History YMMV / TheWeeknd

* EarWorm:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTuBuRdAyA "I only call you when it's half! Past! Five! The onllllly time I'd even call! You! Mine! I love it when you touch me, not feel me, when I'm fucked up, that's the real me..."]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Na4j8AVgA "Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Look what you done, ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! I'm a motherfuckin' Starboy!"]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diW6jXhLE0E "I've seen her take down that tequila, down by the liter! I knew I had to meet her! Bump and grind, oooh girl bump and grind, lips like Angelina, ass shaped like Selena..."]]

* BlondieIsABand: An inversion, in his early days many people thought The Weeknd was a band.

* FandomBerserkButton: It's The Weeknd, not "The Weekend"! And he's a singer, not a band!

* CounterpartComparison: The Weeknd has frequently been compared to Music/MichaelJackson and Abel himself cites Jackson as one of his biggest inspirations. Many critics have noted the similarities of "Can't Feel My Face" to "Billie Jean" and "In The Night" to "Leave Me Alone".

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzTuBuRdAyA "I only call you when it's half! Past! Five! The onllllly time I'd even call! You! Mine! I love it when you touch me, not feel me, when I'm f***d up, that's the real me..."]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Na4j8AVgA "Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Look what you done, ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! I'm a motherf***in' Starboy!"]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diW6jXhLE0E "I've seen her take down that tequila, down by the liter! I knew I had to meet her! Bump and grind, oooh girl bump and grind, lips like Angelina, a** shaped like Selena..."]]

** He may be the leader of a gang of bank robbers but it's hard not to feel sorry for Abel at the end of the video when he's injured, left for dead and eventually shoots himself in the head.

* AwesomeMusic:

* CounterpartComparison: The Weeknd has frequently been compared to Creator/MichaelJackson and Abel himself cites Jackson as one of his biggest inspirations. Many critics have noted the similarities of "Can't Feel My Face" to "Billie Jean" and "In The Night" to "Leave Me Alone".

* 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.

* 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.

** "I've seen her take down that tequila, down by the liter! I knew I had to meet her! Bump and grind, oooh girl bump and grind, lips like Angelina, a** shaped like Selena...

** "Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Look what you done, ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! I'm a motherf***in' Starboy!

** "I only call you when it's half! Past! Five! The onllllly time I'd even call! You! Mine! I love it when you touch me, not feel me, when I'm f***d up, that's the real me..."

* AwesomeMusic: "House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls", "High for This", "Wicked Games", "Lonely Star", "The Birds Part 1 and 2", "[=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".

* Ear Worm:

* 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.

* CounterpartComparison: The Weeknd has frequently been compared to Creator/MichaelJackson and Abel himself cites Jackson as one of his biggest inspirations. Many critics have noted the similarities of ''Can't Feel My Face'' to ''Billie Jean'' and ''In The Night'' to ''Leave Me Alone''.

* WildMassGuessing: One Reddit user [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/3irrqf/the_theory_of_why_all_of_the_weeknds_music_videos/ believes]] that all his music videos since "Rolling Stone" are a depiction of a man descending into darkness and making a DealWithTheDevil.

** The entirety of the music video, "False Alarm".

** [[TheMasochismTango "Wicked Games."]]

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