In “The Osbournes: Genre, Reality TV, and the Domestication of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” authors Pieto and Otter argue,
“Up to this point we have had only two myths for aging rock stars: old Mick and dead Janis. Rock stars either rust or fade away. Ozzy provides us the intimate details of an older rock star as he lives his life outside of his rock ‘n’ roll image: it is an image of an exasperated father and homebody” (237).
How might this quote and the below clip support the authors argument that The Osbournes is a “performative documentary”?
