{"id":902,"date":"2015-06-18T15:32:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T19:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/?p=902"},"modified":"2023-12-20T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:52:17","slug":"an-insight-into-the-meaning-of-the-weeknds-the-hills-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/an-insight-into-the-meaning-of-the-weeknds-the-hills-song","title":{"rendered":"An Insight into the Meaning of The Weeknd&#8217;s &#8220;The Hills&#8221; Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a highly anticipated release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/the-weeknd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Weeknd&#8217;s<\/a> new single, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/the-weeknd-the-hills-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Hills<\/a> is finally out May 27, it\u2019s a Mood Music with a Sexy beat that\u2019s more intriguing with a Car Crash video and Along with Omnimus music video, The Hills is said to be the lead track to the latter\u2019s forthcoming album. That grossed 5.2 million domestic streams in the week ending May 31 and sold 109,000 downloads According to Nielsen Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Weeknd - The Hills\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yzTuBuRdAyA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While most of us still have this hangover of this talented Singers music, Abel Tesfaye\u2019s (The Weeknd) The Hills seemed to mirror the Canadian PBR&amp;B\u2019s drug Addiction and Romance, being rumored as a third party to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/ariana-grande\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/big-sean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Big Sean<\/a> which flaunts in the verses of the song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/big-sean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Big Sean<\/a> was on the road promoting his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/album\/big-sean-dark-sky-paradise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Dark Sky Paradise<\/a> album, the two were rumored sneaking up with a secret affair, making it low as the girl in the song preferred, now, whoever this girl is, she has issues with giving directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why half-past five?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Abel is famous for the avid drug use that he is most often under its influence than not, So when He said <q>Half-past five<\/q> he was denoting the known line from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/artist\/alan-jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Alan Jackson<\/a>&#8216;s Popular song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/song\/alan-jackson-jimmy-buffett-its-five-oclock-somewhere-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">It&#8217;s five O\u2019clock somewhere<\/a>\u201d that means getting drunk or high no matter what time of the day, which also comes to a fact that he keeps calling The Girl very often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first verse of the song is basically Abels\u2019 girl who wanted their relationship kept a secret,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I only call you when it\u2019s half past five, the only time that I\u2019ll be by your side,<br>\nI only love It when you touch me, not feel me, when I\u2019m f***** up that\u2019s real me,<br>\nWhen I\u2019m f***** up that\u2019s real me, yeah<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It is so bold that only when he is high he is sincere. Abel hates commitment. Any emotional baggage is a waste of time knowing he only recognizes his partner when he is literally having sex with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second verse describes how pressed he is to go to rehab. His addiction has been a daily bread that it\u2019s starting to become boredom, though he wants to live his life the way he wants, he believed that some people want to see him fall or relapse back to his old ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-weeknd-the-hills-1200x592.jpg\" alt=\"The Weeknd - The Hills\" class=\"wp-image-920\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-weeknd-the-hills-1200x592.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-weeknd-the-hills-780x385.jpg 780w, https:\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-weeknd-the-hills-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-weeknd-the-hills-1536x758.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-weeknd-the-hills.jpg 1916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption>The Weeknd &#8211; The Hills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What I like in this song is the Bridge, because this is where he finally expressed how he felt living in Hollywood \u201cThe Hills,\u201d yes! To those who think that it\u2019s about the movie <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0454841\/\">The Hills have eyes<\/a>, Abel was pointing out how people observe every move he makes in Beverly Hills, all other famous people living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the Amharic Outro in the song, which was in the background of the recorded version sang by a woman, is \u201cEwedihalehu,\u201d or I love you, \u201cYene\u201d and \u201cKonjo\u201d are two separate words which mean My Beautiful and \u201cFikir\u201d which means Love.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a highly anticipated release of The Weeknd&#8217;s new single, The Hills is finally out May 27, it\u2019s a Mood Music with a Sexy beat that\u2019s more intriguing with a Car Crash video and Along with Omnimus music video, The Hills is said to be the lead track to the&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/an-insight-into-the-meaning-of-the-weeknds-the-hills-song\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[146,145,17,18,144,143],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-song-analysis","tag-abel-tesfaye","tag-alan-jackson","tag-ariana-grande","tag-big-sean","tag-the-hills","tag-the-weeknd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}