The Weeknd - Blinding Lights
2019
"Blinding Lights" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd, from his fourth studio album, After Hours. The song was released as the album's second single. The Weeknd wrote the song with Max Martin, Oscar Holter, Belly, and DaHeala; the former three producing the song. It is a synth-pop, new wave, synthwave, and electropop track, which lyrically addresses the importance of a partner, and the desire to see someone at night.
"Blinding Lights" was praised by music journalists upon release, many noting its callback to the music of the 1980s, and its aesthetic. The song was a commercial success, topping the record charts in over 40 countries, including his native Canada, making it his most successful single to date. In the US, "Blinding Lights" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four non-consecutive weeks, becoming his fifth number one in the country, and became the song with the most weeks spent in the top five and top ten, becoming the first song to hold a spot in the top ten for an entire year. It became the chart's longest-charting song for a short period of time, remaining on it for a total of 90 weeks, and was named as the chart's best-performing song of all time on November 23, 2021. It was also the best-selling global single of 2020, and became Spotify's most streamed song, and the first song to surpass 4 billion streams.
From its scale-laddering verses to its tension-filled chorus, the song exhibits the polish and "melodic math" for which Max Martin is renowned, according to Chris Molanphy from Slate. The Dorian structure provides a dreamy and euphoric nature to the song while still ultimately resolving to a minor chord. "Blinding Lights" also became Max Martin's 23rd Hot 100 number one single as a writer and 21st as producer.
"Blinding Lights" received a total of 87,8% yes votes!
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Unironically listening to music you hated when you were younger and realizing it was a banger all along
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Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an 'eHit'.
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[Cueball is sitting at a table and typing on his laptop. White Hat and Hairbun are standing behind him and looking. The following is written above the characters:] Dear Ms. Swift, Mr. Sheeran, Ms. Minaj, Ms. Grande, and Mr. Weeknd, We are a group of crossword puzzle constructors, and we would like to suggest some titles for your future albums:
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trump being indicted for the THIRD time, lizzo being sued for sexual harassment, ariana grande NOT being a girls girl and stealing men, the weeknd just doing whatever the fuck he’s doing, japan making 9/11 jokes bcz barbenheimer (they’re funny af honestly), angus cloud passed away, elon musk changed twitter to X… ALIENS ARE REAL WTF IS GOING ON
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