allowed themselves to be imaged in compromising positions. Well in this case, said individual’s pseudo-boyfriend, if you will, is more or relishing the idea that one day that’s what’s gonna happen to Peg. There are also countless aspiring actresses whom we’ve never heard of that have behaved similarly, i.e. What this ultimately reads like is a song which is, most simply put, critical of over-ambitious females or what Donald Fagen referred to as “starlet fever”, which we will take as a woman feening to be famous. And it was inspired by an old Bette Davis film along a similar vein titled All About Eve.Īnd yes, even many of our favorite actresses in the here and now have done such things on their rise to the top which they’ve come to regret afterwards. Owing to this, now he’s getting his roundabout revenge. All in allīasically, the vocalist is encouraging the apple of his eye to do something which he’s confident she will regret later. Therefore we also have to presume (being a “ jilted boyfriend” and all), that he probably tried to talk Peg out of it beforehand, but she decided to do anyway. That would really be the only logical reason as to why the vocalist is predicting that this session “ will come back to ” her. one who has already been cut off but for whatever reason – obviously an inability to get over Peg – is still lingering around, watching another guy take pics of this woman he loves. So of course, there’s going to be some animosity in his heart.įurthermore, in a way there’s more being inferred in this song than stated forthrightly. And what is being implied is that the photographer is proceeding to take increasingly-seedy pictures of Peg. So as such what he is putting forth in the lyrics, such as encouraging the addressee, his girlfriend “Peg”, to perform well “ for the camera”, can be taken as sarcasm.Īctually Donald is speaking from the perspective of a tag-along boyfriend, i.e. But there are peculiarities beyond that. For instance, Donald also described said boyfriend as being “ jilted”.
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