By Catherine Bonjukian Patten.
With Rock Stars in the news today for reasons that are not IDOL MAKING it’s not hard to realize that this kind of idolizing has been in existence since music began; around the same time man invented the wheel. However communication has not been this connected since the induction of the internet to the masses and frankly the more connected humans get the further apart they become.
Rock stars were never a friendly animal and rock stars came in all different ages and eras. During the big band era of the 1920s there were rock stars but they came in as actors, dancers, musicians working on the silver screen and people flocked to their films. These films were talked about, replicated, ordinary people began to copy these rock stars mannerisms, dress, accents; we made them famous and in turn made them rich.
It is this trend that brought humans into the problems we now have today because these trends did not cease but increased over the decades even though the “artists” have changed and not for the better; in my opinion.
Today we have the HIP HOP ROCK STARS that have degenerated into the RAP STARS who now have infiltrated MOVIE & TV SHOWS and are producing other music rock stars however the stand outs today are far from the “rock stars” of yesterday – or ARE THEY?
If the world actually knew every waking moment of former ROCK STARS from the 50s I am sure we would have already been disgusted with them like we are with our ROCK IDOLS of today. When actor ROCK HUDSON passed away in 1985 people were shocked to learn he was a homosexual but if the INTERNET & SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITES were around at that time the public would have been inundated with every waking moment of Hudson’s life as a gay man & we would have been sick of it already.
KANYE WEST was born in 1977 making him 9 years old when ROCK HUDSON passed on & we now know WEST as the biggest egomaniac on the planet; someone I believe is without one shred of decent talent in his entire life & he is married to the most degrading of women ever to be born in this world. I always thought Madonna had taken the cake on that note but I was wrong.
Even the “goody two-shoes” of ROCK Stars are held under a microscope today. Taylor Swift and the boys of boy band ONE DIRECTION among others are always in the news because of a song they wrote about someone else or a post from a blogger who is well known or whom others FOLLOW was writing about them. The entire notion of FOLLOWING a ROCK STAR has been actually and literally happened during the days of Internet growth. Not only do these GROUPIES physically FOLLOW these bands around the world; they can FOLLOW them VIRTUALLY and correspond with them at any given time through platforms like FB, TWITTER & TUMBLR and so many others it’s not worth mentioning here.
There are many ways to meet up with old friends, look at other people’s pictures and gaze onto an old flame’s pictures but really why would you want to? I don’t think I would have loved the BEATLES or THE DOORS more if I had an entrance into their inner most lives on TWITTER. Actually I believe it would have taken away my vivid imagination of what I thought about them. Reality is not all it’s cracked up to be. In truth, REALITY TV SHOWS are the worst exposing these ROCK STARS to prying eyes, comments, taunts, bullying and more online. Who in their right mind would want a bunch of camera’s following your every move. People are not that interesting; and look at what has happened to every single one of them and I am still waiting to see how KUWTK, DUCK DYNASTY, and 19 KIDS AND COUNTING falls from grace eventually because you know that they will.
And there are countless other shows I never heard of on TV today that are considered REALITY TV SHOWS featuring ORDINARY PEOPLE that we have made into ROCK STARS. The more connected we are – the less we like others and the less we want to know about their lives. Here are a few tidbits of recent events in the lives of ROCK STARS whom our society emulates and FOLLOWS loyally.
Vanilla Ice Says He Hasn’t Slept, Eaten Much Since Arrest
Russell Simmons Hits Back At Geraldo Rivera Over Criticism Of Hip Hop
Vanilla Ice Burglary Arrest — I Lied To Cops, But … I Thought I Was Just Trash Picking
Kanye West Finally Listens to Beck: ‘Man, This Is Kinda Good!’
Inside the crumbling marriage of Jay Z and Beyoncé
AND none of this would be possible without websites like HUFFINGTON POST, PAGE 6 of NY POST, CRAZY FANS WHO CREATED MILLION DOLLAR WEBSITES LIKE PEREZ HILTON, TMZ, REDDIT & others including BLOGGERS like TWITCHY (a Republican American hell bent on wiping anyone who does not think like her off the internet map), BONJU PATTEN – now writing for this site and others which brings me to the topic OF BLOGGERS writing about ROCK STARS
Because what is a ROCK STAR? Not just a musician or a vocalist but ROCK STARS today is anyone with a FAMOUS FACE AND A NAME THAT CARRIES WEIGHT OUT OF ALL THESE BILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON EARTH – A ROCK STAR TODAY is not a good example of what teenagers should look up to because I have a couple of stories as examples of what happens when you idolize someone and then find out who they really are when you actually meet them face to face.
THE SMALLER THE ROCK STAR THE WORSE THE PERSON IS – example – the character BULL from TV SHOW “NIGHT COURT” was on a TV game show I worked on in Los Angeles. He was obnoxious, disgusting and tried many times to corner me in a room by locking the door. My producer was ever vigilant and finally threw him off the set.
THE BIGGER THE ROCK STAR THE NICER THEY ARE – ELKE SOMMERS – I worked with her on another show for the same TV GAME SHOW series and she was a doll. A living, breathing doll!
Today’s rock stars are bad examples of ordinary people being placed in extraordinary situations at the hands of MOMANGERS, UNSCRUPULOUS AGENTS & other forms of lowlife scum sucking crud rising from the dregs of our society. People have reported that rapper/producer JAY Z started out in life as a DRUG PUSHER and singer Beyonce was a stripper & I don’t know if these are fact or fiction but it does cause considerable controversy among their fans and people who dislike them. Kim Kardashian and her family have caused many people in our society to be reviled or attract to her sites, career choices and her TV SHOWs however she started out her “career” with a sex tape” much to her mother’s chagrin or was it her mother’s plan all along to shove her daughter into the limelight by any means necessary.
It’s NOT just these famous ROCK STARS that should be called out; what about the rock stars of yesterday – The TED NUGENTS, THE OZBOURNE’S, GENE SIMMONS & HIS FAMILY AND HIS SO CALLED ROCK BAND “KISS” which is more of a performance band than a musical endeavor.
Take your pick – from Sinatra & Tony Bennett to Kimye to THE JERSEY SHORE to HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO – once you get too close to anyone you will begin to see their cracks, wear and tear into their personalities.
FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT & many a FOLLOWER, many a FAN, many a GROUPIE has gone done that path of DRUGS, SEX & ROCK AND ROLL and most of them are either in jail, dead or worse, still alive with problems.
Here’s my last word on this subject for now: I THINK DOGS ARE THE ROCK STARS THAT OTHER PEOPLE SHOULD IDOLIZE – THEY ARE LOYAL, LOVING & FAITHFUL.
SAMMI THE DOGGEN
NOT JUST ANY DOG – A “DOGGEN” is a special magical being and knows everything in the world but can’t tell ya about it. She can only show you her magical powers when you need them the most!
