amIright is focused on musical humor. It was created as a spinoff of my 80s website way back in April 2000. If you want to know more about the site, check the About Us page.

I am available for interviews about the site, or any topic about music parody, misheard lyrics (including the amIright misheard lyrics book), or other funny music stuff.

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This is list of places that have mentioned the website. I'm looking for newspaper, TV, and radio mentions, or very big websites.

Websites

• MetaFilter
  May 25, 2002. Front Page of the site. "Strike the heart, enjoy the florist, fa la la la la la la la la" AmIRight collates all of those misheard song lyrics and goes a step further, organizing them by band, song, or decade. Plus for the truly band-curious, they have archives of cool and stupid band names, song parodies and commentary on lyrics that people think are repetitive, nonsensical, or just insincere. Sometimes it's tough to tell the wrong lyrics from the right ones... "You strut your rasta wear and your suicide poem" real or misheard?
• Fark
  June 9, 2002. Front Page. Misheard Lyrics. "I don't think you're ready for this jelly." in Destiny's Child's Bootilicious was misheard in 50 different forms.
• CoolSiteOfTheDay.com
  The original "cool site of the day" site. This is what us old timers used to visit to find neat stuff before "blogs" became popular.
• MSNBC Test Pattern
  Several mentions on the MSNBC Test Pattern blog...
  • "Most Misheard Lyrics: Rockin' The Catbox, With A Bathroom On The Right"
    September 18, 2007. Couple mentions to the site.
  • "Misheard Lyrics: Take Your Cap, Or Your Cat? Sure As Kilimanjaro Rises Like ... A What?"
    September 19, 2007. Talks about Toto and Prince misheard lyrics, with a link near the end to amIright.
  • "Misheard Lyrics: Songs In The Key Of Slur".
    September 25, 2007. A breakdown of several frequently misheard lyrics, with several links back to the corresponding pages on amIright.

Magazines & Newspapers

• Telegram & Gazette
  May 1, 2000. Entire article about two of my sites, worcestermass and amiright. Titled, "Scuse Us While We Kiss This Guy \ Warchester Finds A Home At Garbled-Words Web Site" by local newspaper legend Jim Dempsey. This is only one of a handful of times I've been interviewed about my site. Most articles are written without input from me. Here is the relevant excerpt.

  One of Mr. Grosvenor's latest Web brainchildren, amiright.com, also capitalizes on mistakes, containing 4,000 examples of misheard song lyrics.

  ``The most misheard song is `Louie Louie,' '' he said, ``but nobody knows the actual lyrics to it anyway. After that, the biggest misheard lyric is ``Bad Moon on the Rise'' (by Creedence Clearwater), which people think is `Bathroom on the right.' ''

  DEUCES WILD

  Another commonly misheard lyric, Mr. Grosvenor says, is from ``Blinded by the Light,'' by Manfred Mann. The line sounds like ``Wrapped up like a douche,'' but Mr. Grosvenor says it is actually ``Revved up like a deuce.'' (A deuce? A hot rod. Think the Beach Boys' ``Little Deuce Coupe.'')

  And no, Jimi Hendrix did not sing, `` 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy,'' but, `` 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.''

  Anyway, this is how Mr. Grosvenor spends his days, making lists of errors, mispronunciations and anachronisms, maintaining his Web sites and thinking up new ones (trivia sites for the 1970s and 1990s are up and running). As you might expect, his parents were always worried about his fascination with computers. ``I would come home from school with a pile of boring physics homework, or the computer, which had infinite possibilities, and I went for the computer,'' he said.

• Santa Rosa Press Democrat
  December 8, 2000. Passing reference, never seen the entire article: ...pining away until the March 9 concert, check out the most misunderstood Hall and Oates lyrics at www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/hallandoates.shtml.
• Los Angeles Daily Journal
  January 12, 2001. "Misheard Lyrics Captivate Web Surfers" by Sandra Matthews. Mentioned along with another site. Believe it or not, there are two Web sites exclusively devoted to misheard lyrics. PDF OF ARTICLE
• US News Magazine
  February 5, 2001. "Web Map.(Web sites with misheard lyrics)". Mentioned along with some other sites. www.amiright.com/misheard Prince, Elton John, and Nirvana are the most misheard on this site, which lets you sort by decade. It's more up to date than other sites, with bungled Eminem, Britney Spears, and N'Sync lyrics.
• The Washington Times
  February 26, 2001. In an article entitled "Some ants are blowing where giraffes are stored" by Jennifer Harper. One of a couple sites mentioned.

  Dozens of Internet Web sites chart mondegreen culture. A virtual mother lode can be found at Charles Grosvenor's spot (www.amiright.com), which receives 40 or 50 new "misheard lyrics" from aficionados every day. The site contains close to 10,000 sets of weird interpretations, spanning four decades.

  Mr. Grosvenor carefully distinguishes between true mondegreens and parody lyrics, which are also welcome at the site.

  He also ranks those tunes which seem most subject to misinterpretation. In the rock world, at least, the current favorites include "Hotel California" and "Jack and Diane."

  The site is so busy that Mr. Grosvenor now offers a service that electronically delivers the latest entries to personal computers or palm devices on a daily basis.

  "And no one is making this stuff up," he noted.

• UNLIMITED, Marlboro Magazine
  Section: "Intenet Hot Spots" , "Misunderstood lyrics, song parodies, and, for no apparent reason, a silly name generator. If you run into the creator of this site at a party, head back towards the bar." UNLIMITED. Spring 2001. Page 128. Thanks to Debbi M. for pointing that one out.
• Entertainment Weekly
  The July 20, 2001 #606 issue. "As long as pop singers mumble, garble, and swallow their lyrics, listeners will continue to misinterpret them, often with hilarious results. This site taps into that wellspring of comedy, citing misreads of everyone from the Beatles ("Hey, Dude" rather than "Hey, Jude") to Shaggy ("How could I forget I had given her an STD?" rather than "... an extra key?"). Am I Right's stated purpose: "Making fun of music. One song at a time." Having logged more than 10,000 reported misinterpretations and analyzed the data to NASA-like standards, the site's creators succeed in making a mockery of mockery." B+ - Evan Serpick. Excellent review, even if it only focuses on one section of the site.
• CosmoGirl
  The September 2001 issue, I haven't see it yet myself.
• The Daily Cougar
  Newspaper in Houston, Texas. "Amiright.com cleans the wax out of listeners' ears", Tuesday, September 12, 2000 by Rattaya Nimibutr
• The Advocate
  October 14, 2001. Article titled: "Mondegreens chronicled in books and Web sites" , Three of those sites can be found at: http://www.kissthisguy.com, http://www.thechicagoloop.net/lyrics and http://www.amiright.com. ... Haven't seen the entire article.
• USA Today
  October 24,2001 in an article entitled "Parodies ease war's tension" by Edna Gundersen. "At www.amiright.com, parodies include O Taliban (from O Tannenbaum) and Dubya's Gonna Bomb Ya (La Bamba)".
• Reno News & Review
  November 15, 2001. Review of the site. Music can make us laugh or cry, or both at the same time, perhaps accompanied by liquids shooting out of noses. At least, that's what happened to me when I read some of the mixed-up lyrics on this site. From Steve Miller's classic "big ol' Jed had a light on" (big old jet airliner) to Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down by an elephant" (I get knocked down, but I get up again), it's fun to see that I'm not the only one singing screwed-up versions of my favorite songs. (I could've sworn Bush was singing "got a mushy head".) In addition to the misheard lyrics, the site now features original lyrics that are just as ridiculous, lots of song parodies and lists of cool/stupid/funny band names. Some are intriguing. I'd pay $5 to go see The Far Out Son of Lung, The Flopping Body Bags and Lubricated Goat. Who wouldn't, really?
• USA Today (again!)
  May 30, 2002. Hit Site of the Day. Loopy Lyrics. AmIRight.com is a veritable hit parade of song lyrics: parodies, misheard lyrics, and lyrics that are repetitive, funny, insulting and downright inappropriate. Check it out now before the music industry fires up its litigation machine.
• Sarasota Herald Tribune
  June 10, 2002. Article titled: "A case of mistaken identity" by David Grimes. It starts off about revealing who Deep Throat was and then begins talking about the whole Paul is Dead thing from the late 60s, and then moves into misheard lyrics. A lot about this site (more than I should cite), so here's the intro.

  In exactly one week, John Dean will reveal the identity of "Deep Throat."

  For those of you who weren't alive or were sleeping through the '70s, Deep Throat was the mysterious informant who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein expose the Watergate conspiracy and eventually force President Richard Nixon to resign.

  Dean, a former White House counsel for Nixon, plans to publish an electronic book on June 17, the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, that will identify Deep Throat once and for all. Maybe. Dean, after all, has made several previous stabs at identifying Deep Throat, naming everyone from Alexander Haig to Diane Sawyer.

  Still, it's one of the more intriguing mysteries in American history and leads one to wonder what Americans puzzled over before Watergate. While browsing the Web site www.amiright.com, I suddenly remembered: We wondered whether Paul McCartney was alive or dead.

• New York Press
  July, 2002. Passing mention about some misheard lyrics book. New York Press contributor and WFMU DJ Kenneth Goldsmith has put out a new little book that weds his musical interests with his mania for oddball lists (in previous books he's listed every word he said in a week, every gesture he made in a day, etc.). Head Citations (The Figures, 88 pages, $10) lists 800 misheard lyrics he culled from various sources. He readily admits this has been done before in books like He's Got the Whole World in His Pants and When a Man Loves a Walnut, as well as on websites like kissthisguy.com and amiright.com.
• The Battalion
  October 8, 2002. Review of the site. If you've ever been caught singing the wrong lyrics to your favorite song, amiright.com is the Web site to visit before planning any karaoke sessions.
• America's Intelligence Wire
  February 26, 2003. Review of the site. "Web site confirm if you've been singing wrong lyrics to songs." by Meg Lawson. Here's the first paragraph. There are times in our lives when we all make mistakes -- and many of those times come when we're trying to sing songs along with the radio. Fortunately, the good folks at www.amiright.com have decided to compile the best of these lyrical faux-pas sent in by the site's loyal fans.
• Sarasota Herald Tribune
  August 17, 2003. Article titled: "Waiting is the hardest thing to do." by David Grimes. A lot of stuff from this site is used (more than I should cite), so here's the intro.

  Nobody's done an actual study, to my knowledge, but I'm guessing that the average American spends at least two years of his or her life on hold, listening to increasingly irritating variations of Michael Jackson's "Beat It."

  Instead of putting all our energies into thwarting telemarketers, I think we need to find a way to punish the companies that shorten our lives by making us listen to boring music while on hold. From now on, if our call is not answered within 10 seconds, the following "hold" tunes will play (special thanks to www.amiright.com):

• News-Herald
  August 24, 2003. Article titled: "Quit that humming and learn the words" by Klint Lowry.

  Whether you want to solve a long-held lyrical mystery phrase or be amazed and amused at other people's misconceptions, there are two sites worth exploring.

  Click on www.amiright.com and you'll find a labyrinth of pages dedicated to misheard lyrics, amateur-written song parodies and countless commentaries about actual song lyrics.

• WABC, Channel 7
  February 6th, 2004. This site is about mondegreens - misheard song lyrics - and song parodies. Funny stuff.. This was on the air (not just their website), the tech reporter mentioned a few misheard lyrics and joked with the anchor person. Video is sadly no longer on their website.
• The West Australian
  Janurary 26, 2005. Full article? I've only seen this in a citations database and I was too cheap to pay for it. amIright.com , when it comes to certain songs, thousands of people around the world make the same mistakes. Since 1996, the website has logged more than ...
• Revolution
  May 6, 2005. Brief mention in article "Terminator 2 - The perfect bird waits for you at MailOrderChick. (marketing of Christian Aid Mission)" Christian Aid tells us one of the chicks, Jill, is a close friend of Elton John. Which reminds us, go to misheard lyrics web site www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/johnelton.shtml, where someone has been singing not 'Hey Nikita, is it cold?' but 'chicken tikka, is it coal?'.
• SPIN Magazine
  May 2005. This compedium of thousands of song parodies even features spoofs of Weird Al. How positively meta.
• The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
  August 2, 2005. Brief mention in article title, "This week's Web Winners: Flipping over flip-flops.". POP TOP, "I blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pot pie." No, no, no. This site lists many misheard Jimmy Buffett lyrics. www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/buffettjimmy.shtml Since this made the Knight-Ridder newswire, it got into a lot of other papers.
• IndyStar
  August 5th, 2005 Living Section. Music quizzes. Song-lyric quizzes rock, and this site is full of them. These are multiple-choice, unlike the cruel quizzes that force you to rely on memory.
• The Star Phoenix
  Janurary 7, 2006. Passing reference. Simpson's also been photographed wearing a P-U-N-K shirt, emulating Lavigne's own ``rock-chick'' style. Website www.amiright.com noted as much with its parody of the Simpson song Autobiography, entitled Clone of Avril Lavigne. The parody lyrics included the line: ``I've got rivals, pop princesses Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff. They're clones too.''
• ABC News, Channel 49
  April 3, 2006. www.amiright.com asks for submissions of band names where one asks a question and the other title answers that questions. One example on the site goes like this. The question is The Bee Gees "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?" The answer is Don William's "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend."
• Post-Bulletin
  April 13, 2006. Passing reference in article about band names. You can also divulge, debate, discredit the origins of band names at amiright.com.
• AskMen
  March 21, 2006. What We Think: This site has tons of music-related information like misheard lyrics, cool band names, etc. The song parodies are hilarious -- if you like Weird Al, you'll appreciate these.
• Chicago Tribune
  June 16, 2006."50 best Web sites: readers on Arts, Kids, Info". Pop music parody site. Especially the misheard lyrics section. People post the lyrics they thought they heard and compare them with the real lyrics. Really funny.
• Uk-Fusion
  September 11, 2006. Article about Black Label Society, amIright is mentioned for a couple of the "band name origins."
• Globe Gazette, Mason City/Clear Lake, Iowa
  September 25, 2006. Article titled: "Hold me closer, Tony Danza; count the head lice on the highway" by Dick Johnson. Article about misheard lyrics, cites amiright as a source for some of them.
• Bismarck Tribune, Bismark, North Dakaota
  October 15, 2006. Article about where to find lyrics, cites amiright as a source for misheard lyrics.
• Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio
  December 18, 2006. Article titled: SONG SUNG WRONG, Amateurs have butchered lyrics to many hits . The web version appears to have a lot of missing letters (like one in our domain name), not sure about the print version.
• Journal Star, Lincoln, NE
  January 17, 2007. Article titled: Sometimes, misunderstood lyrics make a song better. Mostly talks about Gavin Edwards stuff (even though he really hasn't done much lately with misheard lyrics except for some calendar). At the end it does mention the site and the size of the collection on amIright, and the best entries the users picked out for the t-shirt. The reporter got a little confused about the founding date of amIright. He created "amiright" in 1996, a year after he formed www.inthe80s.com, a site about 1980s music, movies and TV. Visitors to the site would write and ask for song titles, providing him snippets of lyrics. I collected the misheard lyrics on inthe80s a year after I started the site, but amIright came 4 years later when the collection on inthe80s outgrew that site.

Radio

• Ron & Fez, WNEW-FM
  Mentioned on the New York City radio program (which is syndicated nationwide). This was on the week of March 12th, 2001. I don't really know more than that.
• Oldies 95.7 WOTO in Memphis, TN
  Mentioned on the mid-day program by Tonya J. Powers.
• Radio Eins, Berlin Germany
  I did an on-air interview this radio station on March 26, 2001. First time I've ever talked with anyone from Germany on the phone, and the first radio interview I've done since 1995 for my inthe80s.com website. Lots of fun, though I have to admit to being a little nervous.. gotta work on that for the next radio interview I do.
• EZHelp Radio Show
  September 24, 2006. Internet radio program, 15 minute interview with me about this site and a few of the others I run. Best radio interview I've done to date.

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