Popular People

You know, I recently went over a shameless list of search terms and while looking over trends, I noticed how Miley Cyrus actually popped up a lot in several trending lists. Actress, musical artist, people (did you know she was a person?), and teen pop artist. I never watched her show, Hannah Montana, though I do have the misfortunate of recalling her father, Billy Ray Cyrus's tune, Achy Breaky Heart. I much prefer the Weird Al knock-off, Achy Break Song, where he begs not to ever play that song again.

One thing I will admit, however, based on what I do know about young Miley is that she actually does have some singing chops. I've listened to quite a few of her songs, and it isn't bad. Her older stuff is fairly bubble gum, but some of the more recent is quite passable. I also found it interesting that she is more popular than everyone's favorite teen punching bag, Justin Bieber, at least as a search result. And of course, a big search engine welcome to Cory Monteith of Glee fame, which is another show I've never watch, but I totally clicked on his name to find a Wikipedia article written in his honor.

Hm, it says he's Canadian. That's not remotely interesting.

Naturally, William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are right near the top of the list what with that new royal English baby they got going on. Prince William being the second in line to the rather pointless throne of England behind his father. I watched an Animaniacs episode once that had Prince Charles, William's father who was married to the illustrious Princess Diana (I bet he felt so lucky to get with someone so popular), as a character, and at one point, Yakko (probably) asked him, "Who died and made you king?" to which the downtrodden Prince Charles replied with a sniffle, "Nobody." Laughed out loud every time. I still laugh out loud at that. Well, I'm not laughing right now, since I would distract the people around me, but if I were alone and actually watching the episode instead of merely replying it in my head, I would probably laugh...every time. That's a probable chance of an every time laugh right there.

It is worth noting that Kate out trends William in the search. That'll show him. I'm not sure what it'll show him, but it just will(iam).

And before I drop this shameless post, I'll just shout out to Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Donald Trump. No reason, really. Just thought I'd include them because I can. As someone in charge of one aspect of my life makes clear, when you're in charge, you can do what you want. Happy Sunday.