Quote taken from a thread on SHF about the closing down of Backstreets. I'm largely out of touch with all that is going on, but this really seemed to resonate with a lot of the posters on there.
No disrespect, but I think your assessment of the fans and Backstreets is 180 degrees wrong: Bruce's appeal, prior to 2023, wasn't that fans or Backstreets believed he walked on water, figuratively or otherwise. It was exactly the opposite of that. They loved Bruce and his music because they saw no Rock Star pretense of being able to walk on water. Fans looked at the guy on stage and saw something of themselves, and it seemed that when Bruce looked into the audience, he saw part of himself. So it was never about Bruce being elevated to some mystical status. It was about Bruce and his audience being on the same level -- not economically, of course, but in terms of shared values and principles. Of course, people do change, and it's now clear that whatever bond there once was between Bruce and the longtime fans is now irretrievably broken. Obviously, he still has millions of casual fans and there are many people who care only about the music and not the artist, so he will still be able to sell tickets and his concerts will still do very well. Nothing wrong with that.
Quote taken from a thread on SHF about the closing down of Backstreets. I'm largely out of touch with all that is going on, but this really seemed to resonate with a lot of the posters on there.
No disrespect, but I think your assessment of the fans and Backstreets is 180 degrees wrong: Bruce's appeal, prior to 2023, wasn't that fans or Backstreets believed he walked on water, figuratively or otherwise. It was exactly the opposite of that. They loved Bruce and his music because they saw no Rock Star pretense of being able to walk on water. Fans looked at the guy on stage and saw something of themselves, and it seemed that when Bruce looked into the audience, he saw part of himself. So it was never about Bruce being elevated to some mystical status. It was about Bruce and his audience being on the same level -- not economically, of course, but in terms of shared values and principles. Of course, people do change, and it's now clear that whatever bond there once was between Bruce and the longtime fans is now irretrievably broken. Obviously, he still has millions of casual fans and there are many people who care only about the music and not the artist, so he will still be able to sell tickets and his concerts will still do very well. Nothing wrong with that.