The Teen Bob Dylan

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

In today's Nat'l Post (Cdn USA Today), they refer to Avril Lavigne first as "the anti-Britney" then as "the teen Bob Dylan." Now, the first one I've seen bandied about a lot, and I think it's meant more in the antipesto sense, but the teen Dylan? Who said that? What could it even mean? That she's adopted a genre she has no background in? That she changed her name from Zimmerman? That she will have a son who will become the world's greatest Tom Petty impersonator?

― Horace Mann, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob Dylan is famously unable to pronounce David Bowie's last name properly.

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Solipsistically I think it's to try and get me annoyed by Avril. The punk stuff didn't work so now they're trying Dylan. (Next: "Avril is the American Kraftwerk").

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I think you mean the TEEN KRAFTWERK!

(isn't she Canadian?)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

bob dylan is the middle-aged avril lavigne

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought she was actually but then I thought no, that's Alanis. But if she is, she is.

Upper-middle-aged.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

her and alanis could both be canadian

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

both from Ontari-ari-ari-O

― Horace Mann, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah come on Kilian thats pushing it.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a friend from Newcastle and she pronounces Bowie's last name to rhyme with "zowie" or Howie. I'm disappointed that TMFTML's link provides no further information on this heretofore-obscure issue.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

did a google, turns out Entertainment Weakly (pardon my MAD pun) pronounced her thus

― Horace Mann, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Can his palate actually not form the word?

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Will Avril be federally mandated to sing "Un Canadien errant" at a later point in her career?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Herewith the link to which Tracer Hand refers.

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish someone would call her the New Tycoon of Teen!

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the way this week's Avril thread has been specially designed to lure in new combatants, btw.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, i thought this would be a Mojo style thread

― zebedee, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i pronounce bowie bo-eee (beau-eee)
so does everyone i know
i'm aware of the other pronunciation,but have never been sure which is right...
which is it?
someone on another thread said avril lavigne pronounced it bow-eee,dunno if this is the same as mine,depends on how you pronounce bow i suppose...

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I think you mean the TEEN KRAFTWERK
Kraftwerk pronounce it beau-weee, with the emphasis on the weee

― zebedee, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The "wie" is silent, and the actual pronunciation is "boo." It's a little know fact that in the Nelly hit "Dilemma," Kelly Roland is singing about the love traingle between her, the be-bandaided rapper and Mr. Stardust.

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

i pronounce bowie bo-eee (beau-eee)
so does everyone i know

My mom pronounces it "boo-ee" -- and she's someone who lived through Bowie's '70s-'80s heyday.

Anyway I wouldn't fault Avril for the mispronunciation. She probably does know who he is, but I doubt Bowie is conversation fodder for very many of her teenage classmates back in suburban Ontario.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

What about Sam Bowie, whom the bowie knife is invented for? Huh, huh?

― hstencil, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought that was Kit Bowie?

― Horace Mann, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, you could be right. Maybe I'm confusing Kit Bowie and Sam Houston?

Remember the Alamo!

― hstencil, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Avril Lavigne = the teen Dan'l Boone?

― Horace Mann, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

No. Don't besmirch the Boone.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

re: Avril
http://community.webshots.com/image1/8/75/58/39187558nzVpMA_ph.jpg

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Pat Boone would be more apt.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Regis Philbin called Bowie Booee repeatedly when he was on the show a few months back. Kelly kept correcting him (she's a glam whore).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I always thought the Bow in Bowie was pronounced as e.g take a bow. I always thought it was affectation to pronounce it Beau-eee, but then that's Bowie fans for you I suppose.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

no i think people in ireland generally pronounce it beau-eee,(maybe just people i know) i always thought the take a bow pronunciation was an affectation...

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

sk8ter Bowie!

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:54 (twenty-three years ago)

YES PAULA!

― Horace Mann, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Kit Carson was the teen Sam Bowie

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm pretty sure Bowie Kuhn (ex-commissioner of Baseball) pronounced his first name "(take a) bow-ee".

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Regarding Bow-e vs. beau-e, I say Bow-e, and I have good reason. Wasn't his son called Zowie Bowie? Isn't it supposed to rhyme? If so, it can't be Zeau-e, because there's already a name that sounds like that: Zoe. So it has to be Zow-e, like wow-whee! See?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 9 January 2003 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

No no no, It's supposed to rhyme, true, but it's also supposed to have similar spelling. Zoe Bowie wouldn't have worked. Plus Zowie looks more glam rock. Plus his name was changed to Joey, which of course rhymes with...

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 9 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

But Zoe is a girl's name! I understand this is a stupid argument when discussing glam-rockers.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 9 January 2003 00:53 (twenty-three years ago)

You could just call him David Jones, I guess.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Regis Philbin called Bowie Booee repeatedly when he was on the show a few months back. Kelly kept correcting him (she's a glam whore).

He has problems getting Conan O'Brien's name right, too.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 9 January 2003 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)

How do you mispronounce that? Conehead O'Ryan? Gonad O'Brién? Brian O'Conan?

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 9 January 2003 03:04 (twenty-three years ago)

CoNAN. You know, like the warrior.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 9 January 2003 03:12 (twenty-three years ago)

many, many thanx, folks
never imagined there existed all these multifarious pronunciations of "The Teen Bob Dylan"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 9 January 2003 03:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Next topic (another old rocker with a fake surname):
Bob Dylan: "Dill-un" or "Dial-in"

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 9 January 2003 04:02 (twenty-three years ago)

to be honest i am probably wrong in my pronunciation,but i would feel stupid saying bow-eee...

― robin (robin), Thursday, 9 January 2003 05:44 (twenty-three years ago)

David Jones changed his name to avoid being confused with the Monkee Davy, and then re-named himself after the Bowie Knife - so it should be beau-ee.

and yeah, Alanis and Avril are both from Ontario.

― Alexis, Friday, 17 January 2003 02:36 (twenty-three years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.