Starboy is scheduled for a November 25 release date. There's also a brief glimpse of a portrait of Daft Punk in the video, a nod to their role producing the song. Could this be a representation of a change in Abel's music? Fans will have to wait until November. Whether it's the death of The Weeknd, the destruction of his accolades with a red crucifix, or the switch from suited blazers to motorcycle jackets, symbolism is rampant in this video. The assassin is later revealed as Starboy, essentially The Weeknd with a brand new haircut, and his objective in the video is to destroy everything concerning The Weeknd. The beginning segment opens up with a masked assassin killing The Weeknd. The video stays true to the nature of the song. I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced. Daft Punk (Official Video) Taken from the new album Starboy http://theweeknd. It’s hard to label the sound because, when I first came out, nobody would label it R&B. Daft Punk (Official Video) - YouTube Music. I think it’ll be the best-sounding album I’ve ever done. The Smiths, Bad Brains, Talking Heads, Prince, and DeBarge play roles.
The production feels aggressive but still sexy. In an interview with VMAN, he describes the overall tone and influences of the new album: He opts for an aggressive tone as opposed to his usually sensual serenades. What's different this time around is The Weeknd's lyrics and vocal delivery. There's still the hazy production with dancing synths and haunting background vocals. "Starboy" utilizes similar patterns to Weeknd's past discography. It’s like Scarface, the villain: It’s horrible, but you can’t stop looking at it.R&B singer Abel Tesfaye, known famously as The Weeknd, returns with a video for his new Daft Punk-produced single "Starboy." This will serve as the first single as well as the title track off The Weeknd's upcoming album.
You add more to him, and then it’s uncontrollable-its own character. Sometimes you take him and then you create more, and then it becomes this beast. That guy is who I am, but it is who I am to myself and in my writing. song was presented on the official Vevo-account of the artist on YouTube on October 13, 2016. Speaking to Apple Music about the persona behind his songs, Tesfaye said, “I’m a chill person. With The Weeknd, Kristine Froseth, Randy Irwin, Sam Hale. And though his music has gotten a little brighter over time, the prevailing mood remains heavy, even unsettling-the ride you want more of even when you’ve had too much.
Tesfaye’s music has become a symbol of hedonism pushed to bleak excess, with a series of albums-including 2015’s Grammy-winning Beauty Behind the Madness, 2016’s multiplatinum Starboy, and 2020’s dense and atmospheric After Hours-whose narrators can’t seem to say no even if they hate themselves for it later. Ethiopian by heritage (his parents immigrated to Canada in the late ’80s, just before he was born), Tesfaye-out from behind the mask of making art online-has since come to represent the changing face of Toronto, rooting himself not just in an international musical community but in a specific diasporic experience.
One of the earliest musicians to find his footing on the internet, Tesfaye originally offered his music through YouTube and free downloads, a move that felt radical then but is common now. The brainchild of Toronto singer Abel Tesfaye, the project took off in 2011 with a string of mixtapes (later collected as 2012’s Trilogy) that forged cavernous, falsetto-driven R&B with narratives drenched in drugs, sex, and other regrettable decisions-a sound both sensuous and detached, featherlight and dead heavy. Even the singer’s sunniest tracks (“Can’t Feel My Face,” “Starboy”) feel anchored by darkness-the sense that pleasure is pain and beauty decays and you can’t have the night without the morning after. Nobody makes feeling bad sound as good as The Weeknd.