This song is about the fame-chasing, dopamine-looping, clout-sucking treadmill of modern life, and how it turns people into hollowed-out achievement junkies. They've become addicted to the cycle because they believe it will give them what they want, unaware that the efforts are killing them emotionally and mentally. In the middle of the song, it focuses on the ones who see the cycle they wrapped themselves in, who hate it and think they'll break out, but the cycle encapsulates them again and again in a never-ending cycle. Overall, the song explores that, like actual addictions, how the pursuit of external validation only offers temporary highs. The applause and recognition fulfill the ego, but leaves a deeper emptiness behind each time.
This song is about the fame-chasing, dopamine-looping, clout-sucking treadmill of modern life, and how it turns people into hollowed-out achievement junkies. They've become addicted to the cycle because they believe it will give them what they want, unaware that the efforts are killing them emotionally and mentally. In the middle of the song, it focuses on the ones who see the cycle they wrapped themselves in, who hate it and think they'll break out, but the cycle encapsulates them again and again in a never-ending cycle. Overall, the song explores that, like actual addictions, how the pursuit of external validation only offers temporary highs. The applause and recognition fulfill the ego, but leaves a deeper emptiness behind each time.