After confusing everyone, by deciding to commerically release the slew of freebie tracks we'd already listened to a thousand times already, The Weeknd has finally relented and released less than thirty seconds of audio of braaaaand new track "Valerie". The snippet is accompanied by a creepy video, which features lots of balloons and a suicidal looking lady, so I guess his aesthetic hasn’t changed that much on his shiny new remastered and repackaged Trilogy, finally due out at the end of November.And, from the tiny bone he's thrown us, it's as melodic and beautifully melancholic as you might expect. But I always feel torn when it comes to Tesfaye; his voice is silky as fuck, but lest us forget this is also the man who sings quite regularly about using drink and drugs to coerce unwilling women into group sex…AWK. Wonder if being on a major will beat that out of him?
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