What's my name

Of course not everybody realised that most of the singers penetrated the music industry by repeating their own names at their debut singles. Example? The first one i can recall is Snoop Doggy Dog. While we were enjoying the penetration of MTV in Turkish television history, we were also familiar with Snoop Doggy Dog's "What's my name" song (absolutely censored) By the time he was actually asking "What's My motherfucker name?" and replying to his own question by "Snoop Doggy Dooooooog".

Consider the expression "penetration of MTV in Turkish television history" and the verb "enjoying" at the same time. It occured accidentally but in a second glance, i think it was the best orgasm that this generation ever had. First turkish private tv channel was on air and they were also trying to broadcast MTV in some points of turkey'e elite cities. Obviously, Istanbul is the first place in Turkey that might easily be called "Elite". They tried to give life to turkish youngsters by viewing their music videos on tv's. But it turned out to be making a huge market of turkey's own popular music industry. Soon we started to hear different singer's voices on our radios in turkey. It was the birth of a nation's musical taste. I'm always happy to pick up only the right sound back then. During that period of time, i just bought a Tarkan albume. Yes. The journey started in 1992 with a very primitive music video style. I bet Tarkan, himself is prohibiting all those videos made during his debut albume. Kind of funny stuff. But those were the milestones of a big career in music industry. At least Turkish music industry achieved finding out a talent called Tarkan.
Turning back to the main point of my blog: No. He didn't sing "What's my name?" at his debut single nor any other singles he made back at those times.

Years passed and then a guy called Eminem busted out. His first song was "What? My name is. Slim Shady." and blow all the musical charts away. Numero uno: Eminem. Debut theme:My name is Slim Shady (or M&M as you may call).

Robbie Williams. An English musical talent of late 90's and early 2000's. Like he complains about girls who are not having sex with him in U.S. at Tonight Show with Jay Leno he planned on penetrating U.S. music industry with an album called "Ego Has Landed". Watching the records of his first U.S. concert in a very little stage (comparing to the ones he has in Britain) he was rapping "My name is, WHAT?, my name is Robbie Williams".

Is there a magic in debutting by asking "What's my name?". Or like Take That's song which Robbie Williams' used to be the lead vocal back in 1991 "Could it be magic?" is just a coincidence for this sentence?

I bet Tarkan should have to do the same in European music markets. Then he could achieve more than he already had in Europe. If i was a friend of his (Tarkan) i would have shout those coincidences at him and force him to make a debut called "My name is Tarkan" The lyrics would be like that:
"My name is Tarkan,
i came here to rock,
Not the beautiful girls,
i want the ugly duck"

Some expressions make great sense when you translate them directly into other languages. Once i've translated Bryan Adams' "Only thing looks good on me is you" and i made it a great turkish song by translating the original lyrics one-by-one to Turkish.

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