{"id":343658,"date":"2025-12-14T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/343658\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:56:08","slug":"ayra-starr-laments-loneliness-and-cold-weeks-after-relocating-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/343658\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayra Starr laments loneliness and cold weeks after relocating to New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Ayra-Starr-laments-loneliness-and-cold-weeks-after-relocating-to-New-York-2013594?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/50480384.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ayra Starr is a Nigerian Afrobeats singer\" title=\"Ayra Starr is a Nigerian Afrobeats singer\" width=\"295\" height=\"167\" \/> <\/a>Ayra Starr is a Nigerian Afrobeats singer<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Nigerian Afrobeats singer Ayra Starr has opened up about life in New York, weeks after she relocated from Lagos to the American city following a management deal with Roc Nation.<\/p>\n<p>In a new Substack post titled \u2018I\u2019m not scared, I promise,\u2019 Starr got candid about loneliness and the cold in New York, describing her apartment as \u201calmost empty\u201d and the city as \u201ca walk-in freezer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer revealed that sometimes she struggles with regret over relocating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so cold it feels like the city is actively trying to unalive my motivation. It\u2019s the kind of cold that makes you realise happiness was just a summer hallucination, and I can\u2019t stop the tiny voice at the back of my mind sarcastically saying, \u2018Who sent you work?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ayra Starr added that she would have been enjoying Detty December with her fellow citizens in Nigeria, but she is stuck in the cold and loneliness of New York because she took a rebellious risk.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Rush\u2019 crooner said she is now in her \u201cnobody gets me era,\u201d stressing that she no longer cares about proving herself to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ayra Starr is a Nigerian Afrobeats singer Nigerian Afrobeats singer Ayra Starr has opened up about life in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-343658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}