I’ve been informed that people outside UK generally don’t know or care (not caring is the correct response BTW.).
Still seems bizarre to me.
This is Lemmy, which crowd are you expecting to know him, the Marxists, the distro-snobs or the furries?
The furries
Wait. I’m not a Marxist or distro-snob… Fuck.
Not yet :3 Let’s talk linux once you’re done with your fursuit :P
Leftist Linux user here. I know who he is. He’s the guy who had the awesome video of tearing his muscles off while roller skating and throwing the raw meat at supermodels (Rock DJ).
Also Milllenium really captures the vibe of the 90s.
Edit: I am USian. But I guess his popularity peaked here in the 90s and so a lot don’t know him.
Same here, but it’s worse because I only dabble with Nix on raspberry PIs. I was not a fan of his until he threw his buttcheeks at a model. Though his MTV cribs was decently funny.
Thought you were saying this is Lemmy for a second, which is ludicrous as Lemmy was better looking by far.
Liar! That’s not Lemmy, he doesn’t have any coco puffs on his face!
As an American I didn’t recognize his face. Then I read that he is Robbie Williams and I also didn’t recognize his name.
Seconded
Im from Germany and Im quite shocked right now that there are people who dont know him. I was under the impression he was famous all around the world, kind of like Michael Jackson or Elvis. I think if you ask 100 random people in Germany at least 90 will know him.
My reaction exactly.
I don’t. Looks like a talk show host
I also don’t know who it is. “We have Carson Daly at home.”
Isn’t this Robbie Williams? I’ve never been in UK.
Yeah, it’s Matt Damon and Patton Oswald’s fusion dance result.
Huh? I thought it was the baby from the hokey 90s show Dinosaurs, all grown up??
I was thinking alt universe Rami Malek
He is quite known here in Germany, take that !
Germany here, this is:
Robbie! One of the better musicians to rise from the age of boy bands.
Never heard of him.
I don’t know him very well. But he looks like the kind of person who would have gone and spoiled it all by saying something stupid like “I love you”. Sometime around the Millennium.
German here. He’s super famous in Germany. I used to think he was an international superstar and only learned a couple of years ago that nobody knows him in the US. Still don’t quite understand how that happened. How is “Feel” and “Angels” not stuck in everyone’s head every once in a while?
His people made multiple attempts to break in America. It’s just… bad music. Has a distinct “Eurosheen” that isn’t inherently a negative at all, but is something that traditionally hasn’t sold well with American audiences.
So I just want to be clear: American audiences weren’t unexposed to Robbie Williams, American audiences flatly rejected Robbie Williams.
Sure, Europeans just have bad taste in music, while Americans have good taste in music. That explains everything.
No, an aesthetic difference in preference. I should have made a clearer distinction: it has the Brit-pop sound that historically hasn’t been an automatic appeal for American audiences as a barrier of entry going against him, and beyond that aesthetic difference Robbie Williams specifically does not make good enough music to have overcome said aesthetic barrier where other artists such as Spice Girls successfully have.
What makes the Spice Girls better than Robbie Williams?
A question for the ages. I am not the gatekeeper, just trying to explain the phenomenon. No amount of arguing with me is going to suddenly make Robbie a retroactive success magically
It’s just that it’s a really odd “explanation”. Good and bad depends a lot on who you ask. Millions of people would probably disagree with your judgement. I’m neither a Robbie Williams fan nor a music expert, but I’m pretty sure “his music is just bad” is not a valid explanation for the phenomenon.
ok buddy, “bad music”, really?
His music, yes. Not European music broadly, obviously.
What are those objective criteria that classify music as “bad”?
We don’t know most of the US famous people, so that’s fair.
His boyband failed to break America so he never tried as a ronin.
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Robbie something. A singer, right? (France)
robin williams rip
Usa, No
Same. Not only do I not recognize him, I doubt I’ve ever seen him before. And I do catch a few shows out of the UK from time to time. Never stumbled across whomever this is.
he is the OG meat suit before lady gaga was even a concept. He did a stint in rehab for ‘caffiene addiction’ (but cmon, we all know it was cocaine lol)
He is well known in australia. but since i was travelling away from there people just think im mispronouncing Robin William’s name if i bring him up.
That’s Andy Burnham, our new Prime Minister.
