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Listen Up - The Weeknd: Enemy

The Weeknd’s Abel Tesfaye flips The Smiths’ “Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want,” transforming the original’s tortured, sophomoric plea into a desperate come-on. This time, it’s less whiny schoolboy with a crush and more strung-out sex fiend.

And excelsior! It works!

Dude is putting out his pretty-great run of free mixtapes from last year (House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence) in a collection called Trilogy, the $10 price tag of which would be super right if the original albums weren’t free.

Expect to see this plastered on the Facebook walls of every “that girl” you know for the next couple months.

Trilogy is out November 19th on XO/Universal Republic, but “Enemy” won’t be on it. That $10 price tag is more vexing by the minute.

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Drake (Feat. the Weeknd) - Crew Love (Shlohmo Remix)

"Smokin' weed under star projectors."

Here it is, the first piece of actual music posted on my blog.

The best remixes both provide a new POV on a track and flesh out its best qualities. L.A. producer Shlohmo has turned “Crew Love,” a highlight from Drake’s overlong-but-still-good Take Care, and injected a large dose of codeine directly into its femoral artery. The opening drum salvo, peppy - at least for the Weeknd - in the original track, takes on a languid, heavy-lidded quality in Shlohmo’s version, especially when surrounded by evil-sounding synths and those firefly drips of percussion. Drake, typically the weakest part of his own tracks, spits a fine verse on “Love,” now further improved by being chopped & screwed. This was really a Weeknd track to begin with, and the remix cements that. Smoke some weed under star projectors.

(PS - Yep, the title’s a Coach Taylor reference.)

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