“Do you want to be a Writer, or do you want to write?” I think that almost any question of the form “Do you want to be an Xer, or do you want to X” is useful these days.

100%. As a kid growing up near a golf course I knew lots of kids who wanted to be a pro golfer (me too). Did they want to spend 10 hrs a day at the range hitting ball after ball? Not so much. Lots of people want to be Warren Buffett - do they want to read 10-ks for 10 hrs a day? Not so much.

what the gp is getting at is that back in the day there were people who wanted to be in a band not out of any particular musical talent or even inclination but because a lot of their friends were doing it and it looked like a cool thing to do.

Ronnie Coleman put it succinctly:

“Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.”

I don't want to be out of breath after 3 seconds of running. No thanks.

Me neither and yet I've been doing it for 45 years.

I see people got triggered by the obvious general lack of fitness in body builders. They are not more healthy than starving female models.

Your question got me thinking about supermarket bulletin boards. I recall them from way back as busy places with lots of notes attached, but last year or thereabouts I remember seeing a small bulletin board with one note attached and thinking how unusual it was.