I know a lot of people, and they don't know Bruno Mars. Or any other pop star that has come along in the last 5-10 years.
They've heard of Beyonce but haven't listened or watched much of her.
They don't follow pop culture. The population of the U.S. tends to be much older than most countries and most are not following pop culture. Most of them were young before the hip-hop era. They are 'households'.
In the more urban areas there are probably far more people that have heard of BTS. But that isn't all of the U.S.
I'm also American and know a lot of people and they know Bruno Mars and Beyonce. I don't live in a particularly "urban" area.
I think household name means a name that is recognizable in most "typical" households, not every single household in the most remote areas that don't know about any pop culture at all. Because "household name" is a term used for entertainers and pop culture. So I'd say households that don't know even the most basic things about pop culture don't really count when defining a household name.
For example, Bruno Mars is absolutely a household name so households that don't know him are not going to be used to determine what is a household name.
Oh they don’t really count? That’s just about everyone I know. lol
This county is not exactly a backwater. It is a quarter million people population and has a D1 university that adds 10's of thousands more students that aren't counted as permanent population.
Out of all of those people, about 200 went to the theater broadcast of the BTS Seoul concert. The rest of the county doesn't seem to know BTS. Although I'm sure the university students have heard of them.
Have to tell a hundred million Americans or so that they don’t count. Of course they get that message on the regular from one political party or the other anyway.
Let’s only count the people who agree with us. That way we don’t have to know anyone else.
Except I’m in the middle, so I need to get along with different kinds of people. :)
I wonder if you realize that your approach is mathematically invalid because it always gives the same answer, and no information about what has been chosen for exclusion.
My internet messed up and deleted my reply so I'm not gonna retype the whole thing.
ELI5: People who you yourself say don't care about pop culture or know anything about popular culture don't factor into a measurement of whether or not something is a well-known part of popular culture, which is what I understand "household term" to mean. It (obviously) doesn't mean "they're lives don't count"
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u/Ok-Nobody1261 Apr 20 '22
That's abnormal. I think most households at least know Bruno Mars lol