![]() ![]() ![]() “I imagined being stuck in gridlock traffic in a tunnel, and there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and we’re all just waiting for our turn, and while we’re waiting there’s a radio station playing: 103.5 Dawn-FM, and the radio DJ is guiding you through the painless transition into the light.” Like the Weeknd’s other albums, “Dawn FM” has a loose concept - “purgatory,” he said. ![]() Netflix Launches 'The Gay Agenda,' Podcast Celebrating LGBTQ+ Community (EXCLUSIVE) The Weeknd Turns Into an Old Man for the Cover of His New Album, 'Dawn FM' Spotify Unveils Next Podcast From the Obamas, 'The Big Hit Show' (EXCLUSIVE) One way or another, the pandemic has affected every piece of art created since it began, and the Weeknd told journalists earlier this week that he’d begun writing an album earlier in lockdown, but it was “too dark and way too sad,” so he created one that is “more fantasy and more of an escape.” The result is “Dawn FM,” as upbeat an album as he’s ever made, which finds the light/dark concept reaching its most literal iteration yet: The third verse on the album’s opening title track is “After the light is it dark?,” and the first thing he said publicly about the album (to Variety, incidentally) was “If the last record is the after hours of the night, then the dawn is coming.” That combination reached a new and unintended level when his last album, the blockbuster “After Hours,” was released on Majust as the horrors of the pandemic became inescapable - and for many people it’s difficult to hear even that album’s most beautiful songs without feeling the chill of those terrifying days. The Weeknd’s music has always been based around a combination of light and darkness, as the truth-in-advertising title of his 2015 sophomore full-length album, “The Beauty Behind the Madness,” stated - love and hate, happiness and anger, hope and despair, and any number of other complimentary/ contradictory, yin-and-yang elements. ![]()
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