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Arguably... That shouldn't be the case. Their style guide says:

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Principle

  If you ask yourself in what style something should be entered into MusicBrainz, the following principles apply:

    Follow Artist intent.
    If no definite proof can be found for the correct spelling/punctuation, the most common version should be used.
    Follow the style guidelines.

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style

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"remix" would be an example of extra title information as outlined here https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Titles. "Titles and subtitles of mixes/versions are formatted according to the appropriate language's guidelines; the other parts of this extra information should be in lower case except for words that would normally be capitalized in the language."

"acapella" would technically be considered a spelling error, which is something that we correct.

This article does a good job explaining what artist intent means: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Principle/Error_correction...

The artist "intent" is often misguided. CD-Text usually is assumed to be CP1252 99% of the time where I frequently see punctuation misused for "style" purposes. My biggest peeve is right single quote being used as a fancy apostrophe when that is an inappropriate substitution.

Are you claiming that ’ (Unicode code point 002019) is not suitable as an apostrophe? In that case, what is? The classic ASCII 000027? Isn’t that one straight? (As opposed to ’, which is slanted correctly.)

Or are you perhaps thinking of ´ (Unicode code point 0000B4, ACUTE ACCENT)? Yes, that one is ugly and should not be used as either an apostrophe or a right quote.

You use ASCII apostrophe and render with an appropriate font if you want it skewed.

The reference glyph for ' (code point 000027) <https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf> shows a straight rendering. Any Unicode font rendering it differently can reasonably be said to be rendering it incorrectly.

This does not work, because the “right-skewed” apostrophe is not appropriate for every case of “straight” apostrophe placement.

However, making every “skewed” apostrophe “straight” is very easy for a computer to do (e.g. MusicBrainz Picard ships with a setting for this). This is why the MB guidelines say to prefer correct typographical apostrophes.

Note that they are preferred and not required, so you can still enter straight ones, but another editor may update them. I honestly don’t see the problem, but I am very pedantic about other things so I guess I can imagine how seeing the curlies could rub you the wrong way!

Yep, and yet I still have had people "correct" my edits

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