The Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face"

One Song

Hartbeat

Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Onesong, Comedy, Music

4.9 • 876 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

One Song Nation – you don’t have to worry no more. Diallo & LUXXURY know you can go without learning how The Weeknd’s massive 2015 hit, “Can’t Feel My Face,” made him into a global megastar. On this episode, they break down how The Weeknd collaborated with Swedish powerhouse songwriter Max Martin and his team to make a diamond-certified, chart-topping, dark R&B song, and peel back the layers on those Michael Jackson-inspired vocals.

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0:00.0	One, two, three.
0:02.0	Even though Abel's from Canada, the song we're number one.
0:06.0	And this tour was written by the team of a sweet name Max Martin.
0:10.0	It's just me and my men luxury talking about the songs we love on one song, on one song.
0:18.0	Abel sounds like MJ on this song.
0:21.6	He sounds like Michael Jackson so much.
0:25.6	We cannot unhear it.
0:28.6	It's like right there.
0:29.6	That's why it went straight to number one.
0:34.6	We can't wait to talk about this song
0:37.9	Because we love it
0:40.2	Because we love it
0:42.3	We can't wait to talk about this song
0:46.1	Because we love it
0:48.4	Because we love it
0:50.3	We can't wait to talk about this song because we love it because we love it.
0:59.0	We can't wait to talk about this song because we love it because we love it.
1:06.0	But we can't sing it.
1:08.0	Yes, we just did.
1:09.0	We just said, though. We kind of did. We kind of did. Thank you, Toronto.
1:14.6	And the Ethiopia community. Luxury today's song was a massive hit. It peaked at number one on several
1:22.3	charts, including both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian Hot 100. It's like the first time we
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