Dissect DJs - The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

Episode Date: July 10, 2020

We keep it modern yet retro all in one play as we dissect The Weeknd's latest masterpiece - "Blinding Lights". Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

DotSecD DJs, let's get it! What's going on, everybody? DotSecDJs, DJ, DJ, Jack, Castisi. What's up, man? Let's take a trip back to what feels like 1986, but you know what? It's actually 2020. Let's just chill where we're at. Let's sit right here right now.

Right now, although sit in 1986 at the same time. I hear you, exactly. Give my man the weekend. and a solid high-five because this is just the banger of the year right now. I feel like, I think it is. We are currently recording this mid-2020, and he is right. At this point, Blinded Lights has so far the 2020 song of the year, because it not only brings in the 80s feel, it also talks about lights that are too bright.

Just blinding you, yeah. We'll probably get into why they're blinding you and all that. And I actually have never diagnosed or dissected. That's what we're here to do. That's why we are here. But now, I think it's time. I love. I don't know how to love.

Maybe. Do it all. Do too much. Just to touch. Baby. Real quick. The end of that. Go.

Oh. Oh, that I said. I love how it gets into it. When I first heard it, I was like, yes. The echo factor is key. The personal echo factor. So much. Going back to the lyrics here, I feel like he's talking about Vegas right now.

It's a touch of Vegas. Oh, no, Vegas right now. He's going through withdraws. You don't even knew too much. Vegas has turned off since it is cold and empty. Mm-hmm. No one's around to judge him. Yeah.

This is him walking around Vegas during COVID-19. With a site that we all thought we would never see, which is visuals that have just been like mind-blowing. Empty strip, empty casinos. Just no cars on Vegas Boulevard. Another one of the insane visuals that 2020 has brought that just feel like apocalyptic. So yeah, that's a good point. Actually, let's run with that.

Because then he says, I'm going through withdraws. You don't even have to do too much. You can turn me on with just a touch, baby. Which means you literally could just walk into a single little establishment, a little casino, maybe you just hit a slot machine, and you just suddenly feel that Vegas magic. Just trick all over your shoulders. Oh, so this man's in Vegas.

That's what I'm healing, yeah. And he's wanting the normal Vegas scene. Yeah. But it's not happening right now. He says, I look around in Sin City's cold and empty. Damn, when did he write this song? He must have wrote this on March, like, 20th. He didn't, because it existed far, like, he was way ahead of his time on this one.

How did, the weekend, I have to ask you, how did you know that this whole pandemic? Did you know that this was going to happen? Yours. You're sorceress demons. See, with that one, now it seems like he's pawning in Vegas. Like, Vegas is actually on a level. Well, when he wrote this, it was on a level, so that's probably what he is saying. So, but how do you know since he's cold and empty?

Well, maybe that was a reference to like after like the party's over and now you're like just trying to pick the pieces. Or maybe he's talking about how cold and empty since it is because if you think about it that you and I have been there many of times and there's certain situations where it's like we'll meet ladies on the strip and be like, hey, how you doing? And they're like immediately throwing things out of us that we were not anticipating. And it's like, how cold are you? Because you're out there thinking you're being personable with people. And out of nowhere, if they talk to you think they're owed money. and a drink. Or it could have just been he put 500 on black.

Probably you should have put 500 on red, you know? It's another way. And got cold and empty real quick. Real quick, you know. I've definitely been there, Castle, so I get it. Let me just say, if you're looking to make a retro-sounding 80s track, talk to my man, the weekend.

Because this is how it's done. This man has captured the spirit of the 80s in a single jam, unlike anybody I've ever heard. This sounds like something that would have come blinding out of 1987 and just tore up the track. Well done, man. Oh, you want some aha? Oh, you want Metro? What is it?

Uh-huh? We got a weekend. Aha. Take on me. That's not even the sound I'm getting from this. It's the exact same sound. I'll mix it for you to show you. And you want the other one?

Metro. It has a same time. I'm going to show you. I'm going to mix it for you. We're going to show you guys as well. We're talking shit on the fly, and Castle does not believe it according to his facial expressions. But I'm going to show everybody as to why this song

reminds me of 80s groups. It just feels like a song that would have come out of one of these movies from the 80s, like Tron, Blade Runner, one of these movies from the 80s that just would have that, like, killer track in the middle when the movie really turns up. Maybe it's a crazy montage. That's just exactly the vibe that is being captured with this song. I'm like, you just nailed it.

I'm just, I'm gonna give, I'm gonna give an early, just a slow. You're an early slaps? You're gonna early slaps? Those aren't my slaps. Can I tell you something? No. Can we go to the title real quick? No.

Blinding lights. Okay, go ahead. Blinding lights. Yeah. This is just me being an asshole, right? But if lights are getting to the extent that they're blinding you, that shouldn't ever be a thing because you can do many things. One, close your eyelids.

Two, turn your face. So you're no longer looking at the lights or your eyes are in the direction. of it. You could also just turn the lights off. Turn the lights off. If that's an option, I would recommend it if it's blinding you. Yeah, if it's like blinding, like bright lights are one thing, or I can't see lights, but blinding, like you're talking about a medical condition of which these lights are taking you to, of which you will not be able to see again.

Now, if you're in a club or any setting where it's blinding you, turn off the lights. You can also just leave, maybe. Or leave. You don't have to do here. I agree. So the title is a little confusing because if the lights are blinding, we can do something about it. I think it's a little metaphorical.

Actually, there's a line in there that I really like, I'm drowning in the night. And that is a feeling. I feel like I can be like, yeah, I've been there. Especially maybe you're in Vegas where it starts going over your head. You know, you start the night being like, oh, yeah, I know exactly what I'm doing. I'm like this and that. And then by the end of it, you're kind of like, I don't even know. You just kind of let the night carry away like a stream.

So what did you say you were swimming in the night or diving into? That's how you start. And then at a certain point, the night just kind of takes over. And it's just like now it's throwing you around like a wave in the Pacific Ocean. That's just like, I got this. Well, you're following me now. That's kind of where he's at when he's blinding lights. Like the lights of Vegas have been blinding him now.

Now he's drowning in it because he kind of lost control of the night. That's how I'm reading that. Get out of the water. It's not that easy. Are you like way deep in the water now? It's not as easy. It's just being like, all right, let me just take a step out. It's that easy. Castle, that's what the people don't get.

You just get out of the water, go to your room, go to sleep. No, people want to keep partying. People want to keep saying it's the next level. People are like, you know what, it's 4 o'clock. Can I make it to 6? 6 o'clock? Can I make it to 8? Why? I just stay up in a whole other day.

And then that's when... You know why? Because they're blinded by the lights. I'm running out of time. Because I can see the sunlight up the sky. So I hit the road and overdrive. Once again, hitting us with the uh, uh, Oh, oh, now I said,

Classic Lion Weekend, we appreciate you for that. Now, question for you, Castle. He sounds like he changed cities. When did he change cities? Because he's running out of time, the sunlight of the sky, and he hit the road in the overdrive.

So he drove away, and now he's in a different city because he does not claim Sin City. He says, the city's cold and empty. But for some reason, the city that he went to doesn't have a specific name. So I feel like he's trying to get away. am I overlooking this or am I dissecting too much?

You can never be dissecting too much. That's rule number one. You're right. I put it on the board. If you look at the wall right there. I see it. Never dissecting. I thought the first rule was never talking about dissecting.

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gentlemen to sit here with Castle and just talk shit and get paid for it, okay? All right, let's not turn people off of blinding lights because weekend made a jam in 2020 and that is something that not a lot of people are doing. Very few in fact. I don't know what I'm going to put on my end of the year

2020 mix. I'm really hoping that we have a second half steam roll in a lot of ways here but we got to give weekend props for putting this out here because we are in need. Real quick. I have to jump in here, I've had that feeling. Women, you have that ability to have that on us, men, where I can't sleep until I've had your touch,

or at least you saying something to me. I just wanted to get deep there real quick. What have they said some fucked up shit to you? I still can't sleep. No, I really can't sleep. What have they said something? Like, how come your hands are so small all the time? You wouldn't have even seen it coming?

You start looking at your hands? Like, wait, what? Should I be worried about my hands? To compare in your hands to, like, other people are mannequins? So that you're the one who needed a voice. So, you know, you got what you do. You asked for. I tell you why the weekend is the perfect person to trust with an 80s throwback style jam.

It's because he's the only one with a voice that can carry it. Like, he hits an octave that you really don't hear many men get to and pulls it off. And that was something that was very prominent in the 80s. So when you combine his up here octaves and throw it to like a classic 80s style jam beat, it just works. It plays. And you know what else it does? It slaps. You still let me Justin Timberlake couldn't pull off the same song.

Hmm. I don't know. Although Justin can get up there in the high octave, I don't hear an 80s retro sound. But you know what? I would love to watch you try. J.T. Heed my challenge. I want to see you duel the weekend in some 80s throwback j t i don't know if you heard that initially

but he does not believe in you and i do you know what dance i immediately think of every time i hear that beat as it's jumping off that stupid tic-tock dance or people do there no never not any tic-top dance that will never jump into my head i imagine that molly ringwald dance from like the breakfast club where she doing that like little jump kick and like this thing and she's like doing a little clap and like a kick There's a lot of vintage 80s dances that go through my head But I always remember that one That would be right on beat

Actually, now that I think about it I'm imagining flash dance Flash dance works with it There's a lot of like vintage 80s style dances I would actually like to watch that entire dance montage scene From Breakfast Club along with this song Because I feel like it would go perfectly I'd be honest with actually

Every reference you're bringing of dance moves Are from the 1985 Breakfast Club and the other one you said I think it was 86 Flash dance I do not believe anybody that's listening to our podcast knows what the fuck you're talking about

You are vastly underestimating our listenership And what was the name? Molly Ringwald Yes Nobody knows who that is That is one of the stupidest things you said Anybody that has lived through the 80s Absolutely knows from Molly Ringwald

I know she is You know she is And anybody that's 30 plus knows who she is If you're 29 and under, Molly Ringwald isn't nobody. I'm pretty sure if you Google Molly Ringwald right now, even if you are born in like 1994, you'll see her and be like, oh, yeah, yeah, that girl, okay.

I've heard of her. I've seen that movie. I recognize the face. And you'll definitely recognize the dance move. And the point is, I'm going to make a video throwing this music together with their dance moves. I'm going to make like a whole 80s montage, actually, now that I'm thinking about it.

So you got that coming. A little bonus content for y'all. I'm making an 80s dance mix. Classic 80s dance scenes dancing to the weekends Blinded by the Lights because that's how much it hits me right in that little 80s region that we all have inside us, at least us that were like born in her before the 80s. And with that, I agree.

This song just has a certain level of, we're saying 80s, but if you, the way they were able to bring in the 2020 feel to it as well, I can't really explain it, but they definitely added a 2020 it's the weekend's voice. It's the weekend's voice. Hill to 80s. Weekend's voice.

There's a couple of beats in there. I don't know. It sounds super 80. You're right. If you could put like Cindy Lopper or something on the beat, it would sound like she made that shit in the 80s. So, yeah, Weekend. Weekend did it.

Weekend was able to cross the lines and make a 80s type song sound 2020. And you know what's funny real quick is that all the kids that are listening to it and doing the dance have no idea that they're listening to an 80s type song. They're just like, oh, this is cool. I can show you. 30,000 songs. They sound just like that, and they're fucking fantastic. Two things are that. One, a lot of people have tried to pull off the retro 80 sound and have fallen vastly short right on their face. It's a worthy effort and not easy to pull

off, but that's why, as I was saying at the beginning, I would love to give the weekend just a strong high five followed by a little Dap and Brohug as a result of being able to pull this off. Or whoever is production team, if whoever pulled this off, because it feels like something that really throws you right back smack in the middle of the night. 1986, which, you know, I think a lot of people that lived through that love having be able to have that little trip down memory lane. Secondly, those who'd like it without even realizing that it's an 80 sound, it's good for them. Honestly, I think that's something that's kind of been in play and music for decades. There's elements of the 50s that gets put into modern music

that you don't even realize at the time you're first coming up with it. You know how many times I've liked a song and then heard the original song, and I was like, oh, I didn't even know that that had been a song that already existed. Then I hear that, and I grow this knowledge of music and appreciation for the past and the time before me. And that's just something that music does. You enjoy with music as you hear it and the stuff that's coming out now, but as you begin to learn more about the music before you and how it actually blends with the music you're listening to today, and then it's just like, wow, you know what, I really appreciate music. So all those kids who don't realize the 80s implications that this song has, they're going to figure out

some days, and then that's going to open a door for them to listen to a whole bunch of old 80s gems. I like your positivity, but I don't. If the kids don't know about AHA and Metro and other 80s groups, they're not very diverse in music. And with that said, I would like them to stop listening to our podcast. I really wish you would stop saying that all the time. I really wish you would tell people to stop listening to our podcast.

No, if you're not, if you're not truly... All right, I'm cutting you off. Don't even finish the sentence. No, I don't want to hear any more reason for you to tell people that stop listening. Let's get into the slap system. How many slaps do you give blinded by the lights? It was like two layers of snaps? What was the second thing?

It was three slaps. Yeah. We got that, right? Two snaps. And then in between, I don't know what that was. I started doing it, thinking it was a snap. I forgot that wasn't part of our rating system. So it's three slaps.

two snaps and whatever the fuck I did. And then a little bit of whatever the fuck. Okay. It's good. It's a age feel. It's right around that four mark, but it's not. I feel like it's going to get played out, and you won't be able to play it as a song here shortly.

But it's a good song. It hits me right now, but I don't think it's one of those songs I'll play in the future and be like, oh, but it all higher. It doesn't hit that note for me. That is an interesting note to bring up because usually what we do here is we review, old songs that have already kind of been through

their whole run and then we remember them in classic as such. Rarely do we do songs that are modern happening right now. So it's one of the T-Munkie. Sucked. Dance monkey we did. We did the Tusi Slide. This is like You fucking Drake. I hate you. I love you.

I think this is the third 2020 song we've done. So we're in that light right now where it's like still shining us maybe even blinding us. There's always that potential when a song is still relatively new, which the song is played throughout the year. So I wouldn't call it relatively new, but like you don't actually know sometimes how a song's really going to feel until it's had its run. It's been overplayed a little bit.

It's been exposed. And then you get to a point where you're like, actually, you know, I don't want to hear that. Can you just skip on that? I think once we get to that point, we'll be able to rate it a little bit differently. But the Diasic DJs are all about how we feel right now today at this moment. With that being said, I give it a. Hmm. Okay.

If I'm reading this correctly, four slaps and you're being blinded by the light. Some light flickers. A lot of light flickers. Actually, we have a strobe light in here. I knew how to just turn that on real quick. It's a whole thing I got. But you get it. So that's what I got.

Four slaps and blinding lights. Some flashes of the light. Some flashing of the lights that are blinding you. Yes. Also, I totally trust you, JT. Justin. Justin, what did you been, man? Mr. Timberlake, if you're still listening right now, if you made it all the way through this.

80s trek. We need a 90, Bruno Mars already do the 90s but Finesse. Don't listen to his blasphemy that says that I don't trust

J.T. with the track. I trust J.T. with whatever the hell he wants to do. You know what? I don't believe in your game. But I would like to see him try

to match the weekend's wits on some 80s bullshit. I disagree. I want to see J.T. do a 70s song. Like something like Queen, something deeper. You know what I mean?

That's what I'm talking about. J.T., you can do whatever you want. Come up with a good song. Blinding Lights. Great job weekend. You killed it. Now I'm blinded by the lights and that means I can only hear and there's only one thing that I need to hear right now

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