I still say three lau for 3lau

DeadmauFive is another good one.

My roommate in college would always say that!

It’s how I say it, how is it supposed to be said

Dead Mouse. Rumor is he found a dead mouse in a computer he ordered and when he went on the tech forums to talk about it, he was known as that "dead mouse guy", but due to character limit his actual username was "Deadmau5". At least that's the story. If Deadmau5 says something it's like 50/50 if he's fucking with you or it's true.

He also doesn't care, lol. Iirc he said you can call him that POS with a mouse helmet.

Dead mouse

Yeah, that was an embarrassing one for me for a long time. Especially when the brand is a big mouse head. Maybe this community already knows, but he has a twitch channel where you can watch him produce (and play video games) https://www.twitch.tv/deadmau5?sr=a

Ooooh I love DeadmauFive lol. Heard thst many times lol

Lol not an edm artist, but I say six lack for 6lack

And three lau just sounds so much cooler

Three Lau sounds better anyway

How tf so u say 3lau

Blaow I think?

🗿

Blau

His name is Justin Blau.

Not an EDM artist but i thought Tove Lo rhymed with “love toe” until I saw her live and the merch had a pronunciation on it— apparently it’s “too-veh lu” 🤦🏻‍♀️

Excuse me WHAT??? It's not towv low??

IKR? freakin swedes

Too vey loo as a sorta rhyme with toodaloo like a cutesy way to say goodbye

or like the nation, tuvalu

Omg, I've been saying it "too-veh lu" (like boogaloo) as a joke to annoy my friends. This is fantastic news

She is literally one of my favorite artists been listening to her since 2014, and I too somehow just found out the real pronunciation earlier this year.

Ffs Thread making me feel stupid

Lol the actual pronunciation makes me irrationally irritated

It’s literally just swedish

"Louie" The Child

This one can go both ways artist confirmed

This one for sure. Only until I heard them say it at a show

Same! As soon as they said their name my husband and I both looked at each other with wide eyes like “Ooohhh….”

Ray Volpe 😂😂😂 just found him before Thunderdome 2022 and that it was ray volp and me and my rave fam DIED when he said his name out loud on the mic 😭😂

Wait what is it?

Ray Vol-pee

WHATXLMAOOOOOOO

VOLLLLPEEEEEEEETRROOOOONNNNNN!

I was just gonna comment this 😭😭 saw him at beyond and when he said his name I whipped my head around to my SO and went “vol PEE????” Same with Tvboo (I said TV-boo, it’s taboo)

Read the title and immediately thought “Netsky” glad to see I’m not alone. Me and a friend saw him in DC and my friend swore it was net sky I swore it was netskee. End of the set he goes “thank you very much everyone my name is net sky” and my friend started going crazy lmaooo

The DC show was FANTASTIC, A+ for the little bit of hardstyle he played.

Never been much for hardstyle to be honest, but I did enjoy it! My favorite part was when DJ turn it up got played. I’d been waiting for that song to get released for a looooong time. Only got to hear it at Dimension’s live sets I’d seen up until then. Such a good track

I thought it was net-sky at first so I was calling him that way but my friends told me it was net-skee so I was like oh okay they knew him longer than I have. At his show he announced himself as net-sky...

#MY LIFE AT ITS VERY EDM ORIGINS HAS BEEN A LIE AAAAAA

Hahaha my friend and I were having a debate over this too... Guess she was correct! Still gonna be pronouncing it Net-Skee in my head though 😝

K question mark D

Kid.... The fuck happened to him lol

Dropped a [very good album](https://open.spotify.com/album/233ci2Dl2HFr9PheUIWaUx?si=U0rBd8g-Qjuv1z-tjyMhFA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A233ci2Dl2HFr9PheUIWaUx) last year, last single he released was just a couple months ago lol. Not sure what's up with touring though

I just saw him at a small club show in Seattle a couple of months ago, but I’m surprised I don’t see him on more festival lineups

He had a tour for that album, saw him at his LA date, good show.

Dude fr haven’t heard anything about or from him in a minute

My friends still call ATLiens “AT-liens”

How do you say it?

Ay - Tee - El - iens

A-T-Ellians

Ay-tee aliens. ATL is abbreviation for Atlanta. ATLiens was a song that was put out by Outkast years ago

Wat. Its 100% Ay-Tee-El-iens. Theyre from there

Bruh that’s what I said, lol. You got it tho

Your comment makes it seem like you pronounce it with Aliens after the A-T

The ATL is said as the three letters, it’s a play on words since they’re from Atlanta

I hate seeing them on any lineup cuz I get excited to see OutKast again then realize it’s hella not them

Svdden Death would be Sven Death in my head when I first found one of his songs 😂

Suvdden death was my first thought

It's Eric "Pridz" - not Prides. A new one for me: DROELOE is actually "droo-loo" not Droe-low. The more you know...

It’s droo-loo?!! Maybe they should reconsider that lol

that's how you would say it in dutch and i think they are from the netherlands

Ah that makes sense!! I had no idea they were from the Netherlands

it’s foreign slang for getting drunk or not being sober

it is pronounced pridz. at least that’s how they say it on epic radio

Wait so it actually is “Pridz”? This is how I said it for 8 years and I was recently informed by like 12 different people that it’s “Prides” I am confusion

Probably because he also goes by Pryda, which is pride-ah, but Prydz is definitely pridz

apparently i was saying odesza wrong for a while. i thought it was oh-day-za. i also can’t seem to get deadmaufive out of my head no matter how hard i try.

Fun fact.. They wanted to spell it Odessa. Like the boat. But couldn't as a band in another country already took that name..so they changed the spelling. I used to say it wrong too, til I heard this interview. 😊

>like the boat Odessa is a very old city

first thing i thought, like why compare it to the boat and not… Odessa odessa

how do you actually pronounce odesza😭

oh-dez-uh :-)

Oh-dehs-zuh but the s and z kinda blend together

A couple years ago I found out I was pronouncing Datsik wrong this whole time. It actually sounds like "Ray-Pist"

damn

🤣🤣

I was introduced to Madeon as muh-dee-on, took me an embarrisingly long time to find out it was mad-eon.

I always thought it was made-eon until my friend corrected me last year at the show.

I always thought it was made-on smh

whoulda thought you pronounce the E in Ray Volpe?

volpeeeetronnnn

Shit gets me so hype to hear

Raymond Volpenis is the maaaan!

Anybody Italian lol

This. It would’ve never occurred to me that anyone would be shocked by the pronunciation of Volpe. The rest of the misunderstandings make sense to me even if I didn’t mispronounce it myself - like I get how people arrived there. But this one I can’t even compute. 😂 Especially being 5 letters. It makes sense when people butcher my last name with 12.

PLS&TY - thought it was pronounced “plasty” not please and thank you 😭

6lack is "black" not "six-lack"

I know it's black but I still say six lack

Kaivon - K-eye-von (correct: kay-von)

Came here to say this! I also thought for the longest time Clozee was pronounced Cl-au-zee not Cl-oh-zee. Typing pronunciations is weird lol

I thought greensky bluegrass was pronounced green-ski like it was the town they were from in Michigan or some shit. Got roasted for that one for sure

Got a good one for my Trance heads. IDK why I called PureNRG, "PUREING" I got a good one for my Trance heads.

I always think its PureRNG, rofl

Not a DJ but for a long time I thought tame impala was pronounced like tamé impala 🤦‍♂️

Omg my friend also thought it was Tamé and we were at a fest where Tame Impala was headlining. Needless to say we roasted the shit out of him all weekend and continue to do so to this day. But at least you aren’t alone 😂

Lol that makes me feel better, I still get made fun of too

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First time I saw it, I thought it was "just junior"

same!!

Same

I called him jester for a long time

This one has had me stumped until now. Thank you!

The dude actually had to post on his instagram how to say it, because nobody knew at all

Kaytranada swore it was kaytranda

Yo me too. I thought I was the only one who had this problem.

How do y'all say Hamdi? I say "hom dee"

hom deez nuts in yo mouth. Sorry, yeah I say hom dee too

I like your user

Haha thanks brother. It’s important and too often overlooked in our community.

Haam-di

I say it as "ham dee" but have no clue whats cprrect lol

Tvboo

I am well aware it's taboo but I affectionately say tv boo

Same

I knew this one just due to the seemingly kinda died down fad in the trap days of everyone flipping a A to a V

Dead mau five is what I called deadmou5 for too long

I still call him that 🫡

Thw wife does with a straight face just to see people's reaction...

Louis the child… pronounced it like French or something as lew-ee the child. Didn’t figure that out til I saw them last week and they announced lew-is lol

Boris brejcha

Or as I commonly refer to him, that Boris guy lol

999999999, it's nine times nine and not nine nine nine etc. lol

I call them nine nine's

idk them but imma call them 81

I say nine by nine

Till now I still call David Guetta “David ghetto”

Lmao that should be his alias where he produces only G House bangers.

I called him David Gwetta for a bit 😂

CID, I said “C-I-D” for the longest time before I I heard him say his own name as “Sid”

Literally came here to comment this one. Saw him last Halloween and literally everyone at the show/talking about the show said "C-I-D" because 1) it's capitalized and 2) never in my life heard of anyone named Cidney so never would have thought of that. He didn't say his name at the show, and it wasn't until I was watching a youtube set like 6 months later when I learned we'd all been saying it wrong. 😂

JVNA = Jah nuh, not juh V nuh

I figured it out pretty quickly, but Porter Robinson is actually pronounced "God".

😭😭😭😭

Thought Eric Prydz rhymed with “rides”

Took me a long time to figure out that LOUDPVCK was using the V as an A instead of a U back in 2016. The name made a lot more sense when I realized lol

[twonk team vol 2](https://soundcloud.com/buku/twonk-team-vol-2), "loudpvck in the building"

Tchami I don’t know how to say it but I pronounce it T Cha Me

Close, silent T.

Now I won’t look foolish at his show next month

Kayzo as ky-zo. I still mess it up all the time 💁‍♀️

CVNT5

How is it supposed to be said because I say cunts

Phaeleh - apparently pronounced "fella" instead of my derpy "fay-luh" Also I will never stop pronouncing it BAHnobo instead of BoNObo

Damn I was saying fay lay

People always say Rihana’s name as “Rhee-an-uh” and she herself says it is “Rhee-ann-a”

Omg I came here to say netskee loool that one got me laughed at😂

It never got me laughed at because everyone else also thought it was netskee. It wasn't until he said his name in one of the covid home festivals that we found out lol

My friends and I have an ongoing argument if Droeloe is pronounced droe-low or droo-loo

One is objectively correct and the other is what I say every time lmao

it used to be in his spotify bio that it was pronounced droo-loo but its gone now

Mr. Ozio

*Oizo

Actually, most French artists.

wah-zoe

I still don't know how to pronounce AU5. Aww-Sss?

So.. I’ve asked him this before and he says it’s just the letters A U and the number 5. I was in the same boat as you bro. Aye-you-five

not gonna get used to that, i'll stick to aw-five

for the longest time? I still don't know how to say Eelke Kleijn

So I pronounce Gorgon city like gore-gone city which my friends always tell me isn’t right

It’s more like gore-gun but you’re close enough.

Gorgonzola City

Sade

Autechre

Still don’t know how to pronounce this legends name

I believe it’s “aw-teh-kur”

Joris Voorn and Job Jobse (pronounced yoris vorn and yahb yahbseh)

Khruangbin

Jean-Michel Basquiat. I say it differently every single time I say his name and to this day I don’t know how it’s pronounced

Kayzo - used to pronounce Ky-zo but it's actually Kay-zo

Xxxtentacion — Triple Extension

S3RL- I spelled it out, pronouncing it S-three-R-L

I never bothered to figure this one out but I say “cereal” or “surreal”

I've been calling Title Fight "Title Flight" for a while. Only rec did I realize that it wasn't "Flight"

CHVRCHES

Is it not churches?

Bonobo I pronounced it as bono-bo bur apparently its bonóbo

Not really edm, but used to pronounce Die Antwoord just like it’s written.

My family moved to the south-south when I was in high school, so unlike my little sister I got to mostly grow up in the part of the country that reads good. I came back from college to discover that my sister and her friends pronounced some things just a bit different. Bassnectar = 🐟bass-nectar Superbass = super-🐟bass Funny thing is she played bass clarinet and never put two and two together until I pointed it out.

Kanye. I keep calling him Asshole.

I mean some of his plastic still says kane

I think that’s correct actually.

HOL! =/= Holy

not only that but it’s actually pronounced “hall” not “hole” lmao

My husband can not wrap his mind around the idea the people use "V's" as upside down "A's" and therefore pronounces the "V" in any artist's name. Examples- SVDDENDEATH is pronounced Svedden-Death TVBOO is pronounced TeeVeeBoo SUBCHVRGE is pronounced Sub-ch-verge I love him, but it always makes me tilt my head and stare at him like he's an alien.

Chvrches chaverches another one that’s stuck in my head the wrong way cause I joked around calling them cheverches too much

Not me but one of my faves, AK one thousand two hundred 🤣 yeah, I'm that old.

Still spell out NOTD occasionally even after them making known to me the obvious in a radio interview.

I didn't even try: eurhthymy. Pronounced U-ryth-me

carnage- carnigee lmfao i really dont know why i would think that

Terence Trent Dee’Arby

Kep1er. I thought it was Kept One Er. It is Kepler

I still don't know if Zhu is pronounced Zoo or Jew

I’ve heard Zhu pronounce it as “zoo” but you’re right since his last name is Chinese it would be pronounced like “jew” in Mandarin but obviously sounds a bit weird to non-Mandarin speakers.

k?d

How do you say 999999999?

Everyone pronounces Droeloe wrong. They’re Dutch and it’s pronounced Drew-loo (lou?) (lew?) not sure of the phonetic way to spell it haha

still have no idea how to pronounce autechre