: At roughly three and a half minutes, the track drops the Siouxsie sample for a "brute percussion and low-end churn". This transition signifies the move from the "party" to the "aftermath".

: The title refers to a real house on 65 Spencer Avenue in Toronto where Abel and his friends lived and threw parties. They used balloons to make the "shitty parties" feel more celebratory.

: The first half, "House of Balloons," is famously built around a sample of the 1980 single "Happy House" by the British post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees.

is the centerpiece of The Weeknd's debut mixtape, House of Balloons (2011). This seven-minute epic is a two-part track that transitions from a shimmering, drug-induced euphoria to a dark, aggressive reality. Production & Sampling