Line #10 ItsAllAboutMe/Music


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7	* 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.
8	* 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.
9	-->''Roll out the red carpet cause the queen is here
10	-->And bow down before me and be of good cheer
11	-->Have my bath ready and my food prepared
12	-->(it's not my fault you're ugly, stay over there)
13	-->Say mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the prettiest of them all?
14	-->ME! ME! ME! ME! I'm the queen of the ball!
15	* The narrator of "Pink Pants!" by Music/TheAquabats is incredibly self-absorbed.
16	-->''Hey, let's talk about it! (Let's talk!)\
17	We can talk and talk and talk and talk about it\
18	And you know (You rock!)\
19	That the world loves to spin around me\
20	Let's talk about it!''
21	* Music/JonathanCoulton's song, "The World Belongs To You" is directed at someone who apparently believes this:
22	--> They said it's you
23	--> Who puts the gravity in the ground
24	--> They said it's you
25	--> Who all the stars revolve around
26	--> Scientists were wrong
27	--> And you suspected all along it might be true
28	--> The world belongs to you
29	* Music/HarryChapin was the absolute master of narcissistic protagonists. At least a dozen of his songs warrant mention here, but it's hard to top "W-O-L-D" (about a guy who calls his ex-wife out of the blue eight years after he ran off on her, doesn't ask how she or the kids have been doing - he only wants to know what the kids thought of hearing their old man on the radio at his new job - and then asks her to take him back; she's smart enough to say no) and "If My Mary Were Here" (where he calls his ex in the middle of the night to whine about how the woman he dumped her for - the titular Mary - has now dumped him, and can he please come over?).
30	* Music/TheDecemberists' "The Rake's Song": the Rake murdered his entire family just because he was bored with raising children:
31	-->"And that's how I came, your humble narrator,\
32	To be living so easy and free,\
33	I 'spect that you think that I should be haunted,\
34	But it never really bothers me."
35	** Oh come on, you're not giving him enough credit. He wasn't bored - he was actively horrified that he'd ever allowed himself to be in a position that hampers his rakish ways.
36	* Music/DoctorSteel's song, "Build the Robots".
37	--> One fine day when I've got my army made
38	--> My flying saucers and toys invade
39	--> Every city and every town
40	--> And then I'll plaster my face up all over the place
41	--> See, I'm gonna win the human race
42	--> See, I'm gonna make the world a better place... <{{beat}}>
43	--> For me.
44	* Music/BobDylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," where he reassures his ex that he doesn't mind, it's just that "You just kind of wasted my precious time". It's not her time that was wasted, only his.
45	* Marshall Mathers aka Music/{{Eminem}}'s song "Without Me":
46	-->Now this looks like a job for me so everybody just follow me
47	-->cuz we need a little controversy,
48	-->cuz it feels so empty without me
49	* Austrian pop star Falco's song "Egoist".
50	--> The whole world turns around me
51	--> Cause I'm just an egoist
52	--> The person who's closest to me
53	--> Is myself, I'm an egoist
54	* Both the music video and lyrics of Music/FallOutBoy's "I Don't Care" from ''Folie á Deux'' is about a self-obsessed celebrity AttentionWhore.
55	-->''I- don't- care what you think''
56	-->''As long as it's a-bout me''
57	-->''The best of us can find happiness''
58	-->''In misery''
59	* Obscure New Zealand jazz group Hot Club Sandwich has a song all about this, entitled 'Let's Talk About Me'
60	-->Let's talk about me (Let's talk about me)
61	-->I'm much more interesting than you
62	-->Let's talk about me (Let's talk about me)
63	-->My life is fabulous, it's true
64	-->Let's talk about me (Let's talk about me)
65	-->It's something that we all should do, come on
66	-->That's enough about me, let's talk about you
67	-->What do you think about ME?
68	* Music/TobyKeith's "I Want To Talk About Me". Not the singer so much as the person the song is directed at, who’s constantly talking about herself; as the song says, “I like talking about you, you, you, you usually…but occasionally I want to talk about me.”
69	* ''Music/KidsPraise'': In the sixth album, Harmony has this attitude--even having a borderline VillainSong about it! She gets thoroughly called out on it and eventually [[CharacterDevelopment grows out of it]].
70	* The Music/{{Metallica}} song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADhklL3NhhQ My World]]." "God it feels like it only rains on me."
71	* Music/NineInchNails takes this trope to the extreme in the chorus to the track "Only".
72	-->''There is no you, there is only me.''
73	* Pink, the protagonist in Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'', has a DoubleStandard where, especially with his emotional wall (the "bricks in the wall" preoccupy him to the point that he doesn't consider anyone else's feelings), he abuses his wife, (when not ignoring her), and sleeps with as many groupies as possible on the road, but feels betrayed when he calls her and hears a male voice on the line. Already feeling contempt for his audience and bitter at his dysfunctional, war-affected past (and affected by some kind of drug his greedy managers inject him with to do a show, leaving him "comfortably numb"), he leads, or imagines he leads, some kind of fascist, [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi-like]] rally onstage, leading to chaos and ostracizing and imprisoning everyone in town he disapproves of.
74	* 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…]] [[CaptainObvious Can't say the same thing about his victim's mother, though]].
75	* Music/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."''
76	** "More" is perhaps the best example on the album. It's about an incredibly ambitious person who (as the title suggests) always wants more and can't understand why other people are so "undemanding". He describes himself as "[[CrocodileTears Learning to cry]] [[ManipulativeBastard for fun and profit]]", and is obsessed with money. And of course, there's the chorus:
77	--->[[ItsAllAboutMe And I need all the love I can get]]//[[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond And I need all the love that I can't get too.]]
78	*** Later, this even changes to "I need all the love that ''you'' can't get". It's practically a VillainSong.
79	* The Music/WeirdAlYankovic song [[Music/PoodleHat "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.
80	* Music/SteveTaylor's controversial song "I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good", which is about [[BadHumorTruck an ice cream man who blows up an abortion clinic]], has the viewpoint character make it clear that he's not blowing up the clinic due to finding abortion immoral, but due to believing that his job would be on the line if there were fewer children to buy his ice cream. The fact that it doesn't occur to him that adults might want to buy ice cream too is one of the signs that he is completely deranged and that we're not supposed to approve of his actions.
81	* Music/TaylorSwift has "Me!" which sounds like this but is said to be about acceptance and celebration in one's individuality.
82	* 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.
83	* Music/WillWood's "The Main Character" is from the perspective of someone who sees themself as the main character...and ''only'' themself. Everyone else is unimportant.

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