What’s Trending: Friday, October 14th, 2022
#AMAs
o The American Music Award nominations came out yesterday and Bad Bunny leads the way with eight nominations, including for Artist of the Year.
o If he wins in all eight categories, he would tie Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston for the most AMAs in a single year.
o Beyoncé, Drake and Taylor swift were right behind him with six nominations each.
o Las Vegas’ own Imagine Dragons are tied with Maneskin as the group with the most nods.
o Up for Artist of the year are Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, Drake, The Weeknd, Adele, Beyoncé, and Harry Styles.
o The AMAs are on Sunday, November 20th at the Microsoft Theater in LA.
#GrandpaNames
o The baby name site Nameberry went through their internal data to predict trends for 2023. Here's a fun one: Naming your daughter after your great-grandfather might become a thing.
o Old man names for girls are starting to trend and names that they predict will be big next year include Max, Ira, Lenny, Ozzie, Rudy, Arlo, Clarke, Gene, Jasper, Teddy and Lou.
o Adjective names like Brave, Epic, Icy and Sincere are growing in popularity.
o And trending for boys are names inspired by western shows like “Yellowstone,” including Abbott, Briggs, Dutton, Huck, Rhett and Tex.
#Balenciaga
o The hottest item on the fashion runway is literally all that and a bag of chips.
o The designer label debuted its attest fashion trend this week and it’s Lay’s potato chip handbags.
o The leather clutch looks like the classic chip bag with some Balenciaga branding.
o It comes in red, green, blue and yellow which are actual Lay’s potato chip bags for different flavors.
o The Lay’s x Balenciaga bags cost $1800.