The Weeknd has finally released his long-awaited new single at midnight in New York. The album that the artist is presenting is called ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ and closes the trilogy opened with ‘After Hours’ and ‘Dawn FM’.
It was therefore to be expected that she would opt for an 80s aesthetic and a synth-pop sound. The same one that made ‘Blinding Lights’ the most successful song in the history of Spotify, with over 4 billion streams.
The Weeknd offers us here a neon production, with synthesizers that are increasingly close to heaven, and a melody that is closer to Italian songs, as he also showed in ‘Save Your Tears’. Like this one, it is beautiful. In the credits there are only, and apart from him, Oscar Holter and Max Martin, who is not exactly known for breaking his head. Nor for failing commercially, either. ‘Dancing in the Flames’ is our Song of the Day today.
The video also delves into an aesthetic in keeping with what we’ve seen in the immediately preceding eras. Abel Tesfaye is on a bumpy car ride, struggling to get home. According to the lyrics, he’s going through an “odyssey.” One might wish the music were more “indescribable,” as the chorus proclaims. Is this the track that deserved exactly five hundred and sixty-eight teasers throughout the summer?
On the other hand, it should be remembered that the day ‘Blinding Lights’ came out, many thought it was a Mercedes advert. And now, look. A hint of what’s going to happen: ‘Dancing in the Flames’ is already at the top of that money-making machine called Today’s Top Hits.
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