Artists be like that. Stage names have been a thing for quite some time.
The fact that there's a lady out there named Stephanie who insisted the whole world call her Lady Gaga and we're all just like, "okay."
Submitted 11 months ago by LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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slazer2au@lemmy.world 11 months ago
FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 11 months ago
Writers use pen names too. I'm kinda confused why OP even thinks this is notable?
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe they don’t. They never even finished the sentence, so maybe they were going to say “…is incredibly mundane and unnoteworthy”
Witchfire@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m a performer, people have literally worked under the assumption that my stage name is my legal name. It’s not really surprising.
BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Vin Diesels real name is Mark Sinclair and weve all accepted that too. Marilyn Manson’s name is Brian Warner and Alice Cooper was born Vincent Furnier. Stage names are pretty common with performers
AnonWyo@startrek.website 11 months ago
But Sinclair stations DO sell diesel.
DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Gene Simmons is really Chaim Witz
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I love this thread. It’s becoming informative and amusing.
dmention7@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Isn’t that just kind of… how names are supposed to work?
chepox@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I had to double back to your comment because at first I glances at it and thought yeah… Then I thought about it some more and thought … Yes! That is exactly how they work. Papers plus or minus but that is the way they work. We all agree upon it and bam. You are now named!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
The fact there is a dude out there who wants to be called “Buckethead” and wears a bucket of KFC over his head but also has the sickest guitar skills ever is even weirder.
MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Never heard of Buckethead before so I had to look him up. HOLY FUCK can that dude shred.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I found out about him in Guitar Hero 2(?) because Soothsayer is on there and was the only song that used all 5 buttons even on the easiest settings (which would normally limit the fret buttons needed to just the first 3). I couldn’t physically press all 5 buttons at once, which was why I only ever played at Medium or lower.
Candelestine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
JK Rowling also writes as Robert Galbraith.
I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Does that qualify as irony?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Like Rafael Cruz’s proposal that everyone else must use their given name, TERFs have rules for thee not for me.
amio@kbin.social 11 months ago
Irony of the subtype heavy.
nobleshift@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 months ago
Norgur@kbin.social 11 months ago
All we hear is, radio Gaga
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Exactly.
Where’s Lord Gugu, btw?
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…yeah? What about that fact?
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
All I know is that I love it when they call me big papa.
Often, while waving their hands in the air like they just don’t care.
starbreaker@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'd love to see Republicans up in arms over preferred names and pronouns try giving Alice Cooper shit for calling himself Alice Cooper instead of Vincent Furnier.
4am@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They love him after he called transgender people a “fad” so
IanSomnia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, have you seen/heard her perform? She’s very convincing.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
yeah her music videos are absolutely mesmerizing. I would do anything she tells me.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Just wait until you hear about Engelbert Humperdinck.
kool_newt@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Humperdink! Humperdink! Humperdink!
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I bet he was born John Smith, and Engelbert Humperdinck is a stage name that he chose for some insane reason
DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Steph-Steph-ooh-la-la doesn’t have quite the same ring.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yet fergalicious-def-def Is okay with everybody. That girl didn’t even bother to change her name.
rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 11 months ago
Are we all not the same, us denizens of the fediverse?
Why9@lemmy.world 11 months ago
CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
There’s a whole army of men who want to be referred to as women and women who want to be referred to as men, so Stephanie -> Lady Gaga is pretty tame.
skweetis@kbin.social 11 months ago
We all know what to call you.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Don’t call him at all, just block. Transphobes be like “How come no one uses Lemmy?”
CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
You think that upsets me UwU
TheQuietCroc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Prince literally wanted us to call him a symbol with no explanation.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It took me years until I finally learned why he did that. It had something to do with the music industry owning his name. He reclaimed ownership of all his music and art and made a departure from the extortionate music industry.
TeaHands@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Could’ve picked something easier to pronounce, though.
Drunemeton@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 11 months ago
A_A@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The unpronounceable symbol :
Image
Hollow circle above downward arrow crossed with a curlicued horn-shaped symbol and then a short bar
(known to fans as the “Love Symbol”)
kamenlady@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m in awe of the quality of the symbols pic
someguy3@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Maybe you know, did he want to be called “the artist”? And then everyone added “formerly known as Prince”?