Dad Reacts to The Weeknd - After Hours 

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You can’t just drop this as I’m about to go to bed

This is arguably one of the best albums I’ve ever heard.

Can you believe that this album was not even nominated for the Grammy Awards ??? For me it was the best of the last few years!!!!

That beat drop in After Hours is still one of the dopest things I’ve ever heard.

This album came out when the world was a strange place, we were entering lockdown i had just broken up with my girlfriend of 2 years and i was alone. I had always been a huge fan of him and I remember staying awake half asleep waiting for the album to release, then it did and i was ecstatic and at first i liked it but didn’t exactly love it, the next day on my way home from work i took the long way home and listened to the entire album during sunset, i broke down and realized what a masterpiece this album is. For me personally it’s my number 1 favorite album of all time, the way Abel crafted this universe over this time is amazing. Recently i went to his After Hours till Dawn tour and when he sang After Hours and had the entire stadium sing the end of the song i cried remembering how his music got me through some very tough times, idk if anyone will even read this but im glad y’all reacted to this album thanks guys.

for someone who has a broken relationship with their dad, and also a huge Weeknd fanatic, this healed a piece of me. Thank you

I remember watching an interview of Jim Carrey talking about how he got involved with Dawn FM. He mentioned The Weeknd taking him out one night in his car, cruising while listening to the (then-unreleased) After Hours album. That must've been the coolest feeling ever, being one of the first people to hear these tracks while riding shotgun with The frickin Weeknd in his sports car.

“Faith” is one of those songs that hit me so hard that I was scared to listen to it again. Right in the middle of quarantine and struggling with my own faith & personal issues, it was just such a strong message to hear and it’s produced in an unreal, cinematic way that it both hooked me and terrified me. And the album itself improves with every listen, but I wish I could listen to “Faith” for the first time again.

This is his best album imo. No skips and plays out like a movie. I still listen to this heavily

He opens his concert with alone again, i wish y’all would have gone to the concert. Easily one of the best concerts ive ever been too, the lights, the vocals and the hits. Everything is 10/10

There is no artist that perfectly encapsulates that cold wintery feeling like The Weeknd, and this album just exceeds at that in the best way possible

The way After Hours sounded live, I almost died of happiness.

I'd do anything to hear it again for my first time during quarantine.

I think your dad needs to listen to House of Balloons next! He’s going to absolutely enjoy that record. Anyways great vid like always 👍🏻

You gotta start doing deluxe editions because nothing compares on this album is something your dad needs to hear 😭😭

This album represents the Weeknd's own personal hell and his own life after hours. This new trilogy would be Abel's Divine Comedy as he goes though hell, purgatory and heaven. After his break up with Selena Gomez he got back to his old ways as himself said in his previous album My dear melancholy, which could work as a prologue to this one. So here he feels alone again at the beginning but he realizes that it's way too late for him because he is the hardest to love but encourages his ex lover not to be scared to live again. After that, he knows that Los Angeles will be the end of him because it's literally hell with flashing lights so he decides to escape from there, but in the way, because of his addictions and bad decisions like drugs, he ends up in a bad situation where he wishes that his girl was by his side helping him because he needs her. For me that's his personal hell, that's why he's wearing a red suit all the time (red represents hell). At the end he's so scared and damaged that he dies or kill himself (I'm not sure), as you can hear in until I bleed out, the Vegas casino machines (that's where the album is set in the videos) turn into the sound of his heart stopping at the end of the album. So dawn fm is its direct sequel starting with Abel waking up in purgatory, which he has said to imagine as a highway where you can't go forward, but you can listen to dawn fm which is the radio station that guides you through a painless transition to heaven. That's why he starts being a selfish and toxic person at the beginning of the album and finishes realizing that he's less than zero. So his next album, which will probably be named after live or afterlife, as he said in dawn FM's every angel is terrifying, will probably deal with him reaching happiness and being the person he always wanted to be. Sorry for my English if it's not that good, and I hope you guys read this and enjoy it. Keep being as cool as you are.

2:10 Alone Again 4:34 Too Late 6:54 Hardest to Love 9:33 Scared to Live 12:13 Snowchild 15:48 Escape From LA 18:05 Heartless 21:31 Faith 23:30 Blinding Lights 24:46 In Your Eyes 28:13 Save Your Tears 29:46 Repeat After Me (interlude) 31:31 After Hours 34:33 Until I Bleed Out

Finally - The Weeknd is artistically on another level out of the contemporaries - one of my favorite records of all time any genre

Too Late has always been one of my favorites because the synths in the background feel like a descending feeling of anxiety that never goes away. The sound design on that song is just incredible, it makes you feel like you’re falling through the sky but you can’t touch the ground

To me, what after hours means is to be awake and late in the night when everyone else is gone or asleep and you’re left alone to reflect back on your life and the decisions you’ve made, the pain, the regret, the heartbreak and question whether you could’ve changed things whilst coming to terms with the fact you can’t.

I love how your Dad associates the super poppy, super 80's tracks as Abel's "sound". Would be really funny to go straight into trilogy or Kiss Land from here. That dark industrial r&b sound is more what I think of when I think of his "sound" if there was one. Insane how successfully and eloquently he can just change up his whole sonic universe though!

I had faith on repeat like non stop all of 2020, really one of abel's best song!!

32:23 I think your dad missed the crazy attack of the beat there, one of the goddest things of the entire album! I wish he'd reacted by jumping high just like me when I first listened to After Hours, definitely my favourite track of the album 🔥

This album got me through breakup depression and Covid lock down depression at the same time. Love this album

I was sleeping on a couch at my bros house in lockdown in one of the strangest transition periods in my life when this came out and it really kept my mind right at the time and ever since I come back to it and continue to love this album

Have to do Trilogy in it's order, truly a masterpiece.

As someone who’s not too close with his dad anymore, watching this channel is almost therapeutic. My dad helped form my love for music of all genres and I can’t help but get excited at the thought of showing him some of the music I’ve found, but after he made some choices that wrecked our relationship and my view of him, I’ll just continue to live vicariously through Connor and Kevin. Thank you two so much for the content you create.

I am a little bit jealous that your dad got to experience this for the first time. I remember being so blown away the first time I heard this album

One of the best albums of the last 10 years to be honest, absolute masterpiece

its growing to be my favorite weeknd album

The Weeknd songs will never get old.

Just saw The Weeknd live tonight, hands down the best concert I’ve ever seen, you guys gotta see him!

One of his best albums, hopefully you get to listen to the weeknds beginning roots through trilogy.

FINALLY! can’t wait for the rest of his discography, please do his older stuff next !

Love how dad likes the production on Heartless not knowing that it was Metro Boomin, and then months later gets to actually know and appreciate Metro's production more when you guys reacted to Heroes & Villains

I seriously can’t wait for your dad to hear the Trilogy album! Its completely different than his new stuff.

repeat after me is easily a 10/10 track amazing production and a legendary interlude

One of the best albums of the modern era

Not a single skip on the whole album, even the bonus tracks are fire. Idk if i heard a album this flawless in ages. When i first started listening, Track 1 ''Alone Again'' already did it for me. It is such a perfect opening for this masterpiece. Easily one of my favorite albums of all time.

my favorite weeknd album and one of my favorites of all time. no skips, all killer no filler, 10/10 cinematic experience. the red suit will stay with me forever. FAITH will always be his best song ❤️ XOTWOD

TIMESTAMPS 2:09 Alone Again 4:33 Too Late 6:53 Hardest To Love 9:33 Scared To Live 12:13 Snowchild 15:45 Escape From LA 18:05 Heartless 21:31 Faith 23:29 Blinding Lights 24:44 In Your Eyes 28:08 Save Your Tears 30:46 Repeat After Me (Interlude) 31:31 After Hours 34:33 Until I Bleed Out

I really love when people are surprised about The Weeknd's lyrics being dark because the always pay attention to the beat and think is fun or happy. Trilogy or Kiss Land would take them on a journey for sure. Kinda sad they didn't react to bonus tracks, certified bangers for sure

As much as I love Dawn FM, This album has a special place in my heart. I remember listening to this album with my girl not too long after California went on lockdown. We pulled up to a lookout point above my city with Thai food and listened to this album start to finish. Such a cohesive and cinematic album. Can't wait for his show in LA at SoFi!

this album was the one that made me a fan of The Weeknd, especially the closer track. absolutely beautiful

Time Stamps: 2:11 Alone Again 4:33 Too Late 6:54 Hardest To Love 9:35 Scared To Live 12:12 Snowchild 15:48 Escape From LA 18:05 Heartless 21:30 Faith 23:30 Blinding Lights 24:46 In Your Eyes 28:13 Save Your Tears 29:46 Repeat After Me (Interlude) 31:28 After Hours 34:32 Until I Bleed Out Just came back from the tour (show in seattle) and it was amazing The Weeknd’s music will last for generations🤩

Beautiful album I'm glad he got to hear this

Kevins reaction to the saxophone at 26:14 was hilarious he sounded like a little kid meeting his hero

The Weeknd is the best storyteller of all time. Everything is so well put and the creativity is off the roof. the music videos align well. like i said The Weeknd is the best storyteller of all time.

I love the respect snowchild gets,probably my favorite track off this amazing project W video

The After Hours/Til Dawn tour was incredible. Those 2 albums are insanely beautiful

The amount of times Kevin has been in awe of The Weeknd’s vocals is amazing lol. It’s only right that he listens to Trilogy or Kissland!

This album is cold, dark, haunting, lonely. I am realizing this after 3 years of its release cause everytime i listen to it, it gets even darker. And its only recently that ive been going thru similar experiences.

excited outta this world for this one 😭 hope u both r doing well, sending love ofc 🤍

Amazing how your dad said stadium song for alone again, just saw him at the LA show first day, and got absolute chills with Alone Again. The whole stadium was shaking.

The dissection of the song Snowchild and the emotions that it gave Kevin is exactly what I feel each time I listen to it. And seeing him connect to music in the way that I sometimes do is the exact reason I subscribed to this channel. Love this channels content!

This album has such a place in my heart & I always find it interesting that the first song is titled Alone Again since it’s came out around the beginning of COVID. Spending so much time alone listening to this album on repeat to get me through that weird time when everything seemed to be going in some strange circle. I’m so glad I was able to see him perform this summer finally

Seeing Blinding Lights performed live with 50k ppl singing along was a religious experience

This album changed my life, really. It was my best friend during my depression and anxiety period. Art is so powerful

heartless is #1. been listening to it nonstop since 2020.

I really love your dad because he is so insightful in his first listen he could summarize what it feel for me on many tries of listening

Absolutely love this album, my favourite by Abel and honestly it’s in my top 10

been wanting this reaction for so long, thank you guys so much

i really love that yall have such a wide variety of artists you like!

Alone At Prom is another 80s themed album that you guys would love. Both After Hours and Alone At Prom have absolutely no skips

Waching you from Ethiopia. Waching my fellow Ethiopian Abel at thise big makes me so proud. Thank you guys

YEEESSSS!! This is definitely my favorite record of all time. Came out at a perfect time in my life, and only gets better with time. Definitely gotta tackle the bonus tracks for Patreon 👀🤌🏼

One of my favorite albums of all time, production is on another level

Love this album and this reaction! It's so interesting to see someone listen to "In Your Eyes" and think of it as The Weeknd's core sound, as a long time fan I'd be so interested to see you guys go back and listen to his discography from the beginning starting with his 3 mixtapes "The Trilogy" to see how his sound has evolved over the last 10+ years

YES, I WAS JUST LISTENING TO THIS ALBUM TODAY, I CAN TELL BEFORE I START YOUR DAD WILL LOVE THIS

Man this album gives me chills everytime, it was early 2020, things were getting tough n this album just was a perfect match for all the feelings I was going thru, I’m reminiscing on this whole album rn, something about this one if really special. The trilogy is coming to perfection w every album!!!

YESSS!!! I’ve been waiting for this reaction for so long!!

“did he sing this with arianda” crying. new favorite quote 😭 but fr totally get Kevin ab the live performance with ariana and abel it’s so beautiful and always gives me goosebumps 🤧

So glad yall did this one, this album is by far my fave one, you should do My Dear Melancholy, next, it might be short but god damn its good.

love how you and your dad are jusct chilling and enjopying the music. good stuff bro

So glad you guys finally got around this one. Can’t wait for you guys to dig deeper into his discography!

A bit weird that they’re going backwards in the discography but I can’t wait for kissland!

His whole discography from beginning to end is a must now for this channel😭😭😭

My girlfriend of 3 years broke up with me, right when this album hit. Timing couldn't be better, it is my all time favourite album, with one of my favourite songs of all time, "Snowchild". It really encapsulates being an adult figuring my place in this world while processing the pain we have been through so far and whether we should keep going on.

I've been waiting for this for so long!! LETS GO!!!

love to see the Snowchild appreciation. Definitely up there with my favorites from the weeknd

Such an iconic album, start to finish. One of those albums I wish my dad was alive to hear.

YESSSSS FINALLY! I BEEN WAITING FOR YOU GUYS TO REACT TO THISSSS!!!

Yessss! I've been waiting for this video for so long 🔥 It was worth it

My favorite two songs on this album are Alone Again and Too Late I love the effects he uses on his voice and the production one thing Weeknd does is uses effects to make his voice sound more darker

Thank you for showing this album to your father! Your dad has amazingly keen ears and fantastic taste in music (noticed he said he likes Depeche Mode, yasss), and a very open mind. I was born in 1989, so like Abel (1990), the 80s feels both foreign and strangely familiar. Abel’s own interpretation of the 80s music is nostalgic, and incredibly inspiring. ‘After Hours’ is in the top 3 best albums ever to me personally. If my feelings could sing, they would sound like Abel’s lyrics and melody.

been waiting for this for a while!! excited

been waiting for this

10/10 album easy. Some of the best music i’ve ever heard.

my heart broke when the drop during after hours was skipped.

been waiting on this one ❤️❤️

Yessss I’ve been waiting for this!!!!

Back in 2015. I use to not like Abel's music. Later around in 2020. I was working out, and heard a familiar voice playing on the speakers. It was Abel, singing 'Blinding Lights'. From that day, I discovered all that I have missed from Abel since 2015. 'After Hours' made me realize everything I've missed on, since then. I now enjoy all of his albums and tracks, on the daily.

I'm going to the After Hours Till Dawn tour in a couple weeks and it's my first concert ever. Watching this gets me even more excited. Can't wait, great reaction!

This is the most excited I've been for a video in a long time. I was just about to go to sleep (5am rn) but no, this is more important.

You guys should do The Weeknd's older albums/mixtapes like trilogy or the mixtapes from it.

This album was my shit during the beginning of the pandemic. So good

over the last 2 years this album became my favourite Weeknd album and is in my top 20 albums oat, thank you for covering this guys ❤

Been waittttingggggggg for this one man

This album got us through the lock downs!!!