Apple, son of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin of Coldplay.... Apple, really? Apple. Imagine you're scheduled for surgery, you have a choice between 2 surgeons: first one's name is John, second one's name is Apple. Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I'm gonna stick with John.
Memphis Eve, daughter of Bono. OK, so you're a huge douche... that's fine, plenty of people are huge douches. It's just selfish to impose your douchiness on someone else who doesn't deserve it. I guess if a friend of mine told me they had named their kid the same thing, I wouldn't think it was so bad... but if you told me Bono had a kid, the first thing I would think to myself is 'Yeah he probably gave it some ridiculous name like Starcrest or something.' Well, here it is... Memphis Eve. Not only does she have to live the rest of her life as Bono's kid, but now she has to live with that awful name.
Blanket, son of MJ. It's one thing to think outside the box, go against the conventional mode of thinking... but this is just mean. Naming your kid Blanket is way, way dumber than dangling it over a railing....
Blue Angel, daughter of The Edge from U2. What do you know? another douchey name from the douchiest band in the world.
Jermajesty, son of Jermaine Jackson. This name borders between absurd and awesome... in the spirit of the post, I'll go with absurd. Does Jermaine remember that when he names his kid Jermajesty, he will have to live with that his whole life?
Zowie, son of David Bowie. Get it?
Celebrities are often smarter than people give them credit for... most are well educated and very well informed... their politics tend to swing much farther to the left than I am willing to go, but for the most part they are able to back up what they say, and I respect that.
But sometimes it seems as though they are so caught up in trying to fit in, or trying to show how different they are, or creative... that they forget that they are sticking these kids with names that they have to live with forever. I'm all for unique names for kids, but I'm sure "Moon Unit" Zappa would take a strong stance on how different is too different...
Maybe I'm making this a bigger deal than it really is, but to me, it just seems selfish. It seems as though many celebrities are more concerned with people's perception about what they named their child than the act of actually giving the child a reasonable name. I think there are plenty of avenues to express your creativity or originality, but when it is taken to this extreme, this is not one of them.
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