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Fake fan? Probably.

Metal fans come in all sorts of forms from the people that look-the-look to the people that you would never expect to be a fan of metal. That’s what is great about us is that you can’t just peg all of us with being a metal fan simply by appearances, not that there is anything wrong with that.

So when you’re a fan of a band is there really a difference between a real fan and a fake fan? We all have seen some celebrities like Miley Cyrus wearing an Iron Maiden shirt and we all know that she probably isn’t really a Maiden fan. What about the people that are legit fans but don’t know all the words to a lot of the songs or do not know exactly what song is on what album? Does that make them a fake fan?

What about when a fan doesn’t care for a particular record or other work from a member of that band. Does that make them a fake fan? I was a Metallica fan for years before they started making music that I didn’t like. I hated what they had released and even rediculed and talked a lot of shit about them, yet I still consider myself a fan. Does that make me a fake fan? Read the rest of this entry »