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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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Is that meant to rhyme?
    
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    _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    not even a little bit, but that didn’t stop Lenny Kravitz.
    
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  - Johanno@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    But “I am” and “hurricane” does rhyme
    
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spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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