To add salt to the wounds was the constant hounding from paparazzi and the press that thrust what can be a fatal spotlight streaming constant pressure and scrutiny on the shoulders of one person. I went from being a low key, left of centre, bedroom producing, rapper/singer/stoner, to being on Top Of The Pops, and Conan O’Brien in NYC, and countless other places I would never have expected. In the first verse, the lyrics suggest that once someone becomes famous ("VIPerson"), their problems worsen and their paranoia grows. I know he just wanted it to sound as good as it could on the radio, and he must have cracked it because it became one of the top three radio airplay tunes of 2007.

This line is in the context of the protagonist’s apparent success; while they feel they are at the top of the tree the feint chuckles of producers and industry characters present a damning soundtrack. But… Although I loved what we had done, I began feeling that it sounded too much like a straight ahead disco-y indie pop song.Just Jack’s 'Starz in their Eyes' in this way is the predecessor for Mike Posner; the upbeat and catchy tune is topped by a cockney vocal that makes it such an entertaining listen – but there is so much more to it than that. I’m pretty sure the spark that started the lyrics was a story I happened to see about UK Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus. With lines such as ‘It’s a long way to come from the Dog and Duck karaoke machine’ and ’It’s a long way to come from your private bedroom dance routines’ being sung in a cheeky cockney accent, the song relates back to us; I think this does much more to help us understand. The celebrities are described as "bullshitters" wrapped up in fake glamour, chasing after fleeting fame. However, upon stopping, the sudden change from three decades of constant work and pressure to an abundance of free time turned the star to alcohol and very nearly caused an untimely demise.

The bridge emphasizes the contrast between a humble beginning and the superficiality of fame, using the imagery of a small karaoke machine at a local pub versus the extravagant dreams associated with stardom. The song "Starz in their Eyes" by Just Jack criticizes the culture of celebrity and the desire for fame. What you’ve always considered a great dance tune suddenly has an entirely new inflection; a tale of a singer worried that they are moving closer to the label of ‘one hit wonder’, that their star is dying and that they still haven’t found the happiness they always craved.Starz in their Eyes” attacks talent shows and ‘get famous quick’ schemes which abuse the contestants and then drop them at a moment’s notice when they quickly become irrelevant. The lyrics depict the negative effects of celebrity status and the disillusionment that comes with it. I was also generally angry with the smug and bloated fame machine as a whole, and how the ‘talent’ is often seen as an expendable piece of meat to be used by managers, labels and publicists until their sell-by-date runs out. The whole song is a masterpiece filled with sentiments of the rise and fall of fame; the quick highs followed by the crushing lows.

What I had now was a song with two separate big choruses to alternate between, which I think explains at least some of it’s success. At this point I was pretty happy with what I’d got, but never could have foreseen what the song would later become in the studio. I’d written half the rap lyrics a while before for something else, and I added some more to make it all fit with the rest of the song. Although I’d never worked that way before, everything flowed so naturally that day, all the parts complementing each other perfectly.I think we have all seen in the past when a star emerges set to be the next best thing, only to disappear after a short while into thin air. The chorus questions why someone would want to put "starz in their eyes," implying that seeking fame leads to negative consequences.