It is slightly less clear who he is referring to on the last track, “Privilege,” though People and other outlets assume it’s Gomez yet again. Hadid famously rides horses! (This is basically like C.S.I.: Pop Stars we are working through right now.) After contemplating whom this ex might have moved on to (“Who you give that love to now?”), he then makes it clear he is singing about Hadid: “You were equestrian, so ride it like a champion,” he sings. “Wasted Times” is about, you guessed it, wasted time spent with someone else (“Wasted times I spent with someone else,” are indeed the lyrics he goes on, “She wasn’t even half of you”). And then the song moves on to, yes, a Justin Bieber allusion: “Guess I was just another pit stop / Til you made up your mind / You just wasted my time.” (Unfortunately, it would seem the song “went to the presses” before the Weeknd had time to work in a reference to Bieber’s apparent new flame, the delightfully named Baskin Champion.) “I said I didn’t feel nothing baby, but I lied / I almost cut a piece of myself for your life,” he sings. But then in the second verse we get what would seem to be confirmation, an apparent reference to Gomez’s recent kidney transplant. This one begins with the lines: “We found each other / I helped you out of a broken place / You gave me comfort / But falling for you was my mistake.” Probably about Gomez? Seems to be pretty standard Dwelling on an Ex fare. Let’s start with the opening track, “Call Out My Name” (which is going to take us a few days to not initially scan as “Call Me by Your Name” when we see the name). Prior to dating Gomez, he dated supermodel Bella Hadid for more than a year. (The titles themselves elucidate the mood here: “Wasted Times,” “Hurt You,” you get the drift.) And in the grand tradition of Confessional Albums from Famous Pop Stars, a great deal of the immediate commentary has been related to deductions as to who these songs are about.įor those who need a quick Weeknd-dating-history refresher, he was involved with Selena Gomez for about 10 months before they split in October 2017 (she would later reunite with her ex Justin Bieber). The digital art is moodily shot, the 28-year-old’s filtered face obscured in darkness, and, in tandem with the title, seemed to signal that this was going to be a bit of a grim affair.Īnd indeed, now that the record is out in the world, it’s confirmed: there is no full-throttle shimmering buoyant “Starboy” amongst these songs. Titled My Dear Melancholy, the six-track set is the first album from the artist since 2016’s massively successful Starboy (he was also featured on this year’s Black Panther soundtrack). You can stream My Dear Melancholy, in full here.The Weeknd, as the Internet likes to call it, “pulled a Beyoncé” this week, as he dropped a surprise album with only a cryptic Instagram tease preceding it. "But you've been with me from the beginnin' (ooh, yeah, yeah) / And I know right now that we're not talkin' (not talkin')," The Weeknd sings. "You were equestrian, so ride it like a champion," The Weeknd sings, and if you remember, the 21-year-old model used to ride horses and competed in tournaments while growing up in Malibu.Įarlier in the song, The Weeknd sings about "Wasted times I spent with someone else" - which fans believe is about his most recent ex Selena Gomez.Īfter The Weeknd and Selena split, he was rumored to be hanging out with Bella again - and it looks like he mentioned that again in the song. In the song "Wasted Times," fans have noticed one major lyric that pretty much infers that the 28-year-old entertainer is singing about missing ex Bella Hadid. Now that The Weeknd's new album My Dear Melancholy, has dropped fans are starting to piece together the lyrics to figure out which famous ex each song is about!
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