- Hey, Naturals, how's it going?
And welcome back to Go Natural English.
Today, we're talking about band names
that are commonly mispronounced.
Even native English speakers often say
these band names wrong,
and so, today, we're gonna clear up your doubts
so that you can talk about the music you love
in fluent English confidently.
So, let's jump right in.
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I'm Gabby from GoNaturalEnglish.com,
where you can learn English fluently, naturally.
So, the first band is a group of three sisters
who play kind of '70s soft rock
or '90s R&B, it's kind of a mixture of styles,
and their band name is correctly pronounced hime.
If you've ever studied Hebrew
or if there's any Hebrew speakers here,
you can tell me in the comments, please,
it rhymes with l'chaim,
which is to your health or cheers in Hebrew,
so, it's easy to remember that way.
Number two, we have a kind of indie,
folk-rock artist, bohn ee-vehr.
Bon Iver decided it would be really cool
to name himself, or his musical group,
after the French for good winter,
which is (speaks in foreign language).
French speakers, is the pronunciation any difference
in real French?
I think it's quite similar, right?
Number three, we have an electronic music group
from Toronto with a lot of consonants.
The correct pronunciation is master-kraft.
It's just master-kraft
but with all the vowels removed.
How clever.
Next, we have another electronic artist.
I always thought that this was dead-mau-five,
but apparently, the five stands for an S,
and it's actually dead-mouse.
So, I learned something new in this lesson.
Have you so far?
Tell me in the comments.
This R&B, jazz singer, songwriter, amazing artist
is pronounced shah-day, not sade, but shah-day.
This group, started by two Japanese women,
started singing initially about food,
and so, their name in Italian means crazy food.
It's chee-bo maht-o.
This Swedish guitarist has been named
as one of the top 10 of all-time electric guitar players
by Time magazine.
You pronounce his name as ing-veh malm-steen.
This super-popular hip hop artist
from Barbados is named ree-ahn-na.
So, a lot of people say ree-an-na,
but the correct pronunciation is ree-ahn-na.
This American rapper and singer
is mack-la-more.
So, even the singer himself has pronounced
his name as mack-la-more,
but a lot of people say mackle-more.
It's a slight difference, but we wanna get it right, right?
This American rock band couldn't call themself
Management, so, they ended up calling themselves M-G-M-T.
Apparently, Management was already taken.
This American hip hop duo is ray sri-merd,
and did you know that it is two words spelled backwards?
Drummer's ear?
This American rock band, known for their feminist lyrics,
is pronounced slater kin-ee.
And finally, this '90s classic alternative, hip hop group
is dig-a-buhl planets, dig-a-buhl because to dig something
is to be into it, or to like it, or to be interested in it.
So, dig-a-buhl planets.
And there you have it.
13 commonly mispronounced band names.
Super confusing to pronounce these names,
but now, you know even more in English
than a lot of native English speakers.
So, help your native-English-speaker friends like me
to pronounce these names correctly, won't you?
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