Unusual pronunciations of words in songs

It is much easier to belt an "AY" than and "EEE".

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That always bothers me when David Elder sings "yooooo" on the 42nd Street recording.

Another one of those is Matthew Broderick on H2S revival, in "I Believe In You," his "You" at the end of the line sounds like he's trying too hard to open up the vowel and it's obnoxious.

E vowels tighten up your throat. They're a pain in the ass to sing half the time no matter how strong of a voice you have. Why do you think Sho Bean sings them through her nose?



When Gina Gershon was in Cabaret, she sang the title song like
"Life is a CabUHRAY ole' chum, come to the CabUHRAY" Don't really think it's a big deal, but anyway.

Joel Grey did the same thing in the movie version "Im Cabaret, Au Cabaret, to CabUHRAAAAAY" the little inflection through the nose.

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"Totally gone/Gone with the wind[e]" - "Where Is The Life That Late I Led" - "Kiss Me Kate"

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Patti LuPone and any word with a vowel usually merits an unusual pronunciation.

The "42nd Street" line always annoyed me. The first time I heard it, I seriously thought he was saying another word, maybe "her".

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I get irritated some times by "Defying GraviDEEEEE" but I think that's coz I'm English...

Not a Broadway song, but I never understood Natasha Bedingfield's pronunciation of "hyperbole" as 3 syllables (hy-per-bowl rather than hy-per-bo-lee) in her song "These Words." Is this a British pronunciation of the word, or does she just not know how to pronounce it?

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actually i think holliday's performance of and i am telling you has led to multiple sins in this way. i mean, andy songs you can transcribe as;

eeeeeyyyyaaaaaand iiiiiiiiyyyyyeeee yyyeeeaaaamm tuuuuuhlling yeeeew, yiiiiiiiiiimm not gewinnnah

is just bizarre, and now a lot of people kinda copy it, especially the last vowel.

and i completely agree with the american's doing a british accent thing - i was watching vids on the site that must not be mentioned and found many many odd ones - secret garden, scarlet pimpernel, jekyll and hyde, les mis.

colm wilkinson can come up with some odd ones too - i know he's irish but i don't think his accent makes him come up with some of the bizarre sounds he does, its what makes him so easy to imitate (its far too long i'm shuaah)

Colm Wilkinson sounds like Sean Connery to me... or, at the very least, Will Ferrell's parody of him.

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Thanks, SNLMedia. I stand corrected.

SNLMedia? What are the odds?

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Updated On: 2/26/07 at 09:17 AM

In response to the Barbara Walsh "rise" thing, Anthony Rapp does the same thing on the Rent OCR during La Vie Boheme, "Here she lies" part in the intro, which kind of bothers me as well.

On the AIDA cast recording Adam Pascal says "tommow" instead of "tomorrow" in the song "Enchantment Passing Through." I don't know if he sang it like that every time he performed the song, but it always throws me. I saw it performed on tour and the actor playing Radames actually sang "tomorrow" and it was very nice to hear the word pronounced correctly during the song.