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I asked my parents where they got the idea for my name and turns out it's from a song! I looked up the song and it's awful.
This is the man responsible for all of it:
Aww, he looks so happy. Maybe he knew that he would be the inspiration to baby names of the future! Who is that anyway, I can't see who it is:S? He looks like such a jolly chap!
I'm not sure what lead to me being called what I am. I'm the only one from my generation of family (if that makes sense:S) that wasn't named after someone else in the family. That suits me well, probably:P. I'm not named after anyone, really. My dad had songs he liked that became "my songs" growing up, but they weren't the reason for my name, and I love both of them. I wonder why they did choose the name they did.:S
Well, if it makes you feel any better... my name is really boring. Even my middle name too. And it doesn't even sound girly either.
That is really funny! At least it is not like the foreigners who came to America and named the child things like Coca cola!
He is Tommy Overstreet, right? He has "name songs" which include the names Ann, Gwen (which I think is a nice name), Jeannie Marie, Sue and possibly others too. Oh, what 2 minutes of Googling can accomplish, eh? ;)
I would try and guess what your name was, but I don't have the patience to listen to all those songs and figure out which is the worst to try and guess. He's a country singer anyway, so it would be hard for me to differentiate - even though I don't hate all country music, most people seem to hate it indiscriminately anyway :P
EDIT: Ann seems like the most popular of his songs, therefore the one your parents would have been most likely to love (unless they were huge Tommy Overstreet fans, in which case that logic is pointless). My guess is Ann, though.
EDIT: Gwen is my second guess, because she had an album named for her too! :O
EDIT: I know the point of this wasn't really for us to say if we thought your situation was normal or not, but I'll say it's normal! :P
Yes, it's Tommy Overstreet! I was asking if this situation was normal too! I wondered how common it is to be named for something like a song or something else pop-culture showbiz related.
I won't lie, I used Google Image Search to find out it was him. Did you know you can search Google using an image now? It's very cool.
I think it's normal that your parents chose to name you after a song that presumably had some meaning to them, because parents tend to like giving meaningful names and deriving that name from a song is less likely to get your kid bullied than if you were to be a maverick and name them something weird. The fact that you yourself grew up not to like the song is probably normal enough too :P
Cool and scary at the same time. I had a long discussion yesterday with a fellow tech-head about our personal interests (robotics, image/facial recognition algorithms) and what started off as a joke (i.e. programming a flying drone to harass an individual at a party by recognising their face and never leaving them alone) turned into something more serious. The bottom line is that we always end up thinking about military applications, which then become crime-fighting and security applications, which then become criminal applications.
Paranoia aside, the technology now exists to build a flying machine which identifies an individual and tranquillises them (or executes them). Is there any purpose in anyone building something like this? I seem to remember a rather large-scale hunt for men like Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. You could argue it was in the public interest to catch these men (depend upon which country's public you are). But if this technology became publicly available? Do we want a situation where murder can be committed in absentia by a device with no DNA, no fingerprints and which can soar out of human reach, or ditch itself somewhere hard to find (i.e. out at sea).
Scary stuff.
Yeah! I used to use Tineye for image searches long ago. I hadn't had the need to use it for a while until just recently actually and I saw google had this feature now.
I finally got to hear the song for the first time today. I was expecting something different. I don't know what exactly-maybe something more upbeat? I was weirded out when I heard the song.
Based on the title alone, my first thought was Johnny Cash. But the pic is small and kind of hard to tell.