Name Research

In our group we have struggled with trying to find a name suitable for our genre, our theme of the music video and the style of our artist, we created a mind map which is shown below of our ideas and research in to our artist name.

We thought of our artist having a first name and surname which conforms to pop genre of our age range which is 17-18 years old for example, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus, though these artists are portrayed as 'happy' and 'child like' because they are on the television channel Disney. The full names for the disney artist reinforces their innocence, however as they have got older their innocence has been tainted which is shown by Miley Cyrus who was in Hannah Montana which is aimed at young children and her controversial pole dancing that she done at the VMA's. Many of the artists with a first name and surname are American for example, Justin Beiber and Katy Perry. I think the first name and surname will suit our artist because we will conform to the pop genre within our age and the style of these artists are fashionable which is how we want our style to be in our music video.

We thought of having a Stage Name which is usually for iconic artists such as Lady GaGa, Beyonce, Rihanna and Madonna, although these artists are very well known I do not think that we should have a stage name. The artists style are usully flamboyant and the artists music videos and stage performance is very expensive such as, Lady GaGa featuring Beyonce- Telephone which was filmed in a prison and they had many extras for the dance performance. Some UK artists have a stage name for example, Pixie Lott but she is not iconic.

We thought about having a band name after a first name for example, Florence and the Machine and Marina and the Diamonds, these bands have lead female vocalists which is very modern. However, these type of artists are in the alternative genre rather than the pop genre.