# What's with all the S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G in current music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874 "2007-03-06T23:11:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/21 "2007-03-07T12:55:32Z")
Spelling in songs? It is **D** - so Didactic, really **I** - an Inspiration, good for **S** - Study Sessions just like **C** - extra Classes it is **O - o - oooooh** - no, you’re right. It sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/22 "2007-03-07T13:57:49Z")
M-E-T-H-O-D O-F L-O-V-E…It’s a method of modern love… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/23 "2007-03-07T15:09:14Z")
Y? Becuse we \*like \* you! ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/24 "2007-03-07T15:46:59Z")
[QUOTE=hawksgirl] Which, as a snack, are T- to the-A-to the-S-T-Y, tasty. [/QUOTE] Actually, in the song you refer to, they misspell tasty with t-to the-a-to the s-t-e-y. :smack: No wonder nobody can spell anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/25 "2007-03-07T17:39:46Z")
Talk from your heart and not just your brain Talk from your heart and not just your brain C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-E (Your brain that is) C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-E It’s easier if you spell it out. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/26 "2007-03-07T18:05:39Z")
[QUOTE=Inner Stickler] Has someone been playing Fergalicious too often? [/QUOTE] I.e., once or more? I hear that vile squirt of acoustic diarrhea _every time_ I go to my gym. I’m not violent by nature, but when I hear the intro to it I want to start heaving barbell plates at the ceiling speakers, and I feel myself transforming into DeNiro’s Al Capone. “I want you to find Fergie and everyone else involved in producing that song, I want them _DEAD_! I want their families _DEAD_! I want their houses _burned to the GROUND_! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna _PISS ON THEIR ASHES_!” I also wondered about the “[letter] to the [letter]” thing, which I’ve heard elsewhere too. Anything that promotes an interest in the lost art of spelling isn’t all bad, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/27 "2007-03-07T18:23:19Z")
I’ll just hop into my T-R-A-N-S-A-M and get outta here… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/28 "2007-03-07T18:40:55Z")
I suggest you ask the gal from K-A-L-A-M-A-Z-O-O. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/29 "2007-03-07T18:45:53Z")
A-B-C, this thread is like 1-2-3… ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/30 "2007-03-07T20:55:16Z")
A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-S-E, Apocalypse!! (“A-Bomb In Wardour Street”, The Jam). ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/31 "2007-03-07T21:02:01Z")
C-H-E-E-S-E A-N-D O-N-I-O-N-S, oh no… ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/32 "2007-03-07T22:55:29Z")
This has been posted before but: [A probing analysis of “Hollaback Girl”](http://www.ocweekly.com/music/music/this-shit-is-bananas/18901/) ---
**Author:** ![Carnacki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Carnacki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnacki)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/33 "2007-03-07T23:13:19Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] I also wondered about the “[letter] to the [letter]” thing, which I’ve heard elsewhere too. Anything that promotes an interest in the lost art of spelling isn’t all bad, I guess. [/QUOTE] Better yet, isn’t that both arithmetic _and_ spelling? ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/34 "2007-03-07T23:24:06Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] Talk from your heart and not just your brain Talk from your heart and not just your brain C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-E (Your brain that is) C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-E It’s easier if you spell it out. 🙂 [/QUOTE] [hijack] WHOA, \*that \* took me back. Now my husband is wondering why the hell I’m singing “baby, baby bouncing off the satellites, yeah!” [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/35 "2007-03-07T23:41:58Z")
Maybe they’re just dreaming of U-N-C-O-N-D-I-T-I-O-N-A-L-L-O-V-E. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/36 "2007-03-08T00:19:03Z")
[QUOTE=KidScruffy] Better yet, isn’t that both arithmetic _and_ spelling? [/QUOTE] If you’re looking for arithmetic examples, there’s “Come Together” by the Beatles: _One and one and one is three…_ Of course the pedant in me says that’s wrong, since I interpret the word “and” as a Boolean expression, meaning the answer should really be “one”. They should sing it as “One **plus** one **plus** one…” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/37 "2007-03-08T00:25:43Z")
[QUOTE=dwc1970] If you’re looking for arithmetic examples, there’s “Come Together” by the Beatles: _One and one and one is three…_ [/QUOTE] Which shows the incredible progress that Lennon and McCartney had made as songwriters in the five years since writing (but not recording) “One and One Is Two.” ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/38 "2007-03-08T01:32:23Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] I also wondered about the “[letter] to the [letter]” thing, which I’ve heard elsewhere too. Anything that promotes an interest in the lost art of spelling isn’t all bad, I guess. [/QUOTE] The first time I heard “J to the A to the Y to the Z” (for example) I parsed it as: J[sup]A[sup]Y[sup]Z[/sup][/sup][/sup]. And I thought, “Man, that would be impossible to integrate.” ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/39 "2007-03-08T02:37:37Z")
M is for the million things she gaaaaaaaaaaaaave me… (c. 1915) ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g-in-current-music/394874/40 "2007-03-08T08:04:40Z")
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