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Why does this matter in 2025? Because Beauty Behind the Madness represents the last era of the "album cycle" as a tangible event.

Before this album, Abel Tesfaye was the king of the "mysterious internet artist." His early mixtapes— House of Balloons , Thursday , and Echoes of Silence —were dark, druggy, and gritty. When he signed to a major label, there was a fear that the "exclusive" rawness of his sound would be polished into oblivion. the weeknd beauty behind the madness zip exclusive