I May Post This or Some Version of This on BAB
It's funny to me sometimes that I spent so many of my youthful hours trying to be the Voice of Reason in the Hanson fan community.
It's funny just to say that out loud, isn't it? I know!
But as I've gotten older, and watched other bands and their fans, I've realized that I was more or less trying to be the sanest person in the asylum. And you can be sane. You can take your meds every day and dress pretty cool and maybe even hold a part time job.
But you're still in the asylum. And nobody's letting you out any time soon.
Ever since rumors emerged that Steve Tyler checked himself into rehab after a decade or two of very high-profile sobriety, I've had one eye on Aeroforce One, Aerosmith's official message board. You want to talk about asylums? What goes on there makes the RP Lounge seem like a playdate in comparison. Right now there's a thread, 98 pages long at last glance, speculating about the actual and alleged nature of Steve's rehab stint. And nobody's locking it. Or deleting it. Or trying to make it go away. So it's just raging. And raging. And raging.
Is he lying? Is PR lying? Is it painkillers? Coke? Junk? Anorexia? Is it his girlfriend? Is she in with him? Has Joe relapsed too? And everyone noticed something was off when they appeared at the Hard Rock in December...
It's fan bullshit at its absolute zenith. I could write a thesis on just that one thread, and would have if Whitney hadn't already done it. And I love, too, that the band is being completely hands off about it. They're letting the conversation happen. If only Hanson had that much confidence. There might be some more people in their asylum if they did.
It's funny just to say that out loud, isn't it? I know!
But as I've gotten older, and watched other bands and their fans, I've realized that I was more or less trying to be the sanest person in the asylum. And you can be sane. You can take your meds every day and dress pretty cool and maybe even hold a part time job.
But you're still in the asylum. And nobody's letting you out any time soon.
Ever since rumors emerged that Steve Tyler checked himself into rehab after a decade or two of very high-profile sobriety, I've had one eye on Aeroforce One, Aerosmith's official message board. You want to talk about asylums? What goes on there makes the RP Lounge seem like a playdate in comparison. Right now there's a thread, 98 pages long at last glance, speculating about the actual and alleged nature of Steve's rehab stint. And nobody's locking it. Or deleting it. Or trying to make it go away. So it's just raging. And raging. And raging.
Is he lying? Is PR lying? Is it painkillers? Coke? Junk? Anorexia? Is it his girlfriend? Is she in with him? Has Joe relapsed too? And everyone noticed something was off when they appeared at the Hard Rock in December...
It's fan bullshit at its absolute zenith. I could write a thesis on just that one thread, and would have if Whitney hadn't already done it. And I love, too, that the band is being completely hands off about it. They're letting the conversation happen. If only Hanson had that much confidence. There might be some more people in their asylum if they did.