Firstly, infinite ROFL that Tesfaye has managed to take both a sample and lyric from The Smiths' sad-faced unrequited love anthem, “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”, and turned it into a sweetboy track which is essentially about fucking. Beyond The Smiths nod, “Enemy” offers some relatively sparse and crisp production, allowing the focus to stay on Tesfaye’s voice as it does its vulnerable lothario thing front and center. The operative phrase is “Girl I’m just trying to make you __ without a word

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