Not everyone in the world is a rock star

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Bring AdFreak the head of whoever it was that started calling any exemplary person from any walk of life—technology to religion—a “rock star.” The term is so mis- and overused that it’s all but lost its meaning, and not simply because of the caffeine-laced energy drink of that name or the asinine 2001 movie loosely based on Judas Priest. (Jennifer Aniston as a metal girlfriend? Please!) This screamingly annoying term is used to describe everyone from Donny Deutsch to Carly Fiorina.

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