I know what you think
It’s clear as mud in your eyes
We’re the plastic poseurs and prostitutes
you’ve obviously come to despise
But you don’t know nothing
You’re not hot enough to matter
You don’t understand the glamorous life
a dream that no one can shatter
We’re shameless, we will do anything
to get our fifteen minutes of fame
We have no integrity, we’re ready to crawl
To obtain celebrity we’ll do anything at all
I’m ambitious
Believe me, I’m going to be big
I’m a slave to glamour
applause and clamour
my make-up, my wardrobe, my wigs
Don’t call me pathetic
I’m harder than you’ll ever guess
relentlessly tough
’cause when the going gets rough
the tough get their pictures in the press
We’re shameless, we will do anything
to get our fifteen minutes of fame
We have no integrity, we’re ready to crawl
To obtain celebrity we’ll do anything at all
Tell me you love me
Admit it, you’re really impressed
Would it not amuse you
Have you ever seen me undressed?
We’re shameless, we will do anything
to get our fifteen minutes of fame
We have no integrity, we’re ready to crawl
To obtain celebrity we’ll do anything with anyone
go absolutely anywhere for anything at all
1992. One of our satirical songs, this time about the emerging celebrity culture in the early nineties. At that time the focus was probably on boy bands, but by 2001, when we put this song into our musical, Closer to Heaven, it was a spoof of reality TV. Now it could go all the way to the American presidency. Obviously Andy Warhol’s ‘fifteen minutes of fame’ gets quoted. The lyric is not without a certain amount of admiration for the determination involved in being completely shameless.