A survey carried out on EDM fans in America has sensationally revealed that a staggering 90% of them still pronounce Deadmau5’s name as Deadmau-five.
Canadian Deadmau5, real name Joel Zimmerman, has been confusing Americans since the release of his 2005 debut album, Get Scraped, and continues to do so despite enjoying huge success as both a producer and DJ over the last eleven years.
“Oh I love Deadmau-five!” claimed Alison White, a twenty year old “EDM fanatic”. “His music’s great but I’ve always thought his name was a bit unusual, like, I don’t get it. What’s a Deadmau, and why are there five of them? It doesn’t make any sense, I guess he must be German or something, they always have really weird names like Fritz, Merkel or Dash Berlin.”
According to the survey’s results, not even the large, novelty, mouse head mask Zimmerman wears a while performing was enough to give away the real pronunciation of his name.
“I never really understood the mouse head either,” continued Alison. “I always just presumed he was either a huge Disney fan or else had a really ugly disfigured face. After seeing a video of him driving around in his Purrari, without his mask on, I still can’t make up my mind which one it is. Maybe it’s neither and he’s just a weird douche bag, who knows, nothing would surprise me about a guy who calls himself Deadmau-five.”
Leading researcher Melvin Thistlewick claimed that the inability to decipher a simple play on words, like that found in Deadmau5, was due to a genetic defect found in most American EDM fans.
“The reason why so many Americans are still pronouncing it Deadmau-five is because of fairly common neurological condition known as Avicii-syndrome,” explained Thistlewick. “About twenty percent of the American population have it, the majority of whom are either EDM or country fans, hence the name.”
“People who carry the Avicii-syndrome defect generally have a brain that’s about seventy percent smaller than people who don’t,” he continued. “Making them as stupid as a bag of spiders floating in a puddle of piss. I’m actually surprised most of these people are able to pronounce their own names, let alone something as difficult as Deadmau5.”
Other names American EDM fans are reported to have difficulty in pronouncing include; DVBBS, KSHMR, tchami and Dillon Francis.
