Am I Right is a

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and

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dedicated to topics as song

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, misheard lyrics (

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s), and

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parodies. Visitors may submit their own without registering. It was created by Charles R. Grosvenor Jr. (born July 7, 1972, known as Chucky G) The site was first launched March 23, 2000,Wayback history page
Original What's New Page and has since grown considerably. Am I Right 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

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Sections of the website

Song Parodies

The main part of the site where people write their own versions of popular songs. A voting system of 1 (worst) to 5 (best) enables readers to vote on how well it matches the pacing of the original song, how funny it is and its overall score. A 555 is a perfect score meaning the parody should be read by everyone while a 111 score means the parody is not funny, does not match the pacing and is pretty much pointless.

Misheard lyrics

Since the website's inception, the site has offered the possibility for visitors to submit misheard lyrics, aka "

s", to the site; these are displayed along with the true lyrics. As of October 11, 2007, there are a total of 101,716 misheard lyrics.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.

Comedy recordings

The recordings section is for recorded performances of parodies or other musical comedy pieces. Am I Right does not host the files, so the section is essentially an index of other sites that contain recordings. All entries in this section are submitted to the site by the original authors.

Album cover parodies

The Album Cover parody section lets people humorously

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from an original artist's album, using

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to scrape metadata and original album covers for users to edit and submit to the site.

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

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s, 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

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Publications

Two books which each gather over 500 misheard lyrics submitted to the site have been published. ''Hold Me Closer Tony Danza (and Other Misheard Lyrics)'' (October 28, 2007). Charles R. Grosvenor Jr,

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, and ''Hit Me With Your Pet Shark (and Other Misheard Lyrics)'' (October 1, 2008). Charles R. Grosvenor Jr,

, Each book has several pages with information pulled from the various sections of the site including: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

Reception

Am I Right has been mentioned in various articles and other publications over the years. * In May 2005, ''

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'' voted Am I Right as one of "Four Amazing Rock Websites", noting, "This compedium of thousands of song parodies even features spoofs of

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. How positively

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.""Four Amazing Rock Websites," ''Spin Magazine'', May 2005. * On October 25, 2005,

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listed Am I Right as one of the "Best & Coolest Sites Around." Am I Right 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." * Am I Right was mentioned in the ''

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'' as one of the 50 Best Web Sites in the Arts and Culture. The ''Tribune'' described Am I Right as "really funny." * On September 24, 2006, the EZHelp

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interviewed Chucky G about Am I Right and its sister web sites. The show claims that Am I Right has been featured in such publications as "

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, and US News Magazine to name a few."

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External links

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Amiwrong.com - Where pop culture meets its match
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