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Jer Fairall: “I’m repping for that low life,” Abel Tesfaye sings, hinting at the self-awareness that I read into House of Balloons way back when, only to squirm at every bit of celebratory skeeziness that followed. This is indeed a good end of the line, considering we’ve putting up with this crap for five rough years now. Secondly, in order to do that he has returned to that ugly, narcissistic world of his, which, in this case, even gets Future thrown under his mess. First, as it is made apparent, Abel Tesfaye has ditched that rare moment of brilliance for something more down to earth. It sounds like benzos.ĭanilo Bortoli: In the month of House of Balloons‘ five-year anniversary, Tom Ewing’s words on the (then new) connection between indie and R&B still ring true: “what’s appealing for me in R&B is its capacity for beauty and empathy, not its selfishness or doubt.” Which, in the context of “Low Life,” means at least two things. It’s a little repetitive, and I wanted to have them work with each other, as opposed to trading voices, but it has that thickness of a thought not quite present, which often occurs with a fondness for pills. “Show me how you go down,” The Weeknd yearns, as if begging for a chocolate doughnut.Īnthony Easton: The slow grind slur of both of these performers would suggest a perfect match, and it kind of works. But mostly it sounds like the blurry unrealized decline.Īlfred Soto: Adapting his eloquent mumble to high life ends is hell on Future’s taste. Future gets a couple good jokes in, like “roaches everywhere/like we forgot to take the trash out”. And yet the sleepy part of the track - a scrambled vocal (the Weeknd’s, I assume) and dying synthstrings - is the best part. The fact that the song is about “repping for that low life” and sounds as flaccid as whiskey dick? This isn’t even bad - these two got famous and their music got boring.īrad Shoup: They seem so sleepy. Maxwell Cavaseno: Listening to Future’s phone-ins on EVOL was dire, so listening to the equally regressive Abel Tesfaye echo in alongside him while Metro Boomin serves up dollar store snare hits is about the equivalent of feeling an unnatural need to swallow river sludge.Ĭrystal Leww: Future collaborating with The Weeknd was the natural evolution of both of their careers. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).