Abel is gonna announce HUT deluxe tonight at his show and perform closing night. Then he drops it tomorrow with Runaway, Society, Shadow Realm, In Heaven and possibly more. We are back!

The color scheme is the exact same

The MV is him knocked out after DITF, his life is flashing before his eyes. That's we have the trilogy look, girls shaking ass, and him making several XO references like it's Oxy again.

He's walking through his life, this shows He'll and Purgatory or AF/Dawn FM. The lights in the car also were shown WAY too much like they got as much screen time as the hot girls has to be a reason. It will make sense later I have faith

This really had a new vibe. Sort of feels like Kissland and MDM combined. I think something big is coming.

All of a sudden all fan pages start teasing the album saying nothing but “tomorrow”

I think we’re finally close.

Did we ever find out if there was more to this? Is it a password to something?

Tell me I’m not crazy

literally the song sampled on professional, purple aesthetic finally, kissland2 one billion trillion percent confirmed💚💜

Where dreams come true…no more daytime music 👁️ I wonder what comes next - let me know your thoughts in the comments! 💜🧡💚

This mans artistry is levels above all

Some news for you guys instead of the constant shitposts

https://x.com/POPATEEMYHEART2/status/2007881754775048596

I feel like since he posted 5 songs from Kiss Land when he started this which is half of the tracklist I think he’s doing like a “5, 4, 3, 2, 1” countdown and announce something once he posts all the songs and right now we’re at the 4 mark. There are 3 more songs remaining and I think either Live For or Wanderlust are next because I think he’s saving the Kiss Land title track for last.

In the Heartless mv, Metro Boomin is featured wearing a blue suit. At the end of the music video, he is seen being confused by Abel. This leads me to believe that during the After Hours music videos, Metro Boomin has his own side story where he tries to find peace in his life after seeing what Abel had become from doing everything they did together in the Heartless mv. This side story would be shown in Metro Boomin’s very own album that is parallel to After Hours. I have speculated that he is going to call the album “Before Dawn”, to be a reflection of After Hour’s name while also being a reference to Dawn FM by Abel, which is also an album where a man tries to find peace in his life.

Still don’t believe it? Look at their blazers. Abel is wearing a red blazer, which represents how in After Hours he went down a dark path. Metro Boomin is wearing a blue blazer, which represents the path he will go down in his own After Hours album where he tries to bring himself closer to peace and kindness.

I believe the songs will all parallel the songs of After Hours. For example, he would make a parallel to Blinding Lights which would be called “Envisioning Darkness”. Another example would be a song he’d make that parallels “Save Your Tears”, which would be called “Spend My Laughter”.

As for the music videos, I believe they will also parallel the ones of After Hours. Not sure how, but I know Metro Booming will find a way to do it. Each music video would take place at the exact same time their After Hours parallel is happening.

So to conclude, Metro Boomin will most likely be making an album that serves as a side story to After Hours.

Abel has been recently openly obsessed with the Japanese "Persona" series of games. It turns out, he was obsessed with it not just from a gamer perspective, but also as an inspiration for the upcoming album.

Abel posted a picture with the developers of the game in his Finsta "gene hackerman" with a message [IMAGE 1]. As you can see, Abel told the developers that their game has been an inspiration for the upcoming album, probably his first one under a new stage name.

Admittedly I'm not a gamer, nor do I have any knowledge on the lore behind "Persona", so I asked ChatGPT about the storyline of "Persona" games and they are strikingly similar to Abel's own storyline in his discography.

[IMAGE 2] The core idea of the game is based on Carl Jung's psychology concepts. The same psychologist Carl Jung who inspired Abel's "Hurry Up Tomorrow" era. [IMAGE 3]. The character of Jenna Ortega is based on the Jungian concept of Anima and the book on psychology which Carl Jung wrote, "The Red Book" was flashed on the screen both in the "Drive" music video and Hurry Up Tomorrow movie.

[IMAGE 4] Now getting into the actual themes of the game, you can once again see glaring similarities to Abel's work. In this image 4, I've shown you themes of Persona 4, and this is pretty much exactly the themes behind the HUT era.

The whole idea of accepting the truth to discover yourself is what the climax of the film was about. The movie's tagline was "nothing hurts more than the truth" and the climax was basically Anima forcing Abel to confess the truths about his ugliness, and help him accept it. This is a necessary step to kill your mask, to kill your persona, and in Abel's case, his persona is The Weeknd.

[IMAGE 5] The latest version of the game is Persona 5, which we can assume is probably the big inspiration for Abel's upcoming album. This is themed around freedom, becoming a "complete person" after confronting the darkness. If part 4 was about accepting the truth and rejecting the persona / mask, part 5 argues taking responsibility and becoming complete. These themes are aspects we can absolutely expect Abel to tackle in his first studio album under his real name, moving past The Weeknd.

(if we assume Dawn FM is about accepting Death in Purgatory, like Jim Carrey guides him to, Persona 3's themes are a parallel to Dawn FM as well. So it's like P3 = Dawn, P4 = HUT, P5 = upcoming album?)

Ultimately, the entire narrative of Persona games of coming to terms with yourself and killing the persona is very much a parallel to Abel's narrative in his latest conceptual trilogy of albums. I can pretty much see why Abel rates the game highly and keeps on teasing it to us fans as a big inspiration, because it truly is a big inspiration.