{"id":805508,"date":"2020-03-20T13:09:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T19:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=970384"},"modified":"2020-03-20T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T19:09:33","slug":"the-weeknd-wants-to-give-the-world-philip-k-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-weeknd-wants-to-give-the-world-philip-k-dick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weeknd Wants to Give the World \u2018Philip K.\u2019 Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nihilism, cocaine, narcissism, misogyny: These are the things that make a new The Weeknd<\/a> album a Weeknd album. Predictably, After Hours<\/em><\/a> has them all, and doesn\u2019t bother to upend the meticulous mythos the pop star has spent a decade manufacturing. Instead, the Toronto singer\u2019s fourth studio album swaps out one sonic texture \u2014 the bleak, Daft Punk-led futurism of 2016\u2019s Starboy<\/em> \u2014 for the sinister celestial work of Oneohtrix Point Never, while doubling down on what The Weeknd knows best: sex puns.<\/p>\n

On the second verse of the aptly-named, \u201cSnowchild,\u201d The Weeknd sings: \u201cShe like my futuristic sounds in the new spaceship \/ Futuristic sex give her Philip K. dick.\u201d For those that need clarification, Philip K. Dick was a science-fiction writer who most famously wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?<\/em>, the novel that inspired the 1982 Ridley Scott film, Blade Runner<\/em>. His last name is also \u201cDick,\u201d allowing him to be used as a double entendre in a Weeknd song.<\/p>\n

Over the last decade, The Weeknd has fashioned himself as our time\u2019s great sexual savant, so it makes a certain amount of sense that he\u2019d like to introduce the world to \u201cfuturistic sex\u201d to accompany his \u201cfuturistic sound.\u201d However, he spends little time of the rest of \u201cSnowchild\u201d informing listeners what makes his sex so ahead of its time, or elaborating how it might be similar to a Philip K. Dick story. Does a \u201cPhilip K.\u201d penis leave one with feelings of dystopian dread or teach about the dangers of authoritarianism? Does his dick make you question if you\u2019re a human, or perhaps the product of an experiment in technology gone very, very wrong? Will God ever forgive us for what we\u2019ve done?<\/p>\n