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snoogan37-1 — 17 years ago(August 23, 2008 12:19 AM)
i think there is a bit of hypocrisy. everything jim and the doors supposedly stood for is destroyed w/ every piece of merchandise manufactured. god bless densmore for being the only door w/ any kind of principle. ray and robbie are sell outs, jim is dead and even if he were alive its very likely hed be a sell out too. like the rolling stones.
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Child_OfThe_Moon — 15 years ago(October 18, 2010 11:26 PM)
ITT: butthurt kids who think Jim Morrison is THEIRS dammit, and you can only like him if you've listened to all of his studio albums ten times apiece, and done complete analyses on at least fifteen of his poems, and read at least three of his biographies - and not that No One Here Gets Out Alive propaganda crap, either.
When you're done bragging about how you like an artist who's been dead for forty years and about how you really "know" him and "relate" to him, and grow up a little, you'll realize you're being pretentious little cocks. He WAS a rock star. He may've been a poet, but he was first a rock star, and he DOES represent many of the punk ideals - rebelliousness, a love of partying, random sex with random women, drugs and alcohol, etc. Maybe he got tired of fame later on, but I'm sure he didn't regret getting filthy beep rich from it.
So what if a girl wears a Jim Morrison shirt because she thinks he's hot? Who the beep cares? Do I wear Nike shoes because I just think they look cool, or should I read a couple of books about them and write a ten-page report before I DARE to put them on?
You're talking about how you don't like him to be viewed as a "god." Don't you realize you're idolizing him WAY more than these other kids? You're acting just like the literary elitists who spend their time trying to tell people what authors they can and cannot read.
Just get the beep over yourself.
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
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Kyndra-B — 15 years ago(December 12, 2010 01:53 PM)
I agree. I'm a teenage too, I'm 16. But the thing is I know his art. He's not one of that "always screaming, making noise" kind of singers. And I believe he didn't just write those poems, those lyrics to be popular. He didn't care about what other people think or how much money he would make. Jim just wrote what he felt.
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WarpedRecord — 12 years ago(May 20, 2013 05:41 PM)
Very true. "Kids these days" seem5b4 to hate rock. Is that their form of rebellion against their parents?
I'm not at all annoyed by "those teenage Jim fans" now, just as I wasn't then. But I do get annoyed by people who get annoyed by fans of any age.
Is someone appointing themselves tastemaker and deciding who can qualify as a true fan? Isn't that the same as dismissing latecomers to a band because you were there first? That seems very "alternative," which is to say the person doesn't care so much about the music as the sense of entitlement that some folks think is part of the package. -
wylierichardson-966-922691 — 10 years ago(March 15, 2016 09:25 PM)
If I saw a young person with a Doors / JM shirt, I would actually applaud his / her taste. If you doubt their actual appreciation of JM / the Doors, why not ask them about their interest in their music? Maybe you will get a reply of "Hey, I love "Light My Fire!" rather than "No, I dont really like them at all, I just am making a fashion / cultural statement."