History ItsAllAboutMe / Music

* Will Wood's "The Main Character" is from the perspective of someone who sees themself as the main character...and ''only'' themself. Everyone else is unimportant.

* The Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "Why Does This Always Happen to Me?" shows the narrator getting increasingly sociopathic, from getting mad that the news interrupted ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' to report a horrific earthquake, to lamenting the fact that a friend who owed him five bucks just got killed in a car accident and he'll never see the money again, to bending the tip of his really nice knife when he stabbed his boss in the face.

* Music/NineInchNails [[UpToEleven takes this trope to the extreme]] in the chorus to the track "Only".

* Music/TobyKeith's "I Want To Talk About Me".

* This trope has been raised as a criticism of the Live Aid song "We Are The World". While the purpose of the song was originally to raise funds to help people in famine-stricken regions in Africa receive aid, and the subject of the song is supposedly about doing this, the lyrics focus more on the people doing the helping rather than the people needing help, to the point where it can seem as if the singers are more focussed on how they can help themselves by helping such people ("We're saving our own lives!"). The title alone can come off as a bit narcissistic.

* Music/{{Queen}}'s "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a confessed murderer's self-pity. Never once do we hear the narrator express remorse for the murder; he's only sorry he got in trouble for it. The only concern shown for anyone else is the narrator's mother. [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas He didn't mean to make her cry…]]

* This trope is raised as a criticism of the Live Aid song "We Are The World". While the purpose of the song was originally to raise funds to help people in famine-stricken regions in Africa receive aid, and the subject of the song is supposedly about doing this, the lyrics tend to focus more on the people doing the helping rather than the people needing help, to the point where it can seem as if the singers are more focussed on how they can help themselves by helping such people ("We're saving our own lives!").

* A frequent criticism of the Live Aid song "We Are The World" is that while the song is supposedly about helping people in famine-stricken regions in Africa receive help and aid, the lyrics can be interpreted this due to the fact that they tend to focus more on the people doing the helping rather than the people needing help, to the point where it can seem as if the singers are more focussed on how they can help themselves by helping such people ("We're saving our own lives!").

* A frequent criticism of the Live Aid song "We Are The World" is that while the song is supposedly about helping people in famine-stricken regions in Africa receive help and aid, the lyrics can be interpreted this due to the fact that they tend to focus more on the people doing the helping rather than the people needing help, to the point where it can seem as if the singers are more focussed on how they can help themselves by helping such people ("We're saving our own lives!")

* Music/TaylorSwift has "Me!" which sounds like this but is said to be about acceptance and celebration in one's individuality.

* Marshall Mathers aka Music/{{Eminem}} put out a wonderful EarWorm called "Without Me":

* Music/NineInchNails invokes this trope in the chorus to the track "Only".

* The Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "Why Does This Always Happen to Me?" shows the narrator getting increasingly sociopathic, from getting mad that the news interrupted ''TheSimpsons'' to report a horrific earthquake, to lamenting the fact that a friend who owed him five bucks just got killed in a car accident and he'll never see the money again, to bending the tip of his really nice knife when he stabbed his boss in the face.

* Fei Rin's theme and one of the catchiest songs in VideoGame/AnarchyReigns (So of course it's sung by Bandy Leggz) is simply called "It's All About Me" and it's exactly what you'd expect.

-->Say mirror mirror on the wall, who's the prettiest of them all?

--> ''I- don't- care what you think''
--> ''As long as it's a-bout me''
--> ''The best of us can find happiness''
--> ''In misery''
* Obscure New Zealand jazz group Hot Club Sandwich have a song all about this, entitled 'Let's Talk About Me'

* The Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "Why Does This Always Happen to Me?" shows the narrator getting increasingly sociopathic, from getting mad that the news interrupted ''TheSimpsons'' to report a horrific earthquake, to lamenting the fact that a friend who owed him five bucks just got killed in a car accident and he'll never see the money again, to bending the tip of his really nice knife when he stabbed his boss in the face.

* The narrator of "Pink Pants!" by Music/TheAquabats is incredibly self-absorbed.
-->''Hey, let's talk about it! (Let's talk!)\\
We can talk and talk and talk and talk about it\\
And you know (You rock!)\\
That the world loves to spin around me\\
Let's talk about it!''

* Music/DanielAmos's "Faces to the Window" (from ''Music/{{Alarma}}''). The narrator sees starving children while he’s eating his breakfast. He complains that they’re ruining his meal and even prays to God to relieve him of this terrible burden--while doing absolutely nothing to help the children.

* The narrator of "Pink Pants!" by ''Music/TheAquabats'' is incredibly self-absorbed.

* JonathanCoulton's song, "The World Belongs To You" is directed at someone who apparently believes this:

* DoctorSteel's song, "Build the Robots".

* Marshall Mathers aka {{Eminem}} put out a wonderful EarWorm called "Without Me":

* Austrian pop star ''Falco'''s song "Egoist".

* Both the music video and lyrics of Fall Out Boy's 'I Don't Care' from ''Folie á Deux'' is about a self-obsessed celebrity AttentionWhore.

* Toby Keith's "I Want To Talk About Me".

* TheSistersOfMercy song ''I Was Wrong'' (and really most of their ''Vision Thing'' album) veers off in this direction: ''"Pain looks great on other men, that's what they're for."''

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* The ''[[{{Queen}} Bohemian Rhapsody]]'' is a condemned murderer's self-pity. Never once do we hear the narrator express remorse for the murder; he's only sorry he got in trouble for it. The only concern shown for anyone else is the narrator's mother. [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas He didn't mean to make her cry…]]
* The Book of Mormon has the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHiUggTjRo You and Me (But Mostly Me)]]

* TheSistersOfMercy song ''I Was Wrong'' (and really most of their ''Vision Thing'' album) veers off in this direction: ''"Pain looks great on other men, that's what they're for."''
* Marshall Mathers aka {{Eminem}} put out a wonderful EarWorm called "Without Me"

* The Music/WeirdAlYankovic song "Why Does This Always Happen to Me?" shows the narrator getting increasingly sociopathic, from getting mad that the news interrupted ''TheSimpsons'' to report a horrific earthquake, to lamenting the fact that a friend who owed him five bucks just got killed in a car accident and he'll never see the money again, to bending the tip of his really nice knife when he stabbed his boss in the face.
* DoctorSteel's song, "Build the Robots".
--> One fine day when I've got my army made
--> My flying saucers and toys invade
--> Every city and every town
--> And then I'll plaster my face up all over the place
--> See, I'm gonna win the human race
--> See, I'm gonna make the world a better place... <{{beat}}>
--> For me.
* Austrian pop star ''Falco'''s song "Egoist".
--> The whole world turns around me
--> Cause I'm just an egoist
--> The person who's closest to me
--> Is myself, I'm an egoist

* [[JonathanCoulton Jonathan Coulton's]] song, "The World Belongs To You" is directed at someone who apparently believes this:
--> They said it's you
--> Who puts the gravity in the ground
--> They said it's you
--> Who all the stars revolve around
--> Scientists were wrong
--> And you suspected all along it might be true
--> The world belongs to you
* The Music/{{Metallica}} song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADhklL3NhhQ My World]]." "God it feels like it only rains on me."
* Toby Keith's "I Want To Talk About Me".
* Both the music video and lyrics of Fall Out Boy's 'I Don't Care' from ''Folie á Deux'' is about a self-obsessed celebrity AttentionWhore.
--> ''I- don't- care what you think''
--> ''As long as it's a-bout me''
--> ''The best of us can find happiness''
--> ''In misery''
* The narrator of "Pink Pants!" by ''Music/TheAquabats'' is incredibly self-absorbed.
-->''Hey, let's talk about it! (Let's talk!)\\
We can talk and talk and talk and talk about it\\
And you know (You rock!)\\
That the world loves to spin around me\\
Let's talk about it!''

--> ''In misery''

* The ''[[{{Queen}} Bohemian Rhapsody]]'' is a condemned murderer's self-pity. Never once do we hear the narrator express remorse for the murder; he's only sorry he got in trouble for it.
** The only concern shown for anyone else is the narrator's mother. [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas He didn't mean to make her cry…]]

* Toby Keith's "I Want To Talk About Me".