Since his big-leagues level-up, though, The Weeknd has struggled to maintain some of that brooding authenticity.
It was almost like he was trying to steel himself for a night of very bad decisions he was about to make over and over again. If it seemed like there wasn’t always confidence behind his debaucherous asides - his bruised tenor favored stops and starts, brutal fits and murmurs, run-on rants - that likely was intentional, part of his overall brilliance. His seminal 2011 mixtape, House of Balloons, was like the woozy soundtrack to an endless, libidinous loop of willful couch crashing. Early in his career, the Canadian crooner refused to reveal his identity and sang dark songs about sex, drugs, and longing. Continue reading at Wikipedia.It’s been a few years since The Weeknd went full-on pop star. It received similar criticisms as the prior lists. This time, the list featured more black and female artists, topped by Marvin Gaye's What's Going On (1971). It was based on a new survey and does not factor in the surveys that were conducted for the previous lists. In 2012, Rolling Stone published a revised edition, drawing on the original and a later survey of albums released up until the early 2000s.Īnother updated edition of the list was published in 2020, with 154 new entries not in either of the two previous editions.
In the original list, most of the selections were albums by white male rock musicians, with the top position held by the Beatles' Sgt. The first list was published in a special issue of the magazine in 2003 and a related book in 2005.Ĭritics have accused the lists of lending disproportionate weight to artists of particular races and genders. It is based on weighted votes from selected musicians, critics, and industry figures. " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a recurring opinion survey and music ranking of the finest albums in history, compiled by the American magazine Rolling Stone.
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