Anthem for the Week - June 14
“Big Star Machine” by Superchic[k]
Could someone help me comprehend
How my wanting to have friends
Is now this monster that I feed
It’s popularity I need
When people think that I’m the deal
It helps me feel like I am real
But I think I lost the me
Looking for the star machine
I don’t want any part of it
Everything is here today gone tomorrow
Big star machine
Ricky Martin or Menudo
Big star machine
VHl “where are they?”
Follows big star machine
How could I have been so shallow
Big big star machine
Could someone help me comprehend
How I came to judge my friends
On a scale of trendiness
And somehow I love them less
Not as hip as they could be
Through the eyes of star machine
It’s a dumb philosophy
To judge by popularity
I don’t want any part of it everything is
Here today gone tomorrow
Big star machine
Ricky Martin or Menudo
Big star machine
VH1 “where are they?”
Follows big star machine
How could I have been so shallow
Big big star machine
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While I was never one to feel like this during any of my school years… I do identify with the need to be liked in the song. I came to understand and accept at a fairly young age that I’m just a weird quirky quiet girl that likes her books, I’ll never be popular in the traditional sense. But there is part of me that likes to be known, though I prefer anonymity in my popularity (pennames ftw, not that I’ve published anything yet…). The great thing about the internet, though, is that I can be whoever I want to be, though I act as myself, I just use names other than my own, though I do use my real name from time to time.
But all that aside, if I ever do get published and become famous (insert laughter here). I hope that I don’t lose “me” and become a different person.
3duplicity…
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