O álbum “Trilogy” é a história de Abel que luta contra a sua solidão em busca do "amor". A maior parte do álbum são as consequências da incapacidade de Abel de encontrar o amor verdadeiro, com ele substituindo-o pela coisa mais próxima que ele consegue encontrar.
Com 30 músicas, o álbum tem 2h39, enquanto o The Weeknd estava a gravar músicas encontrava-se sob a influência de drogas, daí muitas terem cerca de 6 minutos.
The album depicts Abel’s life as it was: drugs and sex. Abel would frequently lead women on, manipulating them into thinking he cared for them, either until they found him with other women and left.
The Weeknd would frequently throw parties at his house, as described in the song, “House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls”.
However, in the chorus of that song, Abel is shown trying to convince others that they’re having fun and not to leave him; mostly because he is scared of being alone.
This fear of loneliness drives Abel to manipulate the people around him. When they end up leaving him, he moves on to the next.
Thursday is shown through the eyes of one of Abel’s girls, Valerie. She has fallen in love with Abel. But it is only one-sided.
In fact, Valerie is so irrelevant to The Weeknd that he thinks about other women when he and her are together, as stated in “The Zone.”
The Weeknd explains to Valerie that he is a bird; he’ll leave her for someone better like a bird migrating for summer. So when he inevitably does that, Valerie ends up taking her own life.
While The Weeknd put up the front that he didn’t care that she was gone, Valerie’s death later revealed that he actually cared deeply for her.
He no longer needs to manipulate women as they are now throwing themselves at him knowing what will happen.
The Weeknd shows us a brief glimpse into his psyche with “Montreal”, telling us how he doesn't know how to handle his new found fame.
The Weeknd meets up with a woman that once left him when he was first coming up. He coaxed her into his lifestyle of drugs and sex once again, and she takes the bait.
They become mirror images of one another. He brings her to one of his XO parties to get her cross-faded. Once she gets drunk, Abel finally gets revenge on her for leaving him.