YES LORD! When you’re right you’re right, playa. It had a video but wasn’t an official single. The production is vintage Kanye and The Weeknd’s performance is flawless. This track had me on the first listen to Beauty Behind the Madness, which is saying something considering how big the actual singles were. Name an album cut that should have been a single I was going to select “Secrets,” but “Rockin” is even more forgettable. I didn’t even remember “Rockin” until Troy mentioned it, so let’s go with that one. You can pick almost anything from Starboy (besides the title track, “Reminder” and “Party Monster”) and I’ll likely throw it away. Like most things on his Starboy album, the synths are a bit awkward and too bloated for me on “Rockin.’” I don’t know if any of The Weeknd’s singles are bad (He’s good at picking which songs to push). It’s certainly not his most accessible song (like “I Can’t Feel My Face”) or his most fun (maybe “I Feel It Coming”) but it’s certainly the most Weeknd of them all. The distorted vocals, the toxic relationships, the drug-induced haze enveloping all of it – it’s Weeknd at his self-destructive best. It introduced most people to The Weeknd and when it comes to his brand of drugs, shame and pain … well, it doesn’t get more monumental.Īs much as I want to say “Often,” I feel like “The Hills” is the most Weeknd song that ever Weeknd’d. It’s like the bad beta test for After Hours and Dawn FM, both of which are much better.
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I know it’s held in high regard by his current pop fanbase – it was the origin story of Weeknd’s incessant SynthMania, after all – but the bloated runtime and repetitive tracklist kill it dead.
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Chalk me up as one of those fans that love Kiss Land.