The 16 Best Stuttering Songs of All Time
Posted Wednesday 04/01/2009 7:00 AM in
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10. "The Reflex," Duran Duran
They stutter over: "The reflex, fle-fle-fle-fle-flex!"
Why we love it: A quarter century after its release, we still find ourselves reverting to giddy teenyboppers when we hear this 1983 classic, the band's first No. 1 hit in the U.S.
The experts say: Foul! This is not a true stutter. "Second-syllable stutters are not typical," says Lavid. "If it were authentic, they'd stutter on the 're,' not the 'flex.'"
