Switch up my style, I take any lane / I switch up my cup, I kill any pain," The Weeknd sings. "House so empty, need a centerpiece / Twenty racks a table, cut from ebony / Cut that ivory into skinny pieces / Then she clean it with her face, man, I love my baby. A wildly popular song from The Weeknd's Grammy Award-winning album of the same name, Billboard ranked it among the top Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of 2016 while also giving the Daft Punk-featuring tune the number 4 spot on their list of the 100 Best Pop Songs of the year. We hope he drives down.If you're in the mood to listen to something that's smoothly chill yet supremely sizzling at the same time, pop on " Starboy" and you definitely won't be disappointed. “None of these toys on lease too/ Made your whole year in a week too.” And if there was any remaining doubt about his elemental love of fast cars, The Weeknd will be performing live in late October as the headlining act following America’s only sanctioned Formula One race in Austin, Texas. Lest we think that these vehicles came to reside in his garage through some glorified rental program, The Weeknd reminds us of his stable’s legitimate origins, and his correlatively deep pockets.
Signifying that he’d watched the video and heard the song, he added, “We were equally thrilled to see that he does indeed keep his P1 as clean as a pair of church shoes, which isn’t always the case with Supercar owners.” So to uncover the truth, we reached out to John Paolo Canton, McLaren’s director of public relations, and he confirmed that this car belongs to the artist. “It was a great surprise for us to see The Weeknd’s P1 in his new video - doing what it does best on the open road,” Canton said. Not only does the song give props to the avarice-inducing nature of this beast in the first verse (“I’m trying to put you in the worst mood/ P1 cleaner than your church shoes”), the car is also featured prominently in the video, in which our star passes up the other cars in his stable to take it for a high-speed spin through the twisties of Mulholland Drive - with a charcoal-colored panther in the passenger seat.Įven the world’s biggest carmaker couldn’t afford product placement like this, let alone a boutique British brand. 1 on Billboard + Twitter Trending 140 Chartīut the real romance is reserved for the McLaren P1, a hybrid hyper-car, with a top speed of 218 mph, a $1.5 million price tag, and an extremely limited run (only 375 were produced, worldwide). The Weeknd & Daft Punk’s ‘Starboy’ Powers to No. “No competition, I don’t really listen/ I’m in the blue Mulsanne bumping New Edition.” The Lamborghini Aventador SV Roadster, a $530,000 convertible wedge of volume-thirteen unobtanium, finds its way into the second verse. “Pull off in that Roadster SV/ Pockets overweight, getting’ hefty.” As does the $300,000 ultra-luxury Bentley Mulsanne, outfitted with a particularly compelling and fitting ’80s soundtrack. “We don’t pray for love, we just pray for cars,” The Weeknd sings. Our hands reach toward heaven. Amen.
But the real gift of the song for car lovers, besides its driving hooks (thanks so much, Daft Punk), is in the mention of some of most aggressive, classiest and best-performing vehicles on the market.