Yeah the first time I can remember hearing a celebrity’s name and not knowing who they were, I was six. Another kid on the playground was telling Me about Michael Jackson and I hadn’t heard of him before. Kids these days.

I’m in my fifties, but I’m still hip to what’s groovy. I know the name of the big artists. Uh … Wet Ass Pussy. The uh, those monitor head brothers … Around the World. Um … Billy Eyelash. The uh … the K-Pops!

This is on purpose. Kids can’t like the same things as their parents. They have to look for things their parents are against to feel rebellious and independent. For my generation it was nu metal. My mother was used to nice, elegant men wearing suits and considered any artist with esthetics rougher then Julio Iglesias as ‘not nice’. So we had Korn, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson and other weirdos. We had violence and gore to shock our parents and can’t be shocked with that so kids today have overly ‘erotic’ artists like Cardy B. ‘Look ma, I’m listening to an ex stripper. You don’t like that, right?’. Musically our artists were too aggressive for our parents and kids today have rap which for me sounds simply boring. And that’s fine, that’s by design. If my generation was into those artists kids wouldn’t like them. Of course the biggest artists are the ones that manage to span generations like Taylor Swift but that’s for non-rebellious part of society that just likes things they already know.

Outside of shows I watch or music I listen to, I have been this way for ages.

This might be the only appropriate time to ask why is he black?

I was never somewhere else, I don’t know anything.

… And the celebrities you did know about get old and die, or worse, become awful bigots, making you wonder if they were always awful bigots (spoiler: they were). Anyway, I don’t think I’ve ever cared about celebrities beyond thinking ‘Huh, so that person exists’. I’m more interested in artists, philosophers and — the good ones being a combination of those two traits — comedians.

Holy shit. I had no idea who this was either. Then, like 5 seconds ago I open Spotify and in my search for eldritch horror music I say “hey why does that name seem familiar?” and then remember this post.

The song is pretty mid (and, while slightly eerie, it is not eldritch horror playlist worthy imo), but it’s just wild that it just showed up right after I saw his name for the first time in this post.

This is the fastest frequency illusion I think I’ve ever experienced.

I know celebrities! Like, uh… K-Smog, and Zoosha…

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what’s it seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!

Gesaffelstein

Gesundheit!

He’s been around for a while now so they must be pretty old or weren’t into the dance music craze of the 2010’s

Curtains for Zoosha?

I saw there’s someone called BBNO$, or something(?) and I don’t have the foggiest clue how to pronounce it.

I grew up blissfully ignorant of pop culture, but over the years I’ve absorbed enough to start recognizing names…