Fanatic vs Groupie - What's the difference?
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Fanatical.
* T. Moore
(obsolete) Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous.
A young female fan of a rock group; a person who seeks intimacy (most often physical, sometimes emotional) with a famous person, usually a rock band member.
* 1999 , Lauraine Leblanc, Pretty in Punk: Girl?s Gender Resistance in a Boy?s Subculture , 2002,
* 2000 October, The 100 Sleaziest Moments in Rock'', '' ,
* 2012', Ginger Voight, '''''Groupie ,
As nouns the difference between fanatic and groupie
is that fanatic is a person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause, especially in religion while groupie is a young female fan of a rock group; a person who seeks intimacy (most often physical, sometimes emotional) with a famous person, usually a rock band member.As an adjective fanatic
is fanatical.fanatic
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Alternative forms
* fanatick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast / To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
See also
* fan * crankQuotations
* A zealot can't change his mind. A fanatic can't change his mind and won't change the subject. — (attributed) * A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim. —groupie
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(wikipedia groupie)Noun
(en noun)page 47,
- In mainstream rock youth culture, female fans had only submissive roles in the consumption of rock music: they could be teenyboppers, and when they grew older, groupies', with the ' groupie role providing a real-life extension of the sexualized hero worship of the teenybopper.
page 102,
- Although Pamela Des Barres, rock?s most famous groupie', was passed around like a loose joint at a be-in, she maintains today, “There was no hierarchy. The ' groupies were not considered less than the musicians. We were muses.”
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- The groupie experience from what I?ve seen is quite similar to the experiences I?ve had as the “fat girl,” who had the good looking guy give her attention behind closed doors but never had the opportunity to be the gal on his arm, and it is that emotional integrity I brought to the book.