austinnormancore asked: Is it weird if people name their artistic endeavors after something in your music, like if a band named themselves after a lyric or song title? I'm curious to know what your reaction is when you see something like that.
There’s a storied tradition of bands naming themselves after lyrics from other bands/songwriters so that’s obviously an honor. The more obscure the better imo, like in the ideal situation it’s something nobody gets and so then when somebody says “Why is your band called the Mayers and do you mean Mayors?” you could say “no It’s a Sex Gang Children song called Mauritia Mayer, go listen to it it rips” only if the Mayers got really successful I guarantee the singer ends up wishing he’d picked a more boring name because he gets tired of giving this answer especially in an age where there’s Google.
General rule “the more obvious and literal, the worse it is” applies here. If a band has a song that says “I knew the singer from Nebula Clubs,” then naming your band the Nebula Clubs is not so good, let fiction be fiction I think I’ve done this shtick here before but anyway.
