Be on the lookout for cryptic Hadid Instagram captions, response tracks from Gomez when her next album drops, and, of course, monotone discourses from Justin Bieber to TMZ cameramen as he shirtlessly ambles off a basketball court or out of a club.In the midst of all the rumors swirling about Selena Gomez and whether or not her rekindled relationship with Justin Bieber has finally come to a real end this time, her ex, The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, entered the fray on Friday at midnight, when he dropped a six-song (or essentially, a six-ballad) EP called My Dear Melancholy, which is just as emotionally fraught and reflective as its title suggests.
In all likelihood, we are in for rebuttals in all sorts of forms. “Enjoyed your privileged life / ‘Cause I’m not gonna hold you through the night / We said our last goodbyes / So let’s just try to end it with a smile / And I don’t want to hear that you are suffering / You are suffering no more / ‘Cause I held you down when you were suffering / You were suffering.” (Others have decided this one is about Hadid, though: some mysteries remain!) 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). 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.
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