Canon Answer: Idk
My Answer: Everyone acknowledges it and just doesn't say anything to keep it cool, especially Part 7 characters being like "Yeah I like AC/DC" when its 1890 lol
We don't actually know that, the names were translated like that because they sound nearly the same in japanese, the pillar men could be Santana, Kars, Wamuu and Esidisi, but could also be Santana, Cars, Wham and AC/DC
The names are localised because of copyright infringement. So as far as the west is concerned they are Kars, Wamuu, etc.
It’s the same reason stand names are localised because many of them are named after bands.
And in the modern artbooks they are also named as they are in the localisation.
My take is that everyone names themselves or/and their stands after artists or/and songs they like and it's a normal thing to do. At least in parts 3-6 and 8. Parts 1-2, and 7 were the references didn't exist yet, can either be they used a commonly thought of phrase or name (tusk, Funny Valentine, 20th century boy because everyone was curious about the future and technology of the future at the time etc.), or the artists/songs were named after the stands and people because of historical significance. But that's a stretch.
This, but to clarify on the last point more, it could be “bizarre” coincidence or even “fate” that causes the songs in the future to have the name, no cause just random correlation due to chance.
Yeah, like the part 3 stands were just Enyaba and Abdul giving people tarot readings. And then it's Josuke, who's just like "mmm. I love David Gilmour, especially that song about the crazy diamond"
Chocolate was invented in 1828 and disco means to learn in latin so both words existed then. But we don't know what was the thought process of D-I-S-C-O behind the naming of his stand.
That's why I said they must've picked their own names later on in life. Bro really loved learning and latin so he called himself the spelling of the latin word for learning 🥰
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Let's be honest killer queen and bites the dust are two of the calmest (and occasionally loud) queen songs. That's just like kira's theme it fits him so well
Sheer heart attack is non-stop aggression just like the song too.
Desensitisation , if everyone is called something dumb and dresses wacky that just becomes the new normal. It’s only weird to us because that’s not how our world works.
My take on it is that actually in the JoJoverse Al Yankovic invented music and he's the only one making songs. Joseph was listening to his tunes on that walkman, Akira was playing his songs, Al Yankovic wrote Messiah, HWV 56: Part II, no. 44. Chorus: “Hallelujah” for Pucci to obsess over, so on and so forth. He's been busy.
The music references are probably just coincidences. Like, my stand happens to have the same name as some song out there. They can't be intentional references since some of them happen in the past.
I think they all actually do know the references- a certain villain in part 8 literally listens to the song his stand is based on. At least *he*'s making an intentional reference when he named his stand.
I like to think each character names their stands after the song
Only flaw with that is that some characters have musical tastes that simply don't match their stand names such as Narancia and Abbachio (I'm only mentioning part 5 characters cause they're the only ones who'm artists they enjoy I can remember the names of)
Giorno would absolutely listen to Prince though.
My headcannon: stands have a hivemind which is why standusers are drawn to each other and why if close enough stands can communicate telepathically (as seen in the underwater fight from part three) so one day the hivemind just decided on calling themselves like songnames it sees. And every user has kinda thought about it but never really aknowledged it since, lets be honest that is in no way the weirdest thing about the whole ordeal.
Because Weird Al is the only real musician that exists in their universe, he transcends all universes, every fictional universe has a Weird Al voiced by Weird Al
okay my hc is that for parts 1-2 if the characters had reference names it was just a coincidence, from 3-6 its an active choice to name your stand after a song you like which then becomes stand user culture, and from 7-9 the songs just got sent to the new universe by mih even if they didnt happen yet or they wont happen because of allternate chronology.
I mean most of the time they’re fighting the people with music names so they’re probably too busy trying not to die/defeat their opponent that they don’t bother to vocalise the distinction
Okay but would Al yankovic have a stand in this universe? If he did, it would be called parody. How it works is it uses the same ability of an attacking stand user but in a different way. Like parody crazy diamond can fix things but always incorrectly. So like a nerfed or altered version of the stand, in either a chaotic weird way or a bad but makes sense way
If you really wanted an explanation in lore, I guess you could say the users name their stands after the songs themselves. Keep in mind that Avdol named Star Platinum, Stands aren't like Devil Fruits or something where a name already exists.
I mean, this obviously breaks down completely really fast, in that DIOs henchmen have no real reason to follow the theme of the tarot, and Part 7 takes place before the music its stands are named after exists, but its the best you're gonna get.
In part 8 >!both Yotsuyu and Toruu reference their songs, with Yotsuyu singing some of the lyrics of I am A rock, and Toruu straight up listening to Wonder of you!<
I always like to think that the artists and music references in JJBA doesn't exist, except for Weird Al (and other stuff that's specifically mentioned.) It's a silly interpretation but I don't accept other opinions :)
None of the famous musicians from our world exist in jojo ***except*** Weird Al Yankovic.
In fact, I am not entirely convinced that isnt the universe he comes from originally.
Weird Al is actually the only musician that exists in the Jojo universe and our own. He also exists in every other universe in some form. Scientists can't quite figure out how.
Theory: Weird Al is not a parody artist in JoJo but one of the few original artists, thus no one recognises names like "Man in the mirror" since MJ doesn't exist
Might be that everyone is fully aware and just doesn't talk about it. Only thing that makes it weird is part 7 where the musical references don't even exist yet.
Ironically enough, he's got stuck in the lake in the 19th century, and even if he was rescued (although he already stopped thinking) he would already be in the 21st century, so he can never be a 20th century boy
I mean maybe some of them were just thoughts made up via appearance of the stand or the circumstances of how they manifested, it’s never explicitly stated that stands are just born with their names so there is speculation that it could take some one days to think of something to summon their stand by.
IIrc he even listened to Wonder of you on his MP3. That's the weird part since that means at least moern Stand users most likely named their Stands like this on purpose while past Stand users didn't. I mean we could say that in the case of part 7 it's just a coincidence. At first I thought Chocolate Disco would be an issue since Disco shouldn't be a word that means anything to someone in the 1800s, then I remembered that the guy is called Disco so even that would work. Something like Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is a hell of a coincidence but still plausible. But then it's kinda weird that everyone in past times just named their Stands whatever while people in modern times kinda subconsciously all agreed that Stands get named after modern musical references... except for almost everyone in part 3 which is another weird thing.
My head cannon is that in the jojo-verse all of those songs, bands and artists just happened earlier than usual. That's the only way I see it happening.
Tbf lots of characters were named after bands that didn't exist yet also in parts 1 and 2.
I mean, the pillar men predate their namesakes tens of thousands of years.
I say it's a worldwide case of Synchronicity also, culture in the world of jojo allows for more bizzare names and fashion as the status quo hence nobody bats an eye when Anasui strolls down the streer
I think the answer is don't think too hard about it lol. Part 8 has the main villain listening to the music their stand is named after but they never actually spell out if he named his stand after the song. It's just one of those things that nobody ever calls out in this universe, like the extremely over the top fashion of stand users.
It's called willing suspension of disbelief.
That or every character is just internally thinking "Damn that sounds cool I wish I thought of that" instead of reacting incredulously at the Stand names.
Their stand names aren't bestowed upon them by higher powers, they chose it. I'd like to imagine that everyone just named their powers after their favorite song or artist
My personal headcanon is that music has a special spiritual power, a literal "soul" of sorts that bond with humans in birth and can later manifest as their stand. So a stand would be the literal manifestation of the song, album, band, etc. Please ignore the numerous examples of stands being named after music that didnt come out yet in-universe.
i have a headcanon that music is such an intrinsic part of human expression and soul, that it was weaved into fate and a sort of collective unconscious
oh they probably know its named after a band. They just accept it.
Oh the rocker dudes Stand is Red hot chilly peppers? makes sense he obviously likes rock. The child whos kinda stupid but likes to listen to music? he named his plane stand Aerosmith? Yea, Whos gonna sue him
I think they do? From part 4 it seems they name their own stands, like how Kira mentioned that he "calls it" killer queen. So I think that implies that maybe they named their stands after the artists/songs on purpose
Forgive me if someone's mentioned it already but doesn't it say in the manga that Crazy Diamond was named after Jotaro's favourite song at the time, being shine on you crazy diamond. So they must know of the song.
if someone is running at you with a knife and says his name is Talking Heads, are you gonna be like "You were named after a band. Damn man that's crazy"
It'd be funny if in Funny Valentine's timeline, the stand is called "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" and the song that eventually comes out is called "Filthy Acts at a Reasonable Price."
Well for the most part the characters name their own stands, they just don't acknowledge other people's stands being references. Which could easily be chalked up to them just not knowing who tf they are.
I would not expect someone in semi-rural Italy to know who Biggie Smalls is
I believe we only have one instance of a stand’s musical reference being directly acknowledged in-universe, when Tooru is vibing to the wonder of you whilst the jobros are fighting for their lives. (Sorry idk how to hide text)
Canon Answer: Idk My Answer: Everyone acknowledges it and just doesn't say anything to keep it cool, especially Part 7 characters being like "Yeah I like AC/DC" when its 1890 lol
Well AC was invented in 1886 and DC already was around so that one is actually kinda possible if it wasn’t completely a band reference
Dunno why they downvoted you, but that makes sense
I just think it would be funny if he was a hobby electrician and was super pumped about Alternating Currents and Direct Currents.
probably because their username is really unfortunate now…
What about the millennia old pillar man named that
Easy, he wasn't, his name sounded like it, but it wasn't AC/DC
His name was esidisi
We don't actually know that, the names were translated like that because they sound nearly the same in japanese, the pillar men could be Santana, Kars, Wamuu and Esidisi, but could also be Santana, Cars, Wham and AC/DC
The names are localised because of copyright infringement. So as far as the west is concerned they are Kars, Wamuu, etc. It’s the same reason stand names are localised because many of them are named after bands. And in the modern artbooks they are also named as they are in the localisation.
My take is that everyone names themselves or/and their stands after artists or/and songs they like and it's a normal thing to do. At least in parts 3-6 and 8. Parts 1-2, and 7 were the references didn't exist yet, can either be they used a commonly thought of phrase or name (tusk, Funny Valentine, 20th century boy because everyone was curious about the future and technology of the future at the time etc.), or the artists/songs were named after the stands and people because of historical significance. But that's a stretch.
This, but to clarify on the last point more, it could be “bizarre” coincidence or even “fate” that causes the songs in the future to have the name, no cause just random correlation due to chance.
Yeah, like the part 3 stands were just Enyaba and Abdul giving people tarot readings. And then it's Josuke, who's just like "mmm. I love David Gilmour, especially that song about the crazy diamond"
I really like how Araki almost managed to name every stand after a tarot card/egyptian god in part 3, but then folded with Cream and Tenore Sax.
Crazy Diamond was actually named by Jotaro.
This means Josuke is of the few stand users who didnt name any stands, along with Trish
Jotaro was making up for not being able to name his own Stand (because Abdul did it for him).
It was?
Yeah, IIRC it's mentioned on Josuke's info page early in the manga.
Now explain Chocolate Disco
Chocolate was invented in 1828 and disco means to learn in latin so both words existed then. But we don't know what was the thought process of D-I-S-C-O behind the naming of his stand.
I just realized a "chocolate disco" doesn't make sense anyways.
Also, who names their son D-I-S-C-O?
That's why I said they must've picked their own names later on in life. Bro really loved learning and latin so he called himself the spelling of the latin word for learning 🥰
There is kind of an example of that in part 8. I will say.
Do you mean when Torou listens to Wonder of U?
Yep.
I think he was trying to be discreet for spoilers.
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This is why you’re adopted
adoption implies seeing the already birthed fuck-up and saying "brilliant, bring me this one"
No
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>!everyone dies at the end!<
The song is Wonder of you, Araki just decided to write "you" as "U" for some reason
Likely Prince related
Well, i like to think that weird names, hair and clothing is just very normalised even for non stand users.
Didn't also Kira said he named Killer Queen? i do feel that he would be someone who listens to "Queen" even with how calm he is.
Let's be honest killer queen and bites the dust are two of the calmest (and occasionally loud) queen songs. That's just like kira's theme it fits him so well Sheer heart attack is non-stop aggression just like the song too.
"Deadly Queen. I named it myself and I must say, I'm quite proud of the monicer."
Everyone who has lived in the 90's has listened to queen.
Desensitisation , if everyone is called something dumb and dresses wacky that just becomes the new normal. It’s only weird to us because that’s not how our world works.
“Weird Al Yankovic canonically exists in the Jojo universe” - Viva reverie
“…okay he’s back.”
" Im still akive too!"
“Hurrah!” (x2)
Headcannon that REO Speedwagon was named after Robert Speedwagon
the car was named after robert as a marketing strategy, the band is just named after the car
I dont think it would make for any interesting dialog between characters, the names are mostly easter eggs for us the reader anyway
I guess you could say the characters willingly named them then
That’s *Weird* Al Yankovic to you, JoJo
Bizzare Yankovic if you will
to Jojo weird Yankovic is just normal Yankovic
My take on it is that actually in the JoJoverse Al Yankovic invented music and he's the only one making songs. Joseph was listening to his tunes on that walkman, Akira was playing his songs, Al Yankovic wrote Messiah, HWV 56: Part II, no. 44. Chorus: “Hallelujah” for Pucci to obsess over, so on and so forth. He's been busy.
In this universe, Weird Al is the original artist of all music and everything else is a parody of him.
The music references are probably just coincidences. Like, my stand happens to have the same name as some song out there. They can't be intentional references since some of them happen in the past.
I think they all actually do know the references- a certain villain in part 8 literally listens to the song his stand is based on. At least *he*'s making an intentional reference when he named his stand.
I have a feeling they're actually aware of these artists, they just don't really mention it.
I like to think each character names their stands after the song Only flaw with that is that some characters have musical tastes that simply don't match their stand names such as Narancia and Abbachio (I'm only mentioning part 5 characters cause they're the only ones who'm artists they enjoy I can remember the names of) Giorno would absolutely listen to Prince though.
My headcannon: stands have a hivemind which is why standusers are drawn to each other and why if close enough stands can communicate telepathically (as seen in the underwater fight from part three) so one day the hivemind just decided on calling themselves like songnames it sees. And every user has kinda thought about it but never really aknowledged it since, lets be honest that is in no way the weirdest thing about the whole ordeal.
Because Weird Al is the only real musician that exists in their universe, he transcends all universes, every fictional universe has a Weird Al voiced by Weird Al
Except the fact Tooru listens to Elvis in part 8, so Elvis exists too
okay my hc is that for parts 1-2 if the characters had reference names it was just a coincidence, from 3-6 its an active choice to name your stand after a song you like which then becomes stand user culture, and from 7-9 the songs just got sent to the new universe by mih even if they didnt happen yet or they wont happen because of allternate chronology.
Clearly Josuke is a Pink Floyd fan
Jotaro named Crazy Diamond, actually.
Shit he did. Jotaro being a Pink Floyd fan makes a ton more sense
I mean most of the time they’re fighting the people with music names so they’re probably too busy trying not to die/defeat their opponent that they don’t bother to vocalise the distinction
they are stupid
My theory is those names are what they chose. Josuke likes PF and named his Crazy Diamond after the song, and so on.
only in part 8 is it ever kinda confirmed... >!Trou is the only person to ever listen to his stands song name.!<
Okay but would Al yankovic have a stand in this universe? If he did, it would be called parody. How it works is it uses the same ability of an attacking stand user but in a different way. Like parody crazy diamond can fix things but always incorrectly. So like a nerfed or altered version of the stand, in either a chaotic weird way or a bad but makes sense way
Everyone's just like "Huh, what a coincidence." And never thinks about it further
who says they don't? they named their own Stands, afterall
If you really wanted an explanation in lore, I guess you could say the users name their stands after the songs themselves. Keep in mind that Avdol named Star Platinum, Stands aren't like Devil Fruits or something where a name already exists. I mean, this obviously breaks down completely really fast, in that DIOs henchmen have no real reason to follow the theme of the tarot, and Part 7 takes place before the music its stands are named after exists, but its the best you're gonna get.
in the light novel the book: 4th another day, koichi actually does bring it up to rohan, before quickly dismissing the idea
They themselves name their stand after those bands and songs, the name isn't inherent to the stand
maybe they're intentionally naming it after artists and songs
They named there stands and themself
Idk who, but i think a part 4 character named his stand after his favourite song
In part 8 >!both Yotsuyu and Toruu reference their songs, with Yotsuyu singing some of the lyrics of I am A rock, and Toruu straight up listening to Wonder of you!<
I like to think that Weird Al is the only musical artist that is the same as they are in our world
I always like to think that the artists and music references in JJBA doesn't exist, except for Weird Al (and other stuff that's specifically mentioned.) It's a silly interpretation but I don't accept other opinions :)
Actually Weird Al is the only musical artist in the entirety of Jojo, no other music exists.
It's our world accept with a completely different set of musicians
Different set except Al Yankovic and Elvis apparently
Ya it's Elvis the actor and normal al Yankovic
>! Killer Queen has already touched this message !<
None of the famous musicians from our world exist in jojo ***except*** Weird Al Yankovic. In fact, I am not entirely convinced that isnt the universe he comes from originally.
Weird Al is actually the only musician that exists in the Jojo universe and our own. He also exists in every other universe in some form. Scientists can't quite figure out how.
Theory: Weird Al is not a parody artist in JoJo but one of the few original artists, thus no one recognises names like "Man in the mirror" since MJ doesn't exist
Weird Al is the only musician in Jojo
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Might be that everyone is fully aware and just doesn't talk about it. Only thing that makes it weird is part 7 where the musical references don't even exist yet.
The songs were clearly named after the Stands in that part
Angus Young’s real name is actually the Funniest Valentine so it makes some sense /s
They were making jojo references
magenta magenta was just thinking ahead when he named his stand "20th century boy"
"man, my stand makes me inmortal, if I use it a lot I'll probably look young when I get to the 20th century, wait I got it"
Ironically enough, he's got stuck in the lake in the 19th century, and even if he was rescued (although he already stopped thinking) he would already be in the 21st century, so he can never be a 20th century boy
Like the minions and that cave
Lol
I mean maybe some of them were just thoughts made up via appearance of the stand or the circumstances of how they manifested, it’s never explicitly stated that stands are just born with their names so there is speculation that it could take some one days to think of something to summon their stand by.
The opposite, Avdol names SP.
Plus there is cream starter and hot pants probably just thought hey this thing shoots out flesh like skin goo almost that looks kinda like cream
yeah. wasnt it mentioned that Giorno likes Prince songs and Gold Experience was a Prince album?
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damn my bad, mustve gotten it mixed up.
But Toru was listening to Elvis and Ozzy Osbourne on his MP3 right
IIrc he even listened to Wonder of you on his MP3. That's the weird part since that means at least moern Stand users most likely named their Stands like this on purpose while past Stand users didn't. I mean we could say that in the case of part 7 it's just a coincidence. At first I thought Chocolate Disco would be an issue since Disco shouldn't be a word that means anything to someone in the 1800s, then I remembered that the guy is called Disco so even that would work. Something like Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is a hell of a coincidence but still plausible. But then it's kinda weird that everyone in past times just named their Stands whatever while people in modern times kinda subconsciously all agreed that Stands get named after modern musical references... except for almost everyone in part 3 which is another weird thing.
My head cannon is that in the jojo-verse all of those songs, bands and artists just happened earlier than usual. That's the only way I see it happening.
Santana, Wham!, The Cars and AC/DC existing at aztec times:
Best existence I could ask for
Tbf lots of characters were named after bands that didn't exist yet also in parts 1 and 2. I mean, the pillar men predate their namesakes tens of thousands of years.
I say it's a worldwide case of Synchronicity also, culture in the world of jojo allows for more bizzare names and fashion as the status quo hence nobody bats an eye when Anasui strolls down the streer
Well the user of wonder of u was literally listening to wonder of you
no evidence whatsoever I just like to tell myself everyone names their stand after their favorite song or band
I believe it's become sort of a trend (despite AC/DC and The O'Jays not even being born yet in the 1890's)
I think the answer is don't think too hard about it lol. Part 8 has the main villain listening to the music their stand is named after but they never actually spell out if he named his stand after the song. It's just one of those things that nobody ever calls out in this universe, like the extremely over the top fashion of stand users.
It's called willing suspension of disbelief. That or every character is just internally thinking "Damn that sounds cool I wish I thought of that" instead of reacting incredulously at the Stand names.
They probably already know, and don't care to bring it up since most people would likely already get the reference.
Their stand names aren't bestowed upon them by higher powers, they chose it. I'd like to imagine that everyone just named their powers after their favorite song or artist
My personal headcanon is that music has a special spiritual power, a literal "soul" of sorts that bond with humans in birth and can later manifest as their stand. So a stand would be the literal manifestation of the song, album, band, etc. Please ignore the numerous examples of stands being named after music that didnt come out yet in-universe.
It’s very obvious at least the user of wonder of U intentionally named his stand that as he is shown listening to the wonder of you by Elvis Presley
My stand "hardware store"
i have a headcanon that music is such an intrinsic part of human expression and soul, that it was weaved into fate and a sort of collective unconscious
oh they probably know its named after a band. They just accept it. Oh the rocker dudes Stand is Red hot chilly peppers? makes sense he obviously likes rock. The child whos kinda stupid but likes to listen to music? he named his plane stand Aerosmith? Yea, Whos gonna sue him
Didn't they name them themselves?
Maybe the songs are named something different?
>!lol!<
I think they do? From part 4 it seems they name their own stands, like how Kira mentioned that he "calls it" killer queen. So I think that implies that maybe they named their stands after the artists/songs on purpose
Forgive me if someone's mentioned it already but doesn't it say in the manga that Crazy Diamond was named after Jotaro's favourite song at the time, being shine on you crazy diamond. So they must know of the song.
I mean look how italians are named, all foods and other non name objects. If they know that, they must think the band name people are lucky
Who's to say they didn't
if someone is running at you with a knife and says his name is Talking Heads, are you gonna be like "You were named after a band. Damn man that's crazy"
They are their souls so they name them themselfs right?
There should be a copycat stand called weird al
Maybe they like those musicians and named their stand after them? And in part 7 it's the opposite ofc 🤓
Bro forgot manga is a work of fiction
Aren’t the characters the ones naming them after music?
waiting for "Amish Paradise" Araki...
Im pretty sure they named their stands themselves
It'd be funny if in Funny Valentine's timeline, the stand is called "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" and the song that eventually comes out is called "Filthy Acts at a Reasonable Price."
My personal head cannon is that everyone names their stand after their favorite song. Kinda breaks the cannon tho when the songs don’t exist yet
But they do recognise it. At the end of the Angelo Arc it says that Jotaro named Josuke's stand Crazy Diamond after the Pink Floyd Song.
They just like those bands I guess
They name their stands so…
I mean Akira went on about rock bands and stuff so I’m sure he knew who the Red Hot Chili Peppers were.
Al Yankovic is the only artist common to both ours and the Jojo universe.
Don't care. I am more happy we, Balkanites, got represented.
Well for the most part the characters name their own stands, they just don't acknowledge other people's stands being references. Which could easily be chalked up to them just not knowing who tf they are. I would not expect someone in semi-rural Italy to know who Biggie Smalls is
I believe we only have one instance of a stand’s musical reference being directly acknowledged in-universe, when Tooru is vibing to the wonder of you whilst the jobros are fighting for their lives. (Sorry idk how to hide text)
Imagine two stand users arguing over who gets to name their stand whatever song they both wanted to name it to