VeronaIn just confused promiscuity with prostitution.
― Mark G, Friday, 6 June 2008 09:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"Flowin' like an adverb/ Action word"
― The Reverend, Friday, 6 June 2008 09:35 (sixteen years ago) link
In "Ooh Wee", Ghostface confuses the producer Mark Ronson with Mark Bronson, the production assistant on the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley": http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111526/
― Dom Passantino, Friday, 6 June 2008 10:07 (sixteen years ago) link
In "You're Beautiful" singer/songwriter James Blunt confuses baring your soul with being a bit rapey.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 6 June 2008 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link
The Doors, "Five To One": Five to one, baby/One in five. ("One in five" actually implies FOUR to one.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 07:04 (sixteen years ago) link
In "Punk Rock Girl" by the Dead Milkmen, I was always confused by the fact that he says "someone played a Beach Boys song on the jukebox / It was California Dreamin' / So we started screamin' / On such a winter's day."
California Dreamin' is by the Mamas and the Papas, of course-- but I found out much later that the Beach Boys also did it. But who the hell has ever heard that version?
― res, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, there's this one Tool song on "Opiate" where he says that his drugged-out friend thought he was a "fire drill." I'm almost positive he meant "fire hydrant."
In "Bald Headed Hoes," Willie D says "There should be a crime against bald headed hoes," when he means to say "there should be a LAW against bald headed hoes."
Then again, later in the song, he advocates violence against the titular figures, so perhaps he did mean what he said after all. It's hard to say.
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:32 (sixteen years ago) link
In "You're Beautiful" singer/songwriter James Blunt confuses baring your soul with being a bit rapey Good stuff
― VeronaInTheClub, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
(x-post) >> California Dreamin' is by the Mamas and the Papas, of course-- but I found out much later that the Beach Boys also did it. But who the hell has ever heard that version?
Never knew this! Wiki sez BBoys did two cover versions. One was released on a Radio Shack sampler cassette Rock 'N' Roll City in 1983, and a re-recorded version appeared on the CD Made in The USA (1986.) I kinda doubt the Milkmen were aware of this, and always assumed they made the transposition just cuz it seems funny (or natural) that the narrator wouldn't know (or care about) the difference.
― Dan Peterson, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I kinda doubt the Milkmen were aware of this, and always assumed they made the transposition just cuz it seems funny (or natural) that the narrator wouldn't know (or care about) the difference.
The latter might be true, but I'm pretty sure that they had a sort of encyclopedic knowledge of music trivia, as evidenced by many somewhat obscure musical references in their back catalog.
― res, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
The Supremes' "Back in My Arms Again" confuses Romeo with the Casanova promiscuous type: "And Flo, she don't know / Cause the boy she loves is a Romeo."
― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
D&D Allstars: 1-2 Pass It -- KRS One says "Your lyrics are stiff like David Koppel" -- I assume he meant news anchor Ted and not an obscure reference to a British photographer
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
haha Myonga, I never thought about that!
― Sundar, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
foxy's verse on affirmative action ftw:
[Foxy Brown] In the black Camaro Firm deep all my niggaz hail the blackest sparrow Wallabee's be the apparel Through the darkest tunnel, I got visions of multimillions in the biggest bundle, in the Lex pushed by my nigga Jungle He money bags got Moet, Sean Don Bundle of sixty-two, they ain't got a clue what we about to do My whole team we shittin hard like Czar Sosa, Foxy Brown, Cormega, and Escobar I keep a fat marquis piece, laced in all the illest snake skin Armani sweaters Carolina Hebrera Be The Firm baby, from BK to the 'Bridge My nigga Wiz, operation Firm Biz, so what the deal is I keep a phat jew-el, sippin Crist-ies Sittin on top of fifty grand in the Nautica Van, uhh! We stay incogni' like all them thug niggaz in Marcy The Gods, they praise Allah with visions of Gandhi Bet it on, my whole crew is Don Juan On Cayman Island with a case of Cristal and Papa Chula spoke Nigga with them Cubans that snort coke Raw though, an ounce mixed wit leak that's pure though Flippin the bigger picture, the bigger nigga with the cheddar Was mad dripper, he had a fuckin villa in Manilla We got to flee to Panama, but wait it's half and half Keys is one and two-fifth, so how we flip Thirty-two grams raw, chop it in half, get sixteen, double it times three We got forty-eight, which mean a whole lot of cream Divide the profit by four, subtract it by eight We back to sixteen, now add the other two that 'Mega bringin through So let's see, if we flip this other key Then that's more for me, mad coke and mad leak Plus a five hundred, cut in half is two-fifty Now triple that times three, we got three quarters of another key The Firm baby, volume one uhh..
― and what, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
(Chamillionaire) Ay big time I'm tryna see the president dead (presidents dead?), that's what I said But not the one in the white house man, the one with the green presidents head Blue or red I'm still ridin', ladies be tellin' me that I'm sexcist And I guess it's, 'cause I always love the money over dresses Always been about them horizontal lines through them S's That's a dollar sign, Impala flyin' watch how she undresses
― and what, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
(Jay-Z) Thirty-eight revolve like the sun round the earth Try to play hard get you found round the dirt Six shell casings found round your shirt
― and what, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Elliott Smith saying "Duracell Bunny" in Rose Parade.
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
no bullshit it originally was the duracell bunny, energizer ripped it off
― and what, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
The Duracell Bunny predates the Energizer Bunny, which actually began as a parody of the Duracell Bunny commercials and toys that became a collectible item. There are differences in appearance — the Energizer Bunny wears sunglasses, has larger ears, is a different shade of pink and has a different body shape. Also, while the Energizer Bunny is a single rabbit, the Duracell Bunnies are a species. The Energizer Bunny is always depicted with a drum, as the Duracell Bunny toys of which it is a parody had drums. The actual Duracell Bunny advertising campaign has moved beyond this, and Duracell Bunnies are usually depicted as doing something other than beating a drum.
Oh word. I just remember reading some interview with him where he copped to having the other bunny in mind when he wrote it.
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
In "King of Rock," Run-DMC confuse the Beatles with the Police.
― Douglas, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, in "Bled White," Elliott Smith confuses the F train with the N or R. Perhaps he was at 34th St., where they intersect.
― Douglas, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
dunno if anyone's noticed this, but in the song 'ironic', alanis morrisette confuses things which are annoying (e.g. 'rain on your wedding day') with things which are ironic.
― banriquit, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Douglas, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 18:44 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
At time of recording, there were three members of The Beatles.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ good find! maybe she did it on purpose to be "ironic" lol
― and what, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
X-Clan
My style is deep, deeper than atlantis, deeper than the sea floor travelled by the mantis.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Jay-Z has always been an adamant opponent of the Copernican model.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
in the song 'gold digger' kanye west confuses 'ska punk' with 'hen fap'.
― banriquit, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
^^
the post that had to be made
― dell, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Far out, I never heard of no "Duracell Bunny" till now! I missed that ad campaign entirely.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
That Foxy Brown verse is kind of o_O
― mh, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Isn't the Alanis Morrisette thing common knowledge?
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link
This is another one where they copped to being straight-up wrong, guys genuinely thought there were always three Beatles (unlike the 417 that quantum mathematics have established as co-existing within the Schrodingerian fifth position).
― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 02:38 (sixteen years ago) link
How can I go on / When every alpha particle hides a neon nucleus
In the song "Richard", Billy Bragg confuses the noble gases neon and helium.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 08:26 (sixteen years ago) link
what a loser
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread is really primo material btw... good work all around
(Lil Wayne) Young moolah baby I got money on money on money on money on top of more money on top of my shit like flies open that ferrari f 5 like eyes up and down ocean drive jumpin up out that maybach with a bitch way back to tease them thighs she got a tattoo on her booty and it say 305 DJ Khaled say it's a movie now don't forget your lines, Cause you dont want me to edit before we roll the credits bitch give me my credit i'm so energetic i'm f**kin like a rabbit smokin on lettuce whatever i want i get it i meant it if i said it and i say i keep it pumpin i aint talkin unletted if you want it come get it cause boy i'm ready i get that fast fetty they should call me Tom Petty got two bitches one peanut butter one jelly i'm a American gangster already
richard petty is the NASCAR driver, tom petty is a singer/songwriter
― and what, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
A) Halloween B) Not Halloween
Bushwick Bill (My MInd is Playin' Tricks on Me)
― Bobbi Peru, Friday, 27 June 2008 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link
early morning april 4th a shot rings out in the memphis sky
― balls, Friday, 27 June 2008 07:03 (fifteen years ago) link
that beach boys 'california dreaming' got what felt like alot of airplay on mtv at the time, here's the horror - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAQ-AeUlijU. big al jardine showcase. lotta sax. i think it was the followup to the slightly bigger hit 'getcha back' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Pk9kwcGKk - really really shoddy production on these things, the vocals on 'getcha back' are just stunningly schlocky. really w/ these, roth's 'california girls', 'wipeout' (the best of this bunch by many miles), and then of course 'kokomo' the beach boys were hustling pretty hard for a hit then.
― balls, Friday, 27 June 2008 07:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Y'all niggaz is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice, or possibly Smooth
"Like Dizzy Gillespie played the sax"
― Oilyrags, Friday, 27 June 2008 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link
In The Crazy Word of Arthur Brown's rendition of "Fire", Arthur Brown confuses being the god of hellfire with being Arthur Brown.
― Neil S, Friday, 27 June 2008 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
In "Tambourine", Eve seems to think the Taj Mahal is a palace, rather than a mausoleum:
"Doin it big like I live in da Taj Mahal,"
― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 27 June 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link
that beach boys 'california dreaming' got what felt like alot of airplay on mtv at the time, here's the horror - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAQ-AeUlijU. big al jardine showcase. lotta sax.
jesus, what is up with that video? if you turn the sound off, it's like a long-long david lynch short.
― res, Friday, 27 June 2008 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Only learned that fact myself in the last year. :(
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 27 June 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
"I'm a venereal disease like a menstrual bleed." - Lil Wayne
― lindseykai, Friday, 27 June 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
In Eve's defense, living in the Taj Mahal would be pretty sweet even if it were an abbatoir
― nabisco, Friday, 27 June 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i dont know if thats relavent here, and it was written with full awareness,but "left of the dial" - the replacements: "pretty girls are growing up playing make up,wearing guitar"
― Zeno, Saturday, 28 June 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
"in that fucking journey song steve perry sings that his character was "born and raised in south detroit". there is no area in detroit referred to as south detroit, though there is a neighbourhood called southwest detroit
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, June 22, 2021 5:12 PM (two years ago) "
Maybe he was born in Windsor, Ontario (sometimes jokingly referred to as South Detroit)
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 17:48 (four months ago) link
Another thing that runaway lied to him about
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 17:52 (four months ago) link
don't stop believin, hoser
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 17:52 (four months ago) link
"I ran the phonetics of east, west, and north, but nothing sounded as good or emotionally true to me as South Detroit," he told the reporter. "It’s only been in the last few years that I’ve learned that there is no South Detroit. But it doesn't matter."
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 17:55 (four months ago) link
Also, if you get on a train at midnight (or any time, really), it has a specific route and destination. You have, presumably, purchased a ticket. Maps are widely available. You can't just go "anywhere."
Like, Antarctica or the Moon or Madagascar. Very difficult to reach by train.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 17:57 (four months ago) link
"The Night Chicago Died" is about a shoot-out between the Chicago Police and gangsters tied to Al Capone. It was inspired by the real-life Saint Valentine's Day Massacre,[2] although that involved Capone's men killing seven of Bugs Moran's gang members and had nothing to do with the police. No confrontation large enough to leave around one hundred police deaths ever happened. Al Capone was arrested in 1932 for income tax evasion.The song's events supposedly take place "on the East Side of Chicago". Chicago has three commonly referred-to regions: the North Side, the West Side and the South Side. There is no East Side, as Lake Michigan is immediately east of Downtown Chicago. While there is an area of Chicago known as "East Side", it is a neighborhood on the Far South Side on the Illinois/Indiana state line. East Side is also several miles away from where Capone lived on Prairie Avenue in Chicago. Furthermore, in the 1920s, East Side was known for being a quiet, residential, and predominantly Eastern European neighborhood—a sharp contrast from the site of the bloodbath described in the song.Songwriters Peter Callender and Mitch Murray said in interviews (most notably on Beat Club shortly after the song's smash success) that they had never been to Chicago before that time, and that their knowledge of the city and that period of its history had been based on gangster films. (Callender defended his interpretation of Chicago's geography by saying, "There's an East Side of everywhere!")As reported by History.com:"...in England there were at least a few young men that didn’t have all the facts straight, and in the 1970s their pop group from Nottingham turned their romantic misunderstanding of American history into a historically dubious yet gloriously catchy hit record. Though it was never intended for the American market, Paper Lace’s "The Night Chicago Died" crossed the Atlantic and became a #1 hit on the U.S. pop charts..."[2]Paper Lace sent the song to the mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, who greatly disliked it.[3] A member of Daley's staff is quoted as saying that Paper Lace should "jump in the Chicago River, placing your heads under water three times and surfacing twice. Pray tell us, are you nuts?”[4]
The song's events supposedly take place "on the East Side of Chicago". Chicago has three commonly referred-to regions: the North Side, the West Side and the South Side. There is no East Side, as Lake Michigan is immediately east of Downtown Chicago. While there is an area of Chicago known as "East Side", it is a neighborhood on the Far South Side on the Illinois/Indiana state line. East Side is also several miles away from where Capone lived on Prairie Avenue in Chicago. Furthermore, in the 1920s, East Side was known for being a quiet, residential, and predominantly Eastern European neighborhood—a sharp contrast from the site of the bloodbath described in the song.
Songwriters Peter Callender and Mitch Murray said in interviews (most notably on Beat Club shortly after the song's smash success) that they had never been to Chicago before that time, and that their knowledge of the city and that period of its history had been based on gangster films. (Callender defended his interpretation of Chicago's geography by saying, "There's an East Side of everywhere!")
As reported by History.com:
"...in England there were at least a few young men that didn’t have all the facts straight, and in the 1970s their pop group from Nottingham turned their romantic misunderstanding of American history into a historically dubious yet gloriously catchy hit record. Though it was never intended for the American market, Paper Lace’s "The Night Chicago Died" crossed the Atlantic and became a #1 hit on the U.S. pop charts..."[2]
Paper Lace sent the song to the mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, who greatly disliked it.[3] A member of Daley's staff is quoted as saying that Paper Lace should "jump in the Chicago River, placing your heads under water three times and surfacing twice. Pray tell us, are you nuts?”[4]
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:00 (four months ago) link
The Antartica route was discontinued in 1981, after lots of Journey fans who showed up at the train station asking to go "anywhere" ended up freezing to death there.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:02 (four months ago) link
Play Don't Stop Believin' on a piano with a lot of jagged passing chords and a plaintive growl, rhyme "believing" with "bleeding" somewhere, and you could mistake the lyric for early Tom Waits.
― bendy, Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:45 (four months ago) link
It would be called "Streetlight People"
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:55 (four months ago) link
Just a city boi
Born and raised in North Hanoi
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:22 (four months ago) link
Once there was this girl who left her small town to take the midnight train But when she bought her ticketShe didn't know where she was goingShe said it didn't matterJust take me anywhere
Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:31 (four months ago) link
Collected via social media:
Maybe I'm being pedantic but the new Dua Lipa song, Houdini, uses the line "Catch me or I go Houdini" to imply she'll disappear. But Houdini was primarily an escape artist. Outside of the metamorphosis trick, which was a swap, he never disappeared himself. It feels like the song writer had no idea other than the name means magician.
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 03:14 (three months ago) link
(primo pedantic post, imo)
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 03:15 (three months ago) link
Houdini plays the mamba
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 13:12 (three months ago) link
Melle Mel confuses salty with bitter
― cozen itt (wins), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 13:52 (three months ago) link
I've brought this up elsewhere, but in "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer the songwriter seems to confuse making other people's phones ring with having your own phone rung.
Sittiin' here eatin' my heart out waitingWaiting for some lover to callDialed about at thousand numbers latelyAlmost rang the phone off the wall
Someone offered the explanation that this may be the British usage of "ring," as in another word for call, and in fact the lyricist is British (Pete Bellotte, I think). Always sounded funny to me though.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:39 (three months ago) link
that reads like two separate thoughts to me - first two lines are "i'm waiting for a lover to find me," second two lines are "i'm actively out here looking for lovers as well"
― na (NA), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:42 (three months ago) link
But whose phone is being rung off the wall?
― Josefa, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:45 (three months ago) link
The LOL Britishes explanation seems likely but awkward, ungrammatical and not something anyone would say irl.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 14:57 (three months ago) link
Man, if it was Donna Summer, I'd bet all thousand numbers rang her back.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:32 (three months ago) link
oh boy, ranging phones, that's where i'm a viking
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:54 (three months ago) link
wait, what is confusing? to ring somebody means to call them in USA too
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:55 (three months ago) link
If I heard someone say "My phone was ringing off the wall" I would assume they meant they were getting lots of calls, not making lots of calls.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:59 (three months ago) link
ring my phoneoff the wall
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:00 (three months ago) link
Americans only started saying they "ring" someone in the Internet Age when the English language has flattened out worldwide and Americans have adopted English idioms and vice versa. No one in America in the 1980s said they would "ring" someone unless they were PBS-watching Anglophiles.
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:02 (three months ago) link
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hallIf you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:05 (three months ago) link
"almost rang the phone off the wall" of all her friends' kitchens guys come on jeez
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:15 (three months ago) link
Me, in a song I wrote:
"I sent my coals to Coventry"
Which I was sure was an idiom but appears to be a conflation of "Send someone to Coventry" and "Send coals to Newcastle"
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:28 (three months ago) link
― Alba, Saturday, 2 March 2024 07:51 (three months ago) link
Oh, just saw President Keyes' post, sorry
― Alba, Saturday, 2 March 2024 07:53 (three months ago) link
I think there's a slight distinction there between ringing an object and ringing a person, with the latter being definitely rare in the US of the '70s/'80s
(Also Blondie didn't write that song, but they were certainly Anglophiles!)
― Josefa, Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:44 (three months ago) link
I don't think you "ring" an object in the UK either though? People don't say "ring my phone", they say "ring me".
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:03 (three months ago) link
HP Baxxter has no problem ringing up da laydeez:
"I’ve always been the party pleaserThere’s not a doubt, I’ve checked all the ladies out
Ring me up!Skip to the dip now!What we say?Jigga Jigga!
Ooooohh! Ho-ho!Davay-davay-davay!Jigga Jigga!Allright!Aaaaaarrrghh!"
whether he has confused A with B, however, remains moot
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:05 (three months ago) link
ring a ring of roses?
songwriter confuses the bubonic plague with making a telephone call
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:07 (three months ago) link
You can, however, ring someone's bell
xpost
― airport convention (Matt #2), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:07 (three months ago) link
anita baker - ring my bell
the white stripes - my doorbell
I did indeed circle both of these with a marker pen
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:11 (three months ago) link
oh, XP
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:12 (three months ago) link
xp to Tom Well I was thinking it's easy to slide from a common phrase like "ring my bell" to "ring my phone" and there's no confusion if Donna Summer is ringing someone else's phone. But in the phrasing of "Hot Stuff" she's first calling lots of different numbers and then one particular phone is being rung off the wall, so I was trying to imagine if in UK usage you can ring your own phone off the wall (actually someone else suggested the possibility first in another thread). But you said before that would be awkward phrasing, so maybe not.
― Josefa, Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:14 (three months ago) link
She's making so many phone calls that the resonance of the ringing coming through the earpiece is going to sonically blast her own phone off the wall.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:22 (three months ago) link
You can certainly ring a bell, true! Also the changes.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:25 (three months ago) link
anita baker ward - ring my bell
― pplains, Saturday, 2 March 2024 16:36 (three months ago) link
He could play a guitar just like ringing a bell
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 2 March 2024 18:33 (three months ago) link
In "Safe From Harm" I'm pretty sure Massive Attack didn't mean to say "what happened to the deliberately treated small details of my childhood days"
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 12:08 (three months ago) link
Haha I have always wondered about that line
― Tim F, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 12:10 (three months ago) link