The Highlights by The Weeknd

The Highlights

The Weeknd

2021

The Highlights is a Soul & Funk album by The Weeknd, originally released in 2021. On Gatefold: 16 pressings tracked, owned by 7 collectors.

Sound DNA

  • Soul & Funk
  • Contemporary R&B
  • holographic
  • hedonistic
  • nocturnal

About

For an artist like The Weeknd, putting together a greatest hits compilation must be especially difficult; each era and microevolution of his career feels deserving unto itself. His second such collection, <i>The Highlights</i>, manages the task with ease, pulling together all of his, well, highlights, stretching all the way to the beginning to include two cuts from his 2011 debut <i>House of Balloons</i>. (<i>The Highlights</i>' release only misses the 10-year anniversary mark by a month.) In a clever touch, the compilation doesn't unfold sequentially. Instead, it gets moodier and darker as it goes on. The bright keys and danceable Max Martin-produced '80s pop that have defined the latter half of his career open the proceedings like the climb of an intensely euphoric high. Songs like “Save Your Tears” (from 2020's <i>After Hours</i>), “Can't Feel My Face” (from 2015's <i>Beauty Behind the Madness</i>), and “Starboy” (from 2016's <i>Starboy</i>) sound like neon club lights and the sins committed beneath them. Then it pivots, slowly but steadily, to the comedown, where the singer's self-loathing finds a natural match in hazier, muddier productions. By the time the run of songs that includes “Call Out My Name” (from 2018's <i>My Dear Melancholy,</i>), “Die for You” (<i>Starboy</i>), and “Earned It” (<i>Beauty</i>) arrives, it's all id and nothing to cut it. And where else to go from there but to the original blueprint of his wounded, bleeding heart—“Wicked Games” and “The Morning” (both from <i>House of Balloons</i>)—where the lines between pleasure and pain blur into oblivion.

via Apple Music

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Tracklist

  1. 1Save Your Tears3:35
  2. 2Blinding Lights3:20
  3. 3In Your Eyes3:57
  4. 4Can't Feel My Face3:33
  5. 5I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)4:29
  6. 6Starboy (feat. Daft Punk)3:50
  7. 7Pray For Me3:31
  8. 8Heartless3:18
  9. 9Often4:09
  10. 10The Hills4:02
  11. 11Call Out My Name3:48
  12. 12Die For You4:20
  13. 13Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)4:37
  14. 14Love Me Harder3:56
  15. 15Acquainted5:48
  16. 16Wicked Games5:24
  17. 17The Morning5:15
  18. 18After Hours6:01

Credits

Performers

7 collectors on Gatefold own this · 16 pressings tracked on Gatefold