Toxic (BoyWithUke Song)
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"Toxic" is a song by Korean-American singer
BoyWithUke Charley Yang (born August 25, 2002), known professionally as BoyWithUke, is a Korean-American singer, musician and internet personality. Yang first gained popularity on the online platform TikTok with his song "Two Moons" and later "Toxic", "I ...
, originally self-released as a single on October 29, 2021. BoyWithUke wrote and produced the song himself. It went viral on
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and received over 1.2 billion streams worldwide.


Composition and lyrics

The song features BoyWithUke singing about how "all isfriends are toxic", dubbing them "so rude and always negative" and explores ideas of loneliness with his lyrics stating that whilst he may be better off by himself, he feels "kinda empty without somebody else". Unlike some of his prior songs that had been inspired by ideas from TikTok comments, BoyWithUke wrote it "because it was an important thing in islife at the time". As with all of his songs, it was produced on his
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using
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