Mevers of '27 club' who 'lived fast and died young have all had long lasting careers' and there music has been adopted and continues to be brought by successive generations of fans. 'Popular culture far beyond the time and place of their origin'.
Pop music is mainly aimed at the young. The value is dependent on the currency attached to it by its fans. There is a debate the pop music is 'of its time' and 'looses meaning and value after a certain period has passed'. Yet this is not true in certain pop stars. While pop music constantly changes and evolving some values are set the same. This being:
- Youthfulness
- Rebellion
- Sexual Magnetism
- An anti- authoritarian attitude
- Originality
- Creativity/ talent
- Aggression/ anger
- A disregard for social values relating to drugs, sex and polite behaviour
- Conspicuous consumption, of sex, drugs and material good
- Success against the odds
Prematurely dead artists making perfect pop stars as they don't get old and unattractive nor lose the plot. They are much easier to worship. That is why we are so familiar with the members of the 27 club. So many pop stars die young and they become some sort of semi-mythological role models not really someone we want to be but someone we think it would be cool to be.
A Top 10 Of Dead Pop Heroes (in rough order of death)
1: Billie Holliday
2: Jimi Hendrix
3: Jim Morrison
4: Elvis Presley
5: Sid Vicious
6: Sid Vicious
7: Karen Carpenter
8: TupacShakur
9: Michael Jackson
10: Amy Winehouse
Dyer's star Theory applied to Pop Stars
Depending on who sings the song and the artists personality and star persona we understand and read into songs differently focusing on the music and lyrics.
When a star dies we tent to start organising their life into a three-act narrative; their story (usually a tragedy) is finished and can be more easily undershoot. The stars death doesn't mean their music is over. In fact Michael Jackson sold more music on the week after his death then he has done for years.
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