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| "House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" | |
|---|---|
| Song by The Weeknd | |
| from the album House of Balloons | |
| Released | March 21, 2011 |
| Recorded | 2010-2011 |
| Length | 6:47 |
| Label | XO |
| Songwriter(s) | Abel Tesfaye · Martin McKinney · Carlo Montagnese · Susan Ballion · Peter Clarke · John McGeoch · Steven Severin |
| Producer(s) | Doc McKinney · Illangelo |
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"House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" is a song by Canadian singer the Weeknd from his debut mixtape, House of Balloons (2011). The song contains a sample from "Happy House" by British band Siouxsie and the Banshees.[1] "House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" was placed on Pitchfork's list of top 100 songs of 2011 at #57[2], along with another song from the mixtape, "The Morning", which placed at #15. In 2012, along with every song from the Weeknd's mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence, it was remastered and released on the Weeknd's compilation album, Trilogy. The Weeknd performed "House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" for the first time at his first live concert at the Mod Club on July 24, 2011.[3] In recent years, he only performs the first half of the double song, "House of Balloons", it has also been performed at the Super Bowl LV halftime show.
Composition[edit]
"House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls" is a two-part song, the first part being "House of Balloons". It is composed in the key of C major and has a tempo of 89 beats per minute. The song switches from "House of Balloons" to "Glass Table Girls" at 3:30 in the song. The first part sees the Weeknd talking to a girl in his house where a party is going on, whereas the second part, "Glass Table Girls", composed in the key of G major and also has a tempo of 89 beats per minute, shows the party depicted in bigger detail, where unlike the first part of the song, which the Weeknd mainly sung, he raps about doing cocaine, smoking weed, taking pills and having sex.
References[edit]
- ↑ "The Weeknd's 'House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls': Songs That Defined the Decade | Billboard - Billboard". Billboard. Retrieved June 11, 2023. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Top 100 Tracks of 2011 | Pitchfork". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on Feb 28, 2023. Retrieved June 14, 2023. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Weeknd - Live At The Mod Club (July 24th, 2011)". December 4, 2022. Retrieved June 11, 2023 – via YouTube. Unknown parameter
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