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

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

Drugs and suicide aren't always, not, but in Kurt's case they were, and they are often linked.

In terms of fame-seeking, i look at it more from that angle that anyone that seeks 'fame' for no other reason than to be 'famous' must be missing something. To get what you want, and then find out it hasn't 'fixed' whatever it was that was missing can totally destroy you. I think that's a different thing entirely from the tortured artist, but they both ultimately are damaged *before* they are famous.

I think the whole 'killing themselves' thing is not really part of the point - as you say, you can be self destructive without dying from it (again, speaking from experience), so just lookign atth enumber of famous people who 'killed themselves' wasn't really my point.

Apart from various semantics issues here, i think we probably agree on most of it :)