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** [[{{Yandere}} Kayo Sudō]], a VillainProtagonist character in ''Music/EvilliousChronicle''. When written in East Asian order, her name sounds similar to ''stalker yo'' - "I am a stalker".
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** [[{{Yandere}} Kayo Sudō]], a VillainProtagonist character in ''Music/EvilliousChronicle''.''Music/EvilliousChronicles''. When written in East Asian order, her name sounds similar to ''stalker yo'' - "I am a stalker".
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* The title of Music/{{Vocaloid}} song ''Rainbow Girl'' seems like WordSaladTitle, but "rainbow" is ''niji'' in Japanese, which is also a shortening of ''nijigen'' -- literally "2D", it is a slang term for {{Moe}} anime and other forms of media (such as video games) that are drawn in similar style, and girls who appear in them.
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* Punk rock band The Dwarves seem to have a tradition of members picking punny stage names, especially risque ones: Aside from Blag Dahlia [[note]](after "the Black Dahlia", a press nickname for murder victim Elizabeth Short)[[/note]] who [[IAmTheBand arguably is The Dwarves]], members have included [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAire The Fresh Prince]] of Darkness, [[Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge Rex Everything]], Wreck Tom, and Clint Torres. Nick Oliveri is apparently pretty fond of the Rex Everything pseudonym, and has used it for other projects - even the album ''Leave Me Alone'' by Nick Oliveri's Uncontrollable lists Rex Everything as a special guest performer as though he were a separate person from Nick for a CreditsGag.
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* Punk rock band The Dwarves seem to have a tradition of members picking punny stage names, especially risque ones: Aside from Blag Dahlia [[note]](after "the Black Dahlia", a press nickname for murder victim Elizabeth Short)[[/note]] who [[IAmTheBand arguably is The Dwarves]], members have included [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAire [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir The Fresh Prince]] of Darkness, [[Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge Rex Everything]], Wreck Tom, and Clint Torres. Nick Oliveri is apparently pretty fond of the Rex Everything pseudonym, and has used it for other projects - even the album ''Leave Me Alone'' by Nick Oliveri's Uncontrollable lists Rex Everything as a special guest performer as though he were a separate person from Nick for a CreditsGag.
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* Punk rock band The Dwarves seem to have a tradition of members picking punny stage names, especially risque ones: Aside from Blag Dahlia [[note]](after "the Black Dahlia", a press nickname for murder victim Elizabeth Short)[[/note]] who [[IAmTheBand arguably is The Dwarves]], members have included [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAire The Fresh Prince Prince]] of Darkness, [[Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge Rex Everything]], Wreck Tom, and Clint Torres. Nick Oliveri is apparently pretty fond of the Rex Everything pseudonym, and has used it for other projects - even the album ''Leave Me Alone'' by Nick Oliveri's Uncontrollable lists Rex Everything as a special guest performer as though he were a separate person from Nick for a CreditsGag.
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* Punk rock band The Dwarves seem to have a tradition of members picking punny stage names, especially risque ones: Aside from Blag Dahlia [[note]]after [[note]](after "the Black Dahlia", a press nickname for murder victim Elizabeth Short[[/note]] Short)[[/note]] who [[IAmTheBand arguably is The Dwarves]], members have included The Fresh Prince of Darkness, [[Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge Rex Everything]], Wreck Tom, and Clint Torres. Nick Oliveri is apparently pretty fond of the Rex Everything pseudonym, and has used it for other projects - even the album ''Leave Me Alone'' by Nick Oliveri's Uncontrollable lists Rex Everything as a special guest performer as though he were a separate person from Nick for a CreditsGag.
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** Music/HatsuneMiku's name is often referred to in shorthand among Japanese fans as "39". This is because one way to pronounce the number 3 is "mi", and one way to pronounce the number 9 is "ku", hence if you put those numbers together, they can be read as "miku". [[note]]On a side note, the standard way to pronounce 3 is "san", and the standard way to pronounce 9 is "kyu", which when put together sounds like "thank you".[[/note]]
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* {{Music/Sakanaction}}'s name is a pun on "sakana" (the Japanese word for "fish") and "action". One of their albums, ''[=DocumentaLy=]'', is a pun on "documentary" and "mental", doubling as tongue-in-cheek {{Engrish}}.
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* Coupling this with XMakesAnythingCool, the bands Music/{{INXS}} - "in excess" - and Music/{{XTC}} - "ecstasy".
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* Punk rock band The Dwarves seem to have a tradition of members picking punny stage names, especially risque ones: Aside from Blag Dahlia [[note]]after "the Black Dahlia", a press nickname for murder victim Elizabeth Short[[/note]] who [[IAmTheBand arguably is The Dwarves]], members have included The Fresh Prince of Darkness, Rex Everything, Wreck Tom, and Clint Torres. Nick Oliveri is apparently pretty fond of the Rex Everything pseudonym, and has used it for other projects - even the album ''Leave Me Alone'' by Nick Oliveri's Uncontrollable lists Rex Everything as a special guest performer as though he were a separate person from Nick for a CreditsGag,.
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* Punk rock band The Dwarves seem to have a tradition of members picking punny stage names, especially risque ones: Aside from Blag Dahlia [[note]]after "the Black Dahlia", a press nickname for murder victim Elizabeth Short[[/note]] who [[IAmTheBand arguably is The Dwarves]], members have included The Fresh Prince of Darkness, Rex Everything, Wreck Tom, and Clint Torres. Nick Oliveri is apparently pretty fond of the Rex Everything pseudonym, and has used it for other projects - even the album ''Leave Me Alone'' by Nick Oliveri's Uncontrollable lists Rex Everything as a special guest performer as though he were a separate person from Nick for a CreditsGag,. CreditsGag.
* Music/PaulMcCartney: The 1973 Wings single "Helen Wheels", which sounds like "hell on wheels", and even includes it in the lyrics.
* Music/PaulMcCartney: The 1973 Wings single "Helen Wheels", which sounds like "hell on wheels", and even includes it in the lyrics.
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* Ai Miyashita of [[Characters/LoveLiveNijiGaku Nijigasaki Highschool Club]] is a typical [[PungeonMaster pungeon master]]. Therefore it is not surprising, that their second solo song [[https://love-live.fandom.com/wiki/Yuu_%26_Ai "Yuu&Ai"]] which translates to "Friends and Love" is obviously a pun to "You and I".
**But this got [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]], when the anime came out and the character Yu Takasaki (A [[PunnyName punny name]] itself) got introduced. [[note]]The Love Live Nijigasaki Highschool Idol Club had been founded for the Game "Love Live Festival [=AllStars=]" , a side project of the [[Franchise/LoveLive Love Live franchise]], where the player takes the role of a supporting girl. For the anime this unnamed girl is replaced by Yu. Therefore, if you are a player of Love Live Festival [=AllStars=], Yu represents you.[[/note]] Now the title references Yu & Ai (Miyashita) too.
%%This entry is placed under music, as the main part of this entry is the song itself.
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**But this got [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]], when the anime came out and the character Yu Takasaki (A [[PunnyName punny name]] itself) got introduced. [[note]]The Love Live Nijigasaki Highschool Idol Club had been founded for the Game "Love Live Festival [=AllStars=]" , a side project of the [[Franchise/LoveLive Love Live franchise]], where the player takes the role of a supporting girl. For the anime this unnamed girl is replaced by Yu. Therefore, if you are a player of Love Live Festival [=AllStars=], Yu represents you.[[/note]] Now the title references Yu & Ai (Miyashita) too.
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** And there was the band who specialised in covering Led Zeppelin songs in a reggae style: Dread Zeppelin.
** They've been on the receiving end of a pun, too: there's a fairly popular folk-pop crossover band using bagpipes called the Red Hot Chilli Pipers.
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* Folk group Deaf Shepherd are an obvious pun on Music/DefLeppard. They're actually a serious group, despite the silly name.
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** And they released albums called ''Music/RubberSoul'' and ''Music/{{Revolver}}''.
* A housemate of the Doobie Brothers noted the guys' fondness for "doobies" -- a slang term for marijuana cigarettes, which gave them the name.
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** And they released albums called ''Music/RubberSoul'' and ''Music/{{Revolver}}''.''Music/{{Revolver|Beatles Album}}''.
* A housemate ofthe Doobie Brothers Music/TheDoobieBrothers noted the guys' fondness for "doobies" -- a slang term for marijuana cigarettes, which gave them the name.
* A housemate of
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* Music/SpikeJones' version of the "William Tell Overture" features a parody of a horse race with puns made from the names of the horses. "Cabbage is second by a head, Apartment house is third with plenty of room, Banana is coming up to the bunch, Assault is passing Battery, and there's Girdle in the stretch and Mother-in-Law nagging in the rear, and there goes the WINNER......[[spoiler:BEETLEBAUM!!]]
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* Dusty Hill of Music/ZZTop, who hails from [[EverythingIsBigInTexas a state]] that has quite a few...dusty hills. The band's drummer Frank Beard, who happens to be the only member of the band without said facial hair.
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* Hip hop label Pillage Roadshow milked similarities to the Village Roadshow name for all it's worth, depicting as its own logo a finger pushing the second, third, and fourth (from the outside) segments of the Village Roadshow V logo.
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* Music/{{Madonna}}'s latest album, ''MDNA'', is either a pun on the abbreviation for mitochondrial DNA or MDMA, the scientific name for the drug Ecstasy.
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* Hip hop producer DJ Mustard, or more recently simply Mustard, has Dijon [=McFarlane=] as his real name. Dijon, the real life French town, is well-known for their mustard.
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* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s CardCarryingVillain [[VillainSong song]] "When You're Evil" has this duo: '' "To the gentlemen I'm Miss Fortune, to the ladies I'm Sir Prize..." ''
* Music/TheBeatles were in equal parts a pun on Music/BuddyHolly's Crickets, and on "beat".
** And they released albums called ''Music/RubberSoul'' and ''Music/{{Revolver}}''.
* A housemate of the Doobie Brothers noted the guys' fondness for "doobies" -- a slang term for marijuana cigarettes, which gave them the name.
* Bloc Party was named from the term block party, a large public party where everyone in a neighbourhood gets together.
** Extra punny given that a bloc is "a group of persons, businesses, etc., united for a particular purpose", often centered around politics (which is also true of Bloc Party's lyrics).
* A literal translation of [[Music/EinsturzendeNeubauten Einstürzende Neubauten's]] name would be "Collapsing New-Buildings". The name isn't meant to conjure up the image of intentionally destroying newly made buildings, however, but rather that of "new buildings" falling over. A Neubauten, for the non-German tropers, is specifically one of the cheaply-constructed "modern" buildings erected following 1945 in many German cities, which had an unfortunate reputation of being extremely unsound compared to the Altbauten (old-buildings), which were mostly destroyed after WWII. Their name attracted unwanted attention within two months of the band's formation thanks to the roof of Berlin's former city hall (one of the most famous Neubauten) collapsing, killing one person and injuring many others. Think of a hypothetical NYC based band which formed in July 2001 that called themselves "Planes Into Buildings", and you'll get a pretty decent idea of what the band had to deal with.
* The Zarsoff Brothers', whose first names included Rocky and Izzy, among others.
* [[Music/ThePolice Sting]] was named for the yellow and brown striped jumper he used to wear.
* Dusty Hill of Music/ZZTop, who hails from [[EverythingIsBigInTexas a state]] that has quite a few...dusty hills. The band's drummer Frank Beard, who happens to be the only member of the band without said facial hair.
** Not as true today, as Frank does sport more facial hair nowadays (a goatee, to be specific), as seen on ZZ Top's Live From Texas DVD. Not quite a beard (especially compared to his bandmates), so it's not quite averted.
* One of the many ''Manga/InitialD'' Eurobeat songs is entitled ''Express Love'', which is a play on the word express. The singer laments that he was suckered into express (quick) love, but he wants his lover to express (show) love.
* Alternative rock band Music/CamperVanBeethoven is a punny portmanteau of the phrases "camper van" and "Music/LudwigVanBeethoven." Camper than Beethoven.
* Music/{{Autechre}}'s ''Untilted'' album, a play on "untitled".
* The title of Music/{{Vocaloid}} song ''Rainbow Girl'' seems like WordSaladTitle, but "rainbow" is ''niji'' in Japanese, which is also a shortening of ''nijigen'' -- literally "2D", it is a slang term for {{Moe}} anime and other forms of media (such as video games) that are drawn in similar style, and girls who appear in them.
* German example: the stage name of the lead singer of the German punk rock band Music/DieArzte is Farin Urlaub, which is a pun on ''fahr in Urlaub'', meaning "go on vacation."
* Rapper Flo Rida's stage name is a pun on his home state of UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} and hip-hop slang ("flow" also referring rap ability.)
* Two tribute bands have this approach:
** Beatallica, being Music/TheBeatles [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] Music/{{Metallica}}, have StageNames crossing members of both bands -- with Metallica's penchant for XtremeKoolLetterz in-between ("Jaymz [[Music/JohnLennon Lenn]]field", "[[Music/GeorgeHarrison Grg]] Hammetson", "Kliff [[Music/PaulMcCartney McBurtney]]", "{{Music/Ringo|Starr}} Larz"). Also, the credited RecordProducer is "Flemball Rasmartin", mixing George Martin with Flemming Rasmussen.
** The Iron Maidens, an [[SpearCounterpart all-female]] Music/IronMaiden, have female versions of Maiden's members (Creator/BruceLee [[Music/BruceDickinson Chickinson]], Mini Murray, Adrienne Smith, Steph Harris, and Nikki [=McBurrain=] -- pun on both Nicko [=McBrain=] and Clive Burr).
* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers album ''Californication''.
* Music/{{Madonna}}'s latest album, ''MDNA'', is either a pun on the abbreviation for mitochondrial DNA or MDMA, the scientific name for the drug Ecstasy.
** It's more likely just a reference to/pun on her own name, "'''M'''a'''D'''o'''N'''n'''A'''"
* What else could the acclaimed folk supergroup which first came together at a Creator/RobertBurns themed retreat call themselves but The Burns Unit?
* [[Music/JanesAddiction Perry Farrell]] picked his {{Stage Name|s}} as a pun on "peripheral".
* 45 Grave vocalist Dinah Cancer ("dying of cancer") -- again, obviously a {{Stage Name|s}}.
* Music/{{Savlonic}}'s Kandee Flaus.
* The [[DragQueen "Dragapella"]] group the Kinsey Sicks. Their name is a play of words on "Kinsey 6", the end of the Kinsey scale defined as exclusively homosexual.
* Music/{{NSYNC}} supposedly got their name from Justin Timberlake's mother, who noted how well "in sync" all five voices blended together when they sang together ''à cappella'' for the first time. (The other story they tell about their name involved FunWithAcronyms.)
* Many early synth albums had names which were puns on the name of the most popular synth brand at the time, the Moog, such as Jean-Jacques Perrey's ''Moog Indigo''. These, however, were usually examples of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer (such as the Perrey example), since they assumed that "Moog" is pronounced according to English rules (that is, like "mood" but with a "g"), when in fact anyone even moderately knowledgeable knew that it is actually the inventor's (Dutch) name, and thus pronounced according to Dutch rules; that is, like "rogue" with an M instead of an R.
* {{Music/Sakanaction}}'s name is a pun on "sakana" (the Japanese word for "fish") and "action". One of their albums, ''[=DocumentaLy=]'', is a pun on "documentary" and "mental", doubling as tongue-in-cheek {{Engrish}}.
* The ChristianRock group David and the Giants has a reference both to frontman David W. Huff and references {{Literature/TheBible}}'s account of [[DavidVersusGoliath David and Goliath]].[[note]]Though when the group was first formed; none of the members were Christians at that time; converting several years later.[[/note]]
* Apparently, the "real name" of VirtualCelebrity [[http://www.iamamber.com/a/ Amber G.]] is "Amber Griis".
* KoreanPopMusic group {{Music/Mamamoo}}'s fans are known as [=MooMoos=]. "Moo (무)" is also Korean for "radish." Fans picked up on this and began bringing radishes to performances to show support. When the group [[http://www.soompi.com/2015/11/01/mamamoos-official-lightstick-is-a-radish/ announced]] their lightsticks, they were, quite unsurprisingly, radishes.
* Carolina Crown's 2011 show was titled "Rach Star". It was a mashup of classic rock tunes and the music of Music/SergeiRachmaninoff.
* Nerdcore rapper [=YTCracker=] chose an interesting double-meaning stage name. A "cracker" is someone who exploits the weaknesses in a computer or a network, perfect for the artist's nerdy and subversive image. But "cracker" is also a derogatory term for a white person used by black people: combined with YT (pronounced "Whitey") it adds some self-deprecating humor for being a white man who decided to be a rapper.
* There's an Indian female rapper called Hard Kaur. ("Kaur" is the traditional Sikh second name for women, equivalent to the male Singh, and it's pronounced very closely to "core" in English.)
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* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s CardCarryingVillain [[VillainSong song]] "When You're Evil" has this duo: '' "To the gentlemen I'm Miss Fortune, to the ladies I'm Sir Prize..." ''
* Music/TheBeatles were in equal parts a pun on Music/BuddyHolly's Crickets, and on "beat".
** And they released albums called ''Music/RubberSoul'' and ''Music/{{Revolver}}''.
* A housemate of the Doobie Brothers noted the guys' fondness for "doobies" -- a slang term for marijuana cigarettes, which gave them the name.
* Bloc Party was named from the term block party, a large public party where everyone in a neighbourhood gets together.
** Extra punny given that a bloc is "a group of persons, businesses, etc., united for a particular purpose", often centered around politics (which is also true of Bloc Party's lyrics).
* A literal translation of [[Music/EinsturzendeNeubauten Einstürzende Neubauten's]] name would be "Collapsing New-Buildings". The name isn't meant to conjure up the image of intentionally destroying newly made buildings, however, but rather that of "new buildings" falling over. A Neubauten, for the non-German tropers, is specifically one of the cheaply-constructed "modern" buildings erected following 1945 in many German cities, which had an unfortunate reputation of being extremely unsound compared to the Altbauten (old-buildings), which were mostly destroyed after WWII. Their name attracted unwanted attention within two months of the band's formation thanks to the roof of Berlin's former city hall (one of the most famous Neubauten) collapsing, killing one person and injuring many others. Think of a hypothetical NYC based band which formed in July 2001 that called themselves "Planes Into Buildings", and you'll get a pretty decent idea of what the band had to deal with.
* The Zarsoff Brothers', whose first names included Rocky and Izzy, among others.
* [[Music/ThePolice Sting]] was named for the yellow and brown striped jumper he used to wear.
* Dusty Hill of Music/ZZTop, who hails from [[EverythingIsBigInTexas a state]] that has quite a few...dusty hills. The band's drummer Frank Beard, who happens to be the only member of the band without said facial hair.
** Not as true today, as Frank does sport more facial hair nowadays (a goatee, to be specific), as seen on ZZ Top's Live From Texas DVD. Not quite a beard (especially compared to his bandmates), so it's not quite averted.
* One of the many ''Manga/InitialD'' Eurobeat songs is entitled ''Express Love'', which is a play on the word express. The singer laments that he was suckered into express (quick) love, but he wants his lover to express (show) love.
* Alternative rock band Music/CamperVanBeethoven is a punny portmanteau of the phrases "camper van" and "Music/LudwigVanBeethoven." Camper than Beethoven.
* Music/{{Autechre}}'s ''Untilted'' album, a play on "untitled".
* The title of Music/{{Vocaloid}} song ''Rainbow Girl'' seems like WordSaladTitle, but "rainbow" is ''niji'' in Japanese, which is also a shortening of ''nijigen'' -- literally "2D", it is a slang term for {{Moe}} anime and other forms of media (such as video games) that are drawn in similar style, and girls who appear in them.
* German example: the stage name of the lead singer of the German punk rock band Music/DieArzte is Farin Urlaub, which is a pun on ''fahr in Urlaub'', meaning "go on vacation."
* Rapper Flo Rida's stage name is a pun on his home state of UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} and hip-hop slang ("flow" also referring rap ability.)
* Two tribute bands have this approach:
** Beatallica, being Music/TheBeatles [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] Music/{{Metallica}}, have StageNames crossing members of both bands -- with Metallica's penchant for XtremeKoolLetterz in-between ("Jaymz [[Music/JohnLennon Lenn]]field", "[[Music/GeorgeHarrison Grg]] Hammetson", "Kliff [[Music/PaulMcCartney McBurtney]]", "{{Music/Ringo|Starr}} Larz"). Also, the credited RecordProducer is "Flemball Rasmartin", mixing George Martin with Flemming Rasmussen.
** The Iron Maidens, an [[SpearCounterpart all-female]] Music/IronMaiden, have female versions of Maiden's members (Creator/BruceLee [[Music/BruceDickinson Chickinson]], Mini Murray, Adrienne Smith, Steph Harris, and Nikki [=McBurrain=] -- pun on both Nicko [=McBrain=] and Clive Burr).
* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers album ''Californication''.
* Music/{{Madonna}}'s latest album, ''MDNA'', is either a pun on the abbreviation for mitochondrial DNA or MDMA, the scientific name for the drug Ecstasy.
** It's more likely just a reference to/pun on her own name, "'''M'''a'''D'''o'''N'''n'''A'''"
* What else could the acclaimed folk supergroup which first came together at a Creator/RobertBurns themed retreat call themselves but The Burns Unit?
* [[Music/JanesAddiction Perry Farrell]] picked his {{Stage Name|s}} as a pun on "peripheral".
* 45 Grave vocalist Dinah Cancer ("dying of cancer") -- again, obviously a {{Stage Name|s}}.
* Music/{{Savlonic}}'s Kandee Flaus.
* The [[DragQueen "Dragapella"]] group the Kinsey Sicks. Their name is a play of words on "Kinsey 6", the end of the Kinsey scale defined as exclusively homosexual.
* Music/{{NSYNC}} supposedly got their name from Justin Timberlake's mother, who noted how well "in sync" all five voices blended together when they sang together ''à cappella'' for the first time. (The other story they tell about their name involved FunWithAcronyms.)
* Many early synth albums had names which were puns on the name of the most popular synth brand at the time, the Moog, such as Jean-Jacques Perrey's ''Moog Indigo''. These, however, were usually examples of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer (such as the Perrey example), since they assumed that "Moog" is pronounced according to English rules (that is, like "mood" but with a "g"), when in fact anyone even moderately knowledgeable knew that it is actually the inventor's (Dutch) name, and thus pronounced according to Dutch rules; that is, like "rogue" with an M instead of an R.
* {{Music/Sakanaction}}'s name is a pun on "sakana" (the Japanese word for "fish") and "action". One of their albums, ''[=DocumentaLy=]'', is a pun on "documentary" and "mental", doubling as tongue-in-cheek {{Engrish}}.
* The ChristianRock group David and the Giants has a reference both to frontman David W. Huff and references {{Literature/TheBible}}'s account of [[DavidVersusGoliath David and Goliath]].[[note]]Though when the group was first formed; none of the members were Christians at that time; converting several years later.[[/note]]
* Apparently, the "real name" of VirtualCelebrity [[http://www.iamamber.com/a/ Amber G.]] is "Amber Griis".
* KoreanPopMusic group {{Music/Mamamoo}}'s fans are known as [=MooMoos=]. "Moo (무)" is also Korean for "radish." Fans picked up on this and began bringing radishes to performances to show support. When the group [[http://www.soompi.com/2015/11/01/mamamoos-official-lightstick-is-a-radish/ announced]] their lightsticks, they were, quite unsurprisingly, radishes.
* Carolina Crown's 2011 show was titled "Rach Star". It was a mashup of classic rock tunes and the music of Music/SergeiRachmaninoff.
* Nerdcore rapper [=YTCracker=] chose an interesting double-meaning stage name. A "cracker" is someone who exploits the weaknesses in a computer or a network, perfect for the artist's nerdy and subversive image. But "cracker" is also a derogatory term for a white person used by black people: combined with YT (pronounced "Whitey") it adds some self-deprecating humor for being a white man who decided to be a rapper.
* There's an Indian female rapper called Hard Kaur. ("Kaur" is the traditional Sikh second name for women, equivalent to the male Singh, and it's pronounced very closely to "core" in English.)
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