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Edward

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I'm old. Who is that?


You're not alone; if someone's field of public personhood is sport or, increasingly, pop music, I'm unlikely to have a clue who they are no matter how famous. I put it down to present-day media being so splintered now that it's very easy to bed completely unaware of even some very mainstream stuff if you don't watch the right shows / websites. I only know who some of the biggest names in pop are now because I skim the gossip columns in the freesheets during my commute, but I still have no idea what they sound like. I've never heard a single Billie Eilish track for one.
 

Mandarin

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Seb Lucas

I'll Lock Up
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Australia
At the moment?
He is 42 and has been "one of the top boxers in the world" for the past 20 years!

I feel better now. I don't mix in circles where boxing has ever come up. As Edward says, if you're not into sport or other parts of popular culture, most of the world's celebrities remain anonymous nobodies.
 
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zebedee

One Too Many
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I didn't know who Piers Morgan was until 2018. I was so blessed - there are some people who wouldn't believe that you'd never heard of them - but I really had no idea. Or Katie Price. I didn't know who Kanye West was, either, but Leonard Cohen seems to have hit the nail on the head with his poem:

Kanye West is not Picasso
I am Picasso
Kanye West is not Edison
I am Edison
I am Tesla
Jay-Z is not the Dylan of Anything
I am the Dylan of anything
I am the Kanye West of Kanye West
The Kanye West
Of the great bogus shift of bullshit culture
From one boutique to another
I am Tesla
I am his coil
The coil that made electricity soft as a bed
I am the Kanye West Kanye West thinks he is
When he shoves your ass off the stage
I am the real Kanye West
I don’t get around much anymore
I never have
I only come alive after a war
And we have not had it yet
 

Mandarin

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I didn't know who Piers Morgan was until 2018. I was so blessed - there are some people who wouldn't believe that you'd never heard of them - but I really had no idea. Or Katie Price. I didn't know who Kanye West was, either, but Leonard Cohen seems to have hit the nail on the head with his poem:

Kanye West is not Picasso
I am Picasso
Kanye West is not Edison
I am Edison
I am Tesla
Jay-Z is not the Dylan of Anything
I am the Dylan of anything
I am the Kanye West of Kanye West
The Kanye West
Of the great bogus shift of bullshit culture
From one boutique to another
I am Tesla
I am his coil
The coil that made electricity soft as a bed
I am the Kanye West Kanye West thinks he is
When he shoves your ass off the stage
I am the real Kanye West
I don’t get around much anymore
I never have
I only come alive after a war
And we have not had it yet

Slightly getting off topic here, but this reminds me that Leonard Cohen never missed a chance to drop names. I particularly like this reference:
I said to Hank Williams how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me in the tower of song.
 

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