This is the sixth song on the playlist of The Weeknd’s noted album “Beauty Behind the Madness”. It was released through Republic Records, the Universal Music Group and XO Records along with the rest of the album on 28 August 2015. And later in the year it also served as the project’s fifth and final single. The thing about this song is that we know the singer has fallen for the type of lady that his mother, indeed even his homeys, would not approve of. But why they don’t approve of her is the mystery the audience themselves are left to decipher. Thesis Sentiment of “Acquainted”īut fallen in love he has. And that, dear reader, would be the thesis sentiment of this song. The singer is well aware that this romance he is in is “dangerous”. He has apparently hooked up with a girl who is perhaps just as loose as he is. But he is in love nonetheless. She is the only one who is truly able to “comfort” him, making him feel in a way that no one else does.Īnd with all of that out of the way, let it be known that the outro concludes the track on a bit of a different note. Here, the singer is speaking of a group of women, “girls born in the ‘90s”, as opposed to about the addressee in particular.Īnd in flipping the bars around a bit, what it appears he’s saying is something like women from that age group want to get with him, even though they know that he’s a playa. So The Weeknd views them as being unorthodox or as he terms it “dangerous”. And the way this all may relate to the general narrative is by implying that the addressee, this woman he has fallen in love with, is in fact a ‘90s girl.Īnd what makes her so “dangerous” is that her acceptance of him would also imply that she too is out somewhere doing her own thing, not giving AF, if you will. So it may be that the vocalist is saying that girls from that decade are like playas themselves. while out loosely partying. So just as he is living a “fast life”, she too would be living one of her own. And yes, most people would probably agree that getting seriously involved with that kind of woman isn’t the best idea. Or viewed from another direction, he most likely met the addressee under such circumstances, i.e. That is a metaphor that reads as if, as expressed in many of his other songs, Abel is unable to escape the excitable celebrity lifestyle that has been made accessible to him via his fame and wealth. This postulation is buttressed during the third verse. It is here where we are introduced to an idea like The Weeknd, under inspiration from his mother, desiring to find a good girl. However, the “ fast life keeps gaining on” him. Indeed his homeys have “warned” him about getting mixed up with her “type” of woman. What type that is exactly is not specified. However, all lyrics considered, it is feasible to deduce that perhaps, in some capacity or another, she is mixed up with another man or men. But the story is at hand not that simple. Rather this lady is presented, even by the narrator himself, as being “no good”.