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Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s such a shame since neither word rhymes with the word “disagree.”

  Anyway, if what you say is true, Annie Lennox sure has a weird way of pronouncing the word “this.” She pronounces it EXACTLY like the word “these.” Art is weird.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    She says more “theeeeeeis”, there’s a hint of an “is” sound at the end of the word.

    I don’t get it. It’s meant to rhyme with “disagree”, and it’s not like the song is interpreted differently if it’s “these” vs “this”.

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it’s called a slant rhyme, and it is the playground of the devil.

      See: “Here I am, rock you like a hurricane” for another famous example of two words rhyming that don’t.

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is that meant to rhyme?

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      • Johanno@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But “I am” and “hurricane” does rhyme

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  • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So, funny enough the actual lyric is “disagris”, not “disagree” Annie Lennox just says it a little differently, but they both rhyme.

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