Once upon a time I was extremely bored and I found Fueled by Gossip. Actually, I’ve seen this site before but never bothered to look through it because I thought most of the things people say there are pointless or just plain lies so I’d rather look for some other sites to kill time. Then just recently, a friend told me things she read about The Maine hooking up on tours and practically just living the rockstar kind of life at Fueled by Gossip (other bands included). I still didn’t care at all because I’m not that interested in those kinds of things. I’m 22 and when you’re at that age you don’t go dwelling on things written at Fueled by Gossip or just Fueled by Gossip in general. For all I care about whatever The Maine or other indie band people do when on tour for me, all I care about is their music and that they continue making music. All the more when I have a ton of deadlines to meet at work Fueled by Gossip does not deserve even a minuscule amount of attention from me. But then a few days ago I got so bored and ended up checking out Fueled by Gossip.
I can clearly see how popular this site has been. There’s Fueled by Gossip and then there’s Fueled by Gossip V2.0. Gossip has never entertained me this much before. But I was so bored that I ended up reading stuffs at Fueled by Gossip. I was surprised to find myself really drawn to all the entries. I was so entertained, flustered at some stories I read especially the hook-up stories and I just really enjoyed reading a lot of threads plus it made me realize some things I didn’t saw clearly before. I can’t believe Americans can be so bad at spelling and grammars at times. I just don’t understand it at all. I mean English is THEIR language and some of the grammars…I was just so shocked. I never expected to read something so grammatically wrong there. Then there are replies that’ll make me pause for a while and say “WHAT!?” and lot of them use too many loooooooooonnnnnnnnggggggg abbreviations and I’d just stop reading and try to decipher what those abbreviations mean.
I’m pretty sure that most of the people running and posting in that community are teenagers. Everything screams “DRAMA!!!” but I still continue to read. I super love The Maine so I keep reading threads about them. Even at work, once I arrive in the office the first thing I’m do is open fueled by gossip and read. It’s so addicting and it just makes my day a tad better and less stressful. It’s like going back to high school except that it’s online and I’m just right there as spectator while everyone bicker, insult others, proclaim how proud they are to have hooked up with this or that band member, report on the latest hook-ups, fights, groupies flirting band members and band members flirting back, scene queens (I had no idea what this was about until I read about a certain Jac Vaneck? Nicole Buckley? who they dub as a scene queen,slut,hoe,bitch,stuck up ugly ass b*tch and the list goes on) I can’t remember how many swears and insults I read per page especially when the name of those girls are mentioned. I have never heard of her before until I started reading entries at Fueled by Gossip. Then I got to read wild Warped Tour stories about bands I’ve never heard before, Artist Vs. Poets, Family Force 5(?)… stories about how sweet, sexy, adorable, gorgeous, irresistibly hot this or that vocalist, guitarist and etc. A lot of times they’d name band members from various bands and I’d have no idea who these guys are. I only know a few members from some bands that I listen to but mostly I have no idea what their names are except for a few bands of course like The Maine which I’ve been listening to since 07 so I know the name of all the members. I’m actually very impressed how these kids know so much personal stuffs about band members. I have been listening to The Maine since I was 17 and I have no idea how many sibling they have or if they have any siblings at all or how they got into this kind of stupid accident or who’s dating and who’s single, names of their current gfs or exes. It’s crazy how some people know so many things about band guys even if they don’t really know the band dudes personally.
Reading that blog has made me understand more how groupies do their thing. I’m not sure how much of what I’ve read are true or make up stories but it definitely showed me a picture of what it’s like to be involved in the indie scene and lives of groupies. I really don’t understand how those people (Groupies) could do whatever they want with their lives. After reading stories about them I always think of how they can easily just do those things or how they can easily go from one state to another and one show to another as teenagers I mean where the hell are their parents!? Don’t their parents wonder what their kids are doing? Then there’s a long list of threads about tours with like hundreds of replies everyone updating each other of what went down on this date or on this or that venue during bamboozle or warped or some tour. Who were the popular groupies/fangirl sluts that were there and who went home with who, people who saw this or that band guy flirting with this fangirl who’s always seen in so many shows. Then these kids go around myspace, twitter, tumblr or facebook exercising their expert stalking skills and posting links of profile pages of those fan girls or groupies they’re talking about. There’s a lot of bullying, lying, kiss and tells and every crazy thing imaginable. Sometimes when there’s this whole thread talking about a particular fangirl that everybody hates all of a sudden some anon would claim that she’s a friend of the one being talked about and go all out defending that girl or sometimes they’d claim that they’re one of those being talked about and would go defend themselves then all the others would keep lolling about those people and tell them to get lost. Funny but at the same time it made me realize how extreme these kids are considering they’re just teenagers. I have NEVER met anyone that extreme ever even in my school or just anywhere. Nobody’s gotten to that level wherein they’d squeeze as much hate and insult they can muster towards a certain person they barely even know and ride on with the rest who hates that person and tell the whole world how disgusting that person they hate is. They’d go all out. Just unbelievable. Even when I was a teenager it never crossed my mind that a teenager is capable of crushing someone else’s life this bad. Also, I can’t imagine how some kids are just so mean to the core even if they don’t know the whole story or if the tales are even real.
I read A LOT of stories about so many bands I listen to. A lot of stories especially about All Time Low, Cobra Starship and The Cab. Honestly there have been moments wherein I’d question whether what I’m reading is the truth or just a product of some desperate teenage imagination. But at the end of all my reading spree, once I’m off Fueled by Gossip I go back to reality and shrug off all the doubts and not bother thinking about what I’ve read. It’s really all just plainly for entertainment. Theo ne and only thread i really liked somehow is when the kids would tell their stories of how some band guys care so much about their fans by taking them to their car especially when it’s late in the evening or when bands go out in the pouring rain to sign autographs or take photos with fans or approach fans randomly and strike a friendly conversation with them. it’s nice to hear how some bands, despite their popularity still goes out and meets fans, talk to them and don’t act all cocky just because they’re going big time already. It was also kind of funny reading about how John O’s virginity is such a huge deal to everyone. They’d literally flood the forum with gazillions of replies telling everyone that John Ohh is virgin then someone else would say he’s not then some hook up stories will come up and the whole thing just can’t ever find its ending. Some posts can also be quite annoying especially some fans who would literally invent stories and defend themselves when they’re called liar even though it’s obvious that they just made it all up. Or when some die hard fan girl would blog endlessly of how she’s bffs with this band member when in reality she’s not. It’s really shocking how some young girls can invent such ridiculous things. I never thought it was possible. Not even once when I was a teenager or have I heard any of my friend when we were teenagers who were capable of doing something like this or has done something like this. It’s crayyyyy craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!! I’m so shocked reading things like this I wonder what more for the bands who are being talked about non-stop in this forum?
Some stories seem plausible and even if it concerned The Maine I am interested to know the details but at the end of it all I don’t care much at all. They are practically ordinary people who just happens to be in some band who are semi-popular but at the end of the day once they finish their shows, they go back to their normal lives. They make decisions just like everyone, work to earn money, hang out with their friends and have a little fun or go back home to their families. To the groupies out there who sleep with band dudes, I don’t understand why do share to the whole world that they slept with the vocalist of some bad ass indie band? Is it so necessary? Whatever I will never understand that as much as how it baffles me how other girls are willing to give up their lives to go spend full time on planning how to get their dream band dude.
For me, I’m just going to keep listening to music and care less about what these bands do with their lives. I love my life and happy enough listening to those bands’ music to care too much about getting noticed by the band members and being their FB one day.
*04/12 entry
I can clearly see how popular this site has been. There’s Fueled by Gossip and then there’s Fueled by Gossip V2.0. Gossip has never entertained me this much before. But I was so bored that I ended up reading stuffs at Fueled by Gossip. I was surprised to find myself really drawn to all the entries. I was so entertained, flustered at some stories I read especially the hook-up stories and I just really enjoyed reading a lot of threads plus it made me realize some things I didn’t saw clearly before. I can’t believe Americans can be so bad at spelling and grammars at times. I just don’t understand it at all. I mean English is THEIR language and some of the grammars…I was just so shocked. I never expected to read something so grammatically wrong there. Then there are replies that’ll make me pause for a while and say “WHAT!?” and lot of them use too many loooooooooonnnnnnnnggggggg abbreviations and I’d just stop reading and try to decipher what those abbreviations mean.
I’m pretty sure that most of the people running and posting in that community are teenagers. Everything screams “DRAMA!!!” but I still continue to read. I super love The Maine so I keep reading threads about them. Even at work, once I arrive in the office the first thing I’m do is open fueled by gossip and read. It’s so addicting and it just makes my day a tad better and less stressful. It’s like going back to high school except that it’s online and I’m just right there as spectator while everyone bicker, insult others, proclaim how proud they are to have hooked up with this or that band member, report on the latest hook-ups, fights, groupies flirting band members and band members flirting back, scene queens (I had no idea what this was about until I read about a certain Jac Vaneck? Nicole Buckley? who they dub as a scene queen,slut,hoe,bitch,stuck up ugly ass b*tch and the list goes on) I can’t remember how many swears and insults I read per page especially when the name of those girls are mentioned. I have never heard of her before until I started reading entries at Fueled by Gossip. Then I got to read wild Warped Tour stories about bands I’ve never heard before, Artist Vs. Poets, Family Force 5(?)… stories about how sweet, sexy, adorable, gorgeous, irresistibly hot this or that vocalist, guitarist and etc. A lot of times they’d name band members from various bands and I’d have no idea who these guys are. I only know a few members from some bands that I listen to but mostly I have no idea what their names are except for a few bands of course like The Maine which I’ve been listening to since 07 so I know the name of all the members. I’m actually very impressed how these kids know so much personal stuffs about band members. I have been listening to The Maine since I was 17 and I have no idea how many sibling they have or if they have any siblings at all or how they got into this kind of stupid accident or who’s dating and who’s single, names of their current gfs or exes. It’s crazy how some people know so many things about band guys even if they don’t really know the band dudes personally.
Reading that blog has made me understand more how groupies do their thing. I’m not sure how much of what I’ve read are true or make up stories but it definitely showed me a picture of what it’s like to be involved in the indie scene and lives of groupies. I really don’t understand how those people (Groupies) could do whatever they want with their lives. After reading stories about them I always think of how they can easily just do those things or how they can easily go from one state to another and one show to another as teenagers I mean where the hell are their parents!? Don’t their parents wonder what their kids are doing? Then there’s a long list of threads about tours with like hundreds of replies everyone updating each other of what went down on this date or on this or that venue during bamboozle or warped or some tour. Who were the popular groupies/fangirl sluts that were there and who went home with who, people who saw this or that band guy flirting with this fangirl who’s always seen in so many shows. Then these kids go around myspace, twitter, tumblr or facebook exercising their expert stalking skills and posting links of profile pages of those fan girls or groupies they’re talking about. There’s a lot of bullying, lying, kiss and tells and every crazy thing imaginable. Sometimes when there’s this whole thread talking about a particular fangirl that everybody hates all of a sudden some anon would claim that she’s a friend of the one being talked about and go all out defending that girl or sometimes they’d claim that they’re one of those being talked about and would go defend themselves then all the others would keep lolling about those people and tell them to get lost. Funny but at the same time it made me realize how extreme these kids are considering they’re just teenagers. I have NEVER met anyone that extreme ever even in my school or just anywhere. Nobody’s gotten to that level wherein they’d squeeze as much hate and insult they can muster towards a certain person they barely even know and ride on with the rest who hates that person and tell the whole world how disgusting that person they hate is. They’d go all out. Just unbelievable. Even when I was a teenager it never crossed my mind that a teenager is capable of crushing someone else’s life this bad. Also, I can’t imagine how some kids are just so mean to the core even if they don’t know the whole story or if the tales are even real.
I read A LOT of stories about so many bands I listen to. A lot of stories especially about All Time Low, Cobra Starship and The Cab. Honestly there have been moments wherein I’d question whether what I’m reading is the truth or just a product of some desperate teenage imagination. But at the end of all my reading spree, once I’m off Fueled by Gossip I go back to reality and shrug off all the doubts and not bother thinking about what I’ve read. It’s really all just plainly for entertainment. Theo ne and only thread i really liked somehow is when the kids would tell their stories of how some band guys care so much about their fans by taking them to their car especially when it’s late in the evening or when bands go out in the pouring rain to sign autographs or take photos with fans or approach fans randomly and strike a friendly conversation with them. it’s nice to hear how some bands, despite their popularity still goes out and meets fans, talk to them and don’t act all cocky just because they’re going big time already. It was also kind of funny reading about how John O’s virginity is such a huge deal to everyone. They’d literally flood the forum with gazillions of replies telling everyone that John Ohh is virgin then someone else would say he’s not then some hook up stories will come up and the whole thing just can’t ever find its ending. Some posts can also be quite annoying especially some fans who would literally invent stories and defend themselves when they’re called liar even though it’s obvious that they just made it all up. Or when some die hard fan girl would blog endlessly of how she’s bffs with this band member when in reality she’s not. It’s really shocking how some young girls can invent such ridiculous things. I never thought it was possible. Not even once when I was a teenager or have I heard any of my friend when we were teenagers who were capable of doing something like this or has done something like this. It’s crayyyyy craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!! I’m so shocked reading things like this I wonder what more for the bands who are being talked about non-stop in this forum?
Some stories seem plausible and even if it concerned The Maine I am interested to know the details but at the end of it all I don’t care much at all. They are practically ordinary people who just happens to be in some band who are semi-popular but at the end of the day once they finish their shows, they go back to their normal lives. They make decisions just like everyone, work to earn money, hang out with their friends and have a little fun or go back home to their families. To the groupies out there who sleep with band dudes, I don’t understand why do share to the whole world that they slept with the vocalist of some bad ass indie band? Is it so necessary? Whatever I will never understand that as much as how it baffles me how other girls are willing to give up their lives to go spend full time on planning how to get their dream band dude.
For me, I’m just going to keep listening to music and care less about what these bands do with their lives. I love my life and happy enough listening to those bands’ music to care too much about getting noticed by the band members and being their FB one day.
*04/12 entry
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