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Thursday, December 30, 2010 at 11:16AM 
Cause I'm! Having! A Good! Time! With You!
by MOLLY LAMBERT
Celebrating the achievements of musicians in pronouncing individual words in songs in memorable ways. These are mostly Top 40 type songs that I heard on the radio a lot, and a few that I didn't but wish I did. A semi-sequel to this post from earlier this year.
The 2010 Individual Lyric Pronunciation Awards
HEET "you are my number one heeeeeeeeet" R. Kelly, Number One Hit
YAYHUSS "Yayhuss, yayhuss. I can feel it now" Taylor Swift, Mine
NECKALUSS "got Jesus on my neckaluss uss uss" Ke$ha, We R Who We R
KALEE "we drove to Kalee & got drunk on the beach" Katy Perry, Teenage Dream
BIATCH "that's why I don't got love for a biatch" Too Short, Bitch
YUHHH "I tried to tell yuhhh but all I could say is" Elton John, All Of The Lights
LIYEEN "Did I mention that I was about to do that liyeen?" Fergie, All Of The Lights
MAHHH "OHHHHH MAHHHHHHHHH GOD" Will.I.Am./Usher, OMG
HOLSTA "that girl is the gun to my holsta" Iyaz, Replay
SEDUSSES "girl sedusses, they come in deuces" Kanye, Deuces remix
NAO "I could really use a wish right naooo" Hayley Williams, Airplanes
BOLSILLOOOO "She hides true love en su bolsilloooo" Lady Gaga, Alejandro
BAHDAY "Not everybody knows how to work my bahday" Rihanna, What's My Name
UHHHHHP "Why would you wanna break uhhhhp" Mario, Break Up
DAYUMN "Dayumn youse a sexy chick" Akon/David Guetta, Sexy Chick
PLAYN "Are we an item, girl quit playn" Justin Bieber, Baby
LAHV "Lahhhhhhhhhv! I don't get enough of it!" Jay-Z, Monster
LAHV "ya lahv ya lahv ya lahv is my drug" Ke$ha, Your Love Is My Drug
Nicki Minaj 2010 MVP Award: Special Acheivements In Single Word Pronunciation
ASBESTOS "and I just be comin' off the top, asbestos" Bedrock
NOICEUH "LOL smiley face have a noiceuh day" Up Out My Face
ADRUSS "I say meet me in the sky and that's my adruss" Teqkilla
TODLORE, "You're like a candy store and I'm a todlore" Your Love
MONATOWUN "I'm a stereo and she's just so monotowun" Check It Out
SLUGGA "Then I'ma go and get my Louisville slugga" Bottoms Up
FREDDAY "It's nightmare on Elm Street and guess who's playing Fredday" My Chick Bad
BLUFFERRR "I know you're not a blufferrr I'll take you to go see Usher" Little Freak
DEN-TAL "Den-tal, den-tal, yes bitch I'm mental" I Ain't Thru
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Reader Comments (5)
Invalid. The clear winner is:
"Turn y'all boys into pussies: sex CHAAAAYYNGE." - Lil' Wayne, "Right Above It"
is Kellz wearing a shirt with his own picture on it #swag
PLANCE "I came to dance dance dance dance, I hit the floor cuz that's my plance plance plance plance" - Taio Cruz, Dynamite
MEHH "What what what did u say oh you're breaking up on mehh" / "Stop telephonin mehh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-ehhh"
FASTAH "Boy the way u blowin up my phone won't make me leave no fastah, put my coat on fastah, leave my girls no fastah"
PARTEH "Not that I don't like you I'm just at a parteh" - Gaga/Beyonce, Telephone
WACHUYU "Wachuyu watchin me I go all out, the club can't even handle me right now" - Flo Rida/David Guetta, Club Can't Handle Me
PARANCE "At the mall there was a seance, just kids no parance" - Kanye, Dark Fantasy
RIDIKLUS/RIDICKALUS "I mean this shit is, fuckin ridiklus" - Kanye/Swizz Beatz/Pusha T/Jay-Z/RZA, So Appalled
GOWHN "So dance dance like it's the last last night of your life life, gowhn get u right" - Usher/Pitbull, DJ Got Us Fallin in Love
BWOIYFREN "Ooo, I got some news for you, yeah, go run and tell yo little bwoiyfren" - Cee Lo, Fuck You
LYIEK "Baby I lyiiiiek it, the way you move on the floor" - Enrique Iglesias/Pitbull, I Like It
+ Robyn: "I'm in the COR-NAH, watching you kiss her."
holsta? slugga? Those are memorable? 'Bolsillo' is also standard pronunciation- it's just, um, in Spanish. Who do you talk to on a regular basis?