Spelling in Song Lyrics
Top Ten Songs with Spelled Lyrics:
- Aretha Franklin: “Respect”
- Men without Hats: “Safety Dance”
- Bay City Rollers: “Saturday Night”
- Plastilina Mosh: “Mr. P. Mosh”
- Chapell Roan: “Hot to Go”
- The Doors: “Gloria”
- John Cougar Mellencamp: “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.”
- Ashley Simpson: “L.O.V.E.”
- Madonna feat. M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj: “Give Me All Your Luvin’"
- Darryl Hall & John Oates: “Method of Modern Love”
Other ways that letter names feature in doing lyrics:
- Initials: Village People’s “YMCA”, Naughty by Nature’s “OPP”, The Beatles’ “Back in the USSR”, Freeez’s “IOU”, The Rembrandt’s “I’ll be there for you” (“…your love life is D.O.A…”), etc.
- Spelling, punctuated by calls of “gimme a…”: Violent Femmes’ “Faith”, Fobia’s “Perra Policía”, etc.
- Words that cannot be pronounced but by spelling them: ABBA’s “SOS”, MIA’s “XXXO”, Peaches’ “AA XXX”, etc.
- To talk about the letters themselves: The Jackson Five’s “ABC”, Moby’s “Next is the ‘E’”, Kiss’ “Let’s put the ‘X’ in ‘Sex’”, etc.
Pseudo Uses: Acrostics (Korn’s “A.D.I.D.A.S.) and Prince-style pseudo-spelling (Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U been gone”)
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