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* The {{streetwalker}}-soliciting narrator of "Cracked Actor" by Music/DavidBowie is another male example:

* Lola of the Music/BarryManilow song "Copacabana". [[spoiler:Though to be fair to Lola, she pretty much had a mental breakdown after the love of her life was killed in front of her and spends her days drunk and grieving after that.]]
* Music/{{Metallica}}'s song "The Memory Remains" is about an unnamed actress past her prime. Especially poignant since they managed to have 1960s starlet Music/MarianneFaithfull on backing vocals for the song and appear in the video. Talk about hitting close to home...
* "Yesterday's Hero" by John Paul Young.
* Bucks Fizz's (never spoonerise that name) ''Golden Days'' and ''Now Those Days Are Gone'' seem to be about this trope.
* Music/NinaSimone's "Stars".

* Music/PrefabSprout's "The King of Rock And Roll" is about a one-hit wonder who becomes one of these. It was their only hit... in the US.

* "New Age" by the Music/VelvetUnderground is about a love affair between a "fat, blonde actress" who is "over the hill right now" and one of her fans.

* "Duchess" by Music/{{Genesis|Band}} depicts a starlet for whom "everybody cried for more" lose popularity with her fans, to the point where "nobody (cries) for more".
* [[Music/BoneThugsNHarmony Krayzie Bone's]] "What Would You Do?" tells the story of a washed up rapper who returns back to the life of crime with disastrous consequences.
* "Paperitähdet" (Paper Stars) by Finnish rock artist Juice Leskinen.

* The {{streetwalker}}-soliciting narrator of "Cracked Actor" by Music/DavidBowie is another male example:
-->I've come on a few years from my Hollywood highs\\
The best of the last, the cleanest star they ever had\\
I'm stiff on my legend, the films that I made\\
Forget that I'm fifty, 'cause you just got paid
* Music/{{Eminem}} portrays himself/Slim Shady as this on ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2''. In "Rap God", he acknowledges that he can get away with [[TeenageDeathSongs joking about being responsible for the Columbine massacre]] now that he's not as big as he was in 2000 (but also, past the point where people would care). "Berzerk" is about a broke, down-on-his-luck Slim [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim dressing like it's the 80s]] and partying with his fave oldschool jams, and contains several double-entendres [[AnswerSong in response to]] Music/KendrickLamar's "Control" verse which seem to be him passing the torch. In "So Far...", Slim is humiliated when some hot girls turn out to be listening to Music/{{Yelawolf}} instead of him. "Bad Guy" ends with the Monster identifying himself as "''your time that's almost up that you haven't acknowledged''".
** On ''Revival'', Eminem portrays himself as this in SincerityMode - "''the crowds are gone, and it's time to [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange wash out the blonde]]. Sales decline, the curtain's drawn, they're closin' the set, I'm still pokin' my head from out behind''".
** In Eminem's 2018 tour, he used this as his gimmick. For his stage banter, he would read out loud [[InternetJerk nasty Tweets]] about his irrelevance, agree with them, and then announce "can I take you back to a time when I was actually motherfucking good?" before launching into "The Real Slim Shady". On his eventual 2018 album, he would [[TakeThatCritics not be so willing to agree with these critiques]].

* "Duchess" by Music/{{Genesis}} depicts a starlet for whom "everybody cried for more" lose popularity with her fans, to the point where "nobody (cries) for more".

* "Mr. Richland's Favorite Song" by Music/HarryNilsson, about a (male) teen idol who goes from the heights of fame to being "a fallen star who works in a bar where yesterday is king."
* "New Age" by the Music/VelvetUnderground is about a love affair between a "fat, blonde actress" and one of her fans.

* Lola of the Music/BarryManilow song "Copacabana". [[spoiler:Though to be fair to Lola, she pretty much had a mental break after the love of her life was killed in front of her and spends her days drunk and grieving after that.]]

** In Eminem's 2018 tour, he used this as his gimmick. For his stage banter, he would read out loud [[InternetJerk nasty Tweets]] about his irrelevance, agree with them, and then announce "can I take you back to a time when I was actually motherfucking good?" before launching into "The Real Slim Shady". On his eventual 2018 album, he would not be so willing to agree with these critiques

** In Eminem's 2018 tour, he used this as his gimmick. For his stage banter, he would read out loud nasty tweets about his irrelevance, agree with them, and then announce "can I take you back to a time when I was actually motherfucking good?" before launching into "The Real Slim Shady".

* Music/{{Eminem}} portrays himself/Slim Shady as this on ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2''. In "Rap God", he acknowledges that he can get away with [[TeenageDeathSongs joking about being responsible for the Columbine massacre]] now that he's not as big as he was in 2000 (but also, past the point where people would care). "Berzerk" is about a broke, down-on-his-luck Slim [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim dressing like it's the 80s]] and partying with his fave oldschool jams, and contains several double-entendres [[AnswerSong in response to]] Music/KendrickLamar's "Control" verse which seem to be him passing the torch. In "So Far...", Slim is humiliated when some hot girls turn out to be listening to Music/{{Yelawolf}} instead of him.

-->The best of the last, the cleanest star they ever had
-->I'm stiff on my legend, the films that I made
-->Forget that I'm fifty, 'cause you just got paid

* The {{streetwalker}}-soliciting narrator of "Cracked Actor" by Music/DavidBowie is another male example. "Forget that I'm fifty, 'cause you just got paid!"

* The {{streetwalker}}-soliciting narrator of "Cracked Actor" by Music/DavidBowie is another male example.