Keeping your heart safe (Keepin’ your heart safe, oh) Said you’re going through a phase (Through a phase) You said you might be into girls (Into girls) The song dropped on January 11, and I heard it hyped on the radio on the drive home last night, as if it were a new sexy anthem to match The Weeknd’s previous “Earned It.” And for sure, the song begins with the very declarative “I wanna fuck you slow with the lights on.” That’s a confident start! And then the song moves into taking a swipe at Drake (“And I just want a baby with the right one/’Cause I could never be the one to hide one”)! Also fine! It was kind of weird that Drake hid a baby! I can go with this!īut then the song goes to this place: I’m tired of being home alone (Home alone)īut I want you to stay (I want you to stay, hey) Just because you sing a thing doesn’t mean you believe a thing! But given who The Weeknd has presented himself to be in previous songs, and how often they seem to be confessional-style descriptions of his antics, isn’t his new song with the French DJ Gesaffelstein, “Lost in the Fire,” pretty clearly homophobic? Look, I totally get that song lyrics are not biographical content. Then she clean it with her face man I love my baby Or his praise for the women in his life in “Starboy”: Main bitch out your league too, ah When I’m fucked up, that’s the real me, yeah I only love it when you touch me, not feel me
Think of the chorus from “The Hills”: I only call you when it’s half past five For all of his beef with Drake, they often feel connected lyrically - a little regretful, but also ultimately brash, and convinced of their ceaseless appeal to women.īut if you wanted to speculate that Drake is always putting forth a support of women (like his song “Nice for What,” which I admittedly championed on this site) that may not be totally genuine, then maybe you appreciate that The Weeknd doesn’t hide the fact that he’s often only connecting with women for sex. Through all these very popular songs and his behavior as a celebrity - dating supermodel and Olympic-level equestrian Bella Hadid off and on for years, dating Selena Gomez for nearly a year after her breakup with Justin Bieber and then wiping all evidence of her from social media after they then broke up, feuding with Drake, who hosted Hadid’s 21st birthday party - The Weeknd has cultivated a certain reputation: He’s a hard partier, someone who gets caught up in drugs and alcohol and women, and he feels kind of bad about it, but he’s also not going to really stop doing it.
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