Pop Acts Choosing Stupid Names. And Helping Us To Stay Clear Of Them
April 10, 2010
Adam Lovejoy writes: Imagine members of some aspiring pop band getting together – to choose a name for their act that would propel them to super-stardom. As they sit there, sipping cheap beer, they come up with really original names like F..k, C..t and even ‘F..king C..t, but their manager tells them that it might not work. ‘The crowd is too f..king dumb to get that sort of complicated shit,’ he tells them. ‘We need something plain, to appeal to all dickheads out there.’ After names like Shit, A Lot Of Shit, Tonnes Of Shit and Shiteaters are declined, for reasons of possible copyright infringement, and Dopeheads and Dickheads are dropped, for purely artistic considerations, they finally come up with something like DeathRow Inmates or the Happy Psychos or Pissed Hedgehogs. And...
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