Ramblings From Justin Penney

I am so sick of this word. Or at least the way it gets thrown around.

I have this, maybe quaint, image of "rockstar" being a musician/performer in a rock'n'roll band that matters, or at least popular. However I see it being used in contexts that just decimate any weight the word had behind it.

This first occurred to me when my daughter said that she wanted to be a rockstar when she grows up. Since I play music, in rock bands, I thought she was influenced by me. Then she dropped the, "like my mother." Yeah. I then asked Lily what she thought rockstar meant and it seemed to involve playing dress up and hanging out with people. There was nothing about music involved.

I have to admit to watching "Grey's Anatomy," publicly, to make the rest of the point... so here it is... Tonight there was reference to being a "rockstar." It just sat so wrong with me, because it really drove home the point that rockstars are dead.

Maybe they've really been dead a long time. Being into punk rock for a large part of my formative years instilled an anti-hero type of mentality. I don't get star struck. I don't have idolatry towards people. I have respect and appreciation.

# posted by Justin @ 1:20 AM