Why Musicians Chose Their Stage Names (pt. 1)

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Stage names for artists are always fascinating to me. Whether somebody chooses to use their real name, they come up with something kinda close but still different, or an entirely new moniker, all of these stories are interesting. Fame is a curious thing and it's a wild concept to pick what millions of people will potentially know you as. Here are the stories/explanations of 50 bands/solo artists/etc. The next 50 will be out in a week from now.
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@hennerz93 9 месяцев назад

For Lady Gaga you missed an important detail, fusari was meant to text her calling her ‘Radio Gaga’ but ‘Radio’ got autocorrected to ‘Lady’ and thus, she decided that’s what she would call herself!

@ZayWilson-v8l 9 месяцев назад

How tf does radio become Lady?

@hennerz93 9 месяцев назад

@@ZayWilson-v8l he might have accidentally mistyped radio so that mistype would be closer to ‘lady’

@photocam913 9 месяцев назад

I'm pretty sure autocorrect wasn't a thing at that time

@copbabycombo1311 9 месяцев назад

@@hennerz93 Yeah, no shit. But still. HOW?!

@hennerz93 9 месяцев назад

@@photocam913 it happened through predictive texting which was definitely a thing

@BryanSteacy 9 месяцев назад

Another reason I've heard that Damon and Jamie chose "Gorillaz" is because the collective name for a group of Gorillas is "a band." So it's quite literally a band of Gorillas.

@crashh-course 9 месяцев назад

that's cute in a way! :D

@fatboiii6969 9 месяцев назад

For what it's worth, WWE makes people choose a stage name so they can own the rights to everything they do within the company and all the merch etc.

@Janinho1807 9 месяцев назад

I would love a whole series of these.

@everettbadgerow8041 9 месяцев назад

Not hating but the title literally says pt1 as to say it's a series

@sonickhable 9 месяцев назад

@@everettbadgerow8041not hating but if you watched the video he said he might continue this into a longer series if people liked it

@nvycious.364 9 месяцев назад

@@sonickhable not hating but both of yall need to shut the hell up

@FirestormX9 9 месяцев назад

Lol these people deciding to give a 'no hate' disclaimer for a completely non hating observation anyway is so funny 😂

@spartenz14 9 месяцев назад

8:46 I'm fairly certain Frank took "Ocean" from Frank Sinatra's character in the original Ocean's Eleven, who was named Danny Ocean. George Clooney only reprised that role.

@london8615 9 месяцев назад

yeah ur right

@isabeld.paredes4923 9 месяцев назад

There is a similar story regarding R&B singer Billy Ocean (of "Caribbean Queen" fame), who thought of the original Ocean's 11 movie when choosing his stage name

@moosechoose 9 месяцев назад

George Clooney’s character in Ocean’s 11 was originally played by Frank Sinatra

@PerkolatorTheTerminator 9 месяцев назад

Ya mean Danny Ocean lol?

@SewerThing23 9 месяцев назад

Todd In The Shadows said this, but you can also rearrange the letters in “Imagine Dragons” to get “Gonad Migraines”.

@PerkolatorTheTerminator 9 месяцев назад

To address half the comments: Yes, that’s why he said “Frank Sinatra and George Clooney’s character” because they both played the same character lol.

@CraftDPham 9 месяцев назад

Breezy Lovejoy was such a great name for Anderson .Paak, i learned about him while he was the touring drummer for Dumbfoundead

@silvergolden4284 9 месяцев назад

Lorde and Lana Del Rey for part 2

@Obbee 9 месяцев назад

the worst stage name/band name ever is: Hoobastank

@SewerThing23 9 месяцев назад

That and Limp Bizkit, which roughly translates to weak cookie.

@hasanmahmd 9 месяцев назад

Seth Rollins was called Tyler Black on the indies, so he changed his name when he came to WWE. For Rollins, Seth is a huge metal fan, and a fan of Black Flag in particular. The frontman, Henry Rollins, is where Seth got the last name As for Seth, it straight up isn’t a common name in wrestling, so Seth decided to use it from here on out

@karnage985 7 месяцев назад

I was anticipating (probably in outro) for Alfo to to come back to the explanation but it never happened heh

@alfieswindell4598 9 месяцев назад

Don't know if it's true so fact-check if you're interested but I've heard that the reason Eminem changed his name from M&M is because he was in an argument with his Mother and made the acronym "Everyone's Mother Is Nice Except Mine" and it just stuck from there

@SASTSimon 4 месяца назад

6:51 you are missing the entire part where people on forums started calling him the dead mouse guy

@guess90210 9 месяцев назад

In case anyone was wondering wwe wants to be able to trademark their wrestlers stage names that’s why most wrestlers don’t use their own names. And Seth Rollins name came about because he liked the name Seth and a nod to Henry Rollins.

@london8615 9 месяцев назад

I love that this starts with Seth Rollins lmao

@ZacharyBorrelli 9 месяцев назад

Jamie Hewlett wasn't a part of Blur, unless you just meant Damon Albarn

@faeriegraver 9 месяцев назад

Yeah Jamie Hewlett was the co-creator of Tank Girl. He did the illustrations. In Gorillaz, he was the visual artist. He designed the band members, with Albarn working on the music. Both came up with ideas for the characters of the members, but Hewlett was the one who drew them. Hewlett has done various things in his career, but he's predominantly known as an artist.

@MortanAMrk 9 месяцев назад

Are you telling me Elton Johns name is based on Long John Baldry, the guy who played Pingas Eggman

@petertrudelljr 9 месяцев назад

goo goo g'joob.

@propername4830 9 месяцев назад

deadmau5's name WAS his online alias at first

@jtotheulian708 9 месяцев назад

if I meet Kendrick Lamar I kinda wanna refer to him as "duck worth"

@kingcrawful7903 9 месяцев назад

Daft Punky Thrash!

@gunnerysgthartman9263 6 месяцев назад

Foo Fighters came from WW2, not WW1

@kingshoob6105 9 месяцев назад

Loved this vid, super entertaining!!!! Top work

@dannygarcia600 9 месяцев назад

First of all hell yeah you watch wrestling and I was hoping you’d say Seth FREAKIN Rollins😂 I would love a video of maybe a breakdown of the importance of wrestling theme songs. Why do some work and other don’t? Idk just an idea. I think of stone colds when you hear that glass shatter and that menacing guitar or even currents like Seth Rollins.

@kaspershaupt 9 месяцев назад

Grimes really said, that's some toilet cleaning name

@TheBrainvision 9 месяцев назад

Loved the video. And so on.

@preposteroussvideos 9 месяцев назад

Love this series keep it up

@propername4830 9 месяцев назад

The format of this video makes me suspicious after watching hbomberguy's video Edit: tbh after finding out it's just a random list he made, I get it now

@coffdrop77 9 месяцев назад

I typed part of the Aphex Twin bit into Google and it literally is almost copied from Wikipedia verbatim

@propername4830 9 месяцев назад

Video essayists are crazy nowadays

@faeriegraver 9 месяцев назад

Also... He could have just misspoken, but he says Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett were previously in Blur. Jamie Hewlett is an artist, he co-created Tank Girl, as the illustrator. As co-creators of Gorillaz, Albarn was responsible for the music, and Hewlett the visuals. He designed the band members. Both Albarn and Hewlett would come up with ideas for the characters of the members but Hewlett is the one who drew them. Yeah, it isn't egregious misinformation, it's kind of nitpicky. Again, he could've just misspoke. But I guess... It's kind of lazy content in general? It's an alphabetical list of stage names, with a bunch of them being an artist's real name or a slight variation of it.

@trekgreenwood6743 3 месяца назад

To answer why business wise people do this. It’s so they can still own their own name. In the music industry, if you’re signed to a label and use your regular first and last name, the label owns that name. Same with wrestling. WWE for example owns the name John Cena. So anytime he’s in a movie or commercial, they get a cut. Like a 360 deal in music. So having a stage name is just another way to keep your own name.

@SewerThing23 9 месяцев назад

“All we hear is 👏👏 Lady-O Gaga!”

@lawstshane 4 месяца назад

Frank Sinatra played Danny ocean in the original Oceans 11 movie that where Frank got ocean from it wasent the George Clooney oceans 11

@renatocfrancisco 9 месяцев назад

Really cool stuff. 😊

@paulallen9000 9 месяцев назад

Dylan Thomas was Welsh not Irish

@Crazyapple16 9 месяцев назад

The bieber one is funny caus my parents and almost everyone from former yugoslavia calls black pepper "biber" so its like justin black pepper lmao

@stitchgroover 9 месяцев назад

A point on Halsey - at least here in Australia (not sure about everywhere else), Frangipane is pronounced "Franjipani"

@SoraiaLMotta 9 месяцев назад

Very cool

@Bartholomule01 9 месяцев назад

Never knew what the D. in Richard D. James was.

@siiyaosullivan7932 9 месяцев назад

lovvee

@london8615 9 месяцев назад

Hendrix a cool surname

@zero213kt 9 месяцев назад

Do you think Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta know about the oratrice mecanique d'analyse cardinale?

@TyBoS8 6 месяцев назад

Hate to be that guy, but at 9:40, only Damon was part of Blur.

@REZACREATORLIVE 9 месяцев назад

👍👍

@EtheRenard 9 месяцев назад

Bruno Mars's ego is indeed out of this world lmao

@MortanAMrk 9 месяцев назад

Think about the fact Seth Rollins other Nickname is Tyler Black, which still isnt related to either name

@SIMBI_MUSIK 20 дней назад

How do you guys feel about Jeff ossy

@Obbee 9 месяцев назад

Oasis has always been rude to others for no reason.

@mollywalker5790 9 месяцев назад

They're even rude to eachother lmao

@ilaiyonatan6355 9 месяцев назад

You should talk about Young Thug and how he got his name from his religious roots. Truly Humble Under God🙏

@warreloenders3872 9 месяцев назад

I thought Bowie came from a Welsh or Irish Captain

@coffdrop77 9 месяцев назад

Are you just gonna make Watchmojo videos now?

@coffdrop77 9 месяцев назад

Yo…there isn’t any sources for this video…and the Aphex Twin bit is almost copied verbatim from Wikipedia…

@jordanlopez1438 9 месяцев назад

What's on Bob Dylan's face?

@TomWeiSweden 9 месяцев назад

smug

@We.Izanami 4 месяца назад

My name starts from K Give me. A stage name

@kfcblaziken495 9 месяцев назад

@jaroslavpohoral1897 9 месяцев назад

I respect Gaga so much for sticking with a name given to her by a guy who locked her up in a basement and raped her for months. No like genuiently, using something that came from such a disgusting piece of shit like Fusari as a force of good is amazing.