They’d get a pass on “she’s got a ticket to ride,” but pairing that with “she don’t care” is just too much. One would “whip it well,” not “whip it good.” And he gets so close to correcting the grammar problem as it comes along when he sings “It’s not to late to whip it, well whip it good.” 10 | Ticket to Ride by The Beatles
The lyric I’m nitpicking here is “Lay down with me, tell me no lies.” It should be “Lie down with me, tell me no lies.” Of course, that would mean the line starts and ends with “lie,” but couldn’t that be construed as clever structure? 9 | Whip It by Devo 8 | I Can’t Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt
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Should be “two fewer lonely people in the world.” See, THIS is why Air Supply should stick exclusively to break up songs they have no idea how to handle happy couples. 7 | Two Less Lonely People In the World by Air Supply Who shouts out the red American Express? That’s like bragging because you have a Playstation One. Yes, there are a few moments in the song where the lyrics go, “I like you just the way you are”… but there are a plenty where the lyrics go, “Can you handle me the way I are?” He also loses points in this song for shouting out the red American Express.
This entry also encompasses Justin Timberlake’s “when you cheated girl, my heart bleeded girl” and everyone who’s ever used the word “conversate.” 6 | The Way I Are by Timbaland “Song she sang to me, song she brang to me” is hard to hear, even in a smooth, seductive baritone voice. He went with “I feel the magic between you and I” so he could rhyme “I” with “eyes.” So he sacrificed grammar to rhyme a word with itself… almost? That’s worse than rhyming Homer with Homer. Which is probably true in a literal sense, unless she dumped him during the winter in Iceland. Colloquial slang notwithstanding, technically he’s saying there IS sunshine when she’s gone. The double negative in the title (and repeated throughout) completely changes the song. She took the lyric “If I were a rich man” and turned it into “If I was a rich girl.” You don’t see the Jews writing musicals with lyrics like “I are walking in a spiderweb.” 3 | Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers So she bit Fiddler on the Roof… but screwed up the grammar.
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Who needs a bunch of Iomega Zip drives? 2 | Rich Girl by Gwen Stefani The group of pop writing computers who statistically piece together marketable Lady Gaga lyrics should be sold for parts. In Bad Romance, she sings “You and me could write a bad romance” when it should be “You and I could write a bad romance.” Then in You and I she sings “Yeah, something about, baby, you and I” when it should be “you and me.” She lost two “I/me” coin flips on two hit songs. 1 | Bad Romance and You and I by Lady Gaga All are encouraged to scold me for the grammatical mistakes I’ll inevitably make throughout the list.
(Paula Cole’s “Say a little prayer for I” and Fergie’s Fergalicious are exempt because I already covered them in the awful rhymes list.) I tried to focus on lyrics that seemed to make the mistakes unintentionally rather than artistically. So here is a long overdue collection of 11 painful grammatical errors in song lyrics. I came close with lists like 11 Most Hilariously Awful Rhymes In Music History, but never hit the bullseye. At some point my two loves - shooting fish in a barrel and pedantry - should’ve intersected like this. I can’t believe it took me almost five years to write this list. A pedantic vivisection of everyone from the Beatles to Lady Gaga.
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