The Hills (song)

"The Hills"
Single by the Weeknd
from the album Beauty Behind the Madness
Language
  • English
  • Amharic
ReleasedMay 27, 2015 (2015-05-27)
Recorded2014
Genre
Length4:02
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
The Weeknd singles chronology
"Earned It"
(2014) 		"The Hills"
(2015) 		"Can't Feel My Face"
(2015)
Music video
"The Hills" on YouTube

"The Hills" is a song by Canadian singer the Weeknd. It was released on May 27, 2015, as the second single from his second studio album, Beauty Behind the Madness (2015). "The Hills" was a massive critical and commercial success, appearing on several year-end lists, and peaking at number one in several nations' charts, including his native Canada, and the United States where the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, replacing his own "Can't Feel My Face". It also made the top 10 in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. A music video for the song was released on May 27, 2015, directed by Grant Singer.

On June 28, 2019, "The Hills" was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling more than ten million copies in the United States, making it the Weeknd's first diamond-certified record.[2]

Background

Illangelo, the song's producer stated: "I'm very optimistic and positive with anything I put my energy towards, so for me, Abel's success now is what I imagined it always should have been. 'The Hills' was an opportunity for us to go back to the classical, original the Weeknd moments of our first mixtapes that I co–produced and mixed in their entirety, and then bringing that into a new context, with a pop arrangement and chords in a faster tempo. It's the perfect marriage of that".[3] While promoting After Hours, the Weeknd claimed to have recorded 67 versions of the song: "I premiered [a demo] at a South by Southwest [party in 2015] as part of the rollout of "Beauty Behind the Madness." I played it over the speakers, I was like "Let’s play it, just for fun, to get fans excited." That version was called "Mood Music" — [longtime friend and creative director] La Mar [Taylor] recorded it on his phone, it was a snippet, just half the song. It was posted on Soundcloud and it got the most views SoundCloud had ever seen or something — a sh—y phone recording. So then the whole world has that version — but the version I’m still working on in the studio doesn’t sound like that version, even though it’s the same song. I lost my mind making that record because there are noises in the [SoundCloud] version that I tried to replicate in the studio — somebody in the crowd screaming right before the drop, that wasn’t there before, so I had to put a fake scream in the song! That’s what I deal with when I make music."[4]

Composition

The song is written in the key of C minor in common time with a tempo of 113 beats per minute. The vocals in the song span from C3 to E♭5.[5]

Critical reception

That's probably the most important song in my career because it is the Weeknd and the irony being it was the most successful song that I had ever done.

— The Weeknd on "The Hills"[6]

"The Hills" received critical acclaim, with most reviewers praising the Weeknd's return to form after his pop-oriented direction with "Earned It". Billboard wrote, "His recent singles ditched his murky sound for shinier, poppier fare, but R&B outlier The Weeknd goes back to basics with "The Hills," an ode to druggy, illicit booty calls. "When I'm f–ed up, that's the real me," he sings over a dissonant synth haze in an arresting update to the woozy hedonism of his influential early mixtapes."[7] Brian Mansfield of USA Today noted that "when a song takes its hook from a horror film—Wes Craven's 1977 cult classic The Hills Have Eyes—you know there's bound to be trouble".[8]

In an analytical piece for Pitchfork, Hannah Giorgis called "The Hills" "a dark, almost discordant meditation on lust, drugs, and fame" while noting that "to those familiar with his repertoire, the only twist in 'The Hills' is how it ends: as the final chords fade, a woman's voice, syrupy and sedate, closes with a lullaby of sorts—not in English, but in Amharic, the primary language of Ethiopia and the Weeknd's own native tongue". She goes on to trace the song's melodic and lyrical origins to the Ethiopian diaspora. She continues, writing that "the familiarity of Tesfaye's strained vibrato makes him the inheritor of musical legacies that Abyssinia has birthed for generations..."[9]

Rolling Stone ranked "The Hills" at number 11 on its "50 best songs of 2015" list: "The Weeknd's second Number One smash of 2015 is much more like the guy we knew from his old mixtapes: Horror-movie shrieks and stormy electronics punctuate his seductive moans about a nihilistic affair, and somehow it's all catchy as hell."[10] Billboard ranked "The Hills" at number 10 on its year-end list for 2015: "Number one hits aren't supposed to be this sonically adventurous and dark, but The Weeknd can do no wrong in 2015. There's barely a pop hook to speak of here—just a beguiling, harrowing soundscape that's impossible to forget".[11] Time named "The Hills" the sixth-best song of 2015: "The music video for the year’s darkest No. 1 single finds 25-year-old Abel Tesfaye a.k.a. the Weeknd pulling himself out of a smoking car wreck. It’s a fitting visual, as listening to his twisted brand of R&B can feel like rubbernecking when he brags about dysfunctional relationships and being on so many drugs that getting high feels like decaf. Yet the song’s throbbing bass and Tesfaye’s horror-movie vocal delivery make the song, like some accidents, hard to turn away from."[12] Stereogum ranked it at number 11 on its "The 50 Best Pop Songs Of 2015" list: "With "Earned It" and "Can't Feel My Face," Abel Tesfaye climbed the charts by moving his sound toward the center. What's crazy is that after he got his foot in the door, "The Hills" became an even bigger hit without compromising his illicit, art-damaged aesthetic in the slightest."[13] news.com.au named it as the 24th best song of 2015: "This made No. 1 in America. Let’s just let that sink in. Donald Trump is trying to make them even more conservative and this ultra-dark song filled with way more than just swear words tops the charts."[14] The Village Voice ranked "The Hills" at number 22 on their annual year-end critic's poll.[15]

Plagiarism allegation

On December 9, 2015, Cutting Edge Music filed a lawsuit against Tesfaye, the producers of the track, and the labels who released the song, for allegedly using the bassline from the score of the film The Machine. The complaint also alleges that a producer who worked on the piece, Emmanuel “Mano” Nickerson, sent a message to the score's composer on Twitter stating that he had sampled the composer's work and that it might appear on the next Weeknd album. [16] As of July 2022, the case remains unsettled. [17]

Commercial performance

In the United States, "The Hills" entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 20 for the chart dated June 13, 2015, and was the week's highest debut.[18] Its debut was overwhelmingly powered by first-week digital download sales of 109,000 copies and 5.2 million domestic streams, aided by the simultaneous premiere of its music video on the single's release date.[19] The following week, the single declined by one position but earned the largest gain in streams on the chart.[20] It has since become the Weeknd's second number-one single in the United States on the issue dated October 3, 2015, replacing the singer's own "Can't Feel My Face", becoming the first artist since Taylor Swift to replace themselves at the top spot.[21] "The Hills" spent six consecutive weeks at number one before being replaced by Adele's "Hello" on the issue dated of November 14, 2015. It remained in the chart's top ten for 21 consecutive weeks before finally dropping out on January 16, 2016, and also ending the Weeknd's 45-consecutive weeks in the top 10.[citation needed] As of June 2016, "The Hills" has sold 2,946,000 copies in the country.[22]

In the UK, "The Hills" entered the UK Singles Chart at 51, for the week ending June 6, 2015. For the week ending September 10, 2015, it climbed from 35 to 29. For five more weeks, the song reached 23, before skyrocketing to number 5 the week later. On the week ending October 29, 2015, it reached number 3 on its 20th week, being held off by Perfect by One Direction (at number 2) and Turn the Music Louder (Rumble) by KDA (at number 1). The song spent 7 weeks altogether in the top 10 and 12 in the top 20 and was number 25 on the end of year chart.

Remixes

On October 10, 2015, two remixes of the song were released online. One featured American rapper Eminem and the other featured Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj.[23] The remix by Minaj was performed on Saturday Night Live along with the Weeknd. The Eminem remix was a personal request from Tesfaye,[24] and a virtual music video was released for it.[25] American rapper Lil Wayne remixed the song for his mixtape No Ceilings 2.[26]

On August 9, 2016, a remix was released by the Belgian DJ duo, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, as one of the free downloads of their "Summer of Madness" tracks.[27] Another remix was released on Tesfaye's YouTube channel by RL Grime.

Music video

The music video for "The Hills" was directed by Grant Singer. It was uploaded to YouTube on May 27, 2015. As of April 1, 2022, the video has been viewed over 2 billion times. The video begins showing a wrecked Lincoln Town Car that has flipped over, and the reason it flipped is unknown. The Weeknd is seen crawling out of the car before helping two women to get out. As the song progresses, the Weeknd is seen walking by himself down South June Street in Los Angeles,[28] and at the beginning of the second chorus, the wrecked Town Car explodes behind him.[29] He occasionally is pushed repeatedly by one of the women from the car. At the end of the song, he enters an abandoned mansion, and goes upstairs to a room illuminated with red light. A man holding an apple sits waiting for him, next to two other women, and the video cuts to black.

The man from inside the mansion is Rick Wilder, who also appears in both the "Can't Feel My Face" and "Tell Your Friends" music videos.[30]

Another music video was filmed for the Eminem remix in collaboration with GoPro and United Realities.[31] It is a 360-degree virtual reality video in which the Weeknd is seen leaving a venue and heading to his limo (taking him to the afterparty featured in an Apple Music commercial, with John Travolta as his driver).[32][33][34] As the viewer changes the angles, it is shown that comets are raining down and the raining debris causing fiery explosions around the area. The car that's flipped over in the original music video is also in view. As he approaches his limousine, a fiery explosion consumes him.

Popular culture

Track listing

  • Digital download
  1. "The Hills" – 3:55
  • Digital download – remixes[38]
  1. "The Hills" (featuring Eminem) – 4:23
  2. "The Hills" (featuring Nicki Minaj) – 4:02
  • Digital download – remixes
  1. "The Hills" (RL Grime Remix) – 4:31
  2. "The Hills" (Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Remix) – 5:55

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[115] 10× Platinum 700,000‡
Belgium (BEA)[116] Gold 10,000‡
Canada (Music Canada)[117] Diamond 800,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[118] 2× Platinum 180,000‡
Germany (BVMI)[119] 3× Gold 600,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[120] Platinum 50,000‡
Mexico (AMPROFON)[121] 2× Platinum 120,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[122] 2× Platinum 30,000*
Norway (IFPI Norway)[123] Gold 20,000‡
Poland (ZPAV)[124] 4× Platinum 200,000‡
Portugal (AFP)[125] 3× Platinum 60,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[126] Gold 20,000‡
Sweden (GLF)[127] 3× Platinum 120,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[128] 4× Platinum 2,400,000‡
United States (RIAA)[129] 11× Platinum 11,000,000‡
Streaming
Greece (IFPI Greece)[130] 2× Platinum 4,000,000†

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
† Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

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