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I know it's just a song, but does the unhappiness come from having scripted rather than genuine social interaction?

• thaumasiotes 6y ago
  Here's the opening: I starred in every high school play blew every drama teacher away graduated first in my class at Juilliard took every acting workshop I could and I dreamed of Hollywood while I read my Uta Hagen and studied the Bard In my understanding, the unhappiness expressed by the singer comes from failing to achieve his lifelong dream; that's why I posted the stretch above on "How to let go of a lifelong dream". I find that near-final couplet - Always said I'd be famous / I guess that I lied - to pack an extraordinary amount of tragic punch for 11 words. Sometimes it can cost a lot to admit something, even something that everyone knows. That said, I saw an interview with Weird Al in which he was asked about reactions to the song, and said that theme park guides tended to like it. After all, the song depicts them as responsible people who pay the rent. The people who really hate the song (according to the interview) are actors.