There is a Kiwi band called Shihad. They were right up there in popularity (not my cup of tea but I wasn’t their target audience). When a NZ band gets popular they leave and go to Australia usually. Sometimes they have better deals and go further.
Well Shihad got a deal for a (I presume very small time) tour of the US. And then 9/11 happened. Shihad’s management told then that Shihad and Jihad sounded too much the same so they changed their name.
They became Pacifier
Well I just heard that they have gone back to their original name. Would this really hurt them? Good on them going with the name they chose as young bucks (who knows why or how they chose it) but would the name really hurt them overseas?
Perhaps they should have changed from Pacifier to the Kiwi version which would be Dummy.
I remember them changing (but didn’t know they reverted) and thought it was a bit piss weak at the time but they felt they had a commercial decision to make and hysteria was running especially high. Recall the Sikh petrol station attendant in America being mistaken for a Muslim and murdered because of it or when Peter Jackson made the controversial decision of retaining the Two Towers name for that installment of the LOTR trilogy. There are loads of similar ludicrous examples.
I think the name would have hurt sales in the US and so they made the business decision to ditch it although I’m just surprised they went back on it. Did they get all artistically integrified?
Yep they have got all reunited with their artistic selves. Who knows where the name Shihad came from in the first place (they were teenagers!) but they have re-embraced their bad selves
I don’t think the dummy/pacifier connection was lost on many.
