Popular

This is what Darren said about Popular :

We are obsessed with fame..it has become a vocation we now train for and people are literally willing to do anything to get it. At the same time I was feeling completely bored with my persona and the corner of musical direction I’d painted myself into. I was bored with pop music, bored with the radio.. and really wrote this song as a way of poking fun at myself and the conveyor belt that brought me to this point in my career. It’s ironic because in the song I’m proclaiming all the things I am not. And yet it rings true because I’m sure deep down there was and some days still is a part of me that is tempted by the devil that is fame.

One really wouldn't have taken this song seriously, at face value anyway. =) Regarding the music, I WAS surprised to hear Darren singing this kind of music, but I guess the fact that I expected something else was what he meant by being bored with his persona and being painted into one "corner of musical direction". ^^

A great song. Such a hilariously funny poke at the media today and our general culture in North America. The best part is, if you don't know Darren Hayes, or aren't familiar with his music, you may think his lyrics are sincere. Which, I've had to reassure many of my friends that he is, in fact, joking.

Hahaha I can't believe there were people that didn't get the joke lol. It was a smart single, with a great fun video :)

lol i love this song and im really surprised hardly any ppl hav commented on it. i love the film clip, its just like, very real and yeah, pretty cool :P as are most of his songs/film clips.