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Narcissism In Songs
Narcissism in music
The song “When I Grow Up”, by Pussycat Dolls was released in 2009. The Pussycat Dolls were a group of five female artist who sang and performed pop music in the mid years of 2000s. In “When I Grow Up”, features a lot of narcissism in the lyrics that tells their audience they should grow up to be famous, that they are better than any other person, and everything they do matters.
From the title of the song “When I Grow up”, people may not think nothing much of the song at first. Once the song plays you can get a clear picture of what the song is set out to be and what kind of audience it is attracting. The lyrics include “When I grow up I wanna be famous” (19-20) it could not be more straight forward of what the message of

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