Tortured artist or Tortured by fame?

[emmelinemay]

Last week I mentioned my pondering on the paths of destruction so many artists seem to go down, and wondered whether they were damaged because they were famous and, or famous because they were damaged.

Synchronicity calling. Why rock and roll stars die young.

It's been proved by SCIENCE, people. And Science is neva rong. Rite?

Comments

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

:-) I thought I ought to correct that before Lyssa saw it!

There are people who are actually driven by their art who become famous almost incidentally, as a side effect of many people liking their work and wanting to know who they are so they can find more of it. The media leaves these people alone to get on with it. It's generally only the ones who want to take a shortcut to fame who get in trouble, and then it becomes a vicious circle, the more attention they get...

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

But Neither Amy, nor Pete, nor Elvis, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrisson, the list goes on, took that 'shortcut'.

They were talented. They worked hard. They achieved fame through their art. THEN they fell apart.

Just because YOU didn't know who Amy Winehouse or The Libertines were before you heard about drug problems, doesn't mean they weren't famous.