How to Properly Pronounce These 13 band names | Go Natural English

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