Reel Big Fish, "Big Star" from Why Do They Rock So Hard? (The Last Angry Rude Boy)
Skammentary: Released in the fall of '98, Why Do They Rock So Hard? is almost-but-not-quite a concept album, an extended meditation of the nature & phenomenon of pop-music success. The first two & a half minutes of "Big Star" are acoustic, & even after the intensity & sheer volume of noise pick up it never quite becomes a ska song, but nevertheless "Big Star" remains the crucial first chapter in a four-song story we'll be telling this week, or rather, Reel Big Fish's story that we'll be re-telling.
"Now that I'm a big star, what am I gonna do?Here the volume & the intensity are both cranked up to eleven.
I'm so bored counting all my money,
I sit here and I think of you,
It's so easy, it's so easy to do.
"I don't even have to try,
I don't even want to try,
And why should I waste my precious time,
If I can't make you love me,
But I know you will.
"I'm such an asshole, how could you resist?
I never meant to let it go to my head,
I never thought it would come to this,
It's me, asshole of your dreams.
"I don't even have to try,
I don't even want to try,
And why should I waste my precious time,
If I can't make you love me,
But I know you will.
"I don't even have to try,
I don't even want to try,
And why should I waste my precious time,
If I can't make you love me—"
"—I can't make you love me,
But I know you do!
"But I'm so cool no one wants to look at me,
And I'm so cool no one wants to talk to me,
And I'm so fuckin' cool, nobody cares at all!
"I'm a big fuckin' star, oh yeah!
I'm a big fuckin' star, oh yeah!
I'm a big fuckin' star, oh yeah yeah yeah!
"I'm a big fuckin' star, oh yeah!
I'm a big fuckin' star, oh yeah!
I'm a big fuckin' star, oh yeah yeah yeah!
"I'm a big (big) fuckin' star, oh yeah!
I'm a big (big) fuckin' star, oh yeah!
I'm a big (big) fuckin' (big) star, oh yeah yeah yeah!"
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