The Weeknd - Blinding Lights. Usher in a new era of disco.

Nabil Elderkin

Michael Jackson's song is heard in his voice. The music I'm going to introduce today is The Weeknd's Blinding Lights. To this day, the music market is still stained with boring trap sounds. But with his appearance, the boring mainstream was turned into a disco party. 

A Tenacious Surviving Hit Song

"Blinding Lights" is a song released in 2019, but one of the best hits of 2020 is "Blinding Lights." A brief introduction to "Blinding Lights" is the second single from The Weekend's album After Hours, which followed the release of "Heartless" One of the biggest features is the lively disco sound. His powerful vocals also make the song attractive. There is a clear difference between the songs that have only been impersonating disco. "Blinding Lights" tried not to hurt the nature of R&B and at the same time to create a disco feel. Disco's unique "synth sound" sounds from the '80s, so it doesn't leave a gap in the overall sound. Despite using the sound of the past, not the modern sound, it shows a sophisticated feeling and does not feel at all rustic. Two days after the release of "Heartless," the song was released unexpectedly, drawing relatively less attention at the time, but it has also outperformed other songs he had released before since entering 2020.

The Weeknd Blinding Lights

A Feast Of Intense Colors

In the lyrics of the song, The Weekend is singing about the indissoluble relationship to drugs. Following "Heartless" the quality video shows the drug-drunk fantasy of The Weekend dressed in a red suit. He spoke of music videos inspired by movies such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Joker. Perhaps because of this, the intense red and green colors that were impressive in the movie "Joker" leave a big impression. The video, as if watching a scene from a game, is also reminiscent of 바둑이사이트.

The Myth Of Retro Must Continue.

The song is the leader of 'Synthwave', a representative music genre of the current Retro that is rocking the main stream. The "Synthpop" and "Synthwave" genres themselves have existed since the 2000s, and songs have been consistently released, but no hit songs have been available. But Weekend has consistently challenged the synthesized wave genre. Combined with the popularity he has built over the past decade, "Blinding Lights" has become the biggest fruit of the synthesized wave genre.

Duncan Loudon

Sing for a long time.

He has a sweet, high-toned voice. Even though many people may not be interested in him, they react well if they hear his voice at all. He has a voice that reminds him of Michael Jackson, but not as powerful as MJ. But it's not that he can't sing. His voice is excellent enough to say that he was born to do R&B. Maybe his voice and good songs meet and dominate the Billboard?

The Weeknd Blinding Lights

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