songs where singers pronounce words incorrectly

I've heard "gran-ight" once in a blue moon, out in the world, but remain unclear on whether it's actually an accepted pronunciation in any region or community.

Arlo Guthrie - "Coming Into Los Angel-eees"

Seems wrong, but what do I know, I live on the est coast.

― henry s, Friday, December 15, 2023 10:16 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

the correct way is how Sam Elliott pronounces it in THE BIG LEBOWSKI

I’ve been obsessed for years with how Sam Elliott enunciates “Sacramento” in this one Coors commercial

Manic Street Preachers when they made a new album from Richey's notebooks years after he vanished:

"Shards, shards,
the androgyny fails,
Odalisque by Ingres, extra bones for sale"

sabotaged maybe the best lyric on the album by pronouncing Ingres so that it rhymes with 'embrace'.

Camera Obscura's Tracyanne Campbell on "I Missed Your Party" pronounces Billy Joel as Billy "jo-EL".

xp Ingres rhymes with Hongro, right?

David Sylvian in "The Devil's Own"...

"the ticking of the clock in-ex-OR-a-bly goes on"

I recall Green Gartside saying he only learnt how to pronounce Jacques Derrida correctly after he'd recorded and released the song

xxp Uhh YES, yes it does!! ROFL!

wait, how are you pronouncing Ingres/Hongro for them to rhyme?

correctly

Ingres should be pronounced 'Ang%#'

"o" is apparently pronounced "ooh" in Norwegian, and "ø" is the u sound in "ur"

gonna start calling Ingres "Oongrur" (ok I will probably never say Ingres out loud ever, but if I do)

You mean it isn't pronounced HANG-grə?

Another painter: on Game Theory's "Chardonnay", Scott Miller sings, "gonna take Ernst, Dali and De Chirico", pronounced "CHEER-i-co". Funny, since he had been a student of painting.

"o" is apparently pronounced "ooh" in Norwegian

can confirm as I once heard a pack of teenage girls in Bergen shout "YOOLOO"