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 1 year ago by LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 year ago
FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 1 year ago
Writers use pen names too. I'm kinda confused why OP even thinks this is notable?
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
But Sinclair stations DO sell diesel.
DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gene Simmons is really Chaim Witz
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love this thread. It’s becoming informative and amusing.
dmention7@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Isn’t that just kind of… how names are supposed to work?
chepox@sopuli.xyz 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Never heard of Buckethead before so I had to look him up. HOLY FUCK can that dude shred.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year 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 1 year ago
JK Rowling also writes as Robert Galbraith.
I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Does that qualify as irony?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 year 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 1 year ago
Irony of the subtype heavy.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 year ago
Norgur@kbin.social 1 year ago
All we hear is, radio Gaga
lars@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Exactly.
Where’s Lord Gugu, btw?
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 year ago
…yeah? What about that fact?
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
They love him after he called transgender people a “fad” so
IanSomnia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, have you seen/heard her perform? She’s very convincing.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
yeah her music videos are absolutely mesmerizing. I would do anything she tells me.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Just wait until you hear about Engelbert Humperdinck.
kool_newt@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Humperdink! Humperdink! Humperdink!
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Steph-Steph-ooh-la-la doesn’t have quite the same ring.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yet fergalicious-def-def Is okay with everybody. That girl didn’t even bother to change her name.
rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 1 year ago
Are we all not the same, us denizens of the fediverse?
Why9@lemmy.world 1 year ago
CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year 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 1 year ago
We all know what to call you.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Don’t call him at all, just block. Transphobes be like “How come no one uses Lemmy?”
CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
You think that upsets me UwU
TheQuietCroc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Prince literally wanted us to call him a symbol with no explanation.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Could’ve picked something easier to pronounce, though.
Drunemeton@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 1 year ago
A_A@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
I’m in awe of the quality of the symbols pic
someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Maybe you know, did he want to be called “the artist”? And then everyone added “formerly known as Prince”?