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Kasabian - "Internet has Killed Rock Stars"

by Paul Conneally | February 20, 2010 at 04:15 pm

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Kasabian's Tom Meighan says the internet is "killing rock stars"

The singer with Leicester's Brit Award rockers Kasabian feels that rock stars reveal too much about themselves on the internet. Meighan feels that stars who constantly update news about their lives on Twitter, Facebook and other blog sites have no mystique.

He says that people read rock stars blogs and think "Wow, what rubbish"

Kasabian are nominated for 6 awards at next weeks Shockwaves NME Awards 2010.

"I think - especially in the last three or four years - the internet's taken a stranglehold and killed off the myth of the rock star now. You know when you used to buy the records and there was the myth behind them? There's too much on blogs now and I think it's killed it off. Nobody's surprised by an interview anymore or anything. It's quite tragic."

He said: 'It’s not like what it used to be like in rock 'n’ roll. In the 60s and 70s you had the likes of David Bowie and Marc Bolan, and then in the 80s you even had s**t acts that were rock stars.

"There are so many rock stars writing these self pitying blogs and it's not in the spirit of rock 'n' roll

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Amy Judd

at 16:37 on February 20th, 2010

I think I have to agree with him here.

Raymond Anderson (not verified)

at 23:56 on February 20th, 2010

lack of mystique in current "rock stars" might not be due to overexposure but more likely the result of shallownesspast stars were all over the media and very forthright and honest in interviews compared to today...they still ran rings round the current lot in the interesting personalities categorymaybe Burial is intriguing....like Tricky was

Tomitheos Linardos

at 23:59 on February 20th, 2010

didn't video kill the radio star? I guess this was inevitable then, after all we are in the information age but as more privacy rules are coming into place I wonder if the future generations will look back and wonder why we tweeted and facebooked every aspect of our lives.