Starboy

While all of us talk about getting rid of the old and welcoming in the new during the fall time, the Weeknd is actually doing it. Like several other songs in his genre, the Weeknd sings about how fancy his house is and how much money he's making. But that doesn't seem to totally satisfy him -- he also sings about how empty his house feels and how "we don't pray for love, we just pray for cars." The Weeknd isn't just going to stand by and allow his life to feel this empty anymore. At the very beginning of the music video for this song, we see one version of the Weeknd suffocate the version of the Weeknd that we've known and loved for years. He wants you to know that he's reinventing himself, and he's taking no prisoners. He follows this by destroying everything in his house with a giant cross, making sure to smash all of his old records in the process. Finally, he drives away on an empty highway trying to escape from his old life...and taking a jaguar with him.

Soo...is she cleaning the ivory with her face?

As per Wikipedia Oct 14th 2016

: " "Starboy" was released on September 22, 2016, following the announcement of the album and its accompanying artwork a day earlier.[3] Lyrically, "Starboy" incorporates themes of the extravagance associated with a celebrity lifestyle, as well as discussing how the celebrity lifestyle can make an entertainer fragile.[4] "

I think he is talking to his ex, someone who broke his heart. Did him wrong when he was just a regular struggling artist. Then he made himself a promise to succeed, so he goes back to her to show her that he is now rich and famous and she is nothing. He can make her year's salary in a week and he dates women who are more beautiful than her. They may be coke-heads but he loves them anyway. Its like a Great Gatsby, but in this one he doesn't want the girl, he just wants to shame her in his own twisted way.

It's clearly straight up about his life, he is making money , buying cars, racking up lines of cocaine with his baby, pockets weighed down with cash, solving all his problems with consumption. It's not proud or ashamed, it's just straight up "this is me, you created who I am, so now I'm a motherfucking starboy"

I think he's talking about his old self before he was famous.

The song is interspersed with sarcasm. The Wknd kills his old ego, which requires a great hatred. He accuses him: "Look what you have done (I am a motherfucking Starboy)", and he accepts in a very split manner the responsibility for the heightened ego that he has acquired. With the sign of morality (The Cross, In Pink, which makes it a bit untrustworthy), he rampse through the luxury apartment to symbolically distance himself from meaningless trash, kitsch and the sign of inner loneliness It is the attempt of a new beginning.

More important is that he has recognized it. But the reproach (look what you've done) seems to mean more that he will not get rid of the ghosts he called. Maybe it's just the anger on himself who broke the promise ... not to be like that. Starboy has the meaning of a womanizer, but you could interpret it differently. For me it sounds derogatory. Like a bull that got cut off the horns. Like a former badboy rapper, who now can not do without his daily afternoon tea anymore. An Asshole who don't care for the fealings of other People (Well, i love my baby = very sarcastic/cynical). Someone with a God-complex (every day a n...). No boy from the hood anymore, but a boy for the media. Someone who "acts like", but isn't whatever. Someone who has sold himself. Someone who has sold ideals and thus also puts his creativity at risk, the influences that have brought him here. Maybe he asks himself: Are there any deep thoughts (myself) that I give to the people, or do I feed clichés to a herd of cows?

Just one thing about the Starboy lyrics above. I believe the correct line is: "Let a nigga brag Pitt.."