Deadmau5’s dedicated fan base of teenagers, nerds and people who “quite liked his first album” are reportedly still incorrectly pronouncing his stage name as Dead Mouth Five rather than dead mouse.
The stage name, a reference to a threat he screamed against a man in a Mickey Mouse costume during one of his routine pilgrimages to Disneyland when he was refused access to ride the teacups, – “You’re dead…mouse””, – has been mispronounced ever since the mouse headed producer burst onto the scene and fell onto the EDM bandwagon in 2007.
“It’s not Dead Mouth Five?” asked one exasperated fan, Matt (pictured), who claims that he has been pronouncing it that way ever since he first heard Faxing Berlin. “I thought the name, Dead Mouth Five was ironic – because on his Twitter feed his mouth is actually very much alive, and also because I totally get irony.”
“Although I don’t know what the five was meant to be about,” he added.
“I feel a bit like an idiot now and am cringing to myself,”continued Matt, while visibly squirming at remembered embarrassment. “Sort of like how Deadmau5 himself must feel now that he’s fully committed to the whole ‘wearing a mouse head on your head while DJing’ shtick.”
Other fans have come forward with similar stories of vague embarrassment caused by mispronouncing the name of the Canadian star with a reported 436,000 people across EDM land being laughingly corrected by someone after getting the name wrong.
“I actually love when people mispronounce it,” claimed Harry, a dickbag. “I’m one of those insecure dweebs who’ll jump on the slightest mistake that someone makes in an effort to distract whoever’s present from my massive insecurity. When they make the simple mistake of pronouncing the name wrong it’s like taking candy from a lady.”
Reports that an explanatory pamphlet about the correct pronunciation of Deadmau5, Sven Väth and every Irish name, is to be distributed across the world in the hopes that people can avoid “looking like a bit of a thick for a second”.
“This is actually a serious issue in the dance music world,” concluded dance music fan and British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, “mispronouncing a DJ’s name or confusing one genre for another is a surefire way to show that you’re not a real fan and are just a poser who doesn’t even do shuffling or pretend to have always been into disco.”
