"They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends"
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There is a sly negotiation happening inside that self-correction: “crazy” gets walked back into “different,” like a rock frontman catching himself mid-myth. Sebastian Bach is acknowledging the chaos people project onto him - the shredded-voice, hair-metal legend, the tabloid-ready persona - while also trying to preserve something gentler: whatever his kids experienced wasn’t just a spectacle, it was a home.
The line’s power is how it toggles between brag and apology without fully committing to either. “Crazy life” carries a wink of celebrity excess, the kind of shorthand that signals tour buses, loud nights, unpredictable schedules. Then comes the parental edit: not crazy, just “different from their friends.” That’s less about defending himself and more about naming the real cost of fame, which isn’t always trauma; it’s distance from normal social coordinates. Your friends’ dads pick them up from practice. Yours disappears for weeks, then shows up in a different city, a different mood, a different scale of attention.
Bach’s phrasing also reveals a common celebrity-parent tactic: reframing instability as uniqueness. “Different” sounds safer, even enviable, but it still admits the kids were marked by his identity in a way they didn’t choose. The intent feels protective - of them, and of his own narrative. He wants to be the dad who recognizes the weirdness without turning it into a scandal, the guy who can own the legend while insisting there was still something like a family inside it.
The line’s power is how it toggles between brag and apology without fully committing to either. “Crazy life” carries a wink of celebrity excess, the kind of shorthand that signals tour buses, loud nights, unpredictable schedules. Then comes the parental edit: not crazy, just “different from their friends.” That’s less about defending himself and more about naming the real cost of fame, which isn’t always trauma; it’s distance from normal social coordinates. Your friends’ dads pick them up from practice. Yours disappears for weeks, then shows up in a different city, a different mood, a different scale of attention.
Bach’s phrasing also reveals a common celebrity-parent tactic: reframing instability as uniqueness. “Different” sounds safer, even enviable, but it still admits the kids were marked by his identity in a way they didn’t choose. The intent feels protective - of them, and of his own narrative. He wants to be the dad who recognizes the weirdness without turning it into a scandal, the guy who can own the legend while insisting there was still something like a family inside it.
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