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** The music video to "Starboy" opens up with a man in a black ski mask killing The Weekend by suffocating him to death. The man in the mask is revealed to be the new incarnation of The Weeknd, but with a new hairdo, and what does he do? [[TrashTheSet He violently trashes his house!]]

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** The music video to "Starboy" opens up with a man in a black ski mask killing The Weekend Weeknd by suffocating him to death. The man in the mask is revealed to be the new incarnation of The Weeknd, but with a new hairdo, and what does he do? [[TrashTheSet He violently trashes his house!]]
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** The music video to "Starboy" opens up with a man in a black ski mask killing The Weekend by suffocating him to death. The man in the mask is revealed to be the new incarnation of The Weeknd, but with a new hairdo, and what does he do? [[TrashTheSet He violently trashes his house!]]
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* SignatureSong: [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey "Earned It"]] or, more recently, [[BlackSheepHit "Can't Feel My Face"]]. Most of his fans, however, would say either "Often" or "Wicked Games".

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* SignatureSong: [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey "Earned It"]] or, more recently, [[BlackSheepHit "Can't Feel My Face"]]. Most of his fans, however, would say either "Often" or "Wicked Games".Face", although "Earned It" and "The Hills" are not far behind.
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* FandomBerserkButton: It's The Weeknd, not "The Weekend"! And he's a singer, not a band!
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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Wicked Games", "Lonely Star", "The Birds Part 1 and 2", "[=XO/TheHost=]", "Montreal", "Kiss Land", "Pretty", his remix of "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]", "Often", "King of the Fall", "Earned It", "In the Night", "The Hills", "Angel" and "Can't Feel My Face".

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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Wicked Games", "Lonely Star", "The Birds Part 1 and 2", "[=XO/TheHost=]", "[=XO/The Host=]", "Montreal", "Kiss Land", "Pretty", his remix of "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]", "Often", "King of the Fall", "Earned It", "In the Night", "The Hills", "Angel" and "Can't Feel My Face".
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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Wicked Games", "Lonely Star", "The Birds Part 1 and 2", "XO/TheHost", "Montreal", "Kiss Land", "Pretty", his remix of "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]", "Often", "King of the Fall", "Earned It", "In the Night", "The Hills", "Angel" and "Can't Feel My Face".

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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Wicked Games", "Lonely Star", "The Birds Part 1 and 2", "XO/TheHost", "[=XO/TheHost=]", "Montreal", "Kiss Land", "Pretty", his remix of "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]", "Often", "King of the Fall", "Earned It", "In the Night", "The Hills", "Angel" and "Can't Feel My Face".
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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Wicked Games", "Lonely Star", his remix of "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]", "Often", "King of the Fall", "Earned It", "In the Night", "The Hills", "Angel" and "Can't Feel My Face".

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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Wicked Games", "Lonely Star", "The Birds Part 1 and 2", "XO/TheHost", "Montreal", "Kiss Land", "Pretty", his remix of "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]", "Often", "King of the Fall", "Earned It", "In the Night", "The Hills", "Angel" and "Can't Feel My Face".
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** "Life of the Party," which is probably the closest The Weeknd has come to making outright Industrial music.

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** "Life of the Party," which is probably the closest The Weeknd has come to making outright Industrial {{industrial}} music.
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** "Life of the Party," which is probably the closest The Weeknd has come to making outright IndustrialMusic.

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** "Life of the Party," which is probably the closest The Weeknd has come to making outright IndustrialMusic.Industrial music.
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** "Life of the Party," which is probably the closest The Weeknd has come to making outright IndustrialMusic.
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* MisaimedFandom: As with most music that features copious drug abuse and an UnreliableNarrator, there's a certain subset of the fandom that takes the whole thing at face value.



* TearJerker: "In The Night" tells the story of a girl whom the narrator is in love with, but she is incapable of loving him back because of a male abuser in her past.

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* TearJerker: "In The Night" tells the story of a girl whom the narrator is in love with, but she is incapable of loving him back because of a male abuser in her past.past.
** [[TheMasochismTango "Wicked Games."]]
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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Wicked Games", "Lonely Star", his remix of "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]", "Often", "King of the Fall", "Earned It", "In the Night", "The Hills" and "Can't Feel My Face".

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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Wicked Games", "Lonely Star", his remix of "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]", "Often", "King of the Fall", "Earned It", "In the Night", "The Hills" Hills", "Angel" and "Can't Feel My Face".
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** The man who appears at the end of the video for "The Hills" is the same man in "Can't Feel My Face" who sets Abel on fire. One interpretation implies that the man is the devil himself.

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* SignatureSong: [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey "Earned It"]] or, more recently, [[BlackSheepHit "Can't Feel My Face"]]. Most of his fans, however, would say either "Often" or "Wicked Games".

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** The interlude in the "In The Night" video where the song stops [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iFa5We6zqw around the 3:18 mark]]. The video itself contains references to sex trafficking.
* SignatureSong: [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey "Earned It"]] or, more recently, [[BlackSheepHit "Can't Feel My Face"]]. Most of his fans, however, would say either "Often" or "Wicked Games".Games".
* TearJerker: "In The Night" tells the story of a girl whom the narrator is in love with, but she is incapable of loving him back because of a male abuser in her past.

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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Wicked Games", "Lonely Star", his remix of "[[{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]", "Often", "King of the Fall"
** "The Hills" and "Can't Feel My Face" can be added to this

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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Wicked Games", "Lonely Star", his remix of "[[{{Beyonce}} "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]", "Often", "King of the Fall"
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Fall", "Earned It", "In the Night", "The Hills" and "Can't Feel My Face" can be added to thisFace".
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** "The Hills" and "Can't Feel My Face" can be added to this

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* NightmareFuel: "Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsQuicker by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck. "The Hills" is even worse.

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"Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsQuicker by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck. fuck.
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"The Hills" is even worse.(which cuts to black after discovering a creepy man in an attic).
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The Weeknd\'s version has been in at least one movie trailer, and the Venn diagram of people who are aware of Goulding but unaware of The Weeknd is likely extremely small.


* CoveredUp: People unaware of The Weeknd probably consider "High for This" to be an Music/EllieGoulding song (her cover is on her album ''Halcyon''). Also doubles as HilariousInHindsight given that they are the pair of artists behind the two hit singles from ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey.''
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** "Kiss Land" really does sound like something from the works of horror director Creator/JohnCarpenter, with the heavy synthesizers and the screaming woman.
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* NightmareFuel: "Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsQuicker by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck. The video for "The Hills" is even worse.

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* NightmareFuel: "Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsQuicker by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck. The video for "The Hills" is even worse.
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* CoveredUp: People unaware of The Weeknd probably consider "High for This" to be an EllieGoulding song (her cover is on her album ''Halcyon''). Also doubles as HilariousInHindsight given that they are the pair of artists behind the two hit singles from ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey.''

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* CoveredUp: People unaware of The Weeknd probably consider "High for This" to be an EllieGoulding Music/EllieGoulding song (her cover is on her album ''Halcyon''). Also doubles as HilariousInHindsight given that they are the pair of artists behind the two hit singles from ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey.''



* NightmareFuel: "Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsQuicker by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck. "The Hills" is even worse.

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* NightmareFuel: "Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsQuicker by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck. The video for "The Hills" is even worse.
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* NightmareFuel: "Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsQuicker by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck.

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* NightmareFuel: "Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsQuicker by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck. "The Hills" is even worse.
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* SignatureSong: "Earned It."

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* SignatureSong: [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey "Earned It."It"]] or, more recently, [[BlackSheepHit "Can't Feel My Face"]]. Most of his fans, however, would say either "Often" or "Wicked Games".
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* NightmareFuel: "Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsBetter by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck.

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* NightmareFuel: "Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsBetter [[ButLiquorIsQuicker by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck.

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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: "Earned It"'s runaway success on radio was completely unexpected, as it was rather unlike anything heard on pop radio. Additionally, the song was on the ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' soundtrack and looked like it would be dubiously overshadowed by the cleaner and more radio-friendly ''Love Me Like You Do'' by the much more established Ellie Goulding.



* CoveredUp: People unaware of The Weeknd probably consider "High for This" to be an EllieGoulding song (her cover is on her album ''Halcyon'').

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* CoveredUp: People unaware of The Weeknd probably consider "High for This" to be an EllieGoulding song (her cover is on her album ''Halcyon''). Also doubles as HilariousInHindsight given that they are the pair of artists behind the two hit singles from ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey.''



* NightmareFuel: "Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsBetter by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck.

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* NightmareFuel: "Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsBetter by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck.fuck.
* SignatureSong: "Earned It."
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* FirstInstallmentWins: ''House of Balloons'' gets the most critical acclaim of everything he's released. There are a few factors: the songwriting is regarded as superior ("High For This" and "Wicked Games" still get the biggest reception at gigs), the confidence of the atmosphere and general aesthetic, its role in establishing [[https://twitter.com/marathonpacks/status/50357404524752896 PBR&B]] as a genre along with [[{{OFWGKTA}} Frank Ocean]], plus the deliberate mystery cultivated around it - when it first came out, people assumed The Weeknd was a band or even Drake producer Noah "40" Shebib.
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* CoveredUp: People unaware of The Weeknd probably consider "High for This" to be an Ellie Goulding song (her cover is on her album ''Halcyon'').

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* CoveredUp: People unaware of The Weeknd probably consider "High for This" to be an Ellie Goulding EllieGoulding song (her cover is on her album ''Halcyon'').

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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Lonely Star", his remix of "[[{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]".

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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Wicked Games", "Lonely Star", his remix of "[[{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]".Love]]", "Often", "King of the Fall"
* CoveredUp: People unaware of The Weeknd probably consider "High for This" to be an Ellie Goulding song (her cover is on her album ''Halcyon'').
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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Lonely Star", his remix of "[[{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]".

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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Lonely Star", his remix of "[[{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]".Love]]".
* NightmareFuel: "Initiation". The title refers to how the narrator gets his woman: [[ButLiquorIsBetter by getting her high]] [[GratuitousRape and forcing her to have sex with all of his friends.]] The vocals also constantly shift up and down in pitch, mimicking the nameless girl's intoxicated state of mind, as well as being creepy as fuck.
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* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Lonely Star", his remix of "[[{{Beyonce}} Drunk In Love]]".

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