Ethan Merman's showbiz anthem is so hyperactively rumbustious it almost implies its opposite, the depressive crash afterwards. And then there's that line about show people smiling 'when they are low'. A hymn to fakery.
Or do you prefer the Auteurs portrait of a former child star 'my act effete and failing', the seedy slide into oblivion and substance dependency? Haines is not disillusioned, however, and clings to the dream.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 24 October 2008 15:54 (seventeen years ago)