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’”, ...