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Post by bear on Sept 18, 2022 14:11:04 GMT -5
sometimes i think a lyric is really weird and great and it turns out that's just because i misheard it.
i just heard "Lancaster Court" by Jockstrap, which contains the line "the corset scratches." i thought it was "the gorse, it scratches" which is much cooler.
one of highly enjoyable thing about Young Thug's garbled vocals is the potential for misunderstanding, for example "hustlers don't stop, they keep going" -----> "horses don't stop, they keep going" "pull up on a n!gga b!tch in my b!tch whip" -----> "pull up on a n!gga b!tch and my b!tch welsh"
or sometimes you know what you hear is total gibberish but you can't be bothered to look up what the line really is. for years i thought of a line in Devo's Mongoloid as "went from a soul to mid-eve." i looked it up recently and it's "one chromosome too many"
post what you thought some lyrics were.
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Post by Black Bert on Sept 19, 2022 9:50:36 GMT -5
This is called a mondegreen. When I was a kid, I thought the line "I wanna love you the best that I can" from Hold My Hand by Hootie & the Blowfish was "I want to love you, the bear said I can." Also, not a song lyric but I thought for the longest time that Darkwing Duck's catch phrase was "suck ass, evil doers!" "pull up on a n!gga b!tch in my b!tch whip" -----> "pull up on a n!gga b!tch and my b!tch welsh" This got me planning my funeral đ
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 19, 2022 10:27:59 GMT -5
when i heard the thread title i understood it as "Ms. Heard's lyrics"
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Post by HAL 10,000 on Sept 21, 2022 15:15:47 GMT -5
In Living On A Prayer I thought the line "it doesn't make a difference if we make it or not" was "it doesn't make a difference if we're naked or not."
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Sept 21, 2022 15:43:04 GMT -5
Until recently I thought that in the song 'promised you a miracle' by Simple Minds they were singing 'Promised you America'
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 21, 2022 17:22:52 GMT -5
My most upvoted comment on Genius is about a mondegreen for Beck's Loser:
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Post by bear on Sept 21, 2022 17:57:38 GMT -5
i'm proud of my most-voted comment on Genius, concerning a Joni Mitchell song:
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 25, 2022 12:02:18 GMT -5
I remembered another misheard lyric (that I also mentioned in a comment on Genius): I always think I hear John Lennon singing "such a sadist" instead of "sexy Sadie" towards the end of that song.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Sept 30, 2022 17:04:42 GMT -5
Not really a misheard lyric, but there are some songs where I didn't realise for ages that a pause is intentional when it's actually instead of a swear word. For example in the song Thrift Shop I thought for at least a year that it's just supposed to be "This is *pause* awesome"
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Post by bear on Oct 6, 2022 10:40:52 GMT -5
Beth Orton - Love Like Laughter
i musta been tweakin cuz i heard the opening line: "Some of the worst wrongs get righted on three chords" -- and i thought it was "Some of the worst songs get writed on three chords"
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Post by HAL 10,000 on Oct 6, 2022 13:30:06 GMT -5
Not a misheard lyric, but I thought Hey Mickey by The Riplets was about Mickey Mouse.
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Post by bear on Nov 5, 2022 17:58:45 GMT -5
So, do you know I'm a dancer now With red painted lips and a jezebel crown? So, have you heard I'm a singer now With reliquary eyes and a diadem frown? - Marissa Nadler i didn't even notice when i copy&pasted these choice lyrics in 2018 that the line was "diadem frown" -- she pronounces it wrong, so i thought it was "dear dim frown." and i've been singing these lines to meself on a regular basis for 5 years.I"M FURIOUS!!!
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Post by soufflé on Nov 5, 2022 19:44:03 GMT -5
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Post by bear on Mar 7, 2023 16:23:02 GMT -5
on Smuckers by Tyler the creator, Kanye says "lexus pull up, i hop out, wassup / step back, hold up, my nigga you suck" .
the lyrics on google told me that he says "hold up, my leg'll be stuck" đ
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Post by bear on Apr 21, 2023 19:50:22 GMT -5
i have no explanation for how when spandau ballet said "heat upon heat" i thought it was "eat a panini"
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