![]() On Switched on Pop’s first episode as part of Vulture, we break down how “Blinding Lights” blends lyrical relatability with musical familiarity, earning the Weeknd the biggest, and perhaps most misunderstood, hit of his career. (Given the song’s success, the Weeknd is justly aggrieved by his recent Grammys snub). Since then, seemingly every radio format, adult contemporary included, has played the song on repeat, making it the longest-running entry in the Hot 100 top five and top ten. ![]() Using the song’s opening instrumental as inspiration, countless families performed the dance together while sheltering in place. The song vaulted up the charts in March 2020, supported by a viral TikTok challenge. While his sheer volume of Hot 100 hits have rightly earned him mainstream status, even his most commercial material is hardly PG - the 2015 hit “ Can’t Feel My Face” is an ’80s throwback laced with on-the-nose cocaine metaphors.īut over the last year his subversive image has been rewritten by the song “Blinding Lights,” from his 2020 album After Hours. On the surface, the alter ego of Abel Tesfaye was a strange pick for the ostensibly family-friendly main stage - for more than a decade, the Weeknd has fused the sounds of pop, R&B, and trap into a cinematic horror-thriller about drugs, sex, and the excess of fame. On Sunday, the Weeknd performed his distinctly dark (though highly meme-able) brand of pop at the Super Bowl halftime show.
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