Peer pressure is real. When someone says it, you might think of health class back in the awkward days, but it's so much more than that. The first verse is about a drug experience. The speaker took drugs because of the lifestyle he was looking up to LA. This can happen anywhere on any type of scale. You can't help that you're going to follow someone so when you do, follow someone who has the right values. These people taught the speaker that when you have a million dollars, the best thing to spend it on is prostitutes and footwear.
The speaker then moves on to tell listeners to refrain from being high--like him. That's the catch because the speaker believes that is what will inevitably happen after the big rush. He never knew why in the depths of himself of why he did it. Once you get off the big rush, the speaker finds out that everyone he lived this lifestyle with didn't really care about who he was when it came down to it. He doesn't want to even be famous! That's how much this affected him. Who wouldn't want to be famous?
Although a lot of singers "blow their shot," the singer has in particular gone too far. WhAT iS tHE pOp sONg?! Someone tell me. Any real relationship he has is impossible to keep because he was taught through the Hollywood lifestyle of casting people away, so when he actually has the opportunity to be vulnerable, he can't.
The speaker went back to his roots. He didn't bring his artistry and talent but his fame label and his skill. Any real friends he used to have are gone (this is often the price of being famous because people can get jealous or not trust someone who may have changed). However, everything looks better than he remembered it because he romanticized it after Hollywood chewed him up and spit him out. The people there have also romanticized him because of the local history he had from "Cooler Than Me."
The next line is possibly the best verse in the song because he encounters people who were once him and so many in this process. People want to know what it is like to be famous because they never see the other side. This is the other side's REAL experience.
I'm sure there are good parts and bad parts of being famous. Which part is the majority is the determining factor. You can't let one person's experience make you want to be famous and another's not. You have to make those decisions for yourself. But you also need to know that there are certain guaranteed things that come with it, especially for musicians.
The third verse is the best in the song and of course it was taken out. What else does that tell you about Hollywood?
@Italia8989 I, too, wondered what the pop song was! My mind was going far back - like Mike and the Mechanics or something. I had to google it since I wanted to know. I came up with an article that addressed this as people want to know what that song is. It turns out it's himself - that he had these pop hits in 2010 and now it's 5 or 6 years later and they barely remember that he had other hits. :)
@Italia8989 I, too, wondered what the pop song was! My mind was going far back - like Mike and the Mechanics or something. I had to google it since I wanted to know. I came up with an article that addressed this as people want to know what that song is. It turns out it's himself - that he had these pop hits in 2010 and now it's 5 or 6 years later and they barely remember that he had other hits. :)
No, not Avicii!
Peer pressure is real. When someone says it, you might think of health class back in the awkward days, but it's so much more than that. The first verse is about a drug experience. The speaker took drugs because of the lifestyle he was looking up to LA. This can happen anywhere on any type of scale. You can't help that you're going to follow someone so when you do, follow someone who has the right values. These people taught the speaker that when you have a million dollars, the best thing to spend it on is prostitutes and footwear.
The speaker then moves on to tell listeners to refrain from being high--like him. That's the catch because the speaker believes that is what will inevitably happen after the big rush. He never knew why in the depths of himself of why he did it. Once you get off the big rush, the speaker finds out that everyone he lived this lifestyle with didn't really care about who he was when it came down to it. He doesn't want to even be famous! That's how much this affected him. Who wouldn't want to be famous?
Although a lot of singers "blow their shot," the singer has in particular gone too far. WhAT iS tHE pOp sONg?! Someone tell me. Any real relationship he has is impossible to keep because he was taught through the Hollywood lifestyle of casting people away, so when he actually has the opportunity to be vulnerable, he can't.
The speaker went back to his roots. He didn't bring his artistry and talent but his fame label and his skill. Any real friends he used to have are gone (this is often the price of being famous because people can get jealous or not trust someone who may have changed). However, everything looks better than he remembered it because he romanticized it after Hollywood chewed him up and spit him out. The people there have also romanticized him because of the local history he had from "Cooler Than Me."
The next line is possibly the best verse in the song because he encounters people who were once him and so many in this process. People want to know what it is like to be famous because they never see the other side. This is the other side's REAL experience.
I'm sure there are good parts and bad parts of being famous. Which part is the majority is the determining factor. You can't let one person's experience make you want to be famous and another's not. You have to make those decisions for yourself. But you also need to know that there are certain guaranteed things that come with it, especially for musicians.
The third verse is the best in the song and of course it was taken out. What else does that tell you about Hollywood?
@Italia8989 I, too, wondered what the pop song was! My mind was going far back - like Mike and the Mechanics or something. I had to google it since I wanted to know. I came up with an article that addressed this as people want to know what that song is. It turns out it's himself - that he had these pop hits in 2010 and now it's 5 or 6 years later and they barely remember that he had other hits. :)
@Italia8989 I, too, wondered what the pop song was! My mind was going far back - like Mike and the Mechanics or something. I had to google it since I wanted to know. I came up with an article that addressed this as people want to know what that song is. It turns out it's himself - that he had these pop hits in 2010 and now it's 5 or 6 years later and they barely remember that he had other hits. :)