I just wanna take you there...Spotlight: The Weeknd

Been meaning to blog about The Weeknd for some time, should have since he's mostly what I've been listening to for the last few months.

Abel Tesfaye a.k.a. The Weeknd





The Weeknd has been out for some time now, his infectious voice is perfect chill/mood music.  The instrumentals he uses also make all 16 songs he has come out with perfection.  Before this year he was known as The Noise, a semi-attractive R&B singer from Canada.  Most of his songs are based on sex and drugs, but the way he speaks about these things doesn't make it seem too lewd.  His mixtape House of Balloons features 9 songs- long enough for a prolonged car ride- and is one you can listen to straight through.  I had a song on ITunes from him called Material Girl before I knew it was him, and if you can't tell already I am obsessed with this dude.

It drove me crazy that at first no one knew what he looked like, there are tons of videos on Youtube of fans creating videos based on how people think his videos would have been if he had made any for this mixtape.

To hear House of Balloons and singles he has come out with as The Noise, click here and here (courtesy of DatPiff)

"What You Need"