| 1 | ''See also'' FilkSong, HeavyMithril, {{Nerdcore}}. |
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| 5 | [[folder:Classical music composers, musicians, and conductors.]] |
| 6 | * Music/LudwigVanBeethoven was a Mozart fan, and both of them were also fans of Music/GeorgeFredericHandel. Beethoven called him "the master of us all...the greatest composer that ever lived". |
| 7 | * Conductor Arturo Toscanini once saw ''WesternAnimation/TheBandConcert'' in the theater and liked the cartoon so much that he asked the projectionist to play it a second time in a row. Another conductor with a love for Disney was Jerome Kern, who said: "Disney has made use of music as a language." |
| 8 | * Frederick Delius was a fan of Music/RichardWagner. |
| 9 | * Music/GustavHolst loved Creator/ThomasHardy, and his work ''Egdon Heath'' is a musical adaptation of the eponymous fictitious location in ''Literature/TheReturnOfTheNative''. |
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| 12 | [[folder:Jazz composers and performers]] |
| 13 | * Music/MilesDavis said about Music/LouisArmstrong: "You know you can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played — I mean even modern. … I love his approach to the trumpet; he never sounds bad. He plays on the beat and you can't miss when you play on the beat — with feeling. That's another phrase for swing." |
| 14 | * Thelonious Monk was an avid fan of ''Literature/DocSavage'', so much that he sometimes kept a magazine in his coat pocket during performances. |
| 15 | * Music/SunRa admired Fletcher Henderson and cited Music/FryderykChopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Music/ArnoldSchoenberg and Music/DmitriShostakovich as his favorite composers. He was very interested in mystic literature, among the occult books by Madame Blavatsky and Henry Dumas, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Alexander Hislop's "The Two Babylons", "The Book Of Oahspe", Afro-American folklore and Egyptian culture. He also had an interest in Creator/WaltDisney movies and covered "Pink Elephant On Parade" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' on the multi-artist compilation ''Music/StayAwake''. |
| 16 | * Jazz bassist and soul vocalist Thundercat. Apart from the [[WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}} obvious clue in his name]], he's released songs called "[[Film/TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou The Life Aquatic]]", "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]", and "[[Manga/LoneWolfAndCub Lone Wolf and Cub]]"; and he owns a cat named {{Franchise/Tron}}. The music video for the song about his cat, "Tron Song", features Thundercat wearing [[Anime/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan armor]] and exploding [[Series/TheEricAndreShow Eric Andre]]'s head by using his mind powers, resulting in a [[Franchise/MortalKombat Fatality with Flawless Victory]]. |
| 17 | * Music/JohnZorn is inspired by so many different musicians and musical styles that his album collection consists of literally racks and racks of records. His music is also a highly and [[GenreRoulette unclassifiable eclectic mix of all kinds of genres]] and he even has side projects with klezmer, DeathMetal, {{Grindcore}} and/or Japanese rock overtones. Zorn re-interpreted music by Music/EnnioMorricone, Sonny Clark, Music/OrnetteColeman, Music/ClaudeDebussy, Music/CharlesIves, Music/OlivierMessiaen, Orlande de Lassus, Alexander Scriabin,..., collaborated with Music/OrnetteColeman and made [[ConceptAlbum Concept Albums]] about authors Creator/MickeySpillane, Marguerite Duras, visual artist Marcel Duchamp, and film director Creator/JeanLucGodard. He is very interested in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' scores by composer Carl Stalling and described his first musical hero as composer Mauricio Kagel. |
| 18 | * Music/HerbieHancock has a degree in electrical engineering and was an early adopter of synthesizers and computers in music-making. |
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| 21 | [[folder:Crooners/Chansonniers/Traditional singers]] |
| 22 | * Music/BingCrosby adored Music/LouisArmstrong and said: "He was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone." |
| 23 | * Music/FrankSinatra's big influence was Music/BingCrosby. He also felt that Music/SarahVaughan and Music/BillieHoliday were among the best singers he ever heard and Holiday in particular "the greatest single musical influence" on him. Vaughan was so good in his ears that it made him consider "slitting his own wrists with a dull razor". |
| 24 | ** Sinatra was also the biggest fan of comedian Creator/DonRickles. The first time the singer attended one of Rickles' shows there was an uneasiness in the room because Sinatra was notorious for his short-fueled temper. Rickles' insult comedy, however, did manage to make Sinatra fall in the aisles with laughter. Thanks to his support Rickles quickly became a popular headline performer in Las Vegas. When Sinatra was asked to perform at UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's second inauguration in 1985 he even stipulated that he wouldn't perform unless Rickles was allowed on stage too. |
| 25 | * Music/SammyDavisJr was a fan of daytime soap operas, particularly the shows produced by the American Broadcasting Company. This led to a cameo appearance on ''Series/GeneralHospital'' and a recurring role as character Chip Warren on ''Series/OneLifeToLive'', for which he received a Daytime Emmy nomination in 1980. He was also a game show fan, appearing on the ABC version of ''Series/FamilyFeud'' in 1979. He appeared on ''Series/{{Tattletales}}'' with his third wife Altovise Davis in the 1970s. He made a cameo during an episode of the NBC version of ''Series/CardSharks'' in 1981. He also loved the show ''Series/PrisonerCellBlockH''. One of his hobbies was photographing. |
| 26 | * Music/TomJones is a huge Music/ElvisPresley fan. |
| 27 | * Music/JacquesBrel liked Creator/TheMarxBrothers so much that his song ''Le Gaz'' was inspired by the crowded room scene in ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera''. He also adored classical music and said it humbled him whenever success went to his head. |
| 28 | * Music/GeorgesBrassens once wrote a song about comic book character ''ComicStrip/{{Becassine}}''. He also transcribed many poems by Creator/VictorHugo, Creator/PaulVerlaine and Louis Aragon to music and recorded entire [[ConceptAlbum concept albums]] about them. |
| 29 | * Music/SergeGainsbourg, born as "Ginsburg", changed his name to "Gainsbourg" in homage to the English painter Thomas Gainsborough, whom he admired. He was also influenced by Boris Vian and later in his career he recorded {{Reggae}} albums with Rita Marley, wife of Music/BobMarley, and Sly & Robbie. |
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| 32 | [[folder: Rock artists]] |
| 33 | * Music/ElvisPresley was apparently a comic book fan, and, as the legend goes, based the capes he wore onstage (and maybe even his hairstyle) on that of [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel Jr.]] Recursively, recent comics depict Captain Marvel Jr. as a fan of Elvis himself. |
| 34 | ** He was a huge fan of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Apparently, he frequently quoted the ''Nudge Nudge'' sketch. He also owned a copy of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' and quoted incessantly from this movie, especially the ''Knights Who Say "Ni"'' sketch. Creator/MichaelPalin felt particularly great about this because he was an Elvis fan since his youth. |
| 35 | ** Elvis also loved ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' and enjoyed imitating Creator/PeterSellers as Inspector Clouseau. He always took reels of this franchise with him when he went on tour. |
| 36 | ** When it came to music, Elvis was probably the biggest Music/FatsDomino fanboy in existence, going so far as to call him "the ''true'' King of Rock 'n' Roll". |
| 37 | * Guitar legend Link Wray was known for being a huge TV addict. On top of his addiction: westerns, but mostly ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and the 1960s ''Series/Batman1966'' (which he made several songs about, including a well-known cover of the theme song.). |
| 38 | * Music/TheBeatles: |
| 39 | ** All Beatle members loved early RockAndRoll, especially Music/ElvisPresley, Music/LittleRichard, and Music/ChuckBerry. They were thrilled to meet their idols in person after they became famous. They all shared a love for Music/BobDylan too and put him on the cover of ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' |
| 40 | ** The Beatles grew up with ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' and all loved the work of Creator/PeterSellers and Creator/SpikeMilligan. In fact, they got along really well with their producer, George Martin, because of his work on the Goons' comedy albums. Similarly, Richard Lester was hired as director for their first two features ''A Hard Day's Night'' and ''Help!'' because he had directed some comedy shorts starring the Goon members. |
| 41 | ** According to rumor, they had considered making a film adaptation of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' with Creator/StanleyKubrick in 1969. Music/JohnLennon liked ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' so much that he claimed in 1968: "I watch it every week." |
| 42 | ** Several people on the cover of ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' in general were artists the Beatles admired: Creator/FredAstaire, Creator/MarlonBrando (a throwaway line in ''Film/TheWildOne'' about a motorbike gang named "the Beatles" inspired their band name), Creator/WilliamSBurroughs, Creator/LennyBruce, Creator/LewisCarroll, Creator/AleisterCrowley, Creator/TonyCurtis, Creator/MarleneDietrich, Music/BobDylan, Creator/WCFields, UsefulNotes/CarlJung, Creator/LaurelAndHardy, Creator/MarilynMonroe, Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw, Creator/TerrySouthern, Creator/DylanThomas, Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller, Creator/MaeWest, Creator/ShirleyTemple (apart from George who disliked her), Creator/HGWells and Creator/OscarWilde. |
| 43 | ** Music/JohnLennon and Music/RingoStarr were big fans of the books of Creator/TerrySouthern. They put him on the cover of ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' too. Ringo even starred in an adaptation of Southern's book ''Film/TheMagicChristian'' and wrote down the line "Buy a Terry Southern Book" in the sleeve notes of his 1974 album ''Goodnight Vienna''. |
| 44 | ** Lennon enjoyed Creator/LewisCarroll so much that entire songs were inspired by Literature/AliceInWonderland, for instance ''"I Am The Walrus"'' and ''"Cry Baby Cry"''. He even put Carroll's face on the album cover of ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand"''. Lennon's novel ''A Spaniard In The Works'' was also inspired by Carroll and by Creator/JamesThurber and Creator/RonaldSearle. Lennon's favorite painter was Henri Matisse. |
| 45 | ** Lennon admired Music/FrankZappa and once performed with him in 1971. The recordings were made available on Lennon's ''Some Time In New York City'' album and Zappa's ''Playground Psychotics''. Lennon famously said: |
| 46 | --> ''"Wow, I always wanted to meet him. I really, really admire him. (...) He's at least trying to do something different with the form. (...) It's incredible how he has his band as tight as a real orchestra. (...) I'm very impressed by the kind of discipline he can bring to rock that nobody else can seem to bring to it.'' |
| 47 | ** In a 1980 radio interview Lennon told the interviewer that he still loved watching ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' and ''Series/FawltyTowers'', which he called "the greatest show he saw in years". |
| 48 | ** Music/PaulMcCartney has been a fan of the comic strip ''ComicStrip/RupertBear'' since his youth and even wrote music for an animated adaptation in the 1980s. He also called Music/TheBeachBoys ''Music/PetSounds'' his favorite album of all time and the 1971 concert by Music/FelaKuti he saw in Nigeria one of the best performances he ever saw in his life. His favorite painter is Creator/ReneMagritte. In fact, the ''Apple'' logo was inspired by Magritte's painting of "The Son Of Man". |
| 49 | ** The Beatles were also fans of Creator/MontyPython, but Music/GeorgeHarrison's adoration went further than the others. Apparently, he saw the very first Monty Python episode while the Beatles were doing "Music/LetItBe" and the recording session had been all chaotic and George was depressed -- but watching Monty Python made him feel like that the spirit of fun and whimsy that used to be in the Beatles had been reborn in Python. He wrote a letter to the BBC that night, begging them to keep Python on the air. ... Later, he befriended the Pythons, and when their producer pulled out two days before filming on ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' was about to start, George put up the money himself. But even though they were all friends, according to Creator/MichaelPalin, sometimes George would drive them a little crazy by sometimes quoting Python sketches in an effort to get them to "do" the sketch with him. Michael Palin even claims that sometimes George Harrison, who always loved the "Lumberjack" sketch, would use the alias "Jack Lumber" while traveling. |
| 50 | ** Music/GeorgeHarrison also did walk-on parts in Creator/EricIdle's post-Python work, ''Series/RutlandWeekendTelevision'', and in the Music/TheRutles movie. He went on record claiming that it was the most faithful {{Biopic}} about the Beatles he ever saw, despite it being a comedy. He often quoted lines from it during interviews. |
| 51 | ** Harrison's favorite film of all time was Creator/MelBrooks' ''Film/TheProducers''. Creator/PeterSellers got hold of an early print for him before it had a UK release, and he showed it constantly to guests at Friar Park. In Harrison's song "Horse to the Water" (1974) he even quotes directly from it: |
| 52 | --> ''Some people sail through life, but he has struck a reef.'' |
| 53 | ** Harrison was also totally into traditional Indian music, exemplified by the work of his personal friend Music/RaviShankar. His debut album, ''Music/WonderwallMusic'' is almost entirely made of sitar instrumentals. |
| 54 | ** Harrison wrote his last letter to Creator/MikeMyers, saying how he enjoyed the Film/AustinPowers movies and asked if he could give him a Mini Me doll. By Myers' account, he got the letter ''the day George died''. |
| 55 | * Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}: All band members are enormous fans of Afro-American {{Blues}} musicians. They covered many songs by these artists and brought them under the attention of their own rock lovin' audience. Even their band name was inspired by the line ''like a rolling stone'' from Music/MuddyWaters' "Mannish Boy". When Waters died in 1984 they sent a laurel wreath to the funeral. |
| 56 | ** Music/BrianJones was very interested in WorldMusic and recorded an album with a Moroccan folk group, ''Music/BrianJonesPresentsThePipesOfPanAtJajouka'', which would be the only solo album released during his lifetime. |
| 57 | ** Music/KeithRichards considers Music/ChuckBerry the man who inspired him to learn how to play guitar. |
| 58 | ** Back in the 1960s The Stones considered filming ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'' with themselves in the starring roles. The project was scrapped and when Kubrick made his famous version it was decided that [[ToughActToFollow they couldn't top that]]. |
| 59 | * John Entwistle, bassist for Music/TheWho, started out his musical training as a "band geek" of sorts, playing principal horn in the Middlesex Youth Symphony when he was a kid. In some early interviews with the band, Entwistle still cited classical composers like Wagner when asked about his favorite musicians. |
| 60 | ** Pete Townshend also seems to be a big fan of animation, both WesternAnimation as well as {{Anime}}. |
| 61 | ** Roger Daltrey was a big Music/ElvisPresley fan as a kid and has at least once mentioned that he's a bit of a history buff. He's also a fan of model railways, evidenced when he and Music/RodStewart donated money to a English model railway club in Ashford, Kent after their show was vandalised. |
| 62 | * Music/RonnieSpector is a fan of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' and [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CUfwncTlxec/ expressed amusement on social media]] when she was a question subject on a October 2021 episode. |
| 63 | * Music/FrankZappa was a huge geek! |
| 64 | ** The first record Zappa loved as a teen was ''Ionisation'' by the 20th-century classical composer Music/EdgardVarese, whom he considered to be his musical mentor. He even asked for- and received- a direct phone call with Varèse from his parents for his 18th birthday. When he called Varèse's wife informed the young boy that her husband was in Brussels for the World Fair of 1958, promised Zappa that he would call him back. Varèse did and sent Zappa a personal letter afterward, which Zappa framed and hung in his house. Sadly, the two would never meet each other in person. |
| 65 | ** Zappa felt that the dissonant sounds of 20th century composers such as Music/IgorStravinsky, Music/BelaBartok, Anton Webern, Music/MauriceRavel, Music/CharlesIves, Music/ArnoldSchoenberg, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Music/OlivierMessiaen, Alban Berg, Conlon Nancarrow,... sounded far more adventurous, exciting, interesting and versatile than composers of earlier centuries. An opinion most general fans of classical music, who prefer harmonies and melodies, wouldn't share. Certainly not his fellow teenagers in the 1950s. Zappa would play Varèse for all visitors that came by his house. Most people would flee after hearing it, but those who didn't were, in Zappa's own words: ''"people you could have a conversation with."'' One of them was his high school buddy Music/CaptainBeefheart, with whom Zappa shared a love for horror B-movies and old {{Blues}} and {{Doowop}} records which they would play the whole night through. |
| 66 | *** Zappa's [[UnabashedBMovieFan passion for cheap B-movies]], especially monster movies, went far. He referenced a lot of these movies in his lyrics and song titles, including "Cheepnis" from ''Music/RoxyAndElsewhere''. He even gave one of his sons, Ahmet, the middle name Rodan, in reference to ''Film/{{Rodan}}''. This also explains his adoration of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. He and the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] crew were actually in talks of making a movie together before he died. They also referenced Zappa a lot during their riffs, and dedicated episode 523 to his memory. |
| 67 | *** Zappa's favorite guitarist of all time was Music/JohnnyGuitarWatson and he considered "Three Hours Past Midnight" his favorite single of all time. He and Watson later became good friends and Watson even recorded tracks on several of Zappa's albums. |
| 68 | *** Zappa's passion for {{Doowop}} was so strong that he recorded a straight {{Homage}} to the genre, ''Music/CruisingWithRubenAndTheJets'', in a time period when this music was considered to be old-fashioned, unhip and definitely not the kind of music his AvantGardeMusic fans would like at first. Talk about an AudienceAlienatingPremise that also shows his absolute dedication to something he loved! |
| 69 | ** Zappa was also digging OutsiderMusic long before the genre even became popular. He liked Music/TinyTim, called Music/TheShaggs "better than The Beatles" and made sure that unique musicians such as Wild Man Fischer and Music/CaptainBeefheart got their own albums to record in excellent studio quality. He also gave them a lot of attention among his fans and practically launched their notability. |
| 70 | ** Zappa was also a big fan of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'', ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', which he watched religiously during the final years of his life. He voiced the Pope in a ''Ren and Stimpy'' episode called "Powdered Toast Man" and wanted to guest star in ''The Simpsons'' too, but became too ill to record his part. |
| 71 | ** Just the fact that he printed a list with influences on his music in the sleeve of his debut album ''Music/FreakOut'' should speak for itself. Though not all the influences are meant to be ''positive'' [[note]] The inclusion of Creator/JohnWayne and Music/ElvisPresley were added because his hatred for them was an inspiration on his work [[/note]] others were definitely artists whose work he admired. Among them a lot of classical composers, jazz, blues artists, doo-wop artists, but also people like Music/TinyTim, Music/RaviShankar, Creator/SalvadorDali, Creator/LennyBruce, Music/BobDylan, Music/JoanBaez and writers such as Creator/JulesFeiffer, Creator/RobertSheckley, Creator/CordwainerSmith, Creator/BramStoker, Creator/TheodoreSturgeon and Creator/JamesJoyce. Because although he claimed not to read books several people who knew Zappa noticed his eclectic language use and knowledge about musical topics revealed that he did read a lot. In a poll, Zappa said he would bring the collected works of science fiction author Creator/CordwainerSmith to a deserted island with him. In ''"Being Frank"'' Nigey Lennon also revealed that Zappa had read every novel by Creator/FranzKafka, even his most obscure titles. This would also explain why Zappa advised all his fans to read a copy of Kafka's short story ''"In the Penal Colony"'' before listening to the final track of his album ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney''. |
| 72 | * It's not a coincidence that the ''Series/DoctorWho'' theme is heard in Music/PinkFloyd's "One of These Days" from ''Music/{{Meddle}}''. The band would also frequently interrupt recording sessions to watch ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' and their royalties helped fund ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' as a tax shelter. Keyboardist Richard Wright, along with John Entwistle of Music/TheWho mentioned on this page, was also what we would now call a "band geek" as a fan of classical and jazz music who once expressed a desire to have a symphony of his performed in the Royal Albert Hall -- though that's not to say he didn't also enjoy works such as Music/TalkingHeads' ''Music/RemainInLight''. Drummer Nick Mason mentioned in his autobiography that he and bandmate Music/RogerWaters nicknamed a particularly annoying (and apparently hostile) light machine they used in their stage show 'The Dalek'. |
| 73 | * Music/CaptainBeefheart used to listen to a lot of blues artists along with his high school buddy Music/FrankZappa. He even modeled his voice after Music/HowlinWolf. Beefheart was also amazed by the skill and stage antics of jazz musician Music/RolandKirk. As a painter, Beefheart drew influence from Franz Kline, Creator/SalvadorDali and Creator/VincentVanGogh. When he visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam he looked at the sun and was actually disappointed that it didn't look as bright as on Van Gogh's paintings. |
| 74 | * Music/MarcBolan, the elfin pre-Bowie glam god of T. Rex fame, was a notorious {{Fantasy}} lover, who actually forced his original drummer to change his name to Steve [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Peregrin Took]]. He was also a massive Marvel fanboy, namedropping ComicBook/DoctorStrange and ComicBook/SilverSurfer |
| 75 | * Rock icon and sex symbol Jim Morrison, lead singer of Music/TheDoors, was a huge bookworm from an early age and began writing in earnest during his adolescence. He was inspired by the writings of several philosophers and poets. He was influenced by Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, whose views on aesthetics, morality, and the Apollonian and Dionysian duality would appear in his conversation, poetry, and songs. Some of his formative influences were Plutarch's ''ParallelLives'' and the works of the French Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud, whose style would later influence the form of Morrison's short prose poems. He was also influenced by Creator/WilliamSBurroughs, Creator/JackKerouac, Creator/AllenGinsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Baudelaire, Creator/BertoltBrecht, Creator/{{Moliere}}, Creator/FranzKafka, Creator/HonoreDeBalzac, and Creator/JeanCocteau, along with most of the French existentialist philosophers. At UCLA he studied the related fields of theater, film, and cinematography. He self-published two separate volumes of his poetry in 1969. |
| 76 | ** Apparently, Morrison was also a big ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' fan. As recounted in [[http://noblemania.blogspot.com/2014/06/peanuts-interview-stephen-shea-linus-in.html this interview]], when Morrison found out that one of his acquaintances knew Christopher Shea, who played Linus in the early animated shows, Morrison invited Shea to a Doors concert and met him backstage. |
| 77 | * Music/DavidBowie was a fan of Music/FrankZappa and Music/JacquesBrel, whose "Amsterdam" he covered on ''Music/PinUps''. His love for Music/BobDylan was so strong that he wrong "Song For Bob Dylan" on his album ''Music/HunkyDory''. He was one of the the first mainstream artists to embrace the internet, releasing a single for download; indeed, his official website also served as an ISP in the early days. He was also fond of Japanese culture and had demonstrated surprisingly insightful knowledge of Japanese politics and philosophy in interviews, and included several songs from his then-latest album on the game ''VideoGame/OmikronTheNomadSoul'', as well as appearing as a character in the game ''twice''. |
| 78 | ** Bowie was also the earliest Music/VelvetUnderground fan ever! He got hold of a copy of ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico'' before the album was even officially released and loved it. Later, when Music/LouReed's solo career wasn't going anywhere he produced his second album ''Music/{{Transformer}}'', which practically became Reed's most acclaimed record. Bowie also brought attention to Music/BrianEno and Music/IggyPop by collaborating with them and producing Iggy's albums ''Music/TheIdiot'' and ''Music/LustForLife'', which brought them to the attention of a much bigger audience. |
| 79 | * Later in life, Music/LouReed was a huge Creator/{{Apple}} fanboy. |
| 80 | * Music/IggyPop is a massive Music/JamesBrown fan and was very much inspired by Brown's stage act. The song "Lust For Life" from ''Music/LustForLife'' also has references to novels by Creator/WilliamSBurroughs. |
| 81 | * Both the band names of Music/SoftMachine and Music/SteelyDan were inspired by novels by Creator/WilliamSBurroughs. |
| 82 | * Music/{{Radiohead}}, alternative rock weirdos, made a list of their favorite (or at least Jonny's favorite) video games in a [[http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/index.php?a=564 blog entry]] on their website. Among those games are ''Half-Life, ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'''', ''VideoGame/{{Ico}}'', and the indie darling ''VideoGame/CaveStory''. |
| 83 | ** Not to mention the Greenwood brothers love for ''Manga/AstroBoy.'' Both have worn shirts with the character on it and Jonny has an Astroboy sticker on one of his guitars |
| 84 | ** Jonny is also a huge contemporary classical music nerd, drawing influences from such composers as Music/KarlheinzStockhausen and Krzysztof Penderecki. This shows in his scores for movies such as ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood''. |
| 85 | * [[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine Tom]] [[Music/{{Audioslave}} Morello]] has made cameos in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' (in the episode "Good Shepherd") and ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'', as well as ''Film/IronMan'', which also features his guitar tracks on the soundtrack. |
| 86 | ** He also studied Political Science at ''Harvard'' and works out the settings of his effect pedals using graphs and charts. He is quite possibly the geekiest guitarist to ever rock out a stadium... |
| 87 | * Music/BrianMay, the lead guitarist of Music/{{Queen}}, was ranked as the 39th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone. In 2007 he received a Ph.D. in astrophysics with a thesis titled "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud." He allegedly did all the work for himself, because he didn't want an "honorary degree" -- he wanted to finish the doctorate he'd put aside when his hobby (the band) suddenly became profitable. |
| 88 | ** Music/{{Queen}} was once known as the "best-educated band in rock", with each member holding a college diploma. To elaborate: in addition to Brian's studies in astrophysics, bass player John Deacon holds a degree in electrical engineering (which he famously applied to build a practice amp for Brian out of an old speaker and odd bits of trashed circuitry), Roger Taylor studied dentistry, and Freddie had a background in art, which he applied to the band when he designed the Queen crest (appears on several of their '70s albums, but probably best displayed on the covers for ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera'' and ''Music/{{A Day at the Races|Album}}'' (by the way: both titles are references to Creator/TheMarxBrothers films, which again shows off their geekiness.) |
| 89 | ** In another mark of geekiness, during the band's performance on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', Brian May wore a ''VideoGame/{{Frogger}}'' T-shirt. |
| 90 | * Phil Lesh of Music/TheGratefulDead was originally a ''classical music'' composition major at Mills College, studying with avant-garde composer Luciano Berio as his teacher and minimalist pioneer Steve Reich as a fellow student. He supposedly gave that up for rock after a traumatic experience listening to Music/GustavMahler's Sixth Symphony while under the influence of LSD. Even so, he claimed his bass-playing style was more influenced by Music/JohannSebastianBach than by blues or R&B. |
| 91 | * Maybe not a huge surprise that Music/TheyMightBeGiants are a little geeky, but they have a suite of bonus tracks on one album which are all about the ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' films. |
| 92 | ** "The sun is a mass of incandescent gas"? Note that it was changed to "The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma", to reflect the change in scientific consensus. |
| 93 | ** The music video for 'Experimental Film' was a Homestar Runner cartoon. |
| 94 | * Charles Gillingham of Music/CountingCrows has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CharlesGillingham Wikipedia account]]. |
| 95 | * Various members of the post-rock group Music/{{Mogwai}} can be seen in various points in a documentary about the recording of their 5th album playing on Nintendo DS, and one member can be seen with a [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka Langley]] sticker on his laptop. |
| 96 | * Music/{{Gackt}}, J-rock artist, voice actor, and real-life {{Bishonen}} is a huge fan of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam''. He once managed to swing an article about building Gunpla in a music magazine and led a massive audience of screaming teenage girls in a chant of "Sieg Zeon" after reciting Gihren's speech at Garma's funeral. |
| 97 | ** Not to mention his song Metamorphose has cover art that is directly from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam''. Not all that surprising as it was written for the ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' [[CompilationMovie Compilation Movies]]. |
| 98 | *** One can only imagine [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6O4UonfKyM how he reacted to doing the music video for it.]] |
| 99 | *** And that he was present for the unveiling of the new life-sized Gundam statue in Japan. |
| 100 | *** His single "Ai Senshi" is the title song for Gundam vs Gundam Next. |
| 101 | ** He's also a fan of ''Franchise/KamenRider'', and in addition to penning "Journey Through the Decade" for ''[[Series/KamenRiderDecade Decade]]'', he portrayed Joji Yuki, AKA Riderman in the ''Decade'' movie ''All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker''. And he performed the theme for that, too. |
| 102 | ** It is also a fact that Music/{{Gackt}} voiced Genesis, one of the main characters of ''VideoGame/CrisisCore''. The character's appearance was even based off him. |
| 103 | *** He also sung the theme songs "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXp0v93ZRTs Redemption]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2MZDX_ImS8 Longing]]" for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII: VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'', as well as ''physically appearing in'' the special ending as Genesis. This would make him the first ''real person'' to ever appear in a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' game. |
| 104 | *** Gackt is, obviously, well known in Japan for being a fan of the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series. He even refers to Squall Leonhart as "Gackt2". |
| 105 | *** Although many fans mistakenly believe Squall is based off Gackt, Squall's design actually predates Gackt's shift to that style of dressing. Squall is in fact based on Creator/RiverPhoenix. |
| 106 | ** When Internet Co. was making the Music/{{Vocaloid}} Gackpoid out of his voice, they decided they needed a picture for the mascot character (which was standard for the Japanese Vocaloids). Kentarou Miura, who made the manga ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'', was hired. Gackt was apparently such a fan of Berserk that he specifically requested to get another copy of the pictures even though he'd be away for filming at the time. (Ironically, Miura was willing to offer free service because he liked Nico Nico Douga that much.) |
| 107 | ** Besides ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', he and his songs have appeared in a number of games, including ''VideoGame/{{Bujingai}}'', ''Dragon Nest'', ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors 3'', pachinko games Gladiator and Bounty Killer, as well as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygrvvyMswVI Japanese commercials for]] ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. There is also a dog tag in ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' with Gackt's name on it. |
| 108 | ** Not only did he ''appear'' in ''VideoGame/{{Bujingai}}'', he provided the voice of the main character, did all of the motion capture for their ridiculous {{Wuxia}} swordfighting stunts, and helped to flesh out the setting and story himself. It's basically Gackt: [[TheMovie The Game]]. |
| 109 | ** He's also a self-proclaimed fan of ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' and was picked by Kentaro Miura himself to voice in the commercial promoting the new [=OVAs=] for the series. |
| 110 | * Music/{{Buckethead}}, while rarely vocal about himself, is known to be an avid video gamer, comic book fan, ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan, horror movie geek and ''Manga/GiantRobo'' enthusiast. He's also composed music for ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'', recorded a special (and insane) solo for his song "Jordan", when it was included in the second ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' game, and a remix of one of his songs also appears in the latest ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' game. |
| 111 | * Music/SuperJunior's Kyuhyun is an avid gamer of Starcraft, so much so that his bandmates nicknamed him "[=GameGyu=]". Heck, that's even his Twitter username! |
| 112 | ** Heechul is also a big fan of Starcraft and many of his outfits are based on videogame characters. |
| 113 | ** Eunhyuk has all ''Manga/DragonBall'' manga in his room and also likes ''Manga/OnePiece''. He has been using a meme as his Twitter avatar for quite some time now. |
| 114 | * Speaking of Franchise/DragonBall, Music/BigBang's [=GDragon=] has a Manga/DragonBall tattooed to his collarbone. |
| 115 | * Music/FrankOcean is an avid gamer; track titles from his first mixtape include ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur]]'', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' and ''[[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 GoldenEye]]''. The mixtape itself opens with a track called "[[Franchise/StreetFighter Streetfighter]]", which even contains the menu selection music, and his first studio album opened to the sounds of a Platform/PlayStation booting up. |
| 116 | ** He also references [[Anime/DragonBallZ Majin Buu]] on, appropriately enough, the song "Pink Matter". |
| 117 | ** He is also a massive [[TheMovieBuff movie buff]], having posted [[https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/frank-ocean-100-favourite-films-list/ a list of his 100 favorite movies]], which includes the works of Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/DavidLynch, Creator/IngmarBergman, Creator/AkiraKurosawa, and Creator/StanleyKubrick. |
| 118 | * The title of Music/TheOrb's groundbreaking dance single "A Huge Ever-Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld" is actually a fairly literal description of the ''Series/BlakesSeven'' episode "Ultraworld". |
| 119 | ** They got the name from a BBC Sci-Fi Sound Effects LP which used that description for one of its noises (which originally came from the ''Blake's 7'' episode in question). |
| 120 | * Music/TomWaits was inspired to begin his more avant-garde style career since the album ''Music/{{Swordfishtrombones}}'' after listening to Music/CaptainBeefheart. He is also such a fan of Music/FrankSinatra that the album cover of ''Music/TheHeartOfSaturdayNight'' directly references ''Music/InTheWeeSmallHours''. He also collaborated with author Creator/WilliamSBurroughs on his album ''Music/TheBlackRider''. |
| 121 | * Music/KurtCobain listened to many alternative rock bands before Music/{{Nirvana}} became famous and made it his duty to give these groups a shout-out now and then, so that they got more attention from the mainstream. Among the bands and artists he liked were Music/ThePixies (Cobain: "Without them Nirvana wouldn't exist."), Music/LedZeppelin, Music/TheBeatles, Music/DanielJohnston, Music/PJHarvey, Music/TheStooges, Music/SexPistols (The title of ''Music/{{Nevermind|Album}}'' is a homage to ''Music/NeverMindTheBollocksHeresTheSexPistols''), Music/TheShaggs, Music/TheBreeders, Music/TheVaselines, Music/BadBrains, Music/TheRaincoats, Music/SonicYouth, Music/{{Boredoms}}, Music/{{Swans}}, Music/{{Kleenex}}, Music/TheSlits, Music/LeadBelly, Music/{{Mudhoney}}, Music/BeatHappening, Music/ButtholeSurfers, Music/PublicImageLtd, Music/DavidBowie, Wipers, Music/MazzyStar, Music/ShonenKnife, Music/{{Diesel}} [[note]] The Dutch band, not the other bands by that name. Cobain said in an interview that if he really had to do just straight rock, he'd do it like "Sausalito Summernight" by the aforementioned Music/{{Diesel}} [[/note]]... |
| 122 | ** Cobain also loved the works of Creator/WilliamSBurroughs and struck a friendship with the author. It was, in fact, Burroughs who introduced Cobain to Music/LeadBelly which gave us the marvelous cover "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" Also, he was so obsessed with ''Literature/{{Perfume}}'' that the Music/{{Nirvana}} song "Scentless Apprentice" was directly inspired by the novel. In the album credits of Music/InUtero he thanked author ''Patrick Süsskind,'' as well as Creator/QuentinTarantino. |
| 123 | ** Music/DaveGrohl recently revealed that he and Kurt were big fans of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' and would sometimes play the game until three or four in the morning. |
| 124 | * Music/CourtneyLove is obsessed with Nancy Spungen, the girlfriend of Music/SidVicious and wished she could play her in the film ''Film/SidAndNancy'', but this didn't happen. She has also said: "The one rock star that makes me know I'm shit is [[Music/PJHarvey Polly Harvey]]. I'm nothing next to the purity she experiences." |
| 125 | * Music/ToriAmos is a huge comic book fan. |
| 126 | ** Creator/NeilGaiman based the character of [[ComicBook/TheSandman Delirium]] on her, and she does [[ShoutOut shoutouts]] to him in several of her songs. |
| 127 | ** Her daughter's middle name is Lórien, from [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Lothlórien]]. |
| 128 | * Pretty much every member of Music/BreakingBenjamin is a gamer. |
| 129 | ** Considering they recorded the song [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic "Blow Me Away"]] for ''VideoGame/Halo2'' and even asked a crowd at a concert if they were excited about ''Halo 3'' coming out, this is pretty much self-explanatory. |
| 130 | * Music/PhilCollins [[WordOfGod has confessed]] to being a huge video game addict. He even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlClbw21rK8 got himself written into]] ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'', making him a PromotedFanboy. |
| 131 | ** He also happens to own the second-largest collection of Alamo memorabilia in the world. The only one ahead of him: the Alamo itself! He later [[https://www.thealamo.org/visit/whats-at-the-alamo/phil-collins-collection donated his collection]] to the Alamo in 2014, and he was named as an "honorary Texan" by the Texas Legislature after doing so. |
| 132 | ** His Music/{{Genesis|Band}} bandmates also qualify. Tony Banks is a fan of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and Mike Rutherford referenced ''Series/DoctorWho'' in ''[[TheDocumentary Come Rain Or Shine]]''. |
| 133 | * Music/TheStrokes once interrupted their own concert to do the theme song from ''[[WesternAnimation/Thundercats1985 Thundercats]]''. |
| 134 | * Neil Peart of Music/{{Rush|Band}} was a known bookworm, and his lyrics reflected the influence of both science fiction and fantasy on most of their 1970s albums. Particularly, "The Necromancer" and "Rivendell" were influenced by Tolkien, while "Anthem" and "2112" were influenced by the works of Creator/AynRand (the band would distance themselves from the latter in later years). |
| 135 | ** The entire group are huge fans of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', at any rate, and their latest album is a SteamPunk ConceptAlbum. Make of that what you will. |
| 136 | * Music/{{Slash|Musician}} of Music/GunsNRoses and Velvet Revolver fame has admitted to being addicted to ''VideoGame/RockBand'' and is a fan of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''. On top of that, he is an avid {{Pinball}} collector (he had over 20 tables at one point), and 'designed'' two different machines based on Guns N' Roses ([[Pinball/GunsNRosesDataEast one]] in the 1990s by Creator/DataEast, [[Pinball/GunsNRosesJerseyJack the other]] in 2020 by Creator/JerseyJack). |
| 137 | * Music/{{Voltaire}} is a huge Trekkie, and he even recorded an entire EP of (very, ''very'' {{NSFW}}) ''Franchise/StarTrek'' songs called ''Banned on Vulcan''. When he performed some of them at a concert, he admitted he wasn't sure if he was going to play them since ''Trek'' is so far removed from [[{{Goth}} his usual subject matter]], but then he realized "{{Goth}}s are just Trekkies in black". He also had a song parodying ''Franchise/StarWars'' called "Cantina". |
| 138 | ** He now has a new album called ''Bitrektual'' which gathers "Cantina" with the ''Banned On Vulcan'' songs and adds several new scifi-inspired songs, including one for ''Series/DoctorWho''. |
| 139 | ** Voltaire is also a huge fan of anime if a cover of one of his albums featuring a chibi-fied version of him is of anything to go by. |
| 140 | * Music/MyChemicalRomance are massive video game geeks and comic book nerds. Lead singer Gerard Way is also the author of the comic series ''The Umbrella Academy''. |
| 141 | ** The band is a big fan of Grant Morrison and had him appear as a supervillain in their video for Art Is The Weapon. |
| 142 | ** Lots of celebrities will write a comic series at some time or another. Gerard Way though is an Eisner winner, the highest award in comic books. |
| 143 | ** Don't forget Star Wars. Jabba Glob, anyone? |
| 144 | ** They're all huge horror movie nerds as well. |
| 145 | ** And [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Warcraft]]. |
| 146 | ** He also sang in and wrote the ending song for ''[[Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren Advent Children Complete]]'' (at least in the Japanese version). |
| 147 | *** Not to mention he ''majored'' in Cartooning in college. |
| 148 | *** As well as interning at DC's Creator/VertigoComics imprint (during Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'', no less) and at Cartoon Network. As ''Podcast/HouseToAstonish'' put it when his DC Creator/YoungAnimal imprint was announced, Gerard Way's career trajectory looks a lot like someone who became an internationally famous rock star as a stepping stone to breaking into comics. |
| 149 | ** Gerard Way also collects Warhammer, name dropping Rogue Trader and Necromunda in the process. |
| 150 | * [[http://www.myspace.com/bloodhag Bloodhag]] are a metal band who advocate literacy and reading. All their songs are Biographies of Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors. One of them is a Librarian. |
| 151 | * Tom Scholz, founder of arena rock band ''Music/{{Boston}}'', has a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT; and was the founder of Scholz Research & Development (now owned by Dunlop Mfg Inc), the company behind the majority of the electronics used by the band; including the well-known Rockman amplifier and effects system. |
| 152 | ** He developed the sound system for the Polaroid Land Camera. The band used "Better Music Through Science" as a motto. |
| 153 | * Writer/director/musician Liam Lynch (best known for "United States of Whatever") has a video podcast, and had an entire episode dedicated to his massive ''Series/DoctorWho'' collection. |
| 154 | * Music/DanielJohnston is a huge fan of Music/TheBeatles and WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost and referred to them several times in his work, including on his album ''Music/YipJumpMusic''. |
| 155 | * Michael Stipe of Music/{{REM}} loves ComicStrip/KrazyKat so much that he has an Ignatz the Mouse tattoo. He also called Music/PattiSmith the biggest influence in his life. |
| 156 | * Music/TheMarsVolta. Both Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala are big (old-school!) ''Series/DoctorWho'' fans, citing it as an influence in their work. It also runs in Omar's family: Brothers Marcel and Marfred front a band called [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Zechs Marquise.]] |
| 157 | * Music/JanelleMonae, a young neo-soul singer whose [[http://io9.com/5592174/janelle-monae-turns-rhythm-and-blues-into-science-fiction current project]] is a four-part RockOpera in which she plays a RobotGirl on the run in a dystopian future city for the crime of falling in love with a human. It's based on Fritz Lang's ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'', as well as ''Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'' and the films of Creator/AlfredHitchcock. |
| 158 | * Music/AndrewWK.: He released an album of ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' covers, "Gundam Rock", to celebrate the series' 30th anniversary. |
| 159 | ** He's also a massive Creator/ThomasLigotti fan ({{Cosmic Horror|Story}} FTW!), plays bass with art-folk weirdos Current 93 and debuted with a cassette of experimental synth music on a record label run by the guys from Wolf Eyes. Yeah, he is. |
| 160 | ** Not only did his signature song, "Party Hard", become a meme on Website/FourChan, but he's a self-professed /b/tard himself. And [[http://twitter.com/#!/AndrewWK/status/17064106292940801 reads Encyclopedia Dramatica.]] |
| 161 | ** He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTK3Kv3iiZA is also a brony.]] |
| 162 | * Chibi, lead singer of Music/TheBirthdayMassacre, is an avid ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' fan, and drummer Rhim is a ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' fan. |
| 163 | * OwenPallett, who made string arrangements for Mika, The Last Shadow Puppets, Arcade Fire, Beirut, Pet Shop Boys, and Grizzly Bear, has also made some albums as a solo artist. The name? Final Fantasy. Not to forget, he references Zelda in the song "He Poos Clouds". |
| 164 | * [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] is a huge ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}''/''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' fan, so much that he composed the music for [[VideoGame/QuakeI the first Quake game]]. He also played the Zelda theme in a concert and had openly admitted a massive videogame addiction. His profile pictures on Website/{{Twitter}} and Instagram are from his favorite game ''VideoGame/Robotron2084''. |
| 165 | * Founder/On and off Frontman Matt Good of From First To Last is a huge [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft WoW]] nerd. |
| 166 | * [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]] is a big fan of sci-fi and comics, which were reportedly a huge influence on his stage persona. He also used to write for sci-fi fanzines in his youth. |
| 167 | ** He is also a fan of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', and said that the design of [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Obstagoon_(Pokémon) Obstagoon]], a Pokémon that is a walking homage to Simmons's stage persona of The Demon, was [[https://www.loudersound.com/news/kiss-star-gene-simmons-reacts-to-his-new-pokemon-lookalike "flattering"]]. |
| 168 | * Current Music/VanHalen bassist Wolfgang Van Halen not only plays ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' himself, he also [[http://ps2.ign.com/articles/101/1012475p1.html contributed to the development of the band's licensed game by picking the guest act songs]]. |
| 169 | * Music/TwistedSister vocalist Dee Snider is a huge gamer. He's made special appearances on Xbox Live at certain points, and on a Creator/VH1 special once told a story about how his son accidentally erased his save file in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI''. |
| 170 | ** He also got to appear in the intro to ''Singstar 80's'' in his Twisted Sister gear. |
| 171 | * Music/{{Edguy}} drummer Felix Bohnke is a huge fan of ''Star Wars'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyFmGa6BRLA this is his drum solo]]) and ''Star Trek'' (see his thank you's in the Mandrake album). |
| 172 | * Music/FranzFerdinand and Music/TakingBackSunday are ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fans. |
| 173 | * Music/LinkinPark [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60lmDCGgW9k really]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz-OpKuOU3c&feature=related likes]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysSxxIqKNN0 Humongous]] [[HumongousMecha Mecha]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ezSGqbuo0g anime]]. |
| 174 | ** And to top it all off, [[http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/09/16/bandai-announces-linkin-park-gundam/ Bandai has announced]] that a Linkin Park themed Franchise/{{Gundam}} will be packaged with the deluxe edition of ''A Thousand Suns''. Whether or not this will be [[NoExportForYou exclusive to Japan]] has yet to be determined. |
| 175 | ** On the gaming front, Mike got bored while recording ''A Thousand Suns'' and hooked up an NES so he could play ''Metroid'' in his home studio and the entire band are pretty big fans of ''Halo'', hosting tournaments between themselves and touring partners on a dedicated bus. |
| 176 | * Indie-rock artist Mac DeMarco is a fan of the ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' soundtrack and projects [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwkyuU0zxpw&feature=youtu.be footage]] from the game on tour. |
| 177 | * Joe Walsh, guitarist of the Music/{{Eagles}}, is an avid ham radio operator, having an Amateur Extra Class license [[note]] The highest level amateur radio license one can receive from the FCC [[/note]], going by the call sign [=WB6ACU=], and using a lot of vintage equipment bought from eBay. In one instance, he delayed a concert just to be able to get a winning bid on radio equipment. |
| 178 | * Music/MarilynManson (the person) [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090915232300/http://kotaku.com/146565/cant-get-phoenix-wright-marilyn-manson-can is an avid gamer.]] Former bassist Twiggy Ramirez was as well, and he's also a [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110604045216/http://www.starwars.com/community/news/rocks/f20070227/index.html huge]] ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan and did a really creepy, proportioned-like-in-the-comics [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]] [[http://zoeyposthuman.tumblr.com/post/124340489465/joker-cosplay-by-twiggy-ramirez cosplay]]. |
| 179 | * Some members of Music/JoyDivision and Music/NewOrder have a nerdy side to them: |
| 180 | ** Ian Curtis was [[{{Bookworm}} an avid reader]], with authors like Creator/JGBallard, Creator/FranzKafka, and Creator/WilliamSBurroughs influencing his dark lyrics. |
| 181 | ** Guitarist Bernard Sumner was an electronics hobbyist in the band's early days, picking up the hobby to keep himself occupied at night while suffering from insomnia. He built the band's first synthesizer from instructions in a magazine. |
| 182 | ** Drummer Stephen Morris is a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'' and collects tanks. Not tank models, ''actual tanks''. |
| 183 | * Paul Kantner of Music/JeffersonAirplane was a science fiction fan. |
| 184 | * It was Scott Weiland's idea for Creator/SarahMichelleGellar to appear in Music/StoneTemplePilots' "Sour Girl" music video, as he was a fan of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. |
| 185 | * Ed Robertson of Music/BarenakedLadies is a huge gamer, claiming to have had almost every console system released since he was a child, and also collects pinball machines (showcased in the band's indicatively named video "Silverball"). This brought ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' to his attention, and led to some collaborations with Creator/RoosterTeeth - regarding ''RVB'', intermissions featuring the characters played in a Barenaked Ladies tour, and Robertson voiced a character; he also starred in their short-lived show Captain Dynamic, had RT direct the video for "Odds Are", and the band wrote a song for ''Film/LazerTeam''. |
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| 189 | * Music/{{Motorhead}}: Lemmy was a huge fan of early 1950s and 1960s rock 'n' roll, especially Music/TheBeatles. He was also quite a history buff and had extensive knowledge in the military history of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and collected uniforms, weapons, medals, insignia and other stuff from that era. He also went on record saying that even though he self-identified as an anarchist and expressed being against "Nazism, Communism, and other extremes," he collected Nazi relics because he thought they "[[RuleOfCool had some of the coolest stuff]]". |
| 190 | * Music/AliceInChains former frontman Layne Staley was a huge gamer. It's been said that he always kept his Gameboy on him and played it whenever he had the chance. One of the last known photos of him also saw him wearing a Metal Gear Solid shirt, and he himself once boasted in an interview that he maxed out his first credit card buying video games at a Toys R' Us, while his condo had a ''gigantic'' TV that he used exclusively for gaming and had an entire room devoted to storage for his collection. Additionally, he spent a good deal of his final recording session talking with the studio runner about various games on the Platform/PlayStation that was hooked up in the studio and giving him tips on how to beat certain parts that were giving him problems. |
| 191 | ** Likewise, Music/JerryCantrell is a fan of the ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' games and was excited when he saw the AIC song "Them Bones" referenced in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsColdWar''. |
| 192 | * Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} songs include references to Dragonlance, Lord of the Rings, and an entire EpicRocking nerdgasm over the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, and bassist Marco Hietala has confessed to loving video games. Band leader and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen always has a figurine of [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]], whom he resembles, tied to the front of his keyboards during concerts. Tuomas also recorded a whole concept album based on ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck''. |
| 193 | * There was an article in ''Magazine/RollingStone'' where Serj Tankian of Music/SystemOfADown confessed to being a huge ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' geek and in search of a good DM. |
| 194 | ** Also, John Dolmayan, like Nicholas Cage, purchased an authentic copy of Action Comics #1 at an auction. And not only that, he is, in general, a huge comic books fan and, if Website/TheOtherWiki is to be believed, was involved in the founding of a comics publishing company. |
| 195 | * ''Music/LedZeppelin''. Do you doubt this? Listen to the song "The Battle of Evermore". For that matter, "Ramble On" specifically namechecks Gollum and Mordor. |
| 196 | ** Robert Plant (singer and lyricist) was into Tolkien as well as Celtic mythology. Guitarist Jimmy Page, on the other hand, liked the occult and Creator/AleisterCrowley. |
| 197 | ** Robert Plant even named his dog "Strider". |
| 198 | *** Before Led Zeppelin, Plant was in a band called "Hobbstweedle". |
| 199 | * Music/RobZombie is known for his encyclopedic knowledge of vintage films (particularly horror and exploitation films), television shows, comic books, manga, and anime; His film, ''WesternAnimation/TheHauntedWorldOfElSuperbeasto'', also seems to take some inspiration from Franchise/ScoobyDoo, Creator/RalphBakshi, and [[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow a certain 90's cartoon.]] |
| 200 | * According to an issue of ''Hit Parader'', Music/{{Slipknot}}/Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor is an avid comic book fanatic, especially of ''Spider-Man''. |
| 201 | ** He's also mentioned on Twitter that he's a fan of Website/ChannelAwesome. As of summer 2017, between trading tweets with WebVideo/DiamandaHagan, doing a promo video for WebVideo/{{Rocked}}, and meeting WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic himself while on tour, and filming a cameo while at his studio, it seems that the admiration is mutual. He even appeared, alongside his son, in the (controversial) ''Film/TheWall'' review in 2019. |
| 202 | * Lead singer of deathcore outfit Emmure Frankie Palmeri is a fan of ''Street Fighter,'' ''Naruto,'' and Marvel comics [[http://instagram.com/frankiepalmeri if his Instagram is anything to go by. (Some NSFW pics ahead).]] A lot of their songs reference this with names like "Demons with Ryu" and "Umar Dumps Dormammu." |
| 203 | ** Not only that but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csRhCdxCtlk his apartment is littered with anime posters and other merchandise]], including a fucking ''[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Yoko Littner]] waifu pillow''. |
| 204 | * George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, the lead singer for death-metal band Music/CannibalCorpse, has said, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW_Lv0r-l4c&fmt=18 "World of Warcraft is fuckin' life for me."]] |
| 205 | ** Notable enough to get an in-game character named after him. |
| 206 | ** And according to the "Centuries of Torment" DVD, he's a big ''Franchise/StarWars'' geek as well. Which makes him and Creator/MarkHamill voicing for ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' HilariousInHindsight. |
| 207 | * Everyone currently in Music/{{Aborted}} save for maybe JB qualifies, though Sven, in particular, is known for his love of video games and his near-encyclopedic knowledge of horror movies. |
| 208 | * Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder is a [[http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=54450 self-admitted]] JustForFun/OneOfUs. |
| 209 | ** One of the band's most popular songs is called "What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse", a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest''. |
| 210 | * Music/{{Anthrax}} are ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' fans and have appeared on-stage dressed as Judges and done a song entitled, appropriately enough, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rVFi6qkPHE I Am The Law]]'' [[FilkSong based on the comics.]] |
| 211 | * Music/{{Korn}}'s vocalist Jonathan Davis is or was a confessed ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' addict. He also made plans for a music celebrity-themed fighting game called ''Pop Scars'', which [[DevelopmentHell never got past preliminary development.]] Also, he's a big Literature/HarryPotter fan. |
| 212 | * Many PowerMetal bands are made up of massive geeks. For Music/BlindGuardian, this is especially true. |
| 213 | ** Blind Guardian frontman Hansi Kursch is ''very'' open about his fandom for fantasy literature and video games. He even has an entire song about ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' (both the novels ''and'' the video games) on the upcoming "The God Machine." |
| 214 | * Music/DreamTheater's John Petrucci is an avid gamer, and won't tour without his favorite console, the Sega Saturn. He actually composed some music for a Saturn game, as well. |
| 215 | * Music/{{Psychostick}} songs include a lot of [[TakeThat (usually negative)]] references to Facebook, Windows Vista, {{Award Bait Song}}s, [[MoffsLaw riffing on stupid movie plots]], email spam, and Creator/BruceCampbell. In one video, one of them is wearing a ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' T-Shirt. Their video for "Rent in Peace" features Creator/JamesRolfe, with whom they appeared in two episodes of his ''Rental Reviews'' series - appropriate, given that the song is a love letter to the video stores of old. |
| 216 | * Trey Azagthoth, guitarist for American death metal band Music/MorbidAngel, is also a fan of video games and anime. And if you think he's into gory stuff just because he's in a death metal band, you couldn't be more mistaken. One of his favorite animes is... ''Anime/SailorMoon!'' You haven't read wrong. |
| 217 | * Adam "Nergal" Darski from the DeathMetal band Music/{{Behemoth}} is a major history nerd. He studied history and mythology in college for 6 years and is licensed to be a museum curator. |
| 218 | * English Heavy Metal band Pyre, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edi8Dt17Abk and how]]. When they aren't singing about [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3cP1epKF4c Who]] or [[VideoGame/SupremeCommander Supreme]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pTfg13-bx0 Commander]], they're likely to be found making blogging references to [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog the works of]] [[Creator/JossWhedon Joss]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndo_njisUUg Whedon]] or tutorial videos for playing the [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 Cylon]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsYoAUbvXxU theme.]] |
| 219 | ** Subverted with their track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVSEDdAmpVU My God Carries A Hammer]], which songwriter Peter Chapman insists is about the Norse deity, not the [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Marvel character of the same name]], [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial and denies having read a comic in his life]]. |
| 220 | * Irish thrashers Gama Bomb are pretty big nerds, as evidenced by their writing songs about Final Fight and Robocop, among others. |
| 221 | * Arthur von Nagel of Music/{{Cormorant}} is known to have a Website/GameFAQs account. He also left the group on good terms to pursue a video game career with Creator/TelltaleGames. |
| 222 | * Music/{{Equilibrium}} are huge fans of Video Games and have released a song about ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' ("Die Affeninsel") and a cover of the main theme of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' named "Himmelsrand", the German name of Skyrim (the in-universe land, not the game). |
| 223 | * [[Music/CannibalCorpse Chris]] [[Music/SixFeetUnder Barnes]] is a huge fan of movies, often citing horror films as inspirations for some of his lyrics. He even has a column on his official Twitter called "Barnes Picks" where he goes out of his way to rate certain films he watches and share his opinions with fans. He also has a collection of over 600 [=DVDs=]. |
| 224 | * Music/MikePatton is said to be an avid gamer, which makes a lot of sense as he's done voice-work for games like ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'', ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', ''{{VideoGame/Portal}}'' and also as Nathan "Rad" Spencer in ''VideoGame/BionicCommando2009''. A short print interview in the early 90s focused entirely on his love for video games, and had him citing ''VideoGame/RoadRash'', ''VideoGame/SmashTV'' and ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' as his current favorites, as well as expressing a desire to one day compose music for a game. |
| 225 | ** He also is a big fan of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. Needless to say, he was more than happy when he got to sing a remake of the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 '87 version]]'s theme song for ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesShreddersRevenge'', actually getting to do music [[https://www.metalsucks.net/2021/03/10/mike-patton-sings-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-theme-song-for-arcade-game-reboot/ that his nieces can enjoy]]. |
| 226 | * Klayton of Music/{{Celldweller}} is an avid gamer, a ''massive'' ScienceFiction {{Geek}}, and quite interested in astronomy... oh, and he [[{{Understatement}} likes]] ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''. |
| 227 | * Music/TheProtomen's whole concept as a band is their avid love for Franchise/MegaMan. They've made two albums (a 3rd one on the way) that focuses on the backstory of Dr. Light and Wily and have incorporated the Megaman and Protoman helmets into their costumes. |
| 228 | * The entire album ''Matriarch'' by ''Veil of Maya'' has the songs named after female characters in various different media, including [[Franchise/AttackOnTitan Mikasa]], [[Manga/ElfenLied Lucy/Nyu]] and [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Daenerys]] |
| 229 | * Music/{{Sabaton}}: |
| 230 | ** The songs not about [[UnconventionalLearningExperience European military history]]? ''Shadows'', about [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the Nazgul]], and ''Birds of War'', about [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 the Chaos Marines]]. They're also huge ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' fans and [[http://www.sabaton.net/world-tanks-collaborates-swedish-heavy-metal-band-sabaton/ have announced]] the start of a collaboration with its publisher Wargaming. |
| 231 | ** Frontman Joakim Brodén has turned up in several ''WebVideo/SabatonHistory'' videos wearing a [[Franchise/StarTrek Starfleet Academy]] t-shirt. |
| 232 | * Jon Chang, vocalist of the grindcore bands Music/DiscordanceAxis and Gridlink, is a huge fan of science fiction, anime, and video games. He particularly likes ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', basing almost half the songs on the Discordance Axis album ''The Inalienable Dreamless'' on the show (albeit very [[WordSaladLyrics obliquely]]), and in general his lyrics are littered with references to obscure sci-fi novels and anime. He's even a published comic book author now, responsible for the graphic novel ''Black Powder, Red Earth'', about mercenaries in the Middle East. |
| 233 | * Neige of Music/{{Alcest}} has publicly expressed his admiration for anime films like ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' and especially the works of Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, to the point where the band's album ''Kodama'' is literally a concept album based ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', complete with animesque album artwork. |
| 234 | * Music/AvengedSevenfold are evidently fans of ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''. Their performance in the secret ending of ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII Black Ops II]]''? Not a promotional stunt. |
| 235 | * ''Music/DragonForce'' has videogame effects as a trademark in their music, and have admitted a passion towards videogames. They even named themselves after a video game. |
| 236 | * Music/BruceDickinson of Music/IronMaiden is a huge Creator/MontyPython fan, to the extent of singing the main title song on their documentary, ''Life of Python''. He and the band's LeadBassist Steve Harris are also fans of various media, as indicated by [[FilkSong all the songs written about books, movies and historical moments]]. |
| 237 | * Original Music/{{Death}} vocalist Kam Lee is a ''massive'' horror buff and tokusatsu fan. His official Facebook fan page is littered with images of his rather impressive collection of horror films and memorabilia, and he is certainly not afraid to share his opinions on the latest films he watches with his fans. He is also huge into '70s and '80s PunkRock, which he cites as a major influence on his post-Death musical projects. |
| 238 | * Music/OzzyOsbourne is a big Beatles fan, having cited them as the reason why he took up a musical career. Apparently, he even rescheduled an appearance on Creator/HowardStern's show so that he could meet Music/PaulMcCartney on the day that Paul was going to be on. He is also shown to be interested in history, particularly the Second World War as he was born a few years after the war's conclusion and has seen the destruction the war left on his hometown. |
| 239 | ** Fellow Music/BlackSabbath member Geezer Butler studied as an accountant which proved to be of practical use which resulted in him managing the band's finances in the early days. Geezer is also an avowed football fan, and is a lifelong supporter of the Aston Villa Football Club. |
| 240 | ** Bill Ward, the original drummer for Black Sabbath, is also very much into poetry, having posted his works on his social media pages. |
| 241 | * Anton Kabanen, the founder of Music/BattleBeast and Music/BeastInBlack, is a mega-fan of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': easily a third of his songwriting output is about it, including multiple songs about the Eclipse and a reference in "Hell for All Eternity" to the MissingEpisode of the manga. |
| 242 | * Tom Araya of Music/{{Slayer}} has admitted to singing CountryMusic songs to help keep his "singing chops up." |
| 243 | * [[Music/{{Megadeth}} Dave Mustaine]] is a big fan of ComicBook/ThePunisher, and has written several songs ("Holy Wars... The Punishment Due" and "Psychotron") about the character. He also once admitted to buying a [=PlayStation=] just so he could play the Punisher video game. |
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| 246 | [[folder:Punk rock artists]] |
| 247 | * [[Music/JohnLydon Johnny Rotten/John Lydon]] is a fan of Music/{{Can}}, Music/{{Magma}}, Music/VanDerGraafGenerator, Music/CaptainBeefheart and likes {{Reggae}}. Despite his infamous "I hate Music/PinkFloyd" t-shirt, he's actually a fan of the band, given his love of ProgressiveRock and KrautRock mentioned previously, and [[TheGadfly just wanted to provoke people]]. He bestowed the stage name of Pistols bandmate Sid Vicious partially out of homage to former Floyd frontman Music/SydBarrett. He also is a fan of Creator/OscarWilde: "His stuff was fucking brilliant. What an attitude to life!… He turned out to be the biggest poof on earth at a time when that was completely unacceptable. What a genius." |
| 248 | * Music/SidVicious said in a 1977 interview: "I like our music to listen to as much as I like Music/TheRamones to listen to. The Ramones are my favorite group, by the way." He also mentioned that he liked going to the "{{Reggae}} discos with massive sound systems and they were really good." He also acknowledged that he read comics mostly and only read horror books. In another 1978 interview Vicious specified he had a "large pile of Marvel comics" and mentioned that he "always liked Music/LouReed. [[Music/VelvetUnderground The Velvets]] came out when I was 10 and I loved that stuff." The singer professed liking the songs "Waiting For My Man", "Sister Ray" and "Kicks" in particular. Further in that same interview, he admits liking Music/DavidBowie and Music/BrianEno too. When the journalist told him that having a duo interview between Vicious and Reed might be a good idea Vicious answered: "I'd love to talk to Lou Reed. There's a lot of things I'd like to ask him." |
| 249 | ** He also seemed to like ''[[Magazine/{{MAD}} MAD Magazine]]'': [[http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/sid-vicious/images/31661731/title/sid-vicious-photo]] |
| 250 | * Music/TheRamones were notably proud that apart from the usual punks, their fanbase was made up of Freaks and Geeks, as their music wasn't as popular as the "big" rock acts of the time. A lot of their songs dealt with teenage alienation and they were notably freaks and geeks themselves (Though maybe not Johnny, though he was an anti-social outcast too). One of their most notable songs is ''Pinhead'', a general tribute to their fans that also pays respect to the film ''Film/{{Freaks}}'': ''Gabba, Gabba, We accept you, we accept you, ONE OF US!'' |
| 251 | ** Not to mention that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5P8lrgBtcU they covered the old Spiderman cartoon's theme song]] on at least one live album. You know, the "Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can!" theme song. Which is pretty nerdy. |
| 252 | ** In the video for ''"I Wanna Be Sedated"'', one member (was it Dee Dee?) spends the entire video reading ''X-Men'' comics. |
| 253 | ** There's also [[http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2zmy1J8q71qzknf0o1_400.jpg this picture]] of Joey posing next to a Franchise/KamenRider statue. |
| 254 | ** [[Music/TheRamones Joey Ramone]]'s favorite movie was ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein''. |
| 255 | * Dexter Holland, lead singer of the punk band Music/TheOffspring, handsome, blond, valedictorian from high school, master's degree in molecular biology, applied for a Ph.D. in the same field but turned it down in order to focus on his band. Years later, in 2017, he finally clinched the Ph.D. and [[http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll40/id/364391/rec/1 released a dissertation]] that can pave the way to cure HIV. |
| 256 | ** He's not the only punk rock science nerd. The most notable being Greg Graffin, lead singer of legendary punk act Music/BadReligion and a respected science professor at UCLA (he splits his time between the two). |
| 257 | ** Another person in this category would be Milo Aukerman of The Descendents: The album ''Milo Goes To College'' was so named because he had decided that once the album was finished, he'd take a few years off from the band to study Biology at the University of California. He now has a doctorate in biochemistry and splits his time between the band and his academic research. |
| 258 | * Apparently Music/GreenDay has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaeusGuPAGg discovered the internet]]. |
| 259 | * Music/PattiSmith is a huge fan of ''[[Magazine/{{MAD}} MAD Magazine]]'' and claimed "after "Mad" drugs were nothing." She also adores Creator/ArthurRimbaud, Creator/WilliamBlake, and Creator/WilliamSBurroughs so much that she referenced them a lot in her song lyrics. She also loves Creator/RobertMapplethorpe, a photographer who took some of the most famous pictures of her, including one on the cover of ''Music/{{Horses}}'', and they were close friends together. Smith also wrote lyrics for several songs by Music/BlueOysterCult and performed some of them personally. She's a fan of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', participated in a DVDCommentary track for ''[[TheMovie Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters]]'', and jumped at the chance to record a song for the end credits of the series' final episode. |
| 260 | * Music/DollSkin has a song called "Daughter", which is based on ''{{Film/Aliens}}'', one of drummer Meghan Herring's favorite movies. |
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| 263 | [[folder:Pop, Soul, R&B and Electronic musicians]] |
| 264 | * Say what you will about (the now late) Music/MichaelJackson, but his [[http://www.pinsane.com/pinorama/events/MJ_09/kr/michael_jackson_arcade_entry.html arcade collection]] is an impossibly wonderful sight to behold. |
| 265 | ** Not to mention he had almost every video game console known to man. He even had a [=PS2=] months before it came out, along with a [=PS3=] later on. |
| 266 | ** He was also a fan of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' in the 1990s and was even a composer for ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles''. While it's currently unknown if his music actually made it into the finished product, it's worth noting that many fans noticed similarities between his songs and the music of ''Sonic 3'' before his involvement was officially confirmed. |
| 267 | ** This was only part of Jackson's life-long association with Sega, which started with ''VideoGame/MichaelJacksonsMoonwalker'' (which only came to be because Nintendo didn't take the proposal for an NES adaptation) all the way to ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5 Part 2''. |
| 268 | ** Still on the subject of videogames, for years it was believed that he only lent his likeness to ''VideoGame/Ready2RumbleBoxing Round 2'', but as it turns out, he voiced himself too. He liked the original enough to ask Midway to put him in the sequel, and they did, along with Shaquille O'Neal (who is mentioned over in OneOfUs/AthleticEggheads). |
| 269 | ** Jackson admired Music/JamesBrown above any other musician on the planet and claimed he ''"learned everything from him"''. As a child, he let his mother call him, even if he was sleeping, whenever Brown was on TV so he could watch him perform. But he also loved Jackie Wilson, Music/LittleRichard, Music/DianaRoss, David Ruffin, The Isley Brothers, Music/TheBeeGees and Creator/SammyDavisJr. |
| 270 | ** The King of Pop was also a huge Creator/WaltDisney fan. He visited Disneyland countless times and even had the theme park characters visit his house. On his Neverland Ranch Disney songs could be heard everywhere. |
| 271 | *** Jackson had a particularly strong obsession with Peter Pan, both [[Literature/PeterPan the original novel]] and [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan the Disney adaptation]]. He named his entire ranch ''"Neverland"'', in reference to the book, and, like Peter Pan, wished to remain a child forever. When the film ''Film/{{Hook}}'' was in production, Jackson desperately tried to get the part of Peter Pan, but Spielberg never considered him, which really angered Jackson. |
| 272 | ** Jackson was also fond of Bart Simpson. This also explains why the otherwise reclusive pop star agreed to be a special guest voice in the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Stark Raving Dad" and why he anonymously wrote the song "Do the Bartman". |
| 273 | ** The King of Pop was also endeared by classical music, especially Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky, Music/AaronCopland, and Music/LudwigVanBeethoven. He also admired the {{paintings}} and {{sculpt|ures}}ings of Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti. |
| 274 | ** Naturally he also greatly admired Hollywood musicals and the dancing talents of Creator/FredAstaire and Creator/GeneKelly. The choreography in ''Film/WestSideStory1961'' inspired the music videos of "Beat It" and "Bad". He was also fascinated by Music/DianaRoss, Creator/GretaGarbo and Creator/ElizabethTaylor. |
| 275 | ** Jackson also felt Creator/BennyHill was incredibly funny and told this to a British journalist in the 1970s. When Jackson traveled England in the late 1980s and heard of Hill's declining health he visited him personally. |
| 276 | ** Jackson was also moved by ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''. He did the narration for the audiobook and CultSoundtrack of the film and had himself photographed next to E.T.'s animatronic robot. |
| 277 | ** Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s 1982 album ''Music/HotSpace'' is widely regarded as their weakest album [[DiscoSucks because of its heavy disco influence]], but Michael cited it as a major influence for his ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' album. |
| 278 | * Music/{{Madonna}} calls Music/PattiSmith, Music/{{Blondie|Band}}, Music/LedZeppelin, Music/TheSupremes, Music/{{Carpenters}}, and Music/DavidBowie her prime influences. She also adores Creator/BetteDavis, Creator/CaroleLombard, Creator/MarleneDietrich, Creator/RitaHayworth, Creator/MarilynMonroe and Creator/KatharineHepburn, Music/MyleneFarmer as well as the art of Creator/FridaKahlo, Creator/TamaraDeLempicka and Creator/AndyWarhol. Creator/SylviaPlath is her favorite author. In terms of dancers she admires Creator/MarthaGraham and Creator/RudolfNureyev. |
| 279 | ** She also said: "I love Music/PJHarvey. I think her lyrics are brilliant. She's real tortured and I'm drawn to tortured people." |
| 280 | * Music/EltonJohn is apparently a big fan of animated Disney films and he was very excited when he was asked to help with the music for ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''. |
| 281 | * Music/StevieNicks is a huge fan of ''Series/GameOfThrones''. |
| 282 | * Porter Robinson: where do we even ''begin?'' He's aware of and slightly good at ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'', has cited RPG games as an influence (particularly on his "Worlds" album), made the first prominent commercially-released song to use an English-language Music/{{Vocaloid}}, has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTcjiGu1a_E spliced a bit of]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Song of Storms]] into one of his songs live, and has used clips from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' as part of his visuals during live shows. And if that wasn't enough, he actually commissioned anime studio Creator/A1Pictures to do the video for his song "Shelter". |
| 283 | * Music/{{Moby}} is a big ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' fan, even recording his own version of the ''Mr. Plow'' song. An ''MTV Cribs'' episode showed that he even has in his house a framed picture of Homer drawn by Matt Groening for him. |
| 284 | * Music/ChristinaAguilera is a gamer and even has a mini-arcade in her house. She even loaned her image to a Nintendo ad for ''Tomodachi Life'' and adores playing the ''Super Mario'' and ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games. Plus, her son inherited her love of games by being a massive ''Minecraft'' fan. |
| 285 | * Music/{{Pink}} is a huge fan of Music/JanisJoplin and would love to portray her in a movie adaptation. |
| 286 | * Music/GnarlsBarkley performed for an MTV show in Star Wars Costumes. |
| 287 | * Canadian pop singer Music/{{Lights}} is a huge ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' player (she plays a Death Knight, which is rather funny given her image); she's written [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1b2UZ6ziVY an entire song]] that's discreetly about the game. The only line that will definitely tip you off if you know what it means is [[spoiler:"I'm not the hunter, I'm not the marked"]]. |
| 288 | ** She has a tattoo of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ-omMi-WMs a sword from World of Warcraft]] on her right arm. |
| 289 | * Basshunter's song "Vi Sitter i Ventrilo och Spelar [=DotA=]" ("We Sit in Ventrilo and Play [=DotA=]") (from the album ''LOL <(^^,)>'') is about ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The same album features "Boten Anna", a song about an IRC bot. |
| 290 | * Canadian electronic music artist Music/{{deadmau5}} might just be the nerdiest musician ever. He has a host of gaming related tattoos, including hearts from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', a Space Invader, a [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Creeper]], and even Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto's signature. He even owns a replica of the Master Sword and Hylian Shield, which proudly hangs on his wall. He also is a major internet nerd and a huge {{Troll}} and often quotes memes in his live stream. He even incorporates video game elements and graphics in his live shows. He also taught himself computer programming, web design, and programming, 3D modeling (which is the source for the mau5head he performs in), and flash animation, among other talents. |
| 291 | * Dutch hardstyle artist Headhunterz is very fond of using memes and is very happy to tell you that he "took an arrow to the knee". |
| 292 | ** He also made a ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' themed track, [[http://soundcloud.com/headhunterzmedia/headhunterz-dragonborn Dragonborn]], which he released as a freebie. |
| 293 | * It almost goes without saying that Music/WeirdAlYankovic is JustForFun/OneOfUs. The video for "White And Nerdy" alone has enough content to out-geek at least any two other examples on this list. That said, he's dropped enough hints in various appearances through the years that everyone knew decades before that video. Case in point: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU The Saga Begins]]", his retelling of ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' to the tune of "[[Music/DonMcLean American Pie]]". He released that song before the film premiered, and only had access to some parts of the script. Still, it turned out ''very'' accurate to the film. |
| 294 | ** Yankovic is also very fond of Hanna & Barbera cartoons it seems. He references them a lot in his music videos. He has also referenced comic strips and the comedy musicians that came before him: Music/SpikeJones, Creator/StanFreberg, Music/TomLehrer, Music/FrankZappa... |
| 295 | * NewAge singer Enya has a track titled "Lothlórien" from a good ten years before the ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies. (She also appeared on the [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing first film's]] soundtrack thereof.) |
| 296 | * The similarities to [[Manga/DeathNote Mello]] in {{Music/Madonna}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx0mYN32Kps Jump]]" video? [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_(Madonna_song)#Music_video They're intentional.]] |
| 297 | * Will "will.i.am" Adams of the Music/BlackEyedPeas had a C-list X-Men character written into ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' for him to play because if he couldn't play Nightcrawler, he wanted to be someone with the same powers. And really, even without the references to SF (including Transformers) in their lyrics, any group which has giant dancing mecha in their videos deserves to be on this list. |
| 298 | * The members of power pop band Music/{{Hellogoodbye}} are pretty big gamers, going as far as taking a mobile gaming rig with them on every tour. Keyboard and guitar player Joseph Marro wrote [[http://kotaku.com/5744102/hellogoodbyes-magic-gaming-box an editorial]] about it on Kotaku. |
| 299 | * Music/BrianEno once said he owned more albums by Music/FelaKuti than by any other artist and that he listened to him 'over and over again'. |
| 300 | * For a boy band, Music/{{NSYNC}} were pretty geeky. |
| 301 | ** They're diehard ''Star Wars'' fans, and George Lucas even invited them to film a cameo for ''Attack of the Clones'' as a gift to his daughters, which eventually got cut for legal reasons. Joey Fatone was practically beside himself when he got to see the world's largest collection of ''Star Wars'' merchandise. |
| 302 | ** Some of their early American concerts would open to them marching out to the Imperial March while in white fatigues and helmets similar to stormtroopers. |
| 303 | ** Coincidentally, [[http://www.whosay.com/status/lancebass/1055739 Lance Bass]]'s birthday also happens to be [[http://instagram.com/p/nlViyNxsS9/ May 4th]], the unofficial ''Star Wars'' day. He also considers himself a [[Franchise/HarryPotter Ravenclaw]]. |
| 304 | ** Joey is also a mega ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' nerd and owns a storage locker that contains all of the band's old merchandise and his Superman memorabilia. His former house in Orlando even had a room dedicated solely to Superman. |
| 305 | ** Much to fanboy rage, Lance was infamously the [[http://robots-and-cowboys.tumblr.com/post/160244821769/og-sephiroth-you-big-nerd original voice]] of ''Sephiroth'' in the first installment of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' before being replaced by Creator/GeorgeNewbern. He admits that no matter how hard he tried, he can't defeat the character. |
| 306 | ** They've even included a reference to ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' in their [[http://i.imgur.com/txYqgPr.jpg 2000 concert special.]] |
| 307 | ** Justin Timberlake allegedly had a custom gaming station built for him just so he could play ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. |
| 308 | ** They sampled the ''VideoGame/PacMan'' theme in their song "The Game is Over" and the live performance of the song on their [=PopOdyssey=] tour was them in a simulated video game battle against an evil wizard. |
| 309 | ** Joey and Chris have been convention guests and are not above [[http://fandomania.com/dragon-con-gets-in-sync-with-joey-and-chris/ discussing their geek passions.]] |
| 310 | ** Lance Bass's infamous attempt at space training is because he really is that nerdy about the subject. |
| 311 | * Music/JenniferLopez said in a 2009 interview that she watched ''Film/WestSideStory1961'' "37 times growing up", but: "I never wanted to be that wimpy Maria... I wanted to be Anita, who danced her way to the top." |
| 312 | * Music/TaylorSwift named her cats [[Series/LawAndOrderSVU Olivia Benson]] and [[Series/GreysAnatomy Meredith Grey]], which qualifies as kind of geeky even if the shows in question are mainstream. She's also, by her own admission, addicted to {{Website/Tumblr}}. |
| 313 | * Jade Thirlwall of Music/LittleMix is a massive ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' fan, occasionally quoting lines from the show in interviews and citing Bianca Del Rio as her favorite queen. |
| 314 | * Dubstep producers tend to have pretty nerdy tastes in media if their choice of vocal samples are of any indication. Midnight Tyrannosaurus, for example, has used samples from, among others, ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', and ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''... multiple times. |
| 315 | * Music/LadyGaga is a gamer, and seems to particularly enjoy ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}''. There were even talks of her playing the titular character in a live action movie, but for now, she has a music video for "Rain on Me" which contains many references to Bayonetta. |
| 316 | * Both members of Music/KnifeParty frequently play video games. Rob Swire, in particular, is a huge fan of ''Franchise/MegaMan'', while Gareth [=McGrillen=] likes ''Franchise/StarWars'' |
| 317 | * Music/ArianaGrande is a big fan of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''- she has admitted to playing ''[[VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee Pokemon Let's Go, Eevee!]]'' "for fifteen hours, honestly" on her day off, and she even has [[https://www.allure.com/story/ariana-grande-pokemon-tattoo-meaning an Eevee tattoo]]. |
| 318 | * In Music/{{Rihanna}}'s article in the August 2012 issue of ''Harper's Bazaar'', she talked about how, growing up, she watched [[HorrorFilms horror movies]] and ProfessionalWrestling, saying Wrestling/TheUndertaker was her favorite, which makes sense since Taker is a horror-themed wrestler. [[https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7423905/rihanna-cops-to-being-lifelong-star-trek-fan-watch She's also been a Trekkie since she was little.]] |
| 319 | * Chilli of Music/{{TLC}} is a huge fan of the Wrestling/{{WWE}}. She's been seen at live WWE shows on some occasions, including ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 28'', and appeared in a episode of ''WWE Countdown'' where she talked about Wrestling/TheRock. |
| 320 | * Music/DavidArchuleta is a huge fan of musicals--notably, watching ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' is what first got him interested in singing--and also video games like ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' and ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' and anime like ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. |
| 321 | * Music/{{Netta}}, winner of the 2018 Series/EurovisionSongContest, is a huge OccidentalOtaku and ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fan, and her winning song "Toy" contains the line "I'm taking my Pikachu home". |
| 322 | * Music/{{Skrillex}} named his record label, [=OWSLA=], after a term used in ''Literature/WatershipDown''. |
| 323 | * The Music/BackstreetBoys opened their Into the Millennium Tour concerts with their backing dancers marching onstage to the Imperial March from ''Star Wars''. |
| 324 | * Music/VanessaCarlton has stated that the title and concept of her 2011 album ''Rabbits on the Run'' were inspired by ''Literature/WatershipDown'' and the works of Creator/StephenHawking. |
| 325 | * 90s Aussie pop duo Music/SavageGarden were named after a phrase from ''The Vampire Chronicles'' by Creator/AnneRice, "Beauty was a Savage Garden". |
| 326 | * Music/KatyPerry has loved the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series as far back as ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''. For the series [[MilestoneCelebration 25th anniversary]], Katy worked with Gamefreak to create a song for the event. |
| 327 | * Music/LittleBoots is not only enough of a synth geek to make all her backings herself, she is also a Music/JeanMichelJarre fan to the point of having her own laser harp. She was eventually [[PromotedFanboy promoted]] into a collaboration by and with the man himself as part of his ''Electronica'' project. |
| 328 | * Music/{{Sia}} is a ''huge'' ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' fan, to the point where she has actually given money to her favorite players. |
| 329 | * Music/{{BTS}}: |
| 330 | ** The members are [[https://youtu.be/SpxmQMDahiU?t=44 huge anime fans]]. They even have a whole song named "Anpanman", based on the [[Literature/{{Anpanman}} character of the same name]]. Series they are fans of include Manga/{{Naruto}} (with all members singing and Naruto-running to the opening in a karaoke episode of ''WebVideo/RunBTS'') and ''Manga/OnePiece''. Jimin in particular started learning Kendo as a kid to be a swordsman like Zoro (with other members gifting him volumes of the series as presents), and RM references Whitebeard in "Cypher pt. 2". |
| 331 | ** Among the many anime series he has watched, V has mentioned being a fan of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', and has cosplayed as Syaoran Li from ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura''. Jungkook has similarly watched a bunch, favoring sports anime like ''Haikyuu!!'' and ''Manga/SlamDunk'' (with SUGA also being a huge fan of the latter). Jin, meanwhile, has mentioned loving ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}''. Both Jungkook, Jin and V have mentioned liking works by Studio Ghibli and Creator/MamoruHosoda. |
| 332 | ** The 2013 song "Attack on Bangtan" not only has an obvious reference to ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', but the beginning line "But what will happen if Bangtan Sonyeondan advances? [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Bang! Tan! So! Nyeon! Dan!]]" is ([[https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2019/05/09/attack-on-bangtan/ according to this translator]]) based on a [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dragoon-드라군 memetic scene]] from a 2005 Korean ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft}}'' comic. RM and j-hope in particular have mentioned liking ''Starcraft''. |
| 333 | ** RM is a huge Franchise/{{Pokemon}} fan and has referenced the franchise in "Intro: What Am I to You". His favorite is Dragonite - the interview linked above famously had RM frantically trying to explain his favorite Pokemon (of which he only knew its Korean name, Mangnanyeong). |
| 334 | ** The members [[https://youtu.be/gMw0aPMVgNc have mentioned liking or following esports]]. They all play ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' (Jin plays as Jhin), [[https://www.zoomtventertainment.com/korean/v-gives-a-peek-into-bts-gaming-sessions-can-you-guess-which-members-are-total-video-game-nerds-korean-entertainment-k-pop-news-article-89418466 have uploaded videos during group LoL sessions]], and played against South Korean esports team T1 for a ''Run BTS'' episode. |
| 335 | *** Jungkook himself is an avid ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' gamer - see [[https://twitter.com/bts_twt/status/1189798680397631489?lang=en this 2019 clip he recorded of himself]] playing as Widowmaker (which got him the attention of [[https://twitter.com/dpei_ow/status/1189805050232619008 some pro players]]); Jungkook and V have named South Korean Youtube players [=YulmuAppa=] and 각 as their favorite ''Overwatch'' players, respectively. |
| 336 | *** Additionally, V has played spontaneous matches of ''Sudden Attack'' and ''VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds'' with fans and has recommended other games such as ''VideoGame/ItTakesTwo''; Jin, also a videogame fan, has played Mario games since childhood and is a dedicated ''VideoGame/MapleStory'' player. |
| 337 | ** They've also made albums and songs based on literature, psychology and philosophy; ''WINGS'', for example, is structured after Hermann Hesse's ''Demian'' (with the music video of the title track and promotional short films containing excerpts of the book and references to Greek mythology, particularly the myth of Icarus), and the ''MAP OF THE SOUL'' series is based on Jungian theory. RM especially reads regularly and shares passages of books in social media, as well as pictures from his trips to art museums. |
| 338 | * Music/AliciaKeys' son Egypt, while on tour with her, played Giorno's Theme from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' on the piano. |
| 339 | * Music/JohnLegend is a longtime fan of ''Website/{{Neopets}}'', becoming the brand ambassador for the site's revamp in 2023. |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:Rappers and hip hop artists]] |
| 343 | ''See also: {{Nerdcore}}'' |
| 344 | |
| 345 | * Music/SouljaBoy likes ''Manga/DeathNote'' and ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. He made a song sampling Near's theme and made songs titled "Anime" and "Goku". He also likes ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', ''Anime/AfroSamurai'', ''Manga/CaseClosed'', and ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' according to his Website/{{Twitter}}. He also likes video games. He has a second career as a Twitcher streamer where he plays games like ''Call of Duty'', ''Runescape'', and ''Rogue Company'', and he's pretty good at it too. |
| 346 | * Music/TPain is a known fan of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''. |
| 347 | ** He has also rapped for ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' as Music/StevieWonder. |
| 348 | ** He has also done Let's Plays of games like ''Call of Duty'' and ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' in his spare time. |
| 349 | ** And [[https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/cyidt2/my_leroy_smith_from_tekken_7_cosplay/ cosplayed Leroy Smith from Tekken 7.]] |
| 350 | * Music/SnoopDogg has been a fan of the ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' series since the 1990s. Not only that, but he cameos in a Dogg-themed stage in ''Tekken Tag Tournament 2'', [[http://www.destructoid.com/e3-snoop-dogg-raps-in-his-tekken-tag-tournament-2-stage-228897.phtml complete with a song performed just for the game]]. |
| 351 | ** One particular [[https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/553084_10151353197369807_673332580_n.png image]] suggests that he is also a {{Webcomic/Homestuck}}. |
| 352 | ** He has also rapped for ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' as Moses. |
| 353 | ** He is also a huge ''Series/CoronationStreet'' fan. |
| 354 | ** He is also a big fan of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', which he was, in fact, an active follower of while the manga was still ongoing. Only days after the final chapter had been published, he shared this particular little treat on his Facebook and Instagram [[http://instagram.com/p/vO4jvVP9E4/]]. |
| 355 | ** He's also fairly knowledgeable about comic books if his song "Batman & Robin" is any indication. |
| 356 | * Music/CaptainDanAndTheScurvyCrew are pirate rappers, nerdy as that is, one of their songs was called [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Dead Mines]], it's about beating the shit out of [[McNinja the Defias Brotherhood]]. |
| 357 | * For a bunch of gangsta rappers, the rap group Slaughterhouse likes to reference ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' and comic books a whole lot in their lyrics. Joe Budden even compares himself to [[Franchise/StreetFighter E. Honda]] at one point in a song. |
| 358 | * It shouldn't surprise you that rapper Akira the Don is a fan of anime and comics - his album ''The Life Equation'' is a reference to Creator/JackKirby's ''ComicBook/NewGods'' story. What ''should'' surprise you is that album's opening track features spoken word narration from his good friend '''Creator/GrantMorrison'''. |
| 359 | * And of course, the entire genre of Nerdcore Rap. One of the best examples may be MC Frontalot's "It Is Pitch Dark", containing references to a substantial number of Creator/{{Infocom}}'s games. |
| 360 | ** MC Frontalot one-upped this by teaming up with [[VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing Jick]] to create a new quest in order to promote his latest album; the first ten players to complete the quest received a free copy of the CD. |
| 361 | * On the note of Underground Rappers, Random largely made a name for himself in the underground by making the ''Mega Ran'' and ''Mega Ran 9'' albums, which are based on (and sample the music tracks of) the ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' games. |
| 362 | ** On one of his newest albums, check out Epoch, as he namechecks just about every major game from the last twenty years over a slightly slowed down version of the Epoch music from Chrono Trigger. And For the Gamers, it's [[http://megarankmurdock.bandcamp.com/album/forever-famicom completely evident that he's one of us.]] |
| 363 | * Music/KanyeWest has worked geekiness into his music every now and then. The music video for "Stronger" contains shot-for-shot remakes of scenes from ''Manga/{{Akira}}.'' |
| 364 | ** The ''"Stronger"'' video also references the Creator/LeijiMatsumoto-produced anime-styled music video for Music/DaftPunk's ''"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,"'' also known as a segment of the movie ''Interstella 5555''. |
| 365 | ** Plus, Kanye mentioned that he used to make {{eroge}}s. |
| 366 | ** ''"Good morning, look at the valedictorian/Scared of the future while I hop in [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture the Delorean]]."'' -- From Kanye's track "Good Morning." |
| 367 | *** Speaking of "Good Morning", the music video was actually produced by anime studio OLM, the same one responsible for Pokemon and Berserk. |
| 368 | ** He's also a professed fan of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. |
| 369 | * Music/JayZ did an album called ''Kingdom Come'', and its title track references a whole host of superheroes. The idea came from one of the people in his studio, who was a comic book fan and was reading the comic book 'Kingdom Come', where Superman returns to teach the young superheroes how to follow in his footsteps (and comparing it to the state of hip-hop when Jay came back). |
| 370 | * Music/LupeFiasco is a dyed in the wool nerd and will casually drop references to things such as ''Franchise/LupinIII'', which he mentioned on Kanye's "Touch The Sky". He's also a big Harry Potter fan. |
| 371 | ** While we're on the subject of Fiasco, he has dropped lines that reference Excalibur, ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'', ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', Myth/RobinHood, Spider-Man (in the same verse)... his to-be-released song Army Girl samples a remixed ''Street Fighter'' track. There's even a picture of him dressed as Darth Vader (minus the helmet, plus a gold watch). Just look up "Darth Fiasco". |
| 372 | ** He's got Vader in the top left corner of a mixtape cover as well. |
| 373 | *** Speaking of covers, has anyone seen just what's on "Food and Liquor"? Among the floating stuff, he's got a Platform/NintendoDS and a ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' copy. And in the video for "I Gotcha", he's playing a classic joystick console. |
| 374 | *** A final thing to slap the Official Seal of Nerdiness: Everything you see on Food and Liquor? The DS, the games, the action figures...he said those were things he carried around every day. |
| 375 | ** Lupe also references ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' in his "Free Chilly" freestyle (not to be confused with the song on his "The Cool" album) with the following line: "I push ki like Dragon Ball Z, see what I'm [[StealthPun sayin']]." |
| 376 | ** His verse on "Don't Look Down" by fellow Musical Freak Music/KanyeWest is all about the departure of Phoenix from the ComicBook/XMen. |
| 377 | ** Lupe can be seen wearing a ''Anime/WickedCity'' t-shirt in his "Kick Push" music video. |
| 378 | * The RZA, of the Music/WuTangClan, is a gigantic comic book geek. Not only is there an entire chapter in ''The Wu-Tang Manual'' devoted to the influence of comics in the Wu-Tang mythos (actual quote: "When I started to form the Wu-Tang Clan -- around the end of my comics collection -- I stopped thinking of myself as ComicBook/SilverSurfer and I started to think I was ComicBook/{{Galactus}}"), he actually created his own superhero alter-ego, Bobby Digital, as whom he not only recorded multiple albums but ''actually strongly considered fighting crime as''. "I had the car and I had the suit. I was getting ready to go out at nighttime and right some wrongs. That was my plan -- like on some Green -Hornet shit." ''Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)'' is full of nerdy references, starting from the title, which is a reference to classical Kung Fu movie ''The 36 Chambers of Shaolin.'' In one song, the gang refers to the group as "Anime/{{Voltron}}, and RZA is the head". |
| 379 | ** The RZA is such an aficionado that he appears on the commentary track for ''Film/The36thChamberOfShaolin'' with a man who is credited as a "martial arts film expert", and yet the entire commentary is RZA making salient points and referencing obscure works that this "expert" has never heard of. RZA's passion and knowledge on the track is palpable, and really quite endearing. |
| 380 | ** The RZA is not the only comic geek in the Wu-Tang Clan. Method Man and Ghostface Killah often refer to themselves as [[ComicBook/GhostRider Johnny Blaze]] and [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Starks]], respectively. |
| 381 | *** Method Man has a whole library full of thousands of comic books. |
| 382 | ** The cover art for GZA's second album, Liquid Swords, was done by Denys Cowan (Batman, The Flash, Green Arrow, etc). |
| 383 | ** Ghostface Killah is a massive chess fan. Dude's pretty damn good. |
| 384 | ** Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and Method Man hired Chris Bachalo (X-men, Sandman, Death, Captain America, etc) to do no less than THREE different covers for their album "Wu-massacre". |
| 385 | * Pharrell Williams really does love sci-fi, cartoons, and Creator/CarlSagan. He is also a Trekkie, throwin' up the Vulcan Salute in various music videos and co-founding a record label named Star Trak Entertainment, as well as a group called N.E.R.D. |
| 386 | ** Here is the official anime-style music video to his song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZDBF0kei0 "It Girl"]]. |
| 387 | ** His tour rider actually [[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/backstage-rider/pharrell-williams-concert-rider-159073 includes a requirement that his dressing room must have a framed photo of Carl Sagan in it]]. According to him, this was originally added by his staff as an affectionate ribbing about his obsession, but he took to the idea right away because he finds the photos inspiring. |
| 388 | * In 2009, Music/{{Eminem}} was interviewed on Creator/JonathanRoss's chat show. Part of the interview was spent discussing the rapper's interest in (and cameo appearances in) comics. After the interview, Ross [[http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/6730/a5bb5da3623971426bfe183.png invited Eminem back to his house to look through his comic collection]]. Which, judging by what we saw in Creator/TheBBC's documentary on Creator/SteveDitko below, is rather extensive. He's also claimed that he dreamed of writing comics before becoming a rapper. He would eventually appear in a crossover with ComicBook/ThePunisher. |
| 389 | ** When asked about what video games he plays, his reply was "VideoGame/DonkeyKong [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]." He even posted a photo of his high score in the game which would have been within the top 30 in the world at the time. |
| 390 | ** Eminem is also clearly a fan of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. The song "The Kids" from ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'' is a {{homage}}, while his song "Love Game" directly references Wee-Bay from ''Series/TheWire'', his favorite TV show. |
| 391 | ** The rapper also seems fond of 1980s pop culture, as he is still referencing a lot of it even in the 2000s and 2010s, like his music video for "Rap God" where he models his look after ''Series/MaxHeadroom''. |
| 392 | * Rapper Music/WakaFlockaFlame claims that he will "Run up on his car have him eating shells like Mario Go Kart” in his song ''Karma'' |
| 393 | ** He also references [[Anime/DragonBallZ Goku]] in his verse on Machine Gun Kelly's "Wild Boy." |
| 394 | * Hip-hop violinist Music/LindseyStirling is a huge sci-fi and fantasy fan. She recorded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3KUyPKbR7Q a medley of songs]] from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' as well as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQiNVk_u0po&feature=related the main theme]] from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BSLPH9d-jsI theme from Skyrim]], as well as videos for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCL94-MsxYc Phantom of the Opera]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOg8Cz9yfWg Assassin's Creed]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVw8RxNvnxU Halo]]''(with pianist William Joseph), ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDsfou6UfjU Mission Impossible]]''(with The Piano Guys), ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oNpmSAvpGQ Game of Thrones]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQb2axKpuw Star Wars]]''(the last two with Peter Hollens). And all the times in those videos that she appears in costume? Yeah, she made those. She's a cosplayer. |
| 395 | * In addition to his single "Yeah 3X" (which sounds like it came from an 8-bit game, and has a drawing of an anime character on the cover), Chris Brown has been spotted wearing [[http://turbo.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2010/08/chris-brown-kirby.jpg this]]. |
| 396 | * Underground rapper Charles Hamilton is an absolutely ''massive'' ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fanboy, to the point where he regularly wears Sonic paraphernalia, he's created an alter ego for himself called Sonic the Hamilton, and he's devised an entire philosophy around the character. |
| 397 | * According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yheoOn-mbZc this interview]] with Complex Magazine, critically acclaimed hip-hop artist Music/KendrickLamar is a fan of classic cartoons, ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. He is also apparently a fan of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' as evidenced by his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZW7et3tPuQ music video]] for Backstreet Freestyle. |
| 398 | * If Twitter is to be believed, Music/IceT is something of a [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18854_the-5-most-shocking-celebrity-twitter-feeds_p2.html hardcore gamer]]. |
| 399 | ** That is correct, he did an interview with an X-Box magazine about it. |
| 400 | * Wyclef Jean and Music/LaurynHill (Music/TheFugees) are both huge admirers of Music/BobMarley. |
| 401 | * Music/TupacShakur was a huge [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] fan during his lifetime. |
| 402 | * Music/DelThaFunkeeHomosapien is another fantastic example from the rap world. Gaming is a common subject in his raps, but in the song "Proto Culture", he talks about getting calluses from playing ''Asteroids'', using the Power Glove, not being able to beat the original ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' because his mom wouldn't answer the phone, owning the first issue of Nintendo Power with maps of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'', bragging about his collection of rare Sega games, playing ''VideoGame/BushidoBlade 2'' and ''VideoGame/{{Tenchu}}'', the output of Creator/{{Capcom}} and {{Creator/SNK}}, importing ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' from Japan, killing cops in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' and getting a Platform/SegaDreamcast before anyone else did. Unsurprisingly, this track and so many others use a lot of video game samples. |
| 403 | ** He stated specifically in interviews that the inspiration for his concept album Deltron 3030 was the premise of Mega Man X: Himself, updated to a futuristic reality. |
| 404 | *** Said album includes shouts out to ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'', Neo-Tokyo, and several programming languages. |
| 405 | * Alternative hip-hop band Music/DeathGrips are very knowledgeable, and at times downright obsessed, with the seedier, weirder side of the internet, and maintain lots of contact with their fans via ImageBoards. MC Ride namedrops 4chan's /mu/ board in the song "Fuck That", and their second album ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' was given a AlternateRealityGame based around both /mu/ and the Tor-based so-called "deep web", run entirely by the band members themselves. They even responded to a fan's question asking if they would accept [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Bitcoins]] as a payment method for their album. [[http://twitter.com/DeathGripz/status/239228230580711425 They said yes.]] |
| 406 | * Underground rapper Music/{{MF DOOM}} was quite possibly one of the most obvious cases. His main persona was basically a hip-hop version of Doctor Doom, almost never appearing without a metallic Doom mask. Nerdy references got dropped in his lyrics throughout, including (but certainly not limited to) ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros, Franchise/StarTrek, VideoGame/DonkeyKong'', loads and loads of comic book series, ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}, Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'', and so on. Hell, he even used some samples from video games and animated series. |
| 407 | ** Let's not forget DANGER DOOM's album ''The Mouse and the Mask'', which is basically a rap album version of A.T.H.F., including appearances by the cast of the show and special guests like Harvey Birdman and Space Ghost. We even get to hear Meatwad rap a verse from Doom's song "Beef Rap." |
| 408 | * Christian rapper KJ-52 could almost be considered a {{Nerdcore}} emcee due to his ProudToBeAGeek status and references to old school video games, ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' and other decidedly nerdy things. |
| 409 | * Music/BeastieBoys are all big fans of Music/LeeScratchPerry and have him sing a track on "Dr. Lee Ph.D." on ''Music/HelloNasty''. |
| 410 | ** It has been told that they played a lot of video games in preparation of ''Music/IllCommunication''. |
| 411 | * Logic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPY4BD8IzI has rapped over]] "Corridors of Time" from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' and titled a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoHKgj0zsTY mixtape track]] after ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''. |
| 412 | * Music/InsaneClownPosse are ''HUGE'' wrestling fans, having run their own promotion, Wrestling/JuggaloChampionshipWrestling, since 1999, wrestled for years in the independents under a variety of names, and also wrestled for Wrestling/{{WWE}}, Wrestling/{{WCW}} and [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]]. They've also referenced wrestling several times in their songs. |
| 413 | * Music/MeganTheeStallion is a huge anime fan, once wearing [[https://i.redd.it/qk4gqd6lw8f31.jpg an outfit]] heavily inspired by [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Shoto Todoroki]] for a photoshoot. She also referenced [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Sasuke]] in her song "Girls in the Hood". Her other anime favorites include ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', ''Manga/BlackClover'', and ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. |
| 414 | * Sisqo of Dru Hill is a big gamer: He named his son Ryu and constantly tweets about games he's playing (a May 2020 tweet thanked Platinum Games for sending him a copy of ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101''). |
| 415 | -->'''Mya''': ''[on Sisqo's gaming habit]'' He'll forget to eat if you don't remind him. |
| 416 | * Ski Mask the Slump God is a big anime fan, referencing ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' in his songs "Lost Souls" (which also mentions ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'') and "New Age Chip Skylark". His [[https://twitter.com/THESLUMPGOD/status/1408243174858842114 top five anime]] are ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100'', ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', and ''Manga/BlackClover''. |
| 417 | [[/folder]] |
| 418 | |
| 419 | [[folder:Reggae]] |
| 420 | * Music/BobMarley admired Music/CurtisMayfield, to the point of directly quoting from a song of The Impressions in "One Love". He was also interested in Music/TheBeatles, Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} and Music/BobDylan. He also said to a reggae fanzine that he'd love to sit down with Music/StevieWinwood and in his own words, "pick his brain on music". |
| 421 | * Music/LeeScratchPerry has a love for Music/JamesBrown. |
| 422 | [[/folder]] |
| 423 | |
| 424 | [[folder: World Music]] |
| 425 | * Music/FelaKuti was a huge fan of jazz and Music/JamesBrown, which shouldn't surprise anyone. But when asked whom he considered his most favorite musician of all time he gave an unexpected answer, given how much he railed against western culture: Music/GeorgeFredericHandel! |
| 426 | * Brazilian Gilberto Gil has said that meeting Music/FelaKuti in real life changed his life: "I felt I was a tree replanted and able to flourish". |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | [[folder:Other (artists that need to be sorted out and categorized)]] |
| 430 | * Music/AllTimeLow frontman Alex Gaskarth is a ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' fan and his Twitter account contains a few gems of geekiness, including a pickup line involving ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''. Also, the background image for his profile is of WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet. |
| 431 | * Creator/AndrewLloydWebber turns out to be a huge board-game fan. In the book ''Dice Men'', according to Creator/GamesWorkshop founder Ian Livingstone. Andrew approached GW with an idea about making a board game about insurance. It would later become GW product ''Calamity''. |
| 432 | * Acoustic guitarist Music/AndyMckee owns a Wii, a 360 and quite a few PC games. He absolutely loves ''{{VideoGame/Tribes}}''. Video Games and guitar are apparently the only two hobbies he has. |
| 433 | * [[Music/{{Ayreon}} Arjen Anthony Lucassen]]. All songs on the two Star One albums are inspired by {{scifi}} films. The first album takes its inspiration from movies set in space, while the second gets its inspiration from [[AfterTheEnd post apocalyptic]] and {{Dystopia}}n movies. |
| 434 | * Ed Robertson from Music/BarenakedLadies is a gamer and a fan of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''. He even worked with Creator/RoosterTeeth when he voiced Captain Butch Flowers on ''Red vs. Blue'' and played the title role in Captain Dynamic, a promotional series for ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''. |
| 435 | ** Plus, the band got Creator/RoosterTeeth to do some {{P|ublicServiceAnnouncement}}SAs for use during a tour. |
| 436 | ** Ed is also a die-hard {{Pinball}} fan who regularly attends expos and hangs out on the [[https://pinside.com/pinball/forum Pinside.com forums.]] The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_lRI5-Qzp8 music video]] for "Silverball" -- which features nearly a dozen pinball machines -- was filmed in Ed's basement with his games. |
| 437 | * Music/BradPaisley has made his nerdiness known on "Online" and "Welcome to the Future", among others. The video for "Start a Band" also makes several (accurate) ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' references. |
| 438 | * Chris Barretto, vocalist of Monuments and Ever Forthright (as well as being a former vocalist of Periphery), is a massive fan of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', claiming the show as one of his main inspirations for the story of The Amanuensis. Not only is this the case, but the song "Horcrux" and the part of the storyline told in that song is very much a ShoutOut to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' (the main character has to deliver a piece of himself to the gatekeepers of the Garden of Sankhara in order to proceed on his quest). He also has a tattoo of a Dalek from ''Series/DoctorWho''. |
| 439 | * Music/MatthewSweet was an anime fan before it was popular. His 1991 music video "Girlfriend" was composed almost entirely of scenes from ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra''. Lum from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' (whom he reportedly has a tattoo of) was featured prominently in his "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz7qj3MteS0 I'll Be Waiting]]" video. |
| 440 | ** "Evangeline" is a song about the eighties independent comic of that name - specifically, it's a song about the title character from the viewpoint of another character, Jonny Six. |
| 441 | * Music/YoshikiHayashi likes fashion, Music/{{KISS}}, HeavyMetal, Korean pop, ''Manga/OnePiece'', ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', and ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''. |
| 442 | * Music/{{Sugizo}} is a sci-fi fan. |
| 443 | * John Mayer once dropped over $1,700 on a rare unopened [[Franchise/StarWars Boba Fett]] action figure. Mayer has said he isn't even a collector of action figures and bought it on impulse. |
| 444 | * Singer and musical artist Music/UtadaHikaru is an avid fan of ''Tetris'', and is quite skilled at it too. She was invited to an official ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}} DS'' tournament, and after an obvious case of DamnYouMuscleMemory in her first two matches, she managed to win 26 of the following 28 matches for an overall 26-4 record. |
| 445 | * [[http://twitter.com/TheMandyMoore/status/2346006722 This entry]] on Mandy Moore's Twitter page is cause for a certain degree of optimism... |
| 446 | ** Oh, she's got a weirdo streak a mile wide. She covered New-Wavey XTC at one point and is a big fan of outsider musician Jandek. She just had really good handlers back when her career was peaking. Now that's she married to crazy country singer Ryan Adams (himself an avid 80's gamer), she probably doesn't care anymore. |
| 447 | * Not an exactly well-known personality, but it's still worth mentioning Disarmonia Mundi harsh vocalist Claudio Ravinale once posted a thread on the band's message board about [=MMORPGs=]. [[http://forums.hmas.org/showthread.php?t=13641 See for yourself]]. |
| 448 | * Music/JoeSatriani, whose music includes references to ''Franchise/StarTrek'' ("Borg Sex", "Party on the Enterprise", which, after legal discussion regarding samples of sound FX from the Enterprise fell through, was renamed "Crowd Chant"), Creator/KurtVonnegut ("Ice 9"), the ComicBook/SilverSurfer ("Surfing With The Alien", "Back To Shalla-Bal", and "The Power Cosmic 2000", as well as his custom Ibanez with a bas-relief of the Silver Surfer from the album cover of Surfing With the Alien.), and space travel ("Redshift Riders", based on "the idea that in the future, when people can travel throughout space, they will theoretically take advantage of the cosmological redshift effect so they can be swung around large planetary objects and get across the universe a lot faster than normal."). He also has a song about a giant robot that learns to rock. |
| 449 | * Eddie Argos, the lead singer of Art Brut, is a huge Creator/DCComics fan, especially ''ComicBook/BoosterGold''. There was an interview with him on the radio during which he and the host started geeking out over upcoming comics for like five minutes. |
| 450 | * Tony Kakko of Music/SonataArctica is a ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' player. In fact, he got the idea for the title of the Sonata Arctica album ''The Days of Grays'' from one of his guild members. |
| 451 | * Ronni Le Tekro, guitarist of Music/{{TNT|Band}} is a fan of ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', even collaborating with a choir in performing music from the series. It should be noted he hates ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' however. |
| 452 | * Music/MachinaeSupremacy is quite possibly the only band that rivals Blind Guardian in geekiness. Their songs tend to sit in three camps. The first is a political camp that attacks the RIAA and those who blindly allow corporate corruption to affect music and art. The second is based on various pieces of media with songs based on ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' ("The Wired"), ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' ("Missing Link"), ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' ("Loot, Burn, Rape, Kill, Repeat") and ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' ("Return to Snake Mountain") among others. The third camp is covering famous pop songs simply because it's [[RuleOfFunny funny.]] Their work has been featured prominently in ''VideoGame/InTheGroove'' and they wrote and performed the soundtrack to the indie game Jets N Guns. To top it all off, they happily avert DigitalPiracyIsEvil and are proud supporters of The Pirate Bay in their ongoing legal battle. |
| 453 | ** Given the fact that they have songs named ActionGirl and Crouching Camper, Hidden Sniper, there's a good chance that at least one member of the band is a troper. |
| 454 | * Of Music/{{Disturbed}}, David Draiman is an avid gamer, saying his all-time favorite is the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series. Also, the band liked ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' enough to choose Todd [=McFarlane=] for their ''Ten Thousand Fists'' album artwork, then later to {{animate|dMusicVideo}} the video for their cover of "Music/LandOfConfusion". They later went seeking out the former Top Cow artist David Finch to design the artwork for ''Indestructible''. They also once commissioned [[http://www.raymondswanland.com/Pages/Gallery01.html Raymond Swanland]] for ''Asylum'', popular with Creator/DarkHorseComics and TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering illustrations. On that note, [[http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/calendar/gamewithfame/2008/0630-disturbed.htm the band has their own]] [[http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/calendar/gamewithfame/2010/0826-disturbed.htm gamer tag on Xbox Live]] to invite fans to gaming sessions. |
| 455 | ** He also has three degrees in Business Administration, Philosophy, and Political Science. |
| 456 | * Charlie Simpson, singer of Fightstar (as well as Busted), is a huge [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Eva]] fan and made several songs about it. |
| 457 | * The j-rock band Bump of Chicken are avid gamers and anime fans, to the point that they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOH55740R4 wrote a song]] about [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]]. |
| 458 | ** They also performed the song "Karma" for the ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' anime opening. It can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRU1XbLGQK0 here]]. |
| 459 | ** Not to mention their song "Hello, World!" being featured as the opening for ''Kekkai Sensen'', one of the biggest series in the Spring 2015 season. |
| 460 | * Tim Stevens from {{Music/Grottomatic}} grew up on Nintendo, ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes,'' and ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes.'' He is a huge fan of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, ''Series/DoctorWho, WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents, WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender, {{Series/Psych}}, WesternAnimation/GravityFalls, WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder,'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic.'' He has even written songs for some of these titles. |
| 461 | ** He was a fan of ''Franchise/StarWars'' as a child, but he lost interest shortly after seeing ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith.'' He still watched ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' just because "it's just something that everyone will see." |
| 462 | * ''The X Factor'' winner Leona Lewis based one of her tours around ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''. |
| 463 | ** She also happens to be a big fan of the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' and ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series (even providing the EndingTheme for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', "My Hands".) |
| 464 | * Hayley Williams of {{Music/Paramore}} has cosplayed as [[Anime/BloodTheLastVampire Saya]] and [[Anime/ErgoProxy Re-l]] during performances. |
| 465 | ** She has also professed a love for zombie-themed video games and is a fan of professional wrestling. |
| 466 | * Turkish singer Oğuzhan Koç. If you can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7XnDM2Bb9Y create a catchy, crowd-pleasing tune]] based off of nothing more than [[Franchise/StreetFighter a ball of fire thrown from the hands of a wandering Japanese hobo, then you easily qualify. One can only wonder what would have happened if he was there on ''Çok Güzel Hareketler Bunlar'' for the actual ''Street Fighter''-themed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahVvJ0Alm-s episode.]] |
| 467 | * Music/JonathanCoulton, who is practically the physical embodiment of this trope. |
| 468 | * Music/ChrisWebby is obsessed with ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' and has the [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Autobots emblem]] tattoed on his chest. |
| 469 | * Music/JasonMraz seems to be something of a gamer. The lyrics for ''The Dynamo of Volition'': |
| 470 | --> VideoGame/KidIcarus on the transistor |
| 471 | --> Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s been givin' me the blisters. |
| 472 | ** He also added a ''Manga/KOn'' sample twice in his song "Try Try Try" for no real reason. |
| 473 | * Music/EmilieAutumn is a huge ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan and wants to play the main theme live someday. She's also a bookworm, and really knows her literature. |
| 474 | * Music/EscapeTheFate are all huge fans of Franchise/{{Halo}}. "The Guillotine" and "This War Is Ours (The Guillotine Part Two)" are both about said game franchise. |
| 475 | ** But this could just make them gamer-bros. |
| 476 | ** M. Shadows is actually appearing in an upcoming documentary about competitive gaming called "Die Noobs". |
| 477 | * Music/ChristinaGrimmie to the point where her Website/YouTube username is called [[[[https://www.youtube.com/user/zeldaxlove64 zeldaxlove64]]. She also put NES sounds in her song "Counting." And that doesn't even touch the fringe of her JustForFun/OneOfUs-ness. She also hosted a game review series on Disney's Website/YouTube gaming channel. |
| 478 | ** She was also a ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' fan. When she was killed in June 2016, the manga's author Sui Ishida [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2016-06-13/sui-ishida-draws-tribute-to-christina-grimmie-after-her-death/.103174 drew a tribute to her]]. |
| 479 | * Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence's members are geeks through and through. |
| 480 | ** Their first album, ''Tight,'' was mixed on an Atari computer. |
| 481 | ** One of the songs from Jimmy Urine and Steve, Righ?s' side project, The Left Rights, is titled "Genesis 16:12." It's a giant homage to the 16 bit gaming era, and the console wars. Another song, titled "I Like The Smell of My Amiga," with its heavily digitized vocals, is possibly a reference to Amiga computers. |
| 482 | ** They wrote a comic book detailing various crazy stories from past tours. |
| 483 | * [[Music/{{Space}} Tommy Scott]] collects sci-fi movie figurines and shops at Forbidden Planet. His bandmate Franny Griffiths is an avid gamer - he once stated that the best present he'd ever received from a fan is a ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' game, and he's also into ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and ''Pro Evolution Soccer''. |
| 484 | * Music/OwlCity declared in his Twitter he is a ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fan. |
| 485 | * Music/RebeccaBlack is an adorable person, and according to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwSflBfu_Nc this video]], she is also a youtube fan. |
| 486 | * Music/HeatherDale is a longstanding bard for the UsefulNotes/SocietyForCreativeAnachronism and a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho''. |
| 487 | * Music/{{Zomby}} has revealed himself to be a fan of {{vaporwave}}, putting together mixes that include tracks by popular (in the community at least) vaporwave artists, such as HKE and Infinity Frequencies, and has even gone so far as to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCqtMz1BnI remix a Nmesh track]] for his album with t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者, ''The Path to Lost Eden''. |
| 488 | * Sunny of Music/GirlsGeneration used to play Starcraft, and her fellow group member (and leader) Music/{{Taeyeon}} watches ''Anime/AttackOnTitan''. |
| 489 | * Look at and listen to [[https://youtu.be/jDomHPEq9OE Juliette]]. Would you guess that she is a ''huge'' gamer, from ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' and ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis'' to ''VideoGame/CitiesSkylines'' and ''VideoGame/ThisWarOfMine'', and was even promoted to preside over the French public fund for video games ? |
| 490 | * The members of Music/ManOrAstroMan's iconic 1990s lineup were huge fans of Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000, and the admiration seemed to be mutual during the Joel era. |
| 491 | * Filipina singer and musical actress, Creator/LeaSalonga, is a huge fan of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', ''Series/{{Westworld}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', and enjoys playing ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed''. |
| 492 | * Geoff Wigington of Music/{{Waterparks}} loves ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'', ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', and Creator/{{Nintendo}} in general, he's also been seen wearing ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' and ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' merch. During a Kerrang Reader Interview, when they were asked about their chances of beating the ex-bassists in the "Gloom Boys" video, Geoff gave us this gem when the band was in the process of answering: "If you're confident you can boost your stats at least 10 points in a fight." Must be a StatusBuff. He even goes to conventions! |
| 493 | ** Awsten Knight has more of a casual interest in stereotypically nerdy things, but is a blatant music fanboy with other interests in horror movies and network comedies like ''Series/TheOfficeUS''. He's previously responded to a question about "Marvel or DC" with "Which one's Spider-Man?" and explained that his experience with PC games ended when he failed to cook the shrimp on the tutorial island in ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}''. He's also been very supportive of fanworks of various kinds made for Waterparks. |
| 494 | * In addition to signing onto ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' and releasing singles called "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper" and "Adventures of the Love Crusader," Sarah Brightman is extremely into space, [[https://www.facebook.com/SarahBrightmanMusic/photos/pcb.775749292477472/775749225810812/?type=1&theater hanging out with Buzz Aldrin]]; meeting her current partner, an aeronautics engineer, through the mutual interest in space; and, in 2014, paid $52 million dollars for a spot on a tri to the International Space Station, spending several months at NASA and in Russia training in zero-g simulators. However, the trip ultimately fell through. |
| 495 | ** She'd also released an album in 2013 tying in with the space theme, called ''Dreamchaser''. |
| 496 | * Music/ToshimitsuDeyama: The English-speaking fandom of figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu often joke that no matter how much of a [[FanCommunityNickname fanyu]] you are, you can't be more of a fanyu than [=ToshI=]. He collaborated with Hanyu for two of the skaters' programs during Fantasy on Ice - ''Crystal Memories'' and ''[[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Masquerade.]]'' He stayed up the night before the event to make a bedazzled Franchise/WinnieThePooh shirt (Hanyu's GoodLuckCharm) and tweeted often about Hanyu's competitions. He coined the nickname "Yuzu-numa" (Yuzu swamp) because once you get into the fandom, you can't get out. |
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