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The Independent gave The Weeknd's new album a 5/5 review:"Fame is a disease," he declares in "Drive," having previously admitted:
"I just want to die when I'm at my fucking peak."
Under the title track, closing the album on brighter (still Eighties-coded) piano chords, it sounds resolute:
"So burn me with your light / I've got no more battles left to win."
Then, there's a truly striking moment when Tesfaye offers the most personal lyrics of his career to date:
"I took so much more than their lives / They took a part of me / And I tried to fill this void that my father left / No one else leaves me, I'm sorry"
If this is indeed The Weeknd's final album, you couldn't hope for a better ending."
— the British publication writes in its review.