I love the western feel the guitar rift adds. “Sidewalks” - This would have been a solid song without Kendrick’s raps.
I promise not to trip.” “Starboy Interlude” - The Weeknd and Lana Del Rey’s characters get hot next to the microwave and stove. The clip's tucked inside their video for "Peaches and Cream." “True Colors” - The song in a nutshell: “Pull all the skeletons out of your closet, sit them right here on the couch with us. I can appreciate that.Also, what’s the more cringe-inducing (though somehow fun) line-Abel’s “Got a sweet Asian chick/ She go low, mayne” (Get it? Lo Mein, like the Asian dish) or Drake’s "Shout out to Asian girls/ Let the lights dim some" (Get it? Dim Sum, like the Asian dish) from "Over My Dead Body"? "Secrets" - Can’t separate the rhythm of this song from 112’s “Dance With Me.” Take a break and watch the guys dance in oversized Adidas tracksuits. “Starboy” also boasts a drug lyric in the hook, where his girl sees coke on the table, then “clean it with her face/ Man, I love my baby.” Clearly, he’s still the same guy from his House of Balloons mixtape days, not at all concerned about cleaning up his content for fame. he’s fully aware of how crazy it is that he was able to make a song featuring a cocaine -reference in the hook hit record, one that Nickelodeon nominated for Best Song at their 2016 Teen Choice awards. Weeknd just cut his locks a few months ago. If you had asked me years ago if the House of Balloons guy with the Basquiat hair would become a pop star, I would have said something like, “Hope so” and put my hands in prayer position, because only God could make Dark Side MJ a Hot 100 killer. “I let my black hair grow and my weed smoke,” he says. Still, on the follow-up to the album that likely gave him the confidence to call himself a Starboy, he’s giving corny, racist music business gatekeepers the side-eye, like, “I see you.” Love that.The first verse on “Reminder” is about how he achieved massive success while staying true to himself. The Weeknd spent all of 2015 becoming a legit, pop chart-topping artist. I’m always intrigued by successful people who are still woke enough to know that the game is not all the way fair. From jump he’s on the assault, swinging on radio DJs that are more apt to play “blue-eyed soul” before his songs. "Reminder" - This isn’t my favorite track overall on the album (might be my fifth), but it hits the hardest lyrically. Random Thoughts I Had While Playing Bruno Mars ’24K Magic’ Album I wish Daft Punk produced for me people, like on the Disclosure work-for-hire or complilation tip. That American Music Awards showing is the best of the bunch. New Edition is who he's playing while he’s whipping his Bentley Mulsanne. His main and side chicks are out of your league. “Starboy” - Somebody woke up feeling theirself! It's so fun hearing Weeknd's gentle Ethiopian voice stunt so hard and talk his shit. Here are some random, though fitting, thoughts I’ve had while listening to Starboy. His sound, which I used to describe as Sade-like-if she had done hard drugs, dwelled in the underworld and adored classic horror flicks-has broadened to shimmering '80s pop while also staying true to his core. So he obviously killed it on the scoreboard.There's so much I enjoyed about several of Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye's 18-song newbie. It also broke their one-day record, with 40 million streams in 24 hours. So it's refreshing when a good project does something noteworthy in the numbers department.In the last few days The Weeknd's Starboy album has racked up plays and purchases and the first wave of tallies resulted in the Toronto singer-songwriter breaking the global record for first-week streams on Spotify, with more than 223 million streams. In the music biz statistics confirm success, but not always quality.
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