Spell My Name with an "S"/Music

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Examples of Spell My Name with an "S" in Music include:

  • The Japanese band Bow Wow later switched the Latin spelling of their name to Vow Wow. This might have been to avoid confusion with another band named Bow Wow Wow.
  • It's Liza with a Z, not Lisa with an S.
  • Most of her CDs Romanize her name "Shéna Ringö", but she's gone through plenty of other Romanizations, so almost nobody humors her and instead goes for the literal Romanization, Shiina Ringo.
  • Florence and the Machine, or Florence + the Machine, or even Florence + the machine? Nobody can decide.
  • Woven Hand or Wovenhand? He's released albums as both.
  • Longtime Christian music artist Sandi Patty was a subversion for much of her career, as her last name was spelled with an "i" at the end due to a typographical error.
  • An In Living Color sketch featured a man whose spelled out his name as (approximately) "Q, E, P, H, F, E, N, N, N, N ... N." He then revealed that it was pronounced "Kevin".
  • Keri Hilson, Kerri Hilson, or Kerry Hilson? It's Keri Hilson. Someone might even go as far to spell it Kari Hilson.
  • Ahem, Meat Loaf. It's always two words, both words always capitalized - not "Meatloaf", not "Meat loaf", not "Loaf." How many times has the media made this mistake? Don't ask. Just don't.
  • The good boys of BTS suffer from this, definitely not helped by the different romanizations used in alternate material:
    • In the early days, fans didn't know how to romanize the name of the maknae of the group, if Jungkook or Jeongguk. Officially released material decided on the spelling "Jungkook", but to this day many fans treat it as an artistic name and use the spellings "Jeongguk" or "Jeonguk" in fanworks. And there is material where the name of the poor boy is spelled "Jung Kook"...
    • Officially, Jung Hoseok's artistic name is "j-hope", in all lowercase letters. People insist on spelling it J-Hope.
    • For the localization of their game BTS World, half of the band names were romanized using the government "revised" system instead of using their official romanization, so we got Namjun, Seok Jin, Yunki and Jeongguk instead of Namjoon, Seokjin, Yoongi and Jungkook. These romanizations only were used when speaking of them in daily life, however, their artistic names remain the same, so we get a scene where Jeonggukk retained his given name and will be artistically known as Jung Kook
    • The BTS Universe material has a different approach, in that they do use their official names romanization... but render it in CamelCase (i.e SeokJin for Seokjin, TaeHyung for Taehyung, etc.) At least this is consistent in all translated materials within this 'verse.
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