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Want you in my room when your baby is sick - bad romance 

baby there’s a dent in the car - dance in the dark

im off the deep end watches & diamonds - shallow

last night, I loved a squirrel - sexxx dreams 

I wish that I could dance on a single bed - scheiße

 

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HotLikeMexico
1 hour ago, TheOriginalOne said:

🎶“We’re up with Mexican Monkeys”🎵

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I always heard “we’ll rub a Mexican monkey.”

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NichuuB
1 hour ago, TheOriginalOne said:

🎶“We’re up with Mexican Monkeys”🎵

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Real question tho: is there monkeys on mexico? 

Edit: yeah, there is. Why would I thought there wasn't?

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llemesm
2 hours ago, GagaUnderYou said:

Want you in my room when your baby is sick - bad romance 

baby there’s a dent in the car - dance in the dark

im off the deep end watches & diamonds - shallow

last night, I loved a squirrel - sexxx dreams 

I wish that I could dance on a single bed - scheiße

 

Want you in my room when your baby is sick, I've been singing that for years.

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StrawberryBlond

I said I'd do some retro ones today, so here's some old classics that we all know that I misheard and I'll rank them from least funniest to funniest. Remember growing up as a kid in the 90's where seeing titles and lyrics wasn't easily available and neither was the internet? It's no surprise a lot of old songs we remember from childhood are this way:

Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong

Actual lyric: "love lifts us up where we belong"

I heard: "and if there's somewhere we belong"

For the record, I still think it sounds a lot like this and still expect to hear it.

Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose

Actual lyric: "do you know the way to San Jose?"

I heard: "do you know the way to sandal's egg?"

I first heard it on Stars In Their Eyes as a kid and you were never told the song the person was singing so this was my first time hearing this song and hearing the name of this place so this was completely new words to me so I was so confused.

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive

Actual lyric: "got the wings of heaven on my shoes"

I heard: "got the window painted on my shoes"

This was literally found out right now because I was listening to it for my little sum-up at the end of this post and realised, damn, with the amount of male falsetto in this song, this is surprisingly quite difficult to decipher lyrics, especially in the second verse. It wasn't until now that I realised I actually don't know much of this song bar the chorus, so I just misheard this today!

Michael Jackson - Beat It

Actual lyric: "no one wants to be defeated, showing how funky strong is your fight, it doesn't matter who's wrong or right"

I heard: "no one wants to be beat the feeling, showing how f**king strong is your fight, it doesn't matter who's on the right"

I think "beat it" was about the only bit I did get right! I don't know if he deliberately made it sound like he was swearing so everyone's ears would be more pricked up and they'd be tempted to replay it to see if he really was saying it because it doesn't sound like "funky" no matter how many times I play it and "funky strong" has never been part of anyone's vernacular, right? @PartySick what do you think?

Audrey Hepburn - Moon River

Actual lyric: "moon river, wider than a mile"

I heard: "moon river, whiter than a mop"

Even I can't justify this one. I don't know why I didn't think something must be wrong as the next lyrics ends in "style" so obviously, mop doesn't rhyme. But hey, she does let that "mile" trail off.

Mother Abess - Climb Ev'ry Mountain

Actual lyric: "climb ev'ry mountain, ford every stream"

I heard: "climb ev'ry mountain, fall in every stream"

Never watched The Sound Of Music in full and this was probably the only song I'd never heard from it and the first time of hearing it was Gaga singing at the Oscars and I had no expectations of these lyrics and I couldn't work out what else it could possibly be. Honestly, I still don't know what it means to "ford" something but it's obviously an outdated term that we wouldn't think to use today. I just think it's so funny that during this powerful, emotional, tear-jerking song, I'm suddenly hit with this line that makes me have to momentarily check myself and I can't help but laugh!

And, as a quick little aside, ones I've heard from others: lots of people online thinking Play That Funky Music was "play that f**king music," my Belgian uncle learning English in the 70's and thinking the "young man!" bit from YMCA was actually "jump it!" and my granny thinking that Stayin' Alive was "staying the night." I love how she must have heard it far raunchier than everyone else! She must have heard and been like: "whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, you're staying the night? This man's sleeping all over town!" And a guy on Britain's Got Talent said Rock Around The Clock had a line that went "when the clock strikes twelve, we'll poo our pants!"

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PartySick
2 minutes ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Actual lyric: "no one wants to be defeated, showing how funky strong is your fight, it doesn't matter who's wrong or right"

I heard: "no one wants to be beat the feeling, showing how f**king strong is your fight, it doesn't matter who's on the right"

I think "beat it" was about the only bit I did get right! I don't know if he deliberately made it sound like he was swearing so everyone's ears would be more pricked up and they'd be tempted to replay it to see if he really was saying it because it doesn't sound like "funky" no matter how many times I play it and "funky strong" has never been part of anyone's vernacular, right? @PartySick what do you think?

It's not "funky strong", it's "funky, strong". It makes more sense with "and" there though.

Show them how funky (and) strong is your fight

But that wouldn't sound as good as a simple pause :lolly:

He also just had a tendency to slur a lot of words while singing :laughga: check the MJ fanbase thread where I'm trying to decipher what the lyrics to Morphine actually are since there isn't a correct set of lyrics online :partysick:

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Kimmo

ROM:

“It's coming down on me Water like Missouri”

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Replay:
“Does it matter?
Does it matter?
The bitch is Dumb”

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Alice:

Sick and tired of waking up
Screaming at the top of my lungs
Abshundjelabdbrjamsndbeu 
Maestro, play me your symphony
I will listen to anything
Andhsvsuabsbksidbdb free my mind 

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Mother of Puppies
2 minutes ago, Kimmo said:

Replay:
“Does it matter?
Does it matter?
The bitch is Dumb”

I always sing it like that on purpose now because it really sounds like it

THEY CALL ME LADY MOP
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StrawberryBlond

Just suddenly remembered a last minute gem: Feed The Birds from Mary Poppins. With Julie's very posh enunciation of words, I misinterpreted "feed the birds tuppence a bag" as "feed the birds tuppence a day." I thought the birds were literally eating coins and wondered how they could digest metal. Michael even holds tuppence in the air and says he's off to feed the birds! Kids take things literally, how was I to know?

Could write a whole book of Gaga mishears but I save that stuff for the designated thread posted under a Gaga section.

By the way, @degenerate, what about my post made you react in a sad way?

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GagaUnderYou
On 4/13/2022 at 12:51 AM, llemesm said:

Want you in my room when your baby is sick, I've been singing that for years.

you can find yourself in my room sir if wanted :lolly:

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“You need to leave it alone! (I’ll turn the lights out)” - Applause

and if you have fear, Rupaul will seat on my lire and play him like a piano man! - Mary Jane Holland

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