The question mark is becoming an endangered species when it comes to album-titling, according to Yahoo! music blogger Paul Grein:

Artists increasingly seem to regard question marks as optional, as we see from these current albums: Jessica Simpson’s Do You Know, Heidi Newfield’s What Am I Waiting For, Jimmy Wayne’s Do You Believe Me Now, Kristy Lee Cook’s Why Wait and Brandon Heath’s What If We (which doesn’t even pose a complete question). That’s why I’m pleased to see Mitch Hedberg’s Do You Believe In Gosh? with the proper punctuation. My seventh grade English teacher would also be pleased.

It should be pointed out that Mitch Hedberg is three years dead, and that while his posthumous album’s title does come from his own comedy scribblings, it wasn’t chosen by him. Maybe proper punctuation is the province of the dead.

I am reminded of Deana Carter’s debut album, Did I Shave My Legs for This?, complete with that apropos question mark. That was a dozen years ago, though — things have changed for both the music industry and Carter herself.