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Originally Posted by Tom Punks
It would sound strange even if the title was "my name's WOMAN." That phrase is just incredibly unnatural sounding to a native ear, whether plural or singular. Whether or not it sounds OK or makes sense to a non-native speaker is honestly, and I mean no offense by this, irrelevant. I guess it's possible to pull some meaning out of it, but you have to actually look at the words and analyze them lol.
Personally, I don't find this analogy entirely accurate, since "heart" is a noun. Adding -ful creates an adjective, whereas "great" is already an adjective. Adding -ful there is redundant. Imo, "greatful" is just a misspelling. It's easy enough a mistake to make.
Also, to the member who asked about "In The Corner" - that phrase is definitely okay as is. You would really only use "at the corner" when describing an intersection between streets/pathways, I think.
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I've never had any problem with "my name's WOMEN", I found it quite poetic and fitting with the theme of the song. IMO, it's about making a statement, not for one's actual identity, but for one's mission or purpose; she's basically saying she's speaking and fighting for women.
When it comes to "Greatful days", technically "great" is actually a noun, meaning a very successful and/or admired person and it could apply to the song (days spent with great people). "Greatness" is also a noun, and saying "days full of greatness" or worse, "greatnessful days", would be a bit of a mouthful for an Ayu song title so simply shortening it to "greatful" makes sense. Shortening/simplifying words is nothing new in any language.
"kiss o' kill" falls a bit into that same category for me, like shortening "you" to "u". It also made think of the Swedish shortening for the word "och" (="and", pronounced either as "o" or "ock"), which is an "o" with a line under it (my elementary teachers would use it sometimes when writing on the whiteboard) so in my mind the title turns into "kiss 'n' kill", but yeah, it's most likely short for "or".
Honestly, when it comes to Ayu songs I've learned to not expect point perfect grammar, and I've come to not mind it either, it's a creative way to distinguish songs and I'm fine with it as long as I don't see blatant misspellings. "Mirrorcle World" is one of my favorite song titles (and one of my favorite songs overall) and a good example of that creativity. Song lyrics (and their titles) are essentially like a form a poetry, using wordplay and pun-like conjugations is not out of the norm when it comes to the written arts so I think of them more as clever writing tricks rather than actual mistakes.
But as with all art, it's subjective in the end so I'm just as right/wrong about it as everyone else here.