The song's message puts me in mind of my former best friend.
He at one time attempted to become a professional actor.
But that was about 30 years ago, and he never made it,
other than having been in some plays,
and having worked as an extra in a few movies and/or tv shows.
It was over LONG before I met him, and yet he STILL sometimes refers to himself in the present tense as BEING an actor.
He still keeps telling the same stories over and over again about his "glory days" as an actor,
and it doesn't matter HOW many times he's TOLD the story,
or if it's your HUNDREDTH time HEARING it,
he'll still tell it like it's the first time!
And SENILTY is NO excuse,
because he's been like this the entire time I've KNOWN him,
and he was only in his late thirties or early forties when I first MET him.
So where the song talks about someone who will not admit that their "15 minutes has expired,"
or implies that they always have to be "on" or performing, like they are "always in the spotlight,"
I know EXACTLY the kind of person that is being referred to!
I could go on and on with the comparison of the song's theme and how it parallels this guy's life,
but I think you get the idea...
However, I would ALSO like to say that I have never known ANYONE who is so much in DENIAL about such things.
If I was to present this song to him, and tell him that it's because it reminds me so MUCH of him,
I just KNOW that he would find some pissant way to say "That isn't me!"