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The Weeknd: Dawn FM

7 January 2022 · 5 YEARS

Dawn FM

The Weeknd

Jim Carrey serves as the radio host, framing a concept that places the listener in traffic waiting for a light. Synthesizers and disco basslines pull from the eighties to balance pop hooks with a somber, cinematic mood.

One sample used on the record waited ten years. Abel Tesfaye found the 1983 song Midnight Pretenders by Tomoko Aran in 2012, eventually turning it into Out of Time a decade later.

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