The band says fondness for the amplifiers is "mainly" why they chose the name, but there were a "few" other reasons they won't disclose. Maybe they're just in the pocket of Big Parentheses? Chillwave artist and producer Chaz Bundwick took a multilingual approach when choosing his stage name, Toro Y Moi. So it's pronounced "toro ee mwah," not "toro WHY moo-ee," like you're commiserating with cattle.
As for why he chose the name, Bundwick says it literally just came to him as a teen. It was pretty much nonsensical. The trick to pronouncing it correctly is not to hit the final "S" too hard. Think of it this way: "Seger Ross," which sounds like a band that plays Bob Seger-style songs about Ross from Friends , is totally wrong. It's more like "ciggar rose," which sounds like a gross, rose-flavored clove you smoke when you're trying to quit the real thing.
The band has a handy audio pronunciation guide on its website, if you're looking to settle arguments. Yes, the Swedish indie-pop singer's name looks like "Likely," which would be a pretty awesome name for a Swedish indie-pop singer. However, it's actually "Licky Lee," which sounds like what the kids call the creepy guy who lives down the block and won't stop wetting his lips. By the way, if you think "Lykke Li" is a tricky stage name for Americans to master, she could have gone with her given name : Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson.
We'd love to hear Ryan Seacrest mangle that. There's an easy way to remember this one, whether you love or hate him: it's all about the YAWN. There's no good way, unfortunately, to remember that his album The Age of Adz is actually pronounced "Age of Odds.
No, it's not "dead mau 5" or just "dead mau. He named himself, incidentally, after a dead mouse he found inside his computer. TM1, deadmau5. This one's a classic: no, it doesn't rhyme with made or paid. Scottish synthpop band Chvrches say they chose to use a Roman "V" so "Google wouldn't confuse the group with actual churches," which was pretty brilliant. Search results for "churches" anywhere on the planet buries the band's page, but searching for "chvrches" gets you nothing but band-related results.
But the band says it backfired a little bit, because people frequently ask how it's pronounced. It's simple, really: just start to say "church" and then go "vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv" when you get to the "V. For the love of all that is holy, the band is just pronounced "Churches," because a U is now a V in Chvrchland.
The Canadian fuzz-pop band responsible for 's infectious "Marry Me Archie" weren't aiming for improved search engine optimization when they went with the unique "Alvvays" instead of just "Always" but it definitely helped : there was already a "dream pop" band on Sony Records called Always, so they had to switch it up.
As for the pronunciation, think of the back-to-back "Vs" as a "W": it's simply "Always. Japanese duo Cibo Matto's early songs were often crazy songs about food, so it makes sense that their name is Italian for "crazy food. However, he says he's heard plenty of goofups, like "zoo-zoo," "ju-ju," and even, hilariously and bafflingly, "schwee-schwee.
Atlanta-based rapper and singer Makonnen Sheran — stage name iLoveMakonnen — went platinum in with "Tuesday," despite recording under a name that reads like a LiveJournal handle. It's not "mack-on-in" or "muh-kon-nen," by the way. Because high school, he soon started calling himself that, as well. He says he later dropped the "Professor" part because he realized it was "wack. Sorry, '90s hip-hop fans: "Digable," as in Digable Planets, has nothing to do with digits or anything digital.
It's "Dig-able" Planets, not "Digi-ble" Planets. Think "able to be dug," ya dig? Indie rock band and '90s feminist icons Sleater-Kinney took their name from Sleater-Kinney Road in Washington state, and it's pronounced "slayter-kinny," not "sleeter-kinny" or "sleeter-kinnay.
So don't be preppie and say "sleeter. The hip-hop duo's moniker looks like the name of an old blues musician but is really just "Ear Drummers" backward. That itself is a bit cleverer than some of the others on this list, but they also disguise it further by pronouncing it in such a way that it invokes an old suit-and-tie clad real estate agent: "RAY SRIM-MERD.
Funny thing is, before , this band was just called "Dive. In they again said that they would be returning with new music. And now, still in , they have gone so far as to tease us with new music on their social media platforms.
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