Montreal by The Weeknd Song Info
With Illangelo’s thunderous bass, rattling snares, and The Weeknd’s wondrous falsetto, “Montreal” is the first original song from Echoes of Silence. The noticeable change in tone can be attributed to the change in recording location. In his first interview ever with Complex, Abel recalls recording Echoes of Silence: "Echoes of Silence was made in Montreal. I had a lot of darkness in that city." Contrary to Abel’s previous music, “Montreal” tells the story of a girl who was too late in realizing that he was completely in love with her. A sample from “Laisse Tomber Les Filles,” originally performed by France Gall, is interpolated by The Weeknd for the intro and outro of this song. This wouldn’t be the last time he uses different languages in his music.
