Songs where the songwriter confuses A with B

That Foxy Brown verse is kind of o_O

Isn't the Alanis Morrisette thing common knowledge?

At time of recording, there were three members of The Beatles.

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).

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.

what a loser

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

A) Halloween
B) Not Halloween

Bushwick Bill (My MInd is Playin' Tricks on Me)

early morning april 4th a shot rings out in the memphis sky

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.

Y'all niggaz is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared
That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware

Nice, or possibly Smooth

"Like Dizzy Gillespie played the sax"

In The Crazy Word of Arthur Brown's rendition of "Fire", Arthur Brown confuses being the god of hellfire with being Arthur Brown.

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,"

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.

In "Tambourine", Eve seems to think the Taj Mahal is a palace, rather than a mausoleum:

Only learned that fact myself in the last year. :(

"I'm a venereal disease like a menstrual bleed." - Lil Wayne

In Eve's defense, living in the Taj Mahal would be pretty sweet even if it were an abbatoir

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"

Re Dead Milkmen and "California Dreamin'", Made in the USA was a popular comp, and lots of people heard that cover, but CD jukeboxes were exceedingly rare in 1988 and it wasn't a single.

OK, maybe it was a single. The important thing is that someone needs to flesh out the entry for "Jukebox" on Wikipedia.

"Y'all niggaz is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared
That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware"

Ha, wow. Who was that?

Cannibus

It's OK, because my nightmare is 2.

In '4th Chamber' by the GZA, RZA confuses positrons with protons.

Either that or he confuses 'Causing explosions' with 'Collectively forming a hydrogen atom'. Though that would have made the acronym 'PEACFAHA'. And also wouldn't have scanned.

I like this forum already and this is only my first post. Ace.

Hello linea. It's good in parts.

In "Daddy," Juelz Santana confuses leaving his child an orphan with siring a bastard. (One imagines that ship has sailed already, Mr Santana.)

Same as in "Mind Playing Tricks On Me"

"Y'all niggaz is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared
That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware"

Maybe he meant that anyone who confuses "multiplied by two" with "to the power of two" is "mathematically unaware"? (Which would be OTM)

I think that is the correct interpretation of that line.

he is actually saying your worst nightmare is the number 2

(your nightmare)^2 = (your nightmare)*2

-> your nightmare = 2

haha

My take:

for the mathematically aware, he is (your worst nightmare)^2
for those that ain't mathematically aware he is twice that: 2*(your worst nightmare)^2

So for all beings > 2, it's better to be non-mathematically aware if beefing with Canibus. I understand now.

Heh, it's the old "I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man/And so is Lola" kerfluffle all over again! "Pronoun Trouble", Daffy Duck would say.

so that would be 2 men.

Either way, Canibus really should call his next album (Your Nightmare)^2 = (Your Nightmare)*2

Brooklyn Academy - Raise Ya Hands

"Your girl got more niggaz in her mouth than Kramer from Friends"

cant believe theres no noreaga mentions here

run laps around the english channel

In most Rolling Stones songs, Mick Jagger confuses the female sex with a piece of meat.

"When I was in England town. The rain came right down"

Love-She comes in colours.

Well he could be half-right.

Except when he wrote that, he'd never been to England Anything.

Hold the press!

There's an England Town in Texas.

Maybe he was unlucky with the weather.

With Frampton comes Alive 2, Peter Frampton confused the general public with someone who gives a shit.

in hey hey, my my neil young confuses sid vicious with johnny rotten:

The king is gone but he's not forgotten
Is this the story of Johnny Rotten?
It's better to burn out than it is to rust
The king is gone but he's not forgotten

Even if you change the line to the right show, what exactly are Brooklyn Academy getting at there? I'm sure I would have heard about an episode of Seinfeld in which Kramer had "niggaz in his mouth".

PLEASE, NOBODY LINK TO THAT FUCKING THREAD.

In "Paranoid", Ozzy confuses paranoia with depression.

In "Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers" Jeru confuses Manuel Noriega being captured for Manuel Noriega being killed.

I don't think you "ring" an object in the UK either though? People don't say "ring my phone", they say "ring me".

HP Baxxter has no problem ringing up da laydeez:

"I’ve always been the party pleaser
There’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

ring a ring of roses?

songwriter confuses the bubonic plague with making a telephone call

You can, however, ring someone's bell

xpost

anita baker - ring my bell

the white stripes - my doorbell

I did indeed circle both of these with a marker pen

oh, XP

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.

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.

You can certainly ring a bell, true! Also the changes.

anita baker ward - ring my bell

He could play a guitar just like ringing a bell

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"

Haha I have always wondered about that line