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As a name for a band, it's not a bad choice. It wouldn't work so well for a US band, unless the name were plural, and they were gayer than the Village People, and in that case all irony would be lost, making it pointless. True, it sounds more like the name of a prize-winning poodle more than a rock band, but that might add to the irony as well. Given the name, they get a bonus point for Freddie dying from AIDS, tragic thought it might be.
Their name is unknowable. Hard to spell, hard to phonetic from the spelling, and when you first hear it you think the DJ said, "Queen's Rice." Which is probably an actual brand of rice, (Indian, long grain, wild) come to think of it. Their name has no meaning, but looks sort of cool, so it's a little bit rock and roll.
Her name is a good one. One of the better features of rap is that artists feel compelled to think up a clever name. Hardly anyone forms a group, preferring to do their thing solo, and most artists feel a need to say their own name at least ten times per track, but at least they think up stage names. True, the names are usually pretty stupid and border on L33tspeak with excessive use of phonetic spelling and extra Z's, but anything beats just calling yourself your birth name. Would Queen Latifah sell a record going by Dana Owens? I think not. Since virtually every rapper tries to overcome their insecurity complex by filling their songs with lists of reasons they are cool, picking a formidable name is a good start in building up your ego. She does suffer the bad pun album title disease, naming her second album "Order in the Court". It's somewhat clever, but loathsome at the same time. Compare this to bands with animal names working them into their album names, and recoil in horror at the thought of White Lion. This just has to cost her a point.
This points out the benefit of using an uncommon letter to start your band name with. Try to think up something starting with Q or Z or X or J, and you'll get good visibility in the record bin, rather than vanishing into the massive list of S and R and M bands. Plus when someone does a smart ass band name rating section on their website, they'll probably see your name on the shorter Yahoo groups page, and include you just to plump out the very short Q page. As for the name, um... It's too long, for one thing. We like to see rock bands with memorable, short names, ideally ones without prepositions and participles in them. "Stone Age Queens?" No no, that would be worse for any number of reasons. See the remarks about Queen above. They had a very heavy, sludgy, stoner metal type sound, like a less-creative Monster Magnet, and you probably had trouble telling their songs apart from any song by Flotsam and Jetsam, assuming you would have tried. At any rate, the name gives zero indication of the sound or style of the band, which is a bad thing, in theory.
The name is cute and sorta clever, but has wimpy connotations. I can easily imagine this being the title track of a boy band album. Legend tells that it's a play on "Quite right", which sounds much the same when mangled by the sort of English accents this UK band possessed. I'm not sure if that's a bonus point for or against, so I'll just ignore it. |
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