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?
I know the part about cutting up ebony is or can be an interpretation for drug. But what if we (as well) interpret it as he says it. Then I see an angry man and domestic violence (Than she cleans it with her face! He presses her face into the splinters of the destroyed ebony). Which would make the statement "Well, i love my baby" even more cynical. And I also mean that i hear that in his voice. Self-loathing.
I know the part about cutting up ebony is or can be an interpretation for drug. But what if we (as well) interpret it as he says it. Then I see an angry man and domestic violence (Than she cleans it with her face! He presses her face into the splinters of the destroyed ebony). Which would make the statement "Well, i love my baby" even more cynical. And I also mean that i hear that in his voice. Self-loathing.
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?
I know the part about cutting up ebony is or can be an interpretation for drug. But what if we (as well) interpret it as he says it. Then I see an angry man and domestic violence (Than she cleans it with her face! He presses her face into the splinters of the destroyed ebony). Which would make the statement "Well, i love my baby" even more cynical. And I also mean that i hear that in his voice. Self-loathing.
I know the part about cutting up ebony is or can be an interpretation for drug. But what if we (as well) interpret it as he says it. Then I see an angry man and domestic violence (Than she cleans it with her face! He presses her face into the splinters of the destroyed ebony). Which would make the statement "Well, i love my baby" even more cynical. And I also mean that i hear that in his voice. Self-loathing.