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       Okay, so I’ve talked about my beginning impressions of the album and my analysis of the songs up to “Is There Someone Else?”, so let’s just continue this.      After facing this mixing pot of emotions and thoughts, the Weeknd tries to find solace by helping someone he loves. In the song “Starry Eyes”, we hear a lot of isolated and echoey vocals that represent the Weeknd’s solo mission to heal this woman’s heart at the cost of his own. The song starts off with glee as he talks about how he finally met the girl of his dreams but realizes that she also carries her own trauma. Trying to help her be the best she can be, he sacrifices himself because he thinks he’s unfixable. Towards the end of the song, he says, “Back then, I was starry-eyed and now I’m so cynical baby, break me kick me to the curb.” The song “Sacrifices” showed a different perception of what the Weeknd thought of himself, but now we can see that he’s slowly losing grasp of that se...

       What’s up guys, it's been a while! I apologize for the lack of posts for these last couple of months, life’s been crazy with the recent MBA program I became a part of and everything else that’s been happening, but WE ARE BACK. And we’re back with analyzing the new Weeknd album, Dawn FM. I remember looking at After Hours both on my Twitch stream and on the blog previously, and I remember it being an unexpected but enjoyable project that fuses both the sounds of 80s music and modern pop. In that album, the Weeknd talks about his life choices regarding drug use, his relationships, and his overall mental state as he tries to find solutions to the toxic commitments he puts himself through. Now, two years later, we’re given something that I consider a sequel through Dawn FM. So, let's just get into this.      We start off with the song “Dawn FM” which sets the stage for the odyssey the Weeknd plans on putting us through. We hear a lot of echoey voca...