This is an accomplished gang of songwriter-producers, but the end result is Weeknd music: falsetto nihilism dressed in an Armani suit.
The Adam Sandler crime drama, a hit in Telluride and Toronto, has "real cinephile" the Weeknd singing — and fighting — in "punk"-ier 2012. Much was made of the fact that Abel Tesfaye’s name showed up ...
In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...