Carrey kicks off the album by voicing a hypothetical FM radio host.
The Canadian artist The Weeknd just released a song with the Spanish Rosalía and you are already embarking on a new project: a tribute to the old FM radio from the 1980s, with an unexpected guest, the comedian Jim Carrey.
Fame it came out just two months ago. The Weeknd sings in Spanish with Rosalía the sorrows and spell of glamor and success, which can engulf any artist.
Now it is about paying tribute precisely to stars who embodied that worldwide fame, so dangerous. Artists like Michael Jackson o Prince, which continue to inspire new generations.
Dawn FM (Alba FM), Weeknd’s new work, came out in the first week of January. A bold gesture again, after the singer released After hours in March 2020, when the world was confined and musical stars had their aces up their sleeves.
The Weeknd proposes it Dawn FM a dreamlike and surreal universe. And what better buddy for that task than Jim Carrey, Canadian and American, performer of films such as The mask The The Truman Show.
Carrey kicks off the record by voicing a hypothetical FM radio host (on an imaginary frequency, 103.5).
The music starts right away, clearly disco club.
You have to imagine “a guy locked in his car, in the middle of purgatory, who listens to the FM radio while he waits for it to end” the traffic jam, explains to the AFP Jim Zelechowski, artistic director of Island/Def Jam.
“It is a metaphor of the present time, people waiting for the light to return” adds this responsible.
By telescope
The meeting between the two artists could not be more surreal, and more Angelino.
Jim Carrey y Weeknd They discover in social networks that they are neighbors in Los Angeles. “We started looking out the window, with our telescopes, and we discovered each other” explains the musician in GQ magazine.
As a DJ, Jim Carrey talks about Purple Rain The When Doves Cry, songs of Prince which are authentic hymns from the 1980s.
“On the album you hear drum machines that are characteristic of Prince in Purple Rain The Lovesexy details the artistic director of Island. And there are also allusions to Depeche Mode, or Stevie Wonder.
The great influence, however, is the Michael Jackson of the time Thriller, with “the most energetic songs at first and the softest later” explains Jim Zelechowski.
One of the great
“Michael [Jackson] is someone I admire. Not someone real, do you understand what I mean? When I started in music I aspired to be like him “, confesses in GQ Abel Tesfaye, the real name of The Weeknd.
In the same way as the horror movie actor Vincent Price put his cavernous voice in song Thriller from Michael Jackson, The Weeknd now appeals to Carrey’s complicity and his throaty voice. And also to the musical producer and composer Quincy Jones, who worked with Michael Jackson and who introduces the second part of the album, more melancholic.
“It is a deep, thoughtful album, and at the same time it is a pop work, in the style of Michael Jackson”, resume Jim Zelechowski.
The Weeknd is 31 years old. His collaborations with artists like Lana del Rey have drawn praise. “Abel has his own artistic path. It bears the mark of the greats, of the artists who will last ” recently assured the British Elton John in Variety. (I)
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