It Was The Best Butter
Oct. 2nd, 2008 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI'm not particularly fond of my younger self- and if people kept coming up to me expecting me to be just like him I'd get cross.
It must be horrid to be middle-aged and still famous for something you did when you were a gobby kid. You'd feel trapped, like you couldn't move on. It would be like carrying a corpse around.
And maybe that's the reason- aside from the money, aside from wanting to prolong his fame- why Johnny Rotten did that stupid butter ad. He wanted to ditch the cadaver.
He wanted to upset his fans.
And yes, it's always sad when a hero sells out.
Simple remedy: don't have any heroes in the first place.
It must be horrid to be middle-aged and still famous for something you did when you were a gobby kid. You'd feel trapped, like you couldn't move on. It would be like carrying a corpse around.
And maybe that's the reason- aside from the money, aside from wanting to prolong his fame- why Johnny Rotten did that stupid butter ad. He wanted to ditch the cadaver.
He wanted to upset his fans.
And yes, it's always sad when a hero sells out.
Simple remedy: don't have any heroes in the first place.
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Date: 2008-10-04 10:59 pm (UTC)You're probably right. Only we do have the bad habit of looking for live heroes!