Because it’s an Americanized/Anglicized pronunciation. WTF? 
My last name is not pronounced the way it “should be” either. How do you feel about “Favre”?
On many of Tina Turner’s albums (I think most of the ones she’s released since the early nineties) she is credited on the front cover as “Tina”, and the new pothumous Michael Jackson album coming out in December will have one word on the cover: “Michael”. Michael never cut off his last name while he was alive but Ms. Turner has been simply “Tina” quite a few times.
I agree that they are usually referred to by their full name but there have been instances where just the one has been deemed sufficient.
Are they actually credited as those names, or are they just the names of those albums? There’s a big difference.
Agreed.
Who, Murphy Brown’s house painter?
I like all of the Christina albums I have so far (“Back to Basics,” “Stripped,” “Bionic”). She’s trying different things, and I give her full props for that. Bionic is worth it just for Bobblehead and Desnudate.
I think I’ll have to get my hands on a Britney album (probably start with “Blackout” at your recommendation).
I couldn’t tell you the name of one Christina Aguilera song but if someone young said to me they were a big Christina fan, I would know who they meant. I can’t think of another Christina in recent history.
That was Eldon.
You don’t anglicize by omitting letters. And Favre is not an Americanization–it is actually pronounced that way in some dialects of French.
Plus, as far as I can tell, Ms. Aguilera herself pronounces it the right way. It’s the stupid American media that couldn’t pronounce it correctly.
Agree on the talk show hosts (something about the form?) but Demi Lovato isn’t that big yet, & while I like Paris Cullins (I have his entire Wonder Woman run) he’s far from a household name.
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What are you talking about? If I saw a name like “Aguilera” and didn’t know a lick of Spanish, “agg-YOU-lair-uh” looks like a reasonable Anglicization to me (as would “agg-WEE-lair-uh”. And we drop letters all the time when Anglicizing. Does anyone pronounce the K in “Krzyzewski” for example, like is done in Polish?
(And I doubt “Favre” is pronounced “Farv” in English because of some dialect of French–something I never heard of, but let’s assume it’s true. I suspect it’s for the same reason “hors d’oevre” becomes “oar DURV” in English–because “vr” is a wacky combination in English.)
So far as I could find, you are right on this point.
Perhaps, but it seems to be the officially recognized pronunciation now. The NLS (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped) specifies that pronunciation for Christina (but not Albert.)
Does Tina Turner have all these different albums all called “Tina”? No, that’s what she’s credited as on the cover of albums like What’s Love Got To Do With It?, Wildest Dreams, Twenty Four Seven and All The Best.
The Michael one hasn’t been released yet, all I know is that there is no “Jackson” on the cover. It might be on the spine or possibly the back.
Also, Justin is the new Justin.
It’s a little too soon for Bieber to replace Timberlake. He’s still young and his career is still hot. Granted I don’t listen to him, but then I don’t listen to Bieber either.
Blackout is absolutely her masterpiece, and if you like that I’d recommend getting The Singles Collection, which came out last year and rounds up all of her best moments from other albums without too much overlap with Blackout (so you won’t be re-buying many songs). Many of her other studio albums are patchy, the only other one I would really describe as brilliant as a whole is In The Zone from 2003, but it took years for me to realise that it was quite strong. Blackout was instant.
It clearly didn’t work, though, since those articles all refer to her consistently as Tina Turner, not Tina, and her writing credits are as Tina Turner. She’s pretty cool and made some great music, but her name simply isn’t distinctive enough.
You originally said:
And the answer for Tina is yes, because it’s right there on her album covers. I know she’s not always referred to as a single name like Madonna or Cher but I didn’t think that was what we were talking about.
Plus there’s the simple fact that he’s already got a single name–people tend to refer to him as Bieber. Heck, I’d forgotten his first name was Justin.
“Shawty Mane”, his rapper alter-ego (I wish I was kidding), is my personal favourite Bieber name.
I’ve always thought his family must be the worst spellers in history, and I fault most of the rest of the world for going along with their idiocy.
It would be like me telling people: my name is spelled B-O, but it’s actually pronounced ‘Roderick’.