Groupie

[Khandro]

Would calling a woman who travels with a band 'a groupie' be considered an insult - is it a derogatory term?

[Atheist]

Why not a roadie, or a wife or girl friend or a journo or sound engineer, or a drummer? Groupies do you-know-what, and I doubt if they'd like an old man coming out with such a term. They might be snowflakes and report you - I hope you have no old history which might come back to bite you.

It always amazes me that nobody seems to have grassed up the old rock bands.

 

[rowanwitch]

Very much so, it implies that the female in question would be willing or actually does sleep with band members or artist. Historically they would often have sex with the other crew members of it meant they could get closer to the star(s)

[Atheist]

Very true, Rowan. Our roadie pulled mre chicks than I ever did.

[davebro3]

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=nobody+wants+an+overage+groupie+now#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:0e26cd61,vid:ieeqj8wOa5Y,st:0

[Atheist]

Or Frank Zappa's 'Crew Slut'.

Not for the sensitives.

Nowadays, if an old man asked an old woman if she used to be a groupie she might well laugh and say 'Oh we did all sorts in those days. But I'm not telling.'

[Khandro]

Ahhh ! I'd better avoid it then, Atheist's 'Roadie' sounds safer.

A much younger than I woman friend has been in touch after a longish while, and with her newish partner has been travelling the world with him and the quite famous band.

I want to reply in a light-hearted manner but don't want to offend her.   

[rowanwitch]

A few might say they were when they weren't as well.

[Atheist]

I think you're on the right track, Khandro. Especially if her partner's there with her. Then again, it might be OK. Then again, perhaps only groupies can call other people groupies, and they might get offended if outsiders co-opt their language. We live in difficult times, love, where common sense, sensitivity and politeness have to be taken into account. End of.

 

[Atheist]

Rowan, they might well say that. As a man I was wary of making that observation.

[rowanwitch]

I had a murky past but didn't do that,  never got that impressed by anyone... And too plain to be asked...

[Atheist]

The plain ones were often the easiest.

[Atheist]

;-)

(I think that's a wink. I hope so)

(A polite wink which was intended to say 'I was only joking; not anything suggestive)

 

[rowanwitch]

Naughty boy!

[Maydup]

I don't think the groupies were actually connected to the band or crew either. They were obsessive fans who followed them everywhere and turned up in the front row and at the stage door from one venue to the next.

[Canary42]

Collins has this to say :-

 

groupie in British English

(ˈɡruːpɪ )

noun slang

1. 

an ardent fan of a celebrity, esp a pop star: originally, often a girl who followed the members of a pop group on tour in order to have sexual relations with them 

2. 

an enthusiastic follower of some activity 

e.g. a political groupie