Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: emo
Song Meaning of “I Just Don’t Understand What All These Kids Dig About Him” by Dikembe
The song ‘I Just Don’t Understand What All These Kids Dig About Him’ by Dikembe expresses confusion and frustration over Generation Y’s hero worship. The narrator in the song reveals his consternation and contempt towards those – “all these kids” – who are so blindly devoted to a person he believes to be undeserving of such admiration and praise. Each line of the chorus is like a jab at the person in question, with words such as “weird” and “ugly” being used to describe him.
The verses go on to explain the narrator’s perspective about how the person in question is an opportunist, taking advantage of the loyalty and admiration he enjoys from “all these kids”. The narrator expresses a disbelief that the person he is singing about is taken seriously by such people, while commenting on the nature of their adoration. He believes they are harbouring naivety and delusion in their praising and worshipping of him, and that much of this devotion is based on lies and manipulation.
The song ends with a resigned sigh from the narrator that hints at his having given up on understanding the kids’ fandom: “I just don’t understand, understand what all these kids dig about him”. It is a bitter acknowledgement of the fact that no matter how much the narrator dislikes this person and despises his popularity, there will still be people committed to loving him and blindly following him. This song serves as a slyly humorous lament to the cult of celebrity and the power of adoration, from one who has been left behind.