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My Band Name Aesthetics

"You know, Stellar Melody would have just been that much cooler, but whatever.... or is there a reason you went with Melody Stellar? "

Stellar Melody is too descriptive. It is standard adjective-noun structure, to be taken at complete face value as either an 80s retro description of an aspect of the band's music, or just a nostalgic title derived from something the band read somewhere. Most bands with serious aspirations wouldn't name themselves something like Fantastic Beat or Groovy Reverb, because they just don't sound like names. They're, well, 'hokey'.

But Melody Stellar can't be pinned down so easily. The fact that this is a pairing of words that you would never hear in everyday speech gives them a freshness, the quality that they can only exist together in this form as a name of something. One also hears in the words the possibility that this is a person or character's name, hence the "Ziggy Stardust" nod in the title (Melody Stellar and the Lizards from Venus... sound familiar?)

Using this knowledge of band-name-aesthetics, we can come back to our poor, aspiring bad-example bands and change their names to Reverb Groovy and Beat Fantastic. Hey, they don't work as well as MelStell, but they do sound better than they did, now don't they?