Am I Right

Am I Right

Infobox Website
name = Am I Right



caption =
url = http://www.amiright.com
commercial = No
type = Popular music/Internet humor
registration = Not required
owner = Charles R. Grovsenor, Jr.
author = Charles R. Grovsenor, Jr.
launch date = 2000
current status = Active
revenue =

AmIRight is a popular music Web site created by Charles R. Grosvenor Jr. (born July 7, 1972, known as Chucky G). Visitors can view sections based on such topics as song parodies, misheard lyrics (mondegreens), and album cover parodies, and can submit their own without registering. The site was first launched March 23, 2000 [http://web.archive.org/web/20001019054249/www.amiright.com/whatsnew.shtml Wayback history page] Original What's New Page] and has since grown considerably.

AmIRight is a community based website, with all the content contained on the website created by visitors. New material is submitted online by individuals and reviewed by a group of "editors" who remove entries that don't conform to community standards regarding obscene content or spam.

Recently a sister site called AmIWrong was opened which allows the users to create their own quiz.

Sections of the website

Misheard Lyrics

Since the website's inception, the site has offered the possibility for visitors to submit misheard lyrics, aka "mondegreens" to the site, stating what the lyrics they misheard were, and what the lyrics of the song actually are. As of October 11, 2007, there are a total of 101,716 misheard lyrics [http://amiright.com/ Website statistics] Retrieved October 11, 2007] . There is a section where contributors admit their more embarrassing misheard lyric mishaps and the moment they came upon their mistakes. Another section associated with misheard lyrics includes "Misheard Lyrics in Film", where visitors recall moments where actors or actresses recall lyrics as misquoted by actors in either film or television from famous songs.

Song Parodies

The most dedicated core of members to the site have submitted several hundred song parodies each to the site. As of October 11, 2007, there are a total of 51,671 song parodies [http://amiright.com/ Website statistics] Retrieved October 11, 2007] .Sections of the song parody section of the website include parodies of album covers, and former competitions for " [Parody] Song of the Month".

Comedy Recordings

The recordings section is for recorded performances of parodies or other musical comedy pieces. AmIRight doesn't host the files, so the section is more of an index to other sites that contain recordings. All entries in this section are submitted to the site by the original authors.

Album Cover Parodies

A recent addition to the site, the Album Cover parody section lets people humorously mutilate or otherwise modify an album cover from an original artist's album, thanks to Amazon.com's Music section.

Music Trivia

This section is focused on strange and funny facts about various songs and performers. Most pages consist of songs of performers that have certain commonalities in common such as songs that have been banned, performers that have criminal records, or songs that have backwards messages recorded in them.

Names

This section deals with band name origins, pseudonyms, names of the offspring of famous musicians, song and band name parodies, user-created band names, inventive portmanteaux of individual band or performer names, inappropriate commercial soundtrack selections, proposed duets, inappropriate songs to play while on hold, adding, removing, or changing letters from titles to create new titles, lyrics that are literally impossible, and the use of song titles as questions and answers.

Real Lyrics

A section is accessible concerning "real lyrics", that is, those lyrics which fit certain categories, such as those which are "Misrhymed", "Insincere", "Dirty", and other categories.

Publications

A book gathering over 500 misheard lyrics submitted to the site has been published."Hold Me Closer Tony Danza (and Other Misheard Lyrics)" (October 28, 2007). Charles R. Grosvenor Jr, Sasquatch_Books, ISBN 1570615330.

There are also several pages with information pulled from the following sections of the site: [http://www.amiright.com/misheard/lyrics-book.shtml Hold Me Closer Tony Danza Book info] List of book sections and sample pages]
* Add a Letter to a Song Title
* Change a Letter in a Song Title
* Remove a Letter in a Song Title
* What if Groups Merged
* Song Mash Ups
* Songs to Respond to Other Songs
* Bad Choices For On-Hold Music

Publicity and Acclaim

Amiright has been mentioned in various articles and other publications over the years.

* In May 2005, "Spin Magazine" voted Amiright as one of "Four Amazing Rock Websites", noting, "This compedium of thousands of song parodies even features spoofs of "Weird Al" Yankovic. How positively meta." ["Four Amazing Rock Websites," "Spin Magazine", May 2005. ]
* On October 25, 2005, Askmen.com proclaimed Amiright one of the "Best & Coolest Sites Around." Amiright received a rating of 7/10, saying, "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."cite web | author= | year=2005 | title=AskMen.com - Am I Right | work=AskMen.com | url=http://www.askmen.com/cool_site/2005_oct/oct25.html| accessdate=October 25 | accessyear=2005]
* Amiright was mentioned in the "Chicago Tribune" as one of the 50 Best Web Sites in the Arts and Culture. The "Tribune" described Amiright as "really funny."cite web | author= | year=2006 | title=50 Best Web Sites| work=Chicago Tribune.com | url=http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/technology_internetcritic/website_review/index.html| accessdate=July 10 | accessyear=2006]
* On September 24, 2006, the EZHelp radio show interviewed Chucky G about AmiRight and its sister web sites. The show claims that AmiRight has been featured in such publications as "USA Today, New York Press, Entertainment Weekly, and US News Magazine to name a few."cite web | author= | year= | title=Am I Right Synopsis on EZHelp Radio Show| work=EZHelp.org| url=http://ezhelp.org/blogger/| accessdate=September 24 | accessyear=2006] cite web | author= | year=2006 | title=Chucky G Interview on EZHelp Radio Show| work= EZHelp Radio Show| url=http://ezhelp.org/tape/interview_amiright.m3u| accessdate=September 24 | accessyear=2006]

References

External links

* [http://www.amiright.com Amiright.com - Misheard lyrics and song parodies]


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