# That's NOT why I named her Lola, you twit! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 25, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565 "2000-05-25T23:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/41 "2000-05-31T17:37:16Z")
Olentzero quote: **"I really, really, REALLY hate to break the magic of this thread, but didn’t Madonna name her daughter Lourdes? Not Lola?"** Yes, but like Sweet\_Lotus, Madonna _calls_ her daughter Lola. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PTVroman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@PTVroman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PTVroman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/42 "2000-05-31T19:16:44Z")
[quote] we ended up naming one after me and one after a squirrel. [quote] You named your daughter Rocket J.? ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/43 "2000-05-31T23:02:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Olentzero quote: > **"I really, really, REALLY hate to break the magic of this thread, but didn’t Madonna name her daughter Lourdes? Not Lola?"** > > Yes, but like Sweet\_Lotus, Madonna _calls_ her daughter Lola. 🙂 > > \*\* I’m surprised that no one has mentioned why Madonna calls her baby Lola – it’s after Marlene Dietrich’s character Lola Lola in “The Blue Angel”. Oddly enough, the Kinks song “Lola” still makes sense if you imagine that it is about Dietrich instead of a drag queen. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/44 "2000-06-01T01:10:21Z")
As I recall, Annie Lennox’s daughter is named Lola. I remember some reporter asking if the child was named for the Kink’s “Lola.” Annie humoured him, laughed, and said something like, “well, partly.” Of course, I may be getting the story confused. It’s amazing how many pop-culture Lola’s there are. I usually think of the Kinks song myself, but “Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets” is better catchy fun–if I knew a girl named Lola, word-association would have me singing that until she slapped me. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2000, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/45 "2000-06-01T01:50:52Z")
For the interested, and those with lots of time on their hands, you can hear the Yoda & Annakin Guy songs on LucasRadio - a streaming web radio that plays music from the movies and games of LucasArts. As I type this the Pirate Song from Curse of Monkey Island is playing. There doesn’t seem to be a play list, but you don’t usually have to listen long before one or the other comes up. their web address: [http://lucasradio.mixnmojo.com/](http://lucasradio.mixnmojo.com/) their IP: 216.32.166.87:7542 works w/ winamp & realplayer, any shoutcast palyer. enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![BigGiantHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b4bc9f/32.png) [@BigGiantHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigGiantHead)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2000, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/46 "2000-06-01T03:23:00Z")
An interesting point you make, doctorj (and with a further-back nod of the head to Fenris). I fall with other posters into the Kinks genre, but - always looking for an opportunity to expand the mind - I popped open Napster to have a listen to Damn Yankees, with which I’m unfamiliar. Much to my suprise, for every Kinks hit there’s an equal number from the soundtrack of the movie Run Lola Run. Now I can’t stop hearing that flame-haired lovely (how appropriate for the BBQ Pit) screaming “Manni!!” while racing to the pulsing rave-punk beat. “And then…” 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565.md?page=2)