Narcissist's Addiction to Fame and Celebrity
Being famous encompasses a few important functions: it endows the narcissist with power, provides him with a constant Source of Narcissistic ...
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Every morning I open up my email and see them clustering there: the new bands on the block, grimly posing in their local alley, or throwing arms around each other's shoulders and grinning, looking tough and looking fresh. Here they come with a free download, a sweet quote from Aquarium Drunkard , an opening slot on a tour with somebody who did great at last year's Pitchfork festival. They're a teeming mass of dreams and feedback, the new bands, each one believing that it will claw out a solid space in the giant ball pit of pop.
Why be in a band in 2011? They're so unnecessary. Popwise narcissists now have desktop studios and open-source collaboration tools, flexible pseudonyms and the option of joining a cool boy-girl duo if they get a little lonely. Yet the bands keep coming. The available names at this point alone seem to signal an end: Cerebral Ballzy. Kidneythieves. Acu-Funk-Ture. A Great Big Pile of Leaves. Couldn't people have just agreed to have stopped this madness after Arcade Fire ?
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