ah this is a UK vs American thing https://www.google.com/search?q=caribbean+pronounce
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
Ocean is English/Trinidadian
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
Also that's how it's pronounced in the Caribbean, isn't it?
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:06 (four years ago) link
How is it pronounced in Pirates of the Caribbean?
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
I've heard "Caribbean Queen" probably every day for the past two years
y tho
― hoostanbank de reason lyrics mp4 hd video download (unregistered), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
My boyfriend has two playlists, a daytime list and a nighttime list, Ocean is on both
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
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?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
I'm gonna write a song called "Euripidean Queen"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
He sings it with four syllables though? Admittedly I don't hear it every day.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
do you say you-ROW pee-an?
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
I hear it every day too because work and it's definitely 4 syllables
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
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
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
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.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
*a subject, rather, I guess
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
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.
― cpl593H, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
That's Sean Paul, not Shaggy
― kinder, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
Lol
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Thursday, 19 September 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link
xp - oh yeah, course it is.
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 08:58 (four years ago) link
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
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 08:59 (four years ago) link
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
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 12:45 (four years ago) link
Woah-oh, in a coupla days, they come and take me awayBut the press let the story leakAnd when they're outta Capri-Sun, they get me a releaseWe was all on the cover of Newsweek
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 January 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
I feed you dignity to stand with prideRealize that all in all you stand tallGo ahead, Mr. Window
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 January 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
From my mom: "I always thought it was 'Hold me closer, Tony Danza.' "
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 10 February 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link
look, mommythere's an airplane up in the sky
oo - oo - oo - oo - oooo - oo - oo - oo - oo
did did did did you see the frightened ones?did did did did you hear the falling bombs?
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 10 February 2020 03:52 (four years ago) link
Not sure ifI mentioned this but my French grandmother used to think the middle-eight in Paul McCartney's 'Just Another Day' was:
'Sau-sage / Sau-sage / Sometimes she feels sau-sage'
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 10 February 2020 10:43 (four years ago) link
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas:
Heard: Has bad depression got a hold on me/Or is this the way love's supposed to be?
Actual: Has high blood pressure got a hold on me/Or is this the way love's supposed to be?
― ☮️ (peace, man), Friday, 21 February 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
Put that magic jump on me/Slap that baby, make him pee!
― ☮️ (peace, man), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
Today I learned it's "Have you got it? Do you get it? If so, how often?" not "Have you got it together, if so how often?".
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 5 June 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
Ooh, now I learned that today.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 10 June 2020 09:08 (three years ago) link
In Gorillaz 19-2000 they sing
"There's a monkey in the jungleWatching a vapor trail"
turns out my wife has thought the monkey was "watching a baby drown" all these years
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link
Thursday, Understanding in a Car Crash
Heard:'Tis time 'tis time 'tis time 'tis time to go
Actual:It starts and stops and starts and stops again
― peace, man, Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
hard to hear the words clearly when the singer is beating you over the head for 5 minutes
― I hear that sometimes Satan wants to defund police (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
Korea Korea Ko-Reverend Al Green
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 26 June 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
hahaha up til this moment looking it up, i thought it was "reoccuring like the reverend al green"
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 26 June 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
Kendrick Lamar, Money Trees
Heard: Everybody gon' respect the shoe/But the one in front of the gun lives forever
Actual: Everybody gon' respect the shooter/But the one in front of the gun lives forever
― peace, man, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
Black Sabbath
Heard: Can you help me? Thought you were my friend.Actual: Can you help me occupy my brain?
― peace, man, Friday, 18 September 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
I figured out the right lyrics decades ago, but was reminded of it today
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Heard: the only cola that I support would be a union C.O.L. that costs your flaming allowance!Actual: the only cola that I support would be a union C.O.L.A.(Cost Of Living Allowance)!
― peace, man, Friday, 21 May 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
not sure why that's tickling me so much, but bravo
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 21 May 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
Maybe you only heard it on the radio but the lyrics came with the album so you could fully enjoy their hilarious po-faced politicisms. (I kid, slightly, but that one is a highlight.)
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 21 May 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
I read a Christgau review of an early Emmy Lou Harris album a few months ago and then absolutely misheard it this morning as "I would rub my asshole / in the bosom of Abraham"
― kermit the grouch (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 27 September 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
Listening to New Order for the first time in years after reading Hooky's book and remembered this one:
"Oh Allah is like the flowers..."
― visiting, Saturday, 9 October 2021 02:22 (two years ago) link
"Let me take you down""(Why?)""Because I'm going to!"
― Mark G, Saturday, 9 October 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link
"And I wanna liquefy everybody gone by". Is it "gone by" or "gone dry"? I've always heard it as "gone by".
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Monday, 11 October 2021 06:33 (two years ago) link
My first exposure to 'Wild Horses' was hearing the Sundays' cover back in my teen years, and because enunciation wasn't always Harriet Wheeler's strong suit, I heard her sing something like
Oh, let's do supperBut don't ache and painA lovely disorderJust like Lois Lane
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 October 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link
I always heard the woman’s voice in the refrain of Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money as “Feed my little baby”.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 4 November 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
I was just listening to a podcast yesterday where the host had (in childhood) heard it the same! It was on Rob Harvilla's 60 Songs that Explain the 90s, but I can't remember which episode I was listening to at the time.
― peace, man, Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
the woman in question: Ronnie Spector!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 November 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
that was the part I only just learned like a year ago, or that the lyric before was "just like Ronnie sang" (though Eddie Money sings so mush-mouthed sometimes that's probably why)
― the utility infielder of theatre (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 November 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
it is the 'My Heart Will Go On' episode, and the thought of it made me die laughing. that you, Rob?
― What it's like. Havana Syndrome. What it's like. Havana Syndrom (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 4 November 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
SaraSaraStop operatin’ your eyes
― epistantophus, Saturday, 1 January 2022 04:40 (two years ago) link