To think pop songs should be grammatical? I'm looking at you Paul McCartney...

[MardyBra]

... with your "just you and I" used as the object of a sentence. Seriously, it makes you sound like an Apprentice candidate.

I hadn't realised that it was "are we dancer" before now.

But then I'm the woman who thought Hot Chocolate were singing "I believe in milko" for years.

Apparently that's some sort of literary reference.

What about Snow Patrol? 'If I lay here, if I just lay here'. What is he, a chicken?

Paloma faith does it in Picking up the Pieces, making the words not even rhyme. Drives me potty.

I genuinely lol'd at the chicken comment.

Mardy - the grammar is the least of my concerns with that song. I played it, and my husband came over to ask if I was feeling depressed. I realised that I hadn't been until I had started listening to it, so only made it through the first minute, but that was plenty!

Any time there's a 'two time' as in the Fugees' Killing me Softly, I always replace it with 'Twice'. Sometimes I even annoy myself...

"I'm Slim Shady, the real Slim Shady, all the rest of you pretending to be Slim Shady are just poor imitations..."

Ed Sheeran can't sweep you off of your feet apparently.

Savage Garden wanted to lay eggs on a mountain too.

Don't forget "lay, lady, lay" by Bob Dylan. I can't listen to it without thinking, "No, you mean 'lie'".

Best Tommy Scott really truly does not sing 'deadlier than the male' though... I have this one out with my dad all the time.

Tommy sings 'more deadly than the male' but puts that mid Atlantic / Perry Como / lounge singer slur on it... having seen him sing it live quite few times I have taken extra care to look and listen.... he definitely sings/slurs the lyrics as written "deadly", as he smiles, cocks his head to one side and shakes your hand... it is ironic honest!

Valeris is worse than that too...
And I think of all the things, what you're doing

The one that makes me cringe is Beneath Your Beautiful by Labrinth, as if the strange spelling of his name isn't enough.

Me too furry I keep imagining someone looking underneath someone else's 'beautiful'.
I also get cross with singers stressing the wrong bit of a word e.g. Katy Perry "unconditIONally". eeek

Mine is that god awful song by The Script...
'When a heart breaks no it don't (doesn't) break even (ly), even (ly), even (ly)
Arghhh!!!! I'm quite sure there are more grammar crimes in that song... bloody hate The Script

4am in the morning... Really, Mike Oldfield? C'mon, do you think we're daft or something?

nomama, I am so relieved. I think it's a great song and now I can listen to it again and blame my ears.

I was insanely happy today when I was in the car and "Merry Christmas Darling" by The Carpenters came on with the line: "I wish I were with you".

I had a little subjunctive frisson.

Bryan Adams "Run to You":

"But that would change if she ever found out about you and I". Makes me hiss menacingly at the radio every time.

MardyBra , I thank you both for your user name and my new favourite emotion, the subjunctive frisson .

Posted too soon, they have cheered me up enormously at the end of a most trying day.

It's 'are we human, or are we dancers'.

Not that makes any kind of sense, anyway.

This may be my favourite thread ever. ??

Or maybe he's wondering if he's human or one of Rudolph's mates??

As an english teacher in France, this is the bane of my life.

No he definitely says dancer

From Wikipedia:
There remains confusion and debate over the line "Are we human, or are we dancer?" in the song's chorus due to its grammar.[9] Debate raged across the Internet over whether the lyric said "dancer", "dancers" or "denser", a misunderstanding which elicited conflicting interpretations of the song's meaning.[10][11] On the band's official website, the biography section states that Flowers is singing "Are we human, or are we dancer?" and also says that the lyric was inspired by a disparaging comment made by Hunter S. Thompson, where he stated America was raising "a generation of dancers".[12][13]

"You ain't nothin' but a hound dog...."

Like pp, I have a massive reindeer issue, but mine is with the frozen song
"Reindeers are better than people".

They obviously realised their mistake because on the cd the song name is given as "Reindeer(s) are better than people".

I correct dd every time she sings it. We both hate me.