https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/13/quiz-identify-these-pop-superstars
I got 8/15, of which at least three were wild guesses.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
Exact same for me, wild guesses and all!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
I don't watch TV at all and am not surrounded by teenagers, so that probably doesn't help.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
I got 10. Disappointed tbh!
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
10/15 too - 8 guesses - living in Scotland, Lewis Capaldi is inescapable, and I learned about Billie Eilish from good old ILM
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
I don't know anything about modern pop music I'm just good with faces tbh.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
7/15, mostly thanks to ilm, too. Kept clicking on Freya Ridings only to realise she'd already been pictured d'oh
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
Trenchant cultural commentary: modern pop music is all about faces anyway.
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― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
don't know any of these fuckers. Does that Rag'n'Bone Man have a partner called Trap'n'Cart?
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
i got like 5 of these but are they mostly UK stars? feel like i'd do better w/ US ones.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it's very skewed towards UK pop culture. I doubt anyone's heard of, say, Dua Lipa in North America.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
I got "15/15: are you using facial recognition software?"
A few were educated guesses
― or something, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
Never even heard of most of these
― uptown top tanking (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
RIP ILM
I think dua lipa is probably the best known in the US of the british acts mentioned here
― ogmor, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
You're right, 'New Rules' reached the top 10 stateside.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
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.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
12/15, only a couple of guesses. I'm still with it.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
7/15that should be the floor, honestly, because I donโt pay any attention to this nonsense (except for dua lipa, she was on graham norton once when we actually sat through the music segment)
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
the picture of Jess Glynne looks nothing like any other picture I've seen of her before
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
8/15 and lol
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
11/15 but if I hadn't watched a few hours of this year's Glastonbury it might be half that.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
7 and i know nothing.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
I can live with not being as down in the streets wiv the kids as the Graun.
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
9/15, feels about right
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
(and I actually missed Dua lol)
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
My 12-year old daughter got 4, my 14-year old and her friend got 12.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
12/15. I still occasionally dive into the Popjustice forum.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
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
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
3/15
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
Is there really a pop star just called Dave?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
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.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Yes. https://youtu.be/e1vlLJCr9Lo
― gyac, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
lol Dave feat. Alex
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
14/15 but i work about 30 feet from the Live Lounge. i am ashamed at missing Ava Max. so close.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
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, Iโm 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 ๐ท๐ (@totalvibration) June 16, 2016
― gyac, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/960x540/p01bqjmt.jpg
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
9/15. I actually knew 3. You could work out on deduction some of them as the names were coming up again..
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
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!"
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
xpost Dave La Soul?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
/Is there really a pop star just called Dave?/๐ผ
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
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 yearโs Glastonbury coverage.
― suzy, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
yes - he owns
― im led by donky (||||||||), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
Yes! Really good and very young.
― suzy, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
I got 8 but only actually knew billy eilish through memes,dua lipa (why because she look interstin) and capaldi because scottish
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
A big session hairdresser Iโve 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.
― suzy, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
Dave has been excellent for the past two years, but he never seems to get much ILM love.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 10:27 (four years ago) link
The Dave and fan rapping @ Glasto is one of the few genuinely nice stories of the year.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link