male groupies

I just wrote this in answer to a question from Holly Sidewinder about the form male groupies take.

Every male music critic you've ever met is a groupie of some type or another - most of them are too shy or too ugly to sleep with the girl they desire, so they shower them in reams of purple prose instead. Critics hang out with musicians hang out with record industry types hang out with PRs. They all sleep with each other, as they're all part of the same social circle, but of course seeing as how male critics normally fall under the David Lee Roth maxim of, "the reason rock critics like Elvis Costello so much is because they all look like him" they often miss out in this equation, and hence are accordingly resentful.

Me? I think an essay has yet to be written on groupies for rock critics. Like anyone in the public eye, you need to reach a certain level for this to happen, and a lot of it is transference (e.g. any number of Courtney Love fans have wanted to know me because I might once have known her) but happen it certainly does...

As I once answered in a Plan B questionnaire -

Q) What’s the most actually fairly insane thing a reader has done to get yr attention?
A) Sleep with me.