‘My Dear Melancholy’ Review

As many people know The Weeknd can have his very upbeat songs that make you want to party and have fun, but The Weeknd can really get to your emotions with the emotional music he releases. The music tracks that are more towards the sad and melancholic side are something that he has been doing since he dropped Trilogy which was composed of three mixtapes: House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence. All throughout his music career, he’s released many song tracks that take you down into the melancholic world. 

As mentioned before The Weeknd has been releasing very good music that can also take you “down in the dumps”, including Trilogy released in 2012 and Kiss Land being released in 2013, the next albums released were Beauty Behind the Madness and Starboy, which were a bit more upbeat than the others but still had some emotional songs included, like “Angel”, “Nothing Without You”, “Die For You”, and a few more. Then in 2018, he released this EP album, My Dear Melancholy. This mini-album was like if he was going back to his roots of his sad music just like in Trilogy and Kiss Land. 

In 2018 he Weeknd released a very emotional EP album called My Dear Melancholy. This album consists of six songs: “Call Out my Name”, “Try Me”, “Wasted Times”, “I Was Never There”, “Hurt You”, and “Privilege”. This EP album has a theme of sadness and true feelings. The Weeknd put out what he was feeling in this album. The lyrics were all very sentimental and had to do with what he had been feeling at the time because of relationships and events in his love life and that’s something that made this one very special and unique like the rest of the music that he’s released before. All of the lyrics in the album were very good, the lyrics from “Call Out my Name”, “Try Me”, and “Wasted Times” were the ones that stood out to me. The chorus lyrics in these tracks were my favorites, his voice and the lyrics go so well together. For example, in “Call Out my Name” the chorus says “So call out my name/ Call out my name when I kiss you so gently /I want you to stay /I want you to stay even though you don’t want me”. In “Wasted Times” the chorus starts off with “And now I’m askin’, who do you belong to now?/ Who you give that love to now?”. Both of these songs are examples of tracks in this EP that Abel sung that stood out to me.

Overall I loved this 6 track EP album. It had many lyrics and words that were meaningful and sentimental and show how he felt, the lyrics and his voice went together extremely well and that’s what made it a very good EP. Abel taking this newer mini-album back into the music that had a more melancholic side to it like in Trilogy and Kiss Land was also something that made it good because those albums were also something that many, including myself, love. Definitely recommend people to listen to it, it might be emotional but it’s a very good EP album, it’s worth it.