my little starboy /4R13rjmyTvĬhelsea winning comfortably without their Belgian nsofor. His eyes hold all the beautiful stars in this universe. Have you read the article yet ? #shantanumaheshwari #desihoppers #desihopperscrewindia #proud /zjXMeyrTiy Representing the one and only Desihoppers crew India ! Look at our starboy featuring in the Statesman (Delhi and Kolkata ) So proud to see him achieve greater heights by the day ! Starboy sees some use to affectionately refer to the male star of a sports team or a musical group, à la rockstar. Because of its boy, starboy may also used to belittle a famous person. This earlier use of the term has complicated The Weeknd’s attempts to claim starboy as his legal trademark since the 2016 album release.

Though The Weeknd propelled the term starboy into the mainstream, Nigerian recording artist Wizkid (Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun) created a record label in 2013 called “Starboy Records.” Wizkid has been known by the nickname Starboy since then. The Weeknd has said that he was also inspired by David Bowie’s 1972 “Starman” when writing “Starboy,” and the theme of both songs is indeed the same: a newly famous person confronting their former self. In the song, The Weeknd compares his former self with his new one in a mix of pride and astonishment, seeing who he has become, a starboy, as a kind of alter-ego: “Look what you’ve done / I’m a motherfuckin’ starboy.” The lyrics of “Starboy” portray a starboy as a celebrity who’s recently exploded into fame and doesn’t quite know how to handle it yet. The Weeknd also gave starboy its shining moment thanks to his November, 2016 album Starboy and its title track featuring Daft Punk, which went to #1 on the Billboard charts. The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) apparently picked up starboy from his neighborhood in Toronto, which has a large Jamaican population familiar with the term which can also be seen in Jamaican popular music, such as reggae artist Mavado’s “Star Bwoy” from 2010. This sense equates starboy with other “hotshot” or “badass” words of the era like pimp or cool cat-someone who’s hip and popular. Starboy is said to originate as Jamaican slang dating to at least the 1970s.

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