How would you handle fame?

Paddy Cow

As the title says. We all get a kick out of gossiping about celebs but how do you think you would do if your "career" depended on it?

For me I'm thrown. I am learning to play the violin and piano. While I love being able to play these instruments, I'm not a social butterfly and I hate having to perform in front of people but at the same time I think I give my best performances when I have an audience

How have other boardsies overcome that initial fear of performing.

Ralf and Florian

Paddy Cow wrote: »

As the title says. We all get a kick out of gossiping about celebs but how do you think you would do if your "career" depended on it?

For me I'm thrown. I am learning to play the violin and piano. While I love being able to play these instruments, I'm not a social butterfly and I hate having to perform in front of people but at the same time I think I give my best performances when I have an audience

How have other boardsies overcome that initial fear of performing.

When you say fame do you mean being followed around by paps and drunks shouting catchphrases at you type of fame?I'd personally hate to be so famous that you coulden't go to the shop without being mobbed or having weirdo stalkers trying to steal your underwear and flying all the way from weirdville Tennesse being convinced that theyre married to you.A type of more low level fame would suit me where you can go around unnoticed by the general public.

mzungu

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

When you say fame do you mean being followed around by paps and drunks shouting catchphrases at you type of fame?I'd personally hate to be so famous that you coulden't go to the shop without being mobbed or having weirdo stalkers trying to steal your underwear and flying all the way from weirdville Tennesse being convinced that theyre married to you.A type of more low level fame would suit me where you can go around unnoticed by the general public.

This. The kind of fame somebody like Anthony Hopkins has. He is world famous, everybody knows him, but yet you never see him in the papers or in magazines. I am assuming he must live the low key life when he is not making movies. That is the dream really

jillymayr

i would embrace it kimmy k style

Rothko

By becoming the Irish version of J.D. Sallinger.

Paddy Cow

I recently had my grade 3 exams and I made a balls of them. I was practicing with my music teacher before I went in and nerves were getting the better of me and I did progressively worse with each practice.

The examiner was lovely but I was like a ball of nerves. One of the scales I was asked to play was A major, which is easy but I managed to mess it up

On the plus side, a few weeks later we had a class concert where I played really well so that made me feel better.

I don't think I will be in the position where I will ever have to deal with real fame but just doing normal things has given me a new found respect for those that do put them selves out there.

It's easy (and fun ) to judge others but I don't think I have what it takes to be a celebrity.

Running Balance

I d become a pure pr%£k..look down at everyone..
Just a pure $h1te...

Reebrock

Throw a television out of a hotel window and all the other stereotypical stuff to be ironic.

Paddy Cow

Reebrock wrote: »

Throw a television out of a hotel window and all the other stereotypical stuff to be ironic.

LOL in the old days, that would be acceptable and expected. Nowadays that behaviour would get you carted off to the psych ward followed by a diagnosis of bi-polar or something else and a huge apology for disappointing the "fans".

Is it wrong that I miss the old days when rock stars would behave like gobsh!tes and we could judge them from afar without the need to label everyone's bad behaviour on a "mental illness"