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I've got reasons to post this. Mori's recent song got me emotional about that guy whose skyrocketing success I brought about. Hella proud of him, mad shamed I dropped the ball, but I feel irrationally compelled to share my thoughts on Off With Their Heads.
>Welcome to the mountaintop
I'm not surprised she's bringing this up first thing in the song. Your whole perspective changes from being on the bottom of the barrel to being at the mountaintop. People up there do things that are seemingly strange or look downright abusive, but often they've got good reasons for behaving the way they do. You cannot truly comprehend them until you've been to the mountaintop.
The change, especially at the radical pace she's shot up in terms of numbers, can be daunting, but it's intriguing and mesmerizing.
People kiss up to you, people willingly tell you things in hopes of winning your favor; some stupid manual work is being done by volunteers hoping you'd owe them one.
>I hope you're ready to be swingin' [basically all day every day]
Despite what it might seem, life at the top is just as stressful as the bottom. Every time you think you've finished part of the journey, more work just keeps piling up. That's not just true for an entertainer, but basically everything with any kind of power hierarchy. Which is most things ever.
It never gets any easier, the grind never truly stops.
>I'll gladly live inside ya head, but who the fuck pays my rent?
This section is probably more therapeutical than the people going "oh shit, I just witnessed a murder" attribute it. Success breeds envy. You have to get used to people talking about you, talking shit about you, manufacturing outright lies about you. It's too much. And I imagine at Mori's scale, it gets super bad.
>Those your fans you're countin'? Stop.
Yeah, we know, obsessing over numbers ain't healthy. Her bringing up the million skeletons later shows that she does, however, understand that you need to keep a general count. If the numbers stop going up in the mid-term, you're probably doing something wrong. But don't obsess (count, as in count individually).
(Special highlight for the "an entertainer 'till the fun dies" line because being an entertainer is fun until it isn't; it's both about your own fun and the audience's.)
Godspeed, Mori. I'm not a deadbeat, but I feel you on a level I don't feel the others. Don't lose yourself, but know it doesn't get any better. Suffering from Success wasn't a parody song.
Peace out.