They're an American country music band who've been active since 1982. I'm surprised I've never heard of them, because "Diamond Rio" is also the name of The first successful Mp3 player sold in the US.
I dunno, isn't it kind of funny? A device that would go on to play a key role in legal arguments about "stealing music" has the same name as a group of musicians. Did anyone ever point that out at the time? It sounds like the kind of thing a plaintiff's attorney would say in their opening statements. "The greedy executives of Diamond Multimedia are so flagrant in their disrespect of the rights of musicians that they even stole this band's name!" That's how I picture it going down.
I learned this factoid1 from the most recent Angela Collier video, Red Flag Romance: 90s Country Edition, which is really fun and interesting. I recommend it even if you don't like country music. I don't. At least, I think I don't. I don't know, do I?
My complicated relationship with country music (and genre, and categories) will the topic of tomorrow's post, which I wrote a lot of today. This factoid doesn't really fit in the essay anywhere, so here it is now. Watch the Angela Collier video if you like videos, and I'll see you tomorrow for more Blaugust.
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I mean, she didn't present it like this. She just mentioned a song by the band, because she's normal and knows stuff about music. I'm the dummy who went "oh shit, that's a band? It's like this other thing!!" ↩