This Hollywood Life

To me it sounds like a parable about the exloitative lot of women in music or on the screen (Marylin et al, like in their song 'Heroin') but with an analogy to classical women like Elizabeth I or Meryl Streep in Dangerous Liasons: no matter what they do, they can't win in a man's world... The first line is a man's attitude to them; the bit about sacking the factory line might mean breaking the mould, smashing formulaic stereotypes; 'resuce me frm this Hollywood life' sounds like a sarcastic retort - what need a man beside her, when a woman can be that successful? 'The death of a king/blowjob/butchery' bit could be that she can win against men awesomely, she can butcher them, but all that means to men, ie the world, is a quick bit of cheap gratification - they don't really care for more than five minutes (how sad). The Hollywood life ain't easy... So the final line is a challenge: come on then, take everything I've got... This song is f*ckin mighty. It never seemed rated that highly - CHANGE THAT, PEOPLE!

I saw an interview with Brett where he said that this song was actually about a male friend of his if I remember correctly, who lived in Hollywood and tried over and over to get famous, but never succeeded. He said it was a sad life. So maybe it's just written like it's about a girl so that his friend didn't realise it was about him (though it does seem pretty obvious) or just because Brett thought a woman theme would make the song sound more glamorous?

courtney love comes to mind whenever i hear this song

That actually makes a lot of sense.

Not sure I understand the line about a handjob.

To me it sounds like a parable about the exloitative lot of women in music or on the screen (Marylin et al, like in their song 'Heroin') but with an analogy to classical women like Elizabeth I or Meryl Streep in Dangerous Liasons: no matter what they do, they can't win in a man's world... The first line is a man's attitude to them; the bit about sacking the factory line might mean breaking the mould, smashing formulaic stereotypes; 'resuce me frm this Hollywood life' sounds like a sarcastic retort - what need a man beside her, when a woman can be that successful? 'The death of a king/blowjob/butchery' bit could be that she can win against men awesomely, she can butcher them, but all that means to men, ie the world, is a quick bit of cheap gratification - they don't really care for more than five minutes (how sad). The Hollywood life ain't easy... So the final line is a challenge: come on then, take everything I've got... This song is f*ckin mighty. It never seemed rated that highly - CHANGE THAT, PEOPLE!

To me it sounds like a parable about the exloitative lot of women in music or on the screen (Marylin et al, like in their song 'Heroin') but with an analogy to classical women like Elizabeth I or Meryl Streep in Dangerous Liasons: no matter what they do, they can't win in a man's world... The first line is a man's attitude to them; the bit about sacking the factory line might mean breaking the mould, smashing formulaic stereotypes; 'resuce me frm this Hollywood life' sounds like a sarcastic retort - what need a man beside her, when a woman can be that successful? 'The death of a king/blowjob/butchery' bit could be that she can win against men awesomely, she can butcher them, but all that means to men, ie the world, is a quick bit of cheap gratification - they don't really care for more than five minutes (how sad). The Hollywood life ain't easy... So the final line is a challenge: come on then, take everything I've got... This song is f*ckin mighty. It never seemed rated that highly - CHANGE THAT, PEOPLE!

this song is obviously NOT about justine frischmann