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When the songwriter looks directly into the camera and says โYour art, your writing, your culture is the shell of other menโs ambition. Ambitions beyond what you will ever understand.โ He is talking directly to the audience, us, the lesser side of society, we are who the entertainment elites lure in. This scene is brilliant as it shows straight to our face what the truth is for lot's of music,movies and other types of art, it's all a fabrication to control those who follow it so closely. Sam here, as one of those people who followed rock music closely, is absolutely destroyed when he realizes that he was just a means for profit Everything that we grew up with, took inspiration from and have loved was all fake, and us as a people can either live with knowing that all our art is fake, or just put on a smile and dance to the melody.