King of the Fall

Album: not on an album (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • Titled after Abel "The Weeeknd" Tesfaye's King of the Fall tour, this five-minute effort finds the crooner n a typically debauched mode, as he boasts about snatching girls from right under their boyfriends' noses:

    Bring your girl to my show, give her floor seats
    Then she go downtown like she owe me


    Men might now be thinking twice about bringing their girl to a Weeknd gig.
  • Released on SoundCloud in anticipation of Beauty Behind the Madness, the song did not make the track listing. However, it became a fan favorite and was eventually uploaded to streaming services on September 25, 2020.
  • The song lent its name to The Weeknd's 2014 King of the Fall Tour.

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