Another cog in the murder machine

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

As some of you will know I work for a market research company. Here's an email I sent round to the staff yesterday:

"So an easy pair of questions to divert you for half a minute:

Name a currently active band or recording artist a British teenager might know about.

Name a currently active sportsperson a British teenager might know about.

Simple as that! Name more than one if you like."

I have snipped the 'why' since you, The Kids, are not to be trusted with the secrets of The Man.

But I have now compiled the answers I got. What do you think people said (and what SHOULD they have said?)

ANSWERS! (Gaps to be filled in by commenters)

1. Winehouse
2. Arctics
3. Lily A
4. My Chemical Romance
5. Rihanna
6. --
7. Gurls Aloud
8. --
9. The Hoosiers
10. Leona L.

SPORTS ANSWERS!

1. Lewis H.
2. BeckXoR
3. Wayne R.
4. Cristiano Ronaldo
5. Wilco
6. Love Rat Ashley Cole
7. Brave Paula
8. Andy Murray
9. --
10. Steven Gerrard

Comments

second one first

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

lots and lots of footballers

also:
Paula Radcliffe
Tony Hawk
Jonny Wilkinson?
Lewis Hamilton

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Recording artist: Britney, Amy Winehouse, possibly Lily Allen at a push.
Sportsperson: Beckham, Andy Murray, Lewis Hamilton, maybe Ricky Hatton.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

1) the narctic monkeys, dizzee rarscel, gurlz aloud, WINEHOUSE, lily allen

2) oh god err, ashley cole? BECKHAM, all the footballers, I am crap at sport. Who gets into the papers? L Hamilton?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

do the teenagers read the papers though? I didn't, much, when I was. It's probably more "who gets on TV".

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

GPWM; tho for "papers" I was thinking of: papers, sleb-mags e.g. HEAT and radio (they're always blithering about so and so being on "the back pages" for being thrown out of a bar or dating a pussycat d0ll) - I don't watch a great deal of telly tho so suspect that yes, mine are the opinions of the old and out-of-date :(

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I try to be aware of who's on TV without watching it, so mine probably are too - D Beckham seems obvious to me but come to think of it he is quite old?

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

He is quite old but the Beckham machine covers an AWFUL lot of bases - he does foopball, fashion, modelling, advertising etc etc - it was his ubiquity, rather than sportsmanship per se, that made me think of him.

PLUS HE IS ONLY 32 shutuuuuuup!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i'm guessing the pop list was the usual nonsense?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

this is quite easy? Leona Lewis and David Beckham but there are plenty of other choices, all of the above certainly (except Tony Hawk, who he?). Teenagers tend to know lots of recording artists and sportspeople!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

tony hawk is the skateboard man who made lots of computer games as well.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Remember that I'm not asking you who teenagers know, I'm asking you who you think adults would imagine teenagers know.

Tony Hawk wasn't mentioned by anyone from my work but actually has one of the highest recognition/approval scores among US teens. He's a skateboarder who has given his name to several enormo-selling videogames. US sports are a different world obviously but I wou;dn't be surprised if he had teen appeal here too.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine any adult, even the ones at your work, could actually get a wrong answer here!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes there are no wrong answers - in that sense it's a trick question. But I think the answers given were interesting because of the implication in the question that I wanted teen-specific knowledge (which I did, but not JUST that).

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i will eat TRACER MY HAND if dizzee rascal got a significant* number of votes!

*yes yes i am on phase 1 see

sportpeople: tessa sanderson, ian botham, david beckham
pop: oasis, madonna, nirvana

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha fsvo "currently active" in re sprotsmens oops -- "seen on 70s clips shows"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ashley cole is certainly CURRENTLY ACTIVE fnar sigh

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

First two who fell into my head (as someone young person would have heard about yes): Amy Winehouse & Wayne Rooney

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Calzaghe?

Gerrard, Lampard, C Ronaldo

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

What the adults will put: Kaiser Chiefs, Amy Winehouse, Kylie, that Ricky Boxer dude, errrr Ronnie O Sullivan?

What I would put: Kanye West, Britney, Arctic Monkeys, Ashley Cole, Lewis Hamilton & loads of football dudes.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I note no-one has mentioned any EMO bands... I wd think Ver Kids would be well into these but personally can only think of My Chemical Romance, and er Bullet for My Valentine. I nearly typed My Bloody Valentine then oH DEAR!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

WELL DONE on MCR.

All the people replying who have ACTUAL REAL LIVE TEENAGERS in their family put loads of emo and metal in their picks!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

FALL OUT BOY
the killers
basshunter
oasis
the wombats
the hoosiers

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Nobody mentioned Basshunter.

Yes to Hoosiers though for some reason I don't think of them as being a band teenagers like.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

that's because they are a band nobody likes

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i like that song. some.

what are you talking about mr. crazy

[pony-meat.livejournal.com]

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Re: what are you talking about mr. crazy

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

they, they, are kind of, like, sucky?

see smugpop discussion last week.

they're like the ben stiller of gtr-pop...

this is true

[pony-meat.livejournal.com]

but they're not awful (and i agree ben stiller is weak)

and i don't hear their name mentioned as much as other overrated pop

+any band with the name containing an instrument/genre must be aces, right?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Britney

[daniel-hill.livejournal.com]

le girls de spice? Walcott? God knows what teenagers get up to nowadays, haven't they all got asbos and under house arrest? if not, why not?

[datura800.livejournal.com]

Rihanna, Timbaland, Kanye West, Justin T.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Is the missing sportsman Fabregas? Thierry Henry? Sharapova? Federer? Fat Frankie Lampard?

As for the missing pop stars, I dread to think. Scouting For Girls? The Killers? Newton bloody Faulkner? James "whinging" Blunt?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it's always pleasing to realise that the tennis star system works out of all proportion to the sport's popularity - it really is such a minority sport BUT there are so many tennis players who are household names - Sharapova, Federer, the Williams sisters, Roddick, Kournikova is still technically active, Hingis until last year, Murray, maybe Nadal? Sadly probably not Henin or Mauresmo. By this time next year, almost certainly Djokovic, maybe Ivanovic.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Crikey has anyone said Beyonce yet?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They totally should've! A few people have mentioned Kanye which is also obvious.

People who suggested The Hoosiers = insane.

Maybe T2!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

surely SNOW PATROL

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

or TEH FRATELLIS

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Missing sportsperson is Peter Crouch innit?

Musically, dunno. I would guess some people threw in stuff like Led Zeppellin, despite its not being "modern" but then again it could also be The Libertines.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I don't remember seeing Kate Gnash. Or Sugababes. Or...um...I dunno, Fall Out Boy?

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Or AVRIL LAVEEN

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

(Do y'all watch Family Feud over there in London?? We should really be getting an "out of 100 people surveyed, top ten answers on the board" sort of indication of popularity of responses. How close was Winehouse to the Monkees?)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Also, 50 Cent!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

enquiring minds need to know what the gaps were!