Who hasn’t misheard a song lyrics. We thought it might be fun to feature some favorites here for you to enjoy.
Alex Turner of the rock band Arctic Monkeys is acknowledged as one of the great lyricists of the age. The award-winning poet Simon Armitage recently hailed him as a fellow poet, whose words repay repeated study. Yet, few of Turner’s biggest fans will ever have seen his lyrics, let alone studied them.
When Miami native Luther Campbell emerged on the city’s music scene in the 1980s as the outrageous front man for the rap group 2 Live Crew, parents cringed as their teenagers chanted along with the most sexed-laced lyrics of the day.
Jah Jah put I on a different page, chants up-and-coming singer, I-Octane, whose repertoire has consistently featured roots and culture lyrics.
Its understandable why Bay Area backpack rapper Lyrics Born (born Tom Shimura but known as the first-ever Asian astronaut) has garnered enough attention from his live show to make it one of the most hyped in his realm of hip-hop.
The vivid image the unexpected rhyme the witty play on words With all of those assets, song lyrics can be one of the signal pleasures of musical theater. That’s not true just for audiences, but for performers, too.
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Even before she married French president Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni had a thing for prominent men such as Mick Jagger and Donald Trump. So even though the lyrics on her third album, “Comme Si de Rien N’Etait” (”As If Nothing Happened”)…
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