All of which relates to opportunities or detract focus on pursuing the subject's goals. If you own a house or a lot of stuff it's very easy to let your desire to keep your possessions influence your decisions. Having fewer possessions makes it easier to move and travel. If you aren't careful possessions can easily become huge time and money sinks (movies, games, collections, luxury goods) and they can tie you to a place. Despite their best efforts, as with most creative endeavors, the subject experiences intense feelings of self-doubt and questions whether they are even capable of success while pushing forward and putting on a strong front. Their circumstances and barriers to their success feel like a test. The subject affirms (as suggested earlier in the song) that they are singularly focused on the pursuit of their goal. The self-fulfilling prophecy might refer to the subject believing they are destined for greatness, or at least telling other people they are, even if they don't believe it themselves, all while continuing to work toward that goal. They are stuck waiting, trying to reach a point where they can get one step closer to their goal. The subject 'walk and talk like a machine' because they are in survival mode. The subject knows what they want (mastery and/or fulfillment) and who they want to be as a person but their life circumstances or lack of experience are preventing them from realizing their desire. (Note that it's not that the subject doesn't have or want friends, just that it's not a priority.) The 2nd stanza further suggests the song is about personal growth and fulfillment by denying external rewards (fame, cars, money.) as motivating factors. in which it is next to impossible to start a career without a high degree of proficiency. This makes sense in the context of many creative arts such as writing, singing, acting, performing, dancing, painting, etc.
The subject is eschewing romantic relationships or focusing their life around friendships so that they can pursue mastery. I feel that Oh no! is about personal growth and mastery. Unlike many others I do not see this song as being about a misguided pursuit of success. General CommentI seem to have a different interpretation than most people so here's my two cents: Idk if this is the legit meaning, this is just my personal interpretation. However, she feels as if her actual personality wouldnt be as good as others' expectations of her. This made me think of how she tried to mirror herself based on societies expectations of her, but knows that this is not herself. Consequently, she asks even faker trying to prove that she is confident and doesnt care what people thing. She has doubts about herself, despite what she said in the first section, because she is not being herself. She has now become obsessed with acting this way, and she has put so much effort into it that she knows that she will fall apart if she fails. By becmoming a self-fulfilled prophecy, she is becomming what she expected herself to be by forcing herself to change. I feel like this describes her trying to acheive her changed personality (acheiving whatever success she is hoping for). I know exactly what I want and who I want to be
She pretends that she doesnt care about relationships with people and only cares about success. I almost got the impression here that she was sort of bored with her life ("wanting a chance"), so in order to cure her boredom, she changed her personality. Maybe it was just the way she sand it but she almost sounded sarcastic. It sounds like she is denying that she needs anyone but herself and her success. The girl in the song sounds like she is trying to convince herself that she is happy and that her life is perfect. General CommentIt reminds me of someone who is so obsessed with trying to become what society expects them to be- perfect and succesful- that they wind up loosing track of reality and becomming fake. I know exactly what I want and who I wanna be 'Cause I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine
I know exactly what I want and who I wanna to be
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