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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The Power of Rock is awesome. I mean, c'mon! What problem do you have that wouldn't be solved by an awesome guitar solo, an elaborate dance routine, and a heartfelt song with kickass drums? Whose life can't be saved by "Stairway To Heaven"? Rock solves all, right? Wrong. On the cynical end of the scale, rock is actually pretty screwed up. Drugs are prevalent throughout the culture, rock musicians themselves use their inflated stardom to become real-life Karma Houdinis, and the whole scene is decadent on the top and seedy on the bottom. The consequences are emphasized more than the fun in this view. Portrayals can be broadly divided into two types of Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll. The hedonist sees all that is available with their fame and money, taking advantage of it until they wake up with a hangover. The escapist has a Dark and Troubled Past, uses drugs to escape their pain, sex as a replacement for intimacy, and music as an outlet for their anger. There's also a related type that falls into illicit substances or encounters seeking Artistic Stimulation. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Media portrayals often cross this trope with the Mad Artist, Addled Addict or the British Rock Star for maximum craziness. Not so much a response to The Power of Rock as an exposition of Real Life. Certainly Truth in Television, but often exaggerated in media for added effect, and mostly averted in Real Life. Also Older Than Dirt, being well documented at least as far back as Ancient Egypt; the similar phrase "wine, women, and song", attributed to Martin Luther, dates back to at least the 16th century. Hookers and Blow is the Super Trope. Often goes hand in hand with Three Chords and the Truth. Compare A Party, Also Known as an Orgy. Compare and contrast Rotten Rock & Roll, where rock musicians are the outright villains of the piece, but which has more of a tendency to overlap with Evil Is Cool. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })Examples |
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Metallica's "Some Kind of Monster" documentary covers this, though with the inversion of showing an older, wiser version of Metallica that had outgrown their wild hedonistic early years and now basically was all corporate-like (to the point of hiring a therapist to help the band co-exist) and largely being a bunch of middle-aged family men desperately trying to come up with a comeback album that would make the world love them again. They had to try twice for the comeback. | |
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Elvis Presley became this trope from the late 1960s on. He had a constant supply of groupies, alcohol, fast food, amphetamines and pills and grew obese. His manager Colonel Parker didn't care about his health and used all kinds of miracle cures to get him back on stage to perform. His close associates and friends didn't do enough to help him either. This eventually lead to Elvis' death at the age of 42. | |
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The Simpsons: Bart Simpson did it with a fantasy sequence where Bart imagines himself as an alcoholic rocker, alienated from his friends, and insulting his fans in his songs. Note that this is his fantasy sequence! Little sister Lisa meanwhile has her entire career as a jazz musician planned out as far as cliches go, though she remains undecided towards whether or not she'll die young to cement her legend. One season finale, "Behind the Laughter", was a pitch-perfect parody of Behind The Music (complete with the actual show's narrator) chronicling how the family's hopes for stardom "began on a wing and a prayer, only to end with the wing on fire and the prayer being answered by Satan". Although not a musician, Krusty the Clown is shown many times to be heavily dependent on drugs (legal and otherwise), a heavy drinker (complete with Drunken Montage), and has had a good number of one-night stands, while being The Krusty. |
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Ozzy Osbourne may be the best example of how this lifestyle eventually will take its toll on your health. He's still alive today, but barely able to stand on his feet. Funnily enough, the reason he's still alive is because his DNA literally contains a genetic mutation that allowed him to metabolize drugs much faster than the average human being. |
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The Weeknd is one of the best-known living embodiments of this trope in modern times. Weed, alcohol, ecstasy, cocaine, codeine, heroin... and he proudly sings about it. | |
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The opening sequence of The Legend of Black Heaven implies that Oji did drugs when he was in the band, and as for sex, he got one of his groupies pregnant and married her. | |
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This trope was probably most prevalent during the 80's. Once grunge hit the mainstream, it (or, at least, its glorification) cooled down significantly. Lemmy Kilmister has even complained about boring, clean-living attitudes of modern rock musicians. | |
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Mostly played seriously in Rock Star, but a notable subversion is Steel Dragon's original lead singer, who notes that he's gay and never did drugs, so, so much for "sex drugs and rock n' roll." | |
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The Wrestler looks at the life of a wrestler once the glitz and glamour wear off. | |
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The Osbournes could either be seen as subverting this trope or playing it straight. On one hand, Ozzy is clearly a little burnt from his years of drug abuse and wild ways, and cynics could claim that the sad after-effects of a rock and roll lifestyle are being played for laughs as a desperate and exploitative cash-grab. On the other hand, he has a luxury house, lots of money and though his family and home life certainly aren't conventional (or sane, given your point-of-view), there is certainly a lot of love and happy moments shown on camera. The upcoming documentary "The Wreckage of My Past: The Story of Ozzy Osbourne," however, seems to be playing the trope straight judging from the trailer, which features images of Ozzy staring into space and sucking oxygen from a tank filmed with a shaky cam with sorrowful music playing over it. |
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Metalocalypse: The band themselves are so rich and famous that they literally get away with murder, in addition to having scores of groupies and massive amounts of binge drinking and drug abuse Even moreso for Dr. Rockzo, the Rock 'n' Roll Clown. He does cocaine! It's one of the main reasons he's one of the favorite characters (specifically he's an expy of David Lee Roth). When Murderface and Toki try to start a record label, their first band runs into this problem before they even make a record. When Pickles' old band goes clean, he becomes offended, claiming that this trope is all part of the lifestyle |
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A Pale Horse Named Death has the song "Devil Came with a Smile", whereupon a wannabe rocker makes a Deal with the Devil to live this kind of life. It doesn't end well, of course. | |
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Walk the Line - Johnny Cash gets deep into drugs. The love of June Carter brings him back. | |
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Soft Cell. According to Marc Almond, they basically treated pop stardom as their opportunity to abuse as many different substances as they could lay their hands on. Read Almond's autobiography Tainted Life and you'll wonder how on Earth they ever made it out alive. Indeed, the book was written only a few years after Almond spent time in rehab after he narrowly avoided becoming another of pop music's drug-related fatalities, though, in his case, the drugs were not directly responsible; rather, he was nearly killed in a dispute with drug dealers. | |
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This Is Spın̈al Tap plays Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll for laughs. | |
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Marianne Faithfull also was a walking addict from the 1960s until the end of the 1970s. | |
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Velvet Goldmine. And yet, it has some rather positive messages. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City seems to hint this with the fictional band Love Fist. | |
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Taiji Sawada was probably one of the more infamous figures in Visual Kei for it. He struggled with mental illness and an addiction to alcohol and stimulant drugs throughout his life, which possibly figured into his relatively short tenures in bands that weren't his own projects. He would die soon after turning 45, in a suspicious death in custody (after a strange episode of disturbing the peace on a flight that seemed to be an epileptic seizure or being high on something), written off as suicide, but that carried all of the hallmarks of a covered-up murder via Police Brutality. | |
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The downfall of Savatage's Streets: A Rock Opera's main character DT Jesus. A drug dealer turned rock star, the fame and the eventual drug abuse are explicitly part of his story. The sex can only be assumed, but the man made millions and was a house-hold name... | |
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Charlie's backstory on Lost is all about how he went from altar boy to this. | |
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In the Heat Guy J episode "Brother," there is a young man named Kia, who is trying to get into the music industry. It is revealed that his father used to be a famous musician, who let fame go to his head, and started drinking heavily and cheating on (and beating) his wife. Eventually, the man left his wife when he found out his mistress was pregnant, and he married her and started a new life with her and the son he had by her. Kia resents his father, and decides to kill his half-brother as revenge. His brother gives him a Cool Down Hug, and he can't bring himself to shoot the boy. | |
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The Who were also well-known for their drug-fueled antics, particularly drummer Keith Moon. | |
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While not a full example of this trope, Alpha, Peter Parker's unwilling sidekick became this due to obtain his powers. He lived the lifestyle of a rock star, going so far as to abandon his parents and his first crush. It took watching him nearly kill people in the air with his recklessness for Alpha to get his powers taken away. Coming back to normal wasn't easy. At all. | |
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Almost Famous. | |
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Rock of Ages's Stacee Jaxx provides the page image. Dude is high as balls and knee-deep in screaming groupies, partly his sleazy manager's doing and partly Jaxx attempting to drown his sorrows. | |
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MGMT's Oracular Spectacular takes both ends of the scale to hell and back. | |
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Nico: Heroin abuser, smoker, wild love life, died from a heart attack at age 49. | |
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Parodied lovingly (as most things are) by Steel Panther. | |
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The Guitar Hero series has a few nods to this trope. | |
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Lust for Life by Iggy Pop covers this theme as well. | |
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Perhaps some amount of sex and controlled substances are necessary to rocking out at all: Fitz, from the Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures, plays guitar and wants to be a rock star some day. He also smokes thirty a day, gets quite drunk quite often and occasionally gets extremely drunk, tried laudanum once or twice, and has an active love life. Note the following LiveJournal icon, by redscharlach: [1]◊ | |
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Played with in Flight of the Conchords. The Conchords don't like beer (it makes Bret "have to go to the toilet"), don't smoke, and Bret at least is rather inhibited about sex. Their manager, Murray, wants them to adopt a more rock and roll image, and two of their fans manage to persuade them to take some acid. They claim to have just eaten potato salad and have plans to go jogging in the morning, so they'd better only have half...or half of a half...in the end, Bret accidentally takes a sixteenth of a hit, leading to the psychedelic "Prince of Parties" number, winding up with him perched on a toilet while the walls move around him. | |
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Drug abuse took its toll on Aerosmith; Steven Tyler and Joe Perry's nickname "The Toxic Twins" stems from their severe drug abuse, and Tyler infamously collapsed during several shows in the early 80's. All five members went through rehab in the 80's and have been clean and sober since. In the words of Steven Tyler: "Sex, drugs, and rock and roll: stop doing drugs, and you have more time for the other two." | |
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Fiasco has the Touring Rock Band playset, which is designed to produce this kind of result. The Needs categories include "To Get Fucked" and "To Get Wasted", and the Objects include a mountain of coke, bondage gear, a heroin works, and a bong made out of a skull. The Fiasco Companion goes so far as to mention a game one of the writers played, which involved a metal guru slash drug dealer, his assistant who handled the transactions and sold him out to the DEA, and a circus bear that ran over the assistant in a bus. | |
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South Park: After Stan gets tired of ruining Guitar Hero, he starts playing "Heroin Hero", in which a person just plays a character who injects heroin into his body while chasing a dragon. | |
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Parodied in the Happy Tree Friends DVD with the story behind the creators' success. It plays like one of those E! biographies, with "jujubee and high sugar candy binges" as well as other amazingly harmless demonstrations of how the success went to their head. It even has them do a Power Walk down an alleyway! It mentions how the head animator got so hopped on sugar he animated an entire season in one night! However, it was a season they already had. | |
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The Pantera home videos (Cowboys From Hell: The Videos, Vulgar Video, and 3 Watch It Go) contain interviews, music videos, and footage of the band performing. The videos also contain backstage footage of the band's wild partying, drunken shenanigans, pulling pranks on each other, and female fans flashing their breasts to the camera. Basically it's a concert video/documentary combined with Jack Ass and a touch of Girls Gone Wild. | |
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Another Bowie example: "Ashes to Ashes" from Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), in which Bowie uses the return of his character Major Tom as a metaphor for his struggle with addiction. | |
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Unlike their source material, the The Takotsuboya K-On Trilogy are Dark Fics that put the sex and drugs back in. | |
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In Get Him to the Greek, Aldous Snow is portrayed as being heavily into the sex, drugs, and rock & roll lifestyle. To the point where he even convinces his record company handler to smuggle a balloon of heroin for him during an airline flight. | |
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"Gone Guru" by Lifeseeker. A famous rock star who believes Celebrity Is Overrated gives up his hedonistic lifestyle to become a hermit living in nature. Ironically, his new lifestyle choice causes him to end up becoming even more rich and famous as a self-help guru (and/or possible cult leader), and he falls back into his former party animal lifestyle, even going as far as spending his entire fortune in his old age to get his head cut off and put on a robot body so he can keep partying for eternity. | |
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Rock & Rule plays this trope and The Power of Rock straight. The Big Bad is this trope personified: he's a burned out decadent rocker who wants to summon a demon using the heroine's voice. He is defeated when the male and female leads sing a duet that destroys his evil. | |
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"Rockstar" by Nickelback is about a man who's aspiring to become a rockstar, just so he can lead this lifestyle. | |
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