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I knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.
The WeekndPrince turned experimental music into pop music. ‚When Doves Cry,‘ the whole ‚Purple Rain‘ soundtrack – he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt ‚House of Balloons‘ was.
The Weeknd‚House of Balloons‘ was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.
The Weeknd‚House of Balloons‘ was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.
The Weeknd