Popstars and Drugs - What's your opinion?

*This forum hasn't been written on since 2001, I'm quite surprised as today's pop stars can't live without drugs* ---->Drugs and Music<---- The music of today and the general view on on taking drugs is one that is far more tolerant than when the Beatles or Stones were popping Acid and smoking/growing cannabis or enjoying N.Y's coke scene. There has always been an affiliation between the music industry and the drug industry, whether it's rappers singing about snorting coke smoking weed or Pete Doherty sitting "as per", with a needle hanging from his arm, the connection between the two has always been ...  Read the complete review

The title is a line from the 1996 REM hit single E-Bow the Letter, which was part of their experimental post-Monster album, New Adventures in Hifi. It is, on the face of it, just another reference to drugs in the music business, and it seems that even the squeaky clean (or so we all thought!) may be partaking of the occasional "pick-me-up". Part of the problem is though that they have a propensity to get caught. A lot of groups are however unaffected by their misdemeanours, with their record sales going up. Of course someone like Tippa Gore might think they should be banned, for their unwholesome behaviour, but the truth is, how many children are going ...  Read the complete review

Are you surprised at the recent discovery of the S Club 7 boys having a joint? Are you really? Were you watching Popstars when one of the semi-finalists got screwed into a tight corner, in a mock press interview set up, when asked about drug taking? Haven't you heard of Eminem's supposed pill popping on stage? Where you paying attention when Nivarna front man, Kurt Cobain and his wife, Courtney Love, owned up to their long-term smack habit? Where you alive when The Beatles were detained at the airport for carrying drugs? Did you never stop to wonder about the lyrics of Golden Brown by The Stranglers? Need I go on? I suppose I must, otherwise this ...  Read the complete review

The S Club 7 boys recently being caught smoking cannabis is a bit of a joke really. I really think as do a number of people, that it was some kind of a record label hype to promote the band to a larger audience - try and escalate to the older kids who do "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" in that nice convenient and predictable package. It's dumb, and it's showing more depravity and desperation in the now slowly and thankfully collapsing manufactured pop industry, and here I was thinking Hear'Say's conception was the current benchmark! Dwindling on that S Club 7 issue a bit longer, I don't think anybody (even the S Club 7 boys) would ...  Read the complete review

Shock horror, those lovely boys from S Club 7 have been caught smoking cannabis in a public place. Stupidity or a cunning marketing scam by a record label scared about the success of Hear’ say? Well I let you decide on that one. The real question to be answered here is the time old one of the relationship between drugs, music and musicians. Both drugs and music have been a part of human culture from the days the first man banged two bones together and accidentally eat some of those strange berries from the weird looking shrub over there. The thing is the majority of music is inspired by some kind of narcotic influence or chemical imbalance. On the ...  Read the complete review