In the previous few comments, the song's meaning has been pretty much covered, I just wanted to add a few little tidbits.
Clearly the song is about the corruption of Hollywood society and it vehemently dismisses regular society's obsession with the stars. But, as hinted at in the line, "...and watch us stare into the void" a different kind of obsession seems to be at hand. Not only do people love the stars simply because they provide cheap entertainment, it's almost as if we gravitate towards such out of misery/unhappiness/boredom caused by our own lives, aka "the void" mentioned above.
Like Poly61 said, another main issue addressed in the song is celebrities' insistence on complaining about such trivial problems, such as looking fat on TV, etc. It's these stars' lives that are being corrupted, as well as those of the general public. "It's not love, that's sex on the first night." Everything has been reduced to simple thrills and fixes - not anything worthwhile.
The chorus pretty much wraps everything up, though. What IS "rad" about living life under the harshly judgmental magnifying glass of the paparazzi and Big Brother America? What do we find attractive in these stars' pathetic lives and WHY?
Degradation at its best (or worst, depending on how you want to look at it).
In the previous few comments, the song's meaning has been pretty much covered, I just wanted to add a few little tidbits.
Clearly the song is about the corruption of Hollywood society and it vehemently dismisses regular society's obsession with the stars. But, as hinted at in the line, "...and watch us stare into the void" a different kind of obsession seems to be at hand. Not only do people love the stars simply because they provide cheap entertainment, it's almost as if we gravitate towards such out of misery/unhappiness/boredom caused by our own lives, aka "the void" mentioned above.
Like Poly61 said, another main issue addressed in the song is celebrities' insistence on complaining about such trivial problems, such as looking fat on TV, etc. It's these stars' lives that are being corrupted, as well as those of the general public. "It's not love, that's sex on the first night." Everything has been reduced to simple thrills and fixes - not anything worthwhile.
The chorus pretty much wraps everything up, though. What IS "rad" about living life under the harshly judgmental magnifying glass of the paparazzi and Big Brother America? What do we find attractive in these stars' pathetic lives and WHY?
Degradation at its best (or worst, depending on how you want to look at it).