Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

10/15 too - 8 guesses - living in Scotland, Lewis Capaldi is inescapable, and I learned about Billie Eilish from good old ILM

I don't know anything about modern pop music I'm just good with faces tbh.

7/15, mostly thanks to ilm, too. Kept clicking on Freya Ridings only to realise she'd already been pictured d'oh

Trenchant cultural commentary: modern pop music is all about faces anyway.

xp

don't know any of these fuckers. Does that Rag'n'Bone Man have a partner called Trap'n'Cart?

i got like 5 of these but are they mostly UK stars? feel like i'd do better w/ US ones.

Yeah, it's very skewed towards UK pop culture. I doubt anyone's heard of, say, Dua Lipa in North America.

I got "15/15: are you using facial recognition software?"

A few were educated guesses

Never even heard of most of these

RIP ILM

I think dua lipa is probably the best known in the US of the british acts mentioned here

You're right, 'New Rules' reached the top 10 stateside.

Even I know Dua Lipa.

Kept clicking on Freya Ridings only to realise she'd already been pictured d'oh

Lol me too! "Ok, the first three guesses were wrong, surely *this* one is Freya ... "

They should do the same thing with, like, Imagine Dragons and the Lumineers and Coldplay and Cage the Elephant and stuff.

9/15, though 4 were guesses. I knew Mabel as I saw her on the One Show last week and said to my wife that she looked like a young Neneh Cherry. Detective skills definitely up to scratch.

12/15, only a couple of guesses. I'm still with it.

7/15

that should be the floor, honestly, because I don’t pay any attention to this nonsense (except for dua lipa, she was on graham norton once when we actually sat through the music segment)

the picture of Jess Glynne looks nothing like any other picture I've seen of her before

8/15 and lol

11/15 but if I hadn't watched a few hours of this year's Glastonbury it might be half that.

7 and i know nothing.

I can live with not being as down in the streets wiv the kids as the Graun.

9/15, feels about right

(and I actually missed Dua lol)

My 12-year old daughter got 4, my 14-year old and her friend got 12.

12/15. I still occasionally dive into the Popjustice forum.

I got 10. Guessed a lot, though some of them aren't really guesses. Jax Jones really looks like somebody who is named Jax Jones, for instance

3/15

Is there really a pop star just called Dave?

between getting 3/15 on this, not having heard of most of the people in the nunns book about corbyn, and not having heard of most of the people sheffield united signed this summer, i think it's safe to say i am truly out of the loop when it comes to the UK.

Yes.
https://youtu.be/e1vlLJCr9Lo

lol Dave feat. Alex

14/15 but i work about 30 feet from the Live Lounge. i am ashamed at missing Ava Max. so close.

Lol 7/15, and would have been 6 if not for my sister trying to get me into Lewis Capaldi via his Instagram videos. I know several of the others for non-music reasons, I’m basically Barney meeting David Crosby.

Barney: David Crosby? You're my hero!
David Crosby: Oh, you like my music?
Barney: You're a musician?

— Lars Gotrich 🍷🌊 (@totalvibration) June 16, 2016

Is there really a pop star just called Dave?

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/960x540/p01bqjmt.jpg

9/15. I actually knew 3. You could work out on deduction some of them as the names were coming up again..

I am so out of the loop that I didn't realise all the names were actual artist names (at least they were for the end rounds, I assume looking back that they were all the way through) so there were a couple of times I went "well, I didn't think this named artist looked like that, but the other 3 are clearly made up, so here goes!"

xpost Dave La Soul?

/Is there really a pop star just called Dave?/

🖼

10/15 - my downfall, those very interchangeable Gen Z-list long-haired white women, one of which was actually called Becky.

Dave, on the other hand, is super-famous - especially after this year’s Glastonbury coverage.

For a minute there I was down the wrong path, thinking somehow 1/3 of De La Soul was suddenly successful as a solo act in the UK.

Is Dave any good? Looks like the album got good reviews.

yes - he owns

Yes! Really good and very young.

I got 8 but only actually knew billy eilish through memes,dua lipa (why because she look interstin) and capaldi because scottish

A big session hairdresser I’ve known for years (he moved to LA from London about 10 years ago) has been working with Dua Lipa for ages and always shares her latest lewks on FB.

Dave has been excellent for the past two years, but he never seems to get much ILM love.

when my niece (11) was dragged to my booklaunch Q&A in hastings in feb she sat restively at the back as the chat abt 70s and 80s rockwriting droned on UNTIL (her mum afterwards told me) i mentioned dua lipa and her antennae shot up excitedly

so i am down with the kids (=my niece anyway)

i knew abt dave but i think his popname is bad not good despite his music being the opposite

The Dave and fan rapping @ Glasto is one of the few genuinely nice stories of the year.

I played the Dave album yesterday, and it was pretty good. Highlight might have been my kid walking into the room and asking "is this grime?" Kids today ...

This guy?

https://img.discogs.com/DmmlvzcdlG4K757-_KSf-0Hj7ms=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10388036-1496481221-4171.jpeg.jpg

king of grime

Looks pretty grimey.