This has got to be one of the saddest and most beautiful BFF songs. In addition to the "people change" theme that has been mentioned, I hear it as a song about the promise of fame. When you've been so demoralized and jaded by the world in general, the only thing the narrator has to hang onto is the dream of being famous, living in a music-video world where his affected boredom and alienation are put on display to the whole world as "coolness."
This has got to be one of the saddest and most beautiful BFF songs. In addition to the "people change" theme that has been mentioned, I hear it as a song about the promise of fame. When you've been so demoralized and jaded by the world in general, the only thing the narrator has to hang onto is the dream of being famous, living in a music-video world where his affected boredom and alienation are put on display to the whole world as "coolness."