In part two of our Rockstar Girlfriend series, we branch off from “I’m with the Band” and discuss the groupies that followed: the hair metal girlies of the 80s, the it-girls of the 2000s, the MySpace scene queens, & more. We question where & why the downfall of groupie-dom occurred, and how the modern-day iterations of the so-called “Rockstar Girlfriend” aesthetic may or may not suffice.

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Alexa Chung, “It” (Google)

Alexa Chung, “Muse Collection Interview | ALEXACHUNG” (YouTube)

Pamela Des Barres, “I’m with the Band” (Google)

Pamela Des Barres, “Let’s Spend the Night Together” (Google)

Pubali Dasgupta, “The troubling life of Lori Maddox, the 'baby groupie' of the stars” (Far Out)

Thea De Gallier, “‘I wouldn’t want this for anybody’s daughter’: will #MeToo kill off the rock'n'roll groupie?” (The Guardian)

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Timestamps:

Intro 00:00

Baby Groupies 00:16

‘80s & ‘90s Groupie Culture 07:10

The Girlfriend is the Rockstar 10:27

The House Bunny Interlude 18:09

Rockstar Girlfriend Aesthetic 18:49

Scene Queens of MySpace 25:17

Muse vs. Groupie 29:28

K-pop Fansites 36:27

Devon Lee Carlson 40:45

Outro 43:39

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