of the drop, it s so incredibly high octane. when skrillex won three grammys in 2012, it was a moment when you really felt like edm had arrived. and the grammy goes to. uh, sunny moore for cinema (skrillex remix). grammy goes to. skrillex. skrillex! [cheers and applause] but for every development in popular music, there s a reaction. [music] [hanif] when house of balloons came out, the weeknd was an artist who was dabbling in darker, more downbeat pop as a counter-reaction to. the feel-good pop of the era. and the counter question and answer was, isn t there more than one way to feel good? bring your love, baby, i can bring my shame bring the drugs, baby, i can bring my pain the weeknd, particularly, some of these songs are about
brief bursts of feeling. do you love me, yeah? .that are propelled by excess in some form. and i mma keep on smoking til i can t hit another note [chris] what s interesting about darker acts like the weeknd in the first half of the 10s, it s almost as if they are foreshadowing the second half the 10s, um, before that sound is taken over. lana del rey is another good example. swingin in the backyard, pull up in your fast car whistlin my name lana del rey was this leonard cohen meets marilyn monroe, tragic, beautiful, ethereal figure. i say, you re the bestest lean in for a big kiss put his favorite perfume on go play your video game [amanda] video games was her first single, and with her, it s about all these extra-musical things. it s about the aesthetic. it s about the vibe. it s about the look.
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blue jays on monday. toronto would not give up scoring four runs in the bottom of the eighth before the yankees closed things out. thus marking the end of the blue jays three game winning streak. and it looks like the weeknd is coming to an end. saw you dancing in a crowded room single tear drop from your eye that is a bit of save your tears. the singer says he is ready to kill the weeknd and changed the name on all his social media accounts to his birth name. the canadian artist told w magazine his next album may be the last he issues under his former name. he says he wants to be reborn as