I am sure you have all heard the song “I believe” sang by Nikki Yanofsky’s if not once at least twenty times a day especially if you have been watching the Olympics. It has been the number 1 song on iTunes for 13 straight days it is a very up lifting song that everyone seems to love. The song is the Canadian anthem for the broadcast consortium, led by CTV. It’s a great song, about “believing in the power of you and I”. Grammatically it should be sung as “believing in the power of you and me”. This has been a very controversial topic because it is symbolizing Canada and the Olympics. The song has been playing at our school for a couple of days now… and aren’t they supposed to be teaching us how to use proper grammar? But I do love the song.
I don’t understand how someone can get that wrong you might not be grammatically literate but we have something today called spell check which also fixes grammar mistakes, I have typed the line “you and I” and a green line underlines “I” telling me to change it to “me” it’s that easy. The reason why “believing in the power of you and I” is not correct is because you can’t believe in “I” you believe in “me”. So did the person who wrote the lyrics know that it was grammatically incorrect but thought “you and I” sounded better then “you and me” well who knows? Do you think that this grammatically incorrect line is a big deal? Or is it a good song and no one cares? Well many people do not like how this is grammatically incorrect and think it is putting across the wrong message. As Bruce Cheadle from the Canadian Press says “Yanofsky’s vocals are flawless, but not the lyrics” this is true Nikki sang beautifully and that song is a huge phenomenon and to me that’s all that matters.
Take a look at: http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=capress-oly_i_believe_grammar-2428652&prov=capress&type=lgns
