Amerie - Because I Love It

Amerie's first langauage was Korean. Her mother attempted to limit her use of the language after the family moved to the US, believing it might hinder her English development.

Apparently, Amerie still speaks Korean with her mother, which isn't a particularly rigid enforcement of 'not speaking Korean' on her mother's part. This perhaps explains Amerie's lamentable English.

'Hate2loveu', 'That's What U R', 'When Loving U Was Easy' and 'Losing U'. It's 'you', Amerie - 'you'. Maybe that kind of single-letter representation of full words might wash in Korea, but here in the United Kingdom, we spell everything in full.

Even in an emergency, it's considered rank bad form to depart from the recognised standards. If there were a fire in an Englishman's home and through some complex set of circumstances he needed to write a quick note prior to fleeing the blaze, he would sooner die than use 'U' or 'R' in place of the full version.

He would sooner die.