The Kings And Queens of What?

The piece of pop culture is a song from my favorite band The Devil Wears Prada, called “Hey John, What’s your name again?” In the song it tells of the superficiality of people currently, and how their images are what are most important to them. The song captures the image of our current society perfectly. In this particular song I believe that it tells that being popular, the concept of fashion it all means nothing which is bringing down the current ideology of fashion being so important. If you just put a little thought into the lyrics of this song you can easily see that they are saying fashion, popularity, and everything that goes with that all mean nothing, they’re not important and it never will be. This results in others starting to think about going against the crowd, changing their thoughts on fashion, popularity, and become less superficial about their selves. This over time will begin to break the stereotypes of popular and not popular people, fashionable and the not fashionable, making the world a realer place to live, not one full of fake people and the ones who just want to be the “pretty ones.” America being a powerful country comes up with powerful ideologies about things, about how we should live, look etc. Personally I find it sad when people get caught up in those thoughts and ideas of how things should be, even though I know it happens to us all.

They start out the song stating that people claim to be the kings and queens of fashion. But it all doesn't really mean anything. Then goes on about how these ideologies have twisted our ideas into how we think life should be. Then finishes out with how we must find ourselves within, and no longer worry about what the world wants.

Specifically in the Lines "The concept of fashion is the one to blame,” then, "This shall pass, megalomania congratulations on a mutilation of life" it is saying that fashion has built up this ideology in our heads to be rich, pretty, and even powerful. It has mutilated the way we think, it takes control of our lives and we begin to forget what we live for. People have begun to work to be better than others, to be the ones at the top instead of working with each others to make the world a good place. In the video the boy represents the people of today falling into the ideology of fashion and popularity, the bird falling represents the evil of this ideology taking over. But when the boy walks over to the bird and the bird is healed and fly’s away it represents how with not letting the ideology take complete control of us we can be saved, we can be our own person.