Misheard lyrics

yesterday i learned that the dutch word for "mondegreen" is "mama appelsap", after a michael jackson song (presumably the soul makossa thing)

Correct, it's because a lot of people thought they heard/wanted to hear 'mama appelsap' in 'Wanna Be Startin' Something'. 'Mama appelsap' means 'mama apple juice'.

mamasay mamasa mamakusa puts me in mind of the epic Rusted Root neologism thread

In "Man In The Mirror", the line "a summer disregard, a broken bottle top" I always sing in my head as "a Baby Bottle Pop"

"So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills
You know the one, goddammit everything's going to be alright."

Runnin With the Devil:

I found the simple life ain't so simple
When I jumped out, on that road
I got no love, no love in Korea ...

Party Rock Anthem, I always heard them declare "No Lennon or Zeppelin."

Saint Etienne, Girl VII: "Blazer y-fronts blazer y-fronts"

when I was first getting into Metallica, due to James's weird elocution, I kept thinking he was singing "tied to machines that make me pee", and kept wondering what the main character had left to pee out of

Though I know the real lyrics, my whole life my brain has persisted in hearing Ex Lion Tamer's chorus as going "be good to your geniuses!"

Might be an old chestnut, but The Police's Walking on the Moon: "Tomorrow's another day, Tuesday"

In "Tempted," I always end up singing "tempted by the fruit of your mother."

I'm telling you, babe
That I don't think it's true, babe
Or even if it is, keep kissing mine

https://i.imgur.com/E3gQ0km.png

Whenever I listen to the Red Crayola song Former Reflections Enduring Doubt, I hear the opening words as: "Martha Plimpton..."

(I like that so much, I don't even wanna know what Mayo's really singing!)

We can try to understand
The New York Times' effect on man

lol u gotta be shitting me

That's gonna bug me...

Back later

Got it.

Carry on...

Wayward son

There'll be peas when you are done

I was sure "Stayin' Alive" said "The New York Times don't make no sense"

(even before my recognition of their warmongering corporate liberalism)

Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Cold Shot." Was stunned to find out he's not singing "at nights I go shopping"

(real lyric = "and that's a cold shot, baby")

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arse

that sort of reminds me:

Kylie - Made of Glass
"where dogging is rarely that necessary"

I always thought the Mr Belvedere theme began:

Streets of China
Never met him before

And not

Streaks on the china
Never mattered before

Silver Jews - Ablemarle Station

Bad roads, bad snow, bad bridges
Ted Turner wants Batman religious

(could turn a once bad man religious)

'Breathe' - Shaggy ft. Blu Cantrell

I've always always always heard the line as 'So what's that supposed to be, a bald lady?'

idk if this fits here but I've heard "Caribbean Queen" probably every day for the past two years and I still cannot understand why Billy weights it like "Carob Bean Queen"

It is ca-RIB-be-yan right? Not care-ob-BEEN? *does a google* what the fuck he recorded three versions of this song? European Queen? African Queen?

I would say something like CA-ro-BE-yan?

not much different to how he sings it I guess? I have heard people pronounce it Cuh-RIB-ian but that sounds non-standard

ah this is a UK vs American thing https://www.google.com/search?q=caribbean+pronounce

Ocean is English/Trinidadian

Also that's how it's pronounced in the Caribbean, isn't it?

How is it pronounced in Pirates of the Caribbean?

I've heard "Caribbean Queen" probably every day for the past two years

y tho

My boyfriend has two playlists, a daytime list and a nighttime list, Ocean is on both

Both pronunciations suggest four syllables, whether you're weighting on the rib or the care/bee. European is four syllables; does Ocean sing "Europe Peen" when he adjusts the origin story of his queen?

I'm gonna write a song called "Euripidean Queen"

He sings it with four syllables though? Admittedly I don't hear it every day.

do you say you-ROW pee-an?

I hear it every day too because work and it's definitely 4 syllables

also here's a random fact I found out the other day: Billy Ocean sings backup vocals on Scott Walker's Track Three on Climate of Hunter

Nope I say YER-rope-EE-an, the opposite of fa-LOPE-ee-an.

It is four syllables? OK I'll take it. I guess it's more my own aesthetic barometer swinging more toward the melodious possibility of a "ca-RIB-be-yan QUEEN" over "CARE-ob-BEE-yan QUEEN". Having the phoneme "bean"/"BEE-yan" weighted heavily next to an also-weighted-heavily "queen" is unappealing to my ears? Bean Queen. Lots of 'ee' sounds.

Anyway "now our hearts they beat as one / no more love on the run" is a fabulous lyric, but I always like it when a lyricist names an object and then follows it with a pronoun, "our hearts, they..." "my father, he..." "my lover, she..." etc.

*a subject, rather, I guess

I keep hearing mentions to Felix Leiter in the "I’d be a fearless leader/I'd be an alpha type" lines in Swift's "The Man". I really liked the clever nod to Ian Fleming and addressing her own americanity.

That's Sean Paul, not Shaggy

Lol

xp - oh yeah, course it is.

Just remembered that when I first heard 'Motorcycle Emptiness' as a teenager at a local indie night, I heard 'Under neon loneliness' as something like 'La la-la la lovely boots' and now that's what it is

Bob Dylan - Are You Ready?

Are you ready for the judgment?
Are you ready for that Taylor Swift song?

For a moment I thought he was making a joke, but the recording is from 80