PixelNomad@sopuli.xyz to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 7 days agoIs it possible to not know who a famous person is?message-squaremessage-square46linkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down148file-text
arrow-up1-40arrow-down1message-squareIs it possible to not know who a famous person is?PixelNomad@sopuli.xyz to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 7 days agomessage-square46linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoI have no idea, but I do know it’s spelled The Weeknd, for some reason. That’s pretty much all I know, though.
minus-squareKlear@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days ago for some reason Search engines. Same reason behind “Linkin Park”.
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoOr he could have just picked a more distinctive name.
minus-squarebus_factor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 days agoSame reason it’s called “Blu-Ray” and not “Blue-Ray”. It’s much harder to trademark a normal word.
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 days agoBut it also has the effect that I tend to read it as ‘the weakened’.
minus-squareTheV2@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days ago He had wanted to call himself the Weekend, but there was already a rock band in Ontario called that, so he dropped a letter. NY Times
I have no idea, but I do know it’s spelled The Weeknd, for some reason. That’s pretty much all I know, though.
Search engines. Same reason behind “Linkin Park”.
Or he could have just picked a more distinctive name.
Same reason it’s called “Blu-Ray” and not “Blue-Ray”. It’s much harder to trademark a normal word.
But it also has the effect that I tend to read it as ‘the weakened’.
NY Times