As far as music goes it’s definitely easier to be blissfully ignorant now than it was in the age of MTV and broadcast radio. You get your curated stream of recommendations and no reason to highlight what doesn’t fit their.

I wouldn’t know of Grande had she not been hosting SNL. I don’t know who The Weekend are. I saw a post a while back about Drake’s security being dicks, and I thought Drake’s security was the name of a security company.

I’ll excel at 90’s music trivia if it was on MTV. But now I’m set in my ways and only listen to HYPR demoscene radio. I excel at that niche genre now, too.

Yes? It all really depends on the media you consume. Like, I love death metal and some of the most famous death metal bands everyone should know, like Deicide, Dying Fetus or Devourment are still not common knowledge to people that don’t care about metal.

Who the hell is “the weekend”? Isn’t Adriana Grande the one with the eating disorder in the movie with that weird black chick?

yes? I am guessing The Weekend is a band or musician by virtue of you mentioning them alongside Ariana Grande but other than that, I have no clue who they are. I couldn’t even name an Ariana Grande song of the top of my head but I know she was in the Wicked movie. This feels like a very North America /US / Anglosphere defaultism post tbh.

I don’t know who a lot of celebrities are. Ariana Grande I know, but Gary Sinese? No clue what that dude is famous for or what he looks like.

Yes. I grew up that way. In the rural midwest, raised by a single hyoer religious mother who probably has some sort of mental thing. She just completely turned herself off from pop culture. I think the latest movie she watched was made in the 60s, and I was born in the nineties. I grew up not knowing any movies, movies stars, music, or anything.

It hurt me deeply because all of my friends would talk about new movies and their favorite actors, and I had to learn how to fake it.

I remember one birthday asking her for movies, just popular movies, I didn’t even know what to ask for. She got me three, and I remember the newest made onewas Tora Tora Tora! Admittedly a decent film, but I was so hurt by it.

Only as an adult did I realize it wasn’t anything agr rating or holding me back, she truly had shut herself off from the world. She wants absolutely nothing to do with the world. When I got into Lord of the rings finally I watched the films, and read the books cover to cover multiple times and loved them. I wanted so badly to share them with someone, and asked her so many times to watch them with me, but she never once did. Doesn’t even know the plot. Eventually I just gave up. Christmas a couple years ago I had pirates of the Caribbean on in the background just while cooking and she asked us to turn it off because it was “too scary”.

When I met my now spouse we started watching everything. I watched braveheart and gladiator within the last couple of years. Big film buff now, and love following actors careers and comparing performances. Its a ton of fun!

I’m apathetic towards my mother for a lot of reasons, but I don’t think she fully knows how much she hurt our relationship with it. There’s a lot more, but you have to show an interest in what your children like. She didn’t. If she didn’t understand it or she if it didn’t involve her, she would walk out of the room. Now she wonders why we don’t get together often, or why I don’t talk much to her. I’ve gone to seeing things with her, quilting, other things trying to reach out to her and express interest in what she likes, but it never went reciprocated, so the branch has withered.

She’s always welcome for movie night though.

Thanks for reading

I didn’t know who zendaya was until Dune. I heard the name, never saw the face until dune. Apparently she was a super big name by then? Idk I’ve heard she’s in a lot of things but most of them I’ve never heard of or never cared to watch.

It really just depends on how they’re famous and what media people consume.

I’m absolutely positive there are dozens of artists of one type or another that I have never heard of that would make people do a double take and ask me what rock I’ve been living under.

Sometimes I feel like that Daniel Thrasher sketch where hoodie guy doesn’t know who Lil’ Pregnant is.

The Weekend are days not people

I barely know who Ariana Grande is and know none of her songs by name. I’m just not interested in that kind of music and wouldn’t it be for the radio that’s always on in my office I don’t think I’d even know The Weeknd, although I guess his songs are prolific enough that most people have at least heard one by now.

Shit, man, there are probably even people out there who don’t even know who Norman Borlaug was, if you can believe it.

Like are there people in the world who don’t know who Ariana Grande or The Weekend are?

Have you heard of that hostile tribe that lives on an island in the Pacific Ocean or wherever, isolated from the rest of the world? They probably don’t know.

My grandma probably doesn’t know. Most roselle people from other countries than America probably don’t know who they are. They know about the celebrities from their time, when they were young.

I feel like you must be very young and/or naive to ask this question, if it is indeed a genuine question. 😐

Of course it is. As a general rule, the older you get the less “famous” people you will know about.

Very, I am completely clueless when people ramble on about celebrities.

This cant be a real question…

It is impossible. Everyone has free access to the List of All Famous People and took celebrity class in school. Every single person on the planet is aware of and interested in every famous person.