite projects of 2011. However, a few more listens should do the trick. Listening to House of Balloons for the first might not impress people. In just the first day alone, Thursday was downloaded over 180,000 times an incredible number for a still relatively unknown artist. Just shortly after, the site crashed, which caused many people to search for alternate links. Two days later (obviously on a Thursday), the highly anticipated mixtape was released on his website. On the 16th, Abel simply tweeted “this one…” Everyone knew what was finally coming soon. But once the lights turned off at Molson Amphitheatre, he went back into hiding and the release date of Thursday was still unknown. Abel Tesfaye did, however, host his first concert in early July and later performed at OVO Fest on the 31st. Just a few weeks after hearing the universally acclaimed, out-of-nowhere release House of Balloons, any fan’s hype level for the next chapter of the three-part trilogy should be through the roof.īesides some tweets in May saying Thursday was coming soon along with two “singles” in “Rolling Stone” and “The Birds Part 1” released within the same timeframe, there wasn’t much news behind the mysterious mixtape. When it comes to The Weeknd’s newest mixtape, Thursday, many music fans weren’t just thirsty for it – they were parched.
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