Celebrity Status.

I'm doing my usual laundry/kitchen prep/dishes/backpack check whilst thinking about what I'm going to write about.  Unfortunately, for the past few days I've had snippets of various songs running through my head and I couldn't think of much of anything else.

One of the songs has some controversy around it because the estate of a famous musician is claiming that the new song is a rip off of the dead guy's work.  That caused some random firings in my brain and I came up with this idea.

As pretty much everyone knows there are different levels of fame.  Picture you're a celebrity in some way, maybe an actor or singer or inventor; you probably have someone, in your field, that you look up to.  How would you react if that person contacted you and wanted something from you?

I was talking to a brother about some song and how I like the remake so much more than the original.  My brother misunderstood me.  He thought that "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails was the remake and Johnny Cash did the original.  Nope.  I explained that, from what I heard, Cash heard the original and liked it enough that he wanted to do a copy of it. 

NIN is (or was, I'm not that familiar with their popularity right now) a big and popular band.  But Cash is JohnnymotherfuckingCash and who could pack a concert hall 30 years after their biggest hits?  You know Cash could, could NIN do that now or 10 years from now?  I don't think that NIN will stand the test of time like Cash has but that must be a hell of an ego boost to have one of your hero's ask your permission to do something.