Of course Rainbow Dash had to start a band with her friends in time for the Battle of the band, where they crushed the Dazzlings. If all they actually wanted; to be adored, why not help them in a different way? Their gems are dead.
I just recently started to write stories directly towards the FiM actively, though I have been writing for years, publishing numerous stories at Mibba and the eventual pony story, as far as to the MLP