Beauty Behind the Madness

📖 About this album

The album that pushed The Weeknd into the mainstream with Can't Feel My Face and The Hills. Dark R&B and radio-ready pop held in productive tension.

📝 Our review

Beauty Behind the Madness was the moment The Weeknd went from an internet secret to a global star. Max Martin and DaHeala's production provided the pop structure his mixtapes lacked; the result—dark R&B, grandiose pop, rock touches—worked massively. "Can't Feel My Face," "The Hills" and "Earned It" demonstrate different faces of the artist. The album has more coherence than its massive reach suggests.

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