Am I Right

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This article is about the website. For the song by Erasure, see Am I Right?

AmIRight is a popular music Web site created by Charles R. Grosvenor Jr. (known as Chucky G). Visitors can view sections based on such topics as song parodies, misheard lyrics (mondegreens), and album cover parodies, and can submit their own without registering. The site was first launched March 23, 2000 ^[1] and has since grown considerably.

AmIRight 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 spam.

Recently a sister site called AmIWrong was opened which allows the users to create their own quiz.

1 Sections of the website
2 What's the Question?
3 Publicity and Acclaim
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Sections of the website

[edit] Song parodies

The most dedicated core of members to the site have submitted several hundred song parodies each to the site. As of March 25, 2007, there are a total of 48,188 song parodies^[2]. Sections of the song parody section of the website include parodies of album covers, and former competitions for "[Parody] Song of the Month".

[edit] Comedy Recordings

The recordings section is for recorded performances of parodies or other musical comedy pieces. AmIRight doesn't host the files, so the section is more of an index to other sites that contain recordings. All entries in this section are submitted to the site by the original authors.

[edit] Album Covers

A recent addition to the site, the Album Cover parody section lets people humorously mutilate or otherwise modify an album cover from an original artist's album, thanks to Amazon.com's Music section.

[edit] Misheard lyrics

Since the website's inception, the site has offered the possibility for visitors to submit "misheard lyrics" to the site, stating what the lyrics they misheard were, and what the lyrics of the song actually are. 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, or "mondegreens", includes "Misheard lyrics in film", where visitors recall moments where actors or actresses recall words as misquoted by actors in either film or television from famous songs.

[edit] Names

A more recent addition to the site is the section on names of songs and performers. 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 portmanteaux of individual band or performer names, inappropriate commercial soundtrack selections, proposed duets, inappropriate songs to play while on hold, adding, removing, or changing letters from titles to create new titles, lyrics that are literally impossible, and the use of song titles as questions and answers.

[edit] Real lyrics

A section is accessible concerning "real lyrics", that is, those lyrics which fit certain categories, such as those which are "Misrhymed", "Insincere", "Dirty", and other categories.

[edit] What's the Question?

A contest in which answers were provided and it allows the users to submit which questions they believe were the best fit.

[edit] Publicity and Acclaim

Amiright has been mentioned in various articles and other publications over the years.

In May 2005, Spin Magazine voted Amiright as one of "Four Amazing Rock Websites", noting, "This compedium of thousands of song parodies even features spoofs of "Weird Al" Yankovic. How positively meta."^[3]
On October 25, 2005, Askmen.com proclaimed Amiright one of the "Best & Coolest Sites Around." Amiright 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."^[4]
Amiright was mentioned in the Chicago Tribune as one of the 50 Best Web Sites in the Arts and Culture. The Tribune described Amiright as "really funny."^[5]
On September 24, 2006, the EZHelp radio show interviewed Chucky G about AmiRight and its sister web sites. The show claims that AmiRight has been featured in such publications as "USA Today, New York Press, Entertainment Weekly, and US News Magazine to name a few."^[6]^[7]