What's in a Name?

Our album is based around a concept. It tells a story, it is a musical.

Musicals have characters, and characters have names. A lot of successful pop songs mention names, like "Mandy" or "Maggie May".

What's the strongest name to choose? If you're writing a song about your evil ex-girlfriend, it is a good idea to not use her name in the song.

If she really is evil, she will sue you.

To avoid this you can get randomly generated names at http://www.behindthename.com/random/

This brilliant site allows you to pick the nationality and gender of the name.


For example for a Norwegian boy it suggested "Magnus Walter". Very Viking!


Ha! now no-one will know who the song is really about.

However, random names do not allow you to express a deeper level of story within the name, a clue to the person's nature.

More on that, in the next blog.