Am I the only one this happens to? I used to “feel it coming in the yellow night” with Phil Collins. What are yours?

  • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml
    11·
    1 year ago

    Most of these don’t sound remotely like what is actually being sung, what the hell is happening here? how are so many people getting this wrong?

    • idiomaddict@feddit.de
      111·
      1 year ago

      English is a stress based language (if you heard a peanuts-style audio blurrer, you’d still hear regular ups and downs, whereas Spanish would sound monotone), so English speakers rely on that emphasis to determine where one word ends and another begins. When we sing, we lose a lot of the stress indicators, so it’s pretty common for songs in stress based languages to be misunderstood.

      Plus people get audiologically confused by all the sounds in any language

      • Spliffman1 @lemdro.idOPEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        And once you hear it wrong the first time, your brain keeps perceiving it that way every time you hear the song lol

  • magnetosphere @beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    “Why is Bowie singing about Surfer Jet City?”

    “Dude, the song is called Suffragette City.”

    “Oh. Uh, what the hell is-”

    “Dude, I dunno.”

    • spauldo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      From Wikipedia:

      Springsteen has joked about confusion over the lyrics, claiming that it was not until Manfred Mann rewrote the song to be about a feminine hygiene product that it became popular.

    • Spliffman1 @lemdro.idOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Hahaha that was one of mine too, I mean that song, that line lol… I didn’t have douche but I had a few wacky versions of that line 😂

  • Enkrod@feddit.de
    40·
    1 year ago

    In Germany we call these misheard lyrics “Agathe Bauer Songs” (misheard “I got the power”), it happens mostly when some lyrics in english songs sound like a german sentence or name.

    • All the leaves are brown - Anneliese Braun (name)
    • I got the power - Agathe Bauer (name)
    • At the gates - Hey, wie geht’s (Hey, how are you?)
    • I believe in miracles - Alle lieben Mirco (Everybody loves Mirco)
    • a deep shade of blue - Dickschädel Blues (Thickheaded blues)
    • the phone rings - da vorne links (ahead on the left)
    • hope of deliverance - Hau auf die Leberwurst (smack the liver-sausage)
    • all my feelings grow - Oma fiel ins Klo (grandma fell into the toilet)
    • Zombie - Zahnweh (Tooth-ache)
    • the word is out - du blöde sau (you stupid pig)
    • Dirty Diana - da geht der Gärtner (there walks the gardener)
    • I’ll be gone - Almighurt (german joghurt brand)
    • Your love is like bad medicine - your love is like Bettnässen (bed wetting)
    • I cut and i spear - da kackt 'n Eisbär (a polar bear is shitting there)
    • the pain is deep - der Penisdieb (the penis-thief)

    edit: found this: https://youtu.be/hPV3wHnd5lo?si=Z1GiyHfe89iCMizH

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    The first ones that came to my mind for some reason despite not hearing any of the songs for years were:

    • I’m friends with the mustard that’s under my bed

    • ‘Cause I keep givin’ you a sexy oven

    • Don’t you worry, don’t you worry child. She hasn’t got a pen for you

  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
    10·
    1 year ago

    This part of the song in Shaggy’s Angel:

    “You’re my angel, you’re my darling angel. Closer than pizza your are to me”

    Like, I knew that can’t possibly be what he was saying, but I couldn’t hear otherwise. Even now, I know he says “peeps”, but I keep hearing “pizza”.

  • spauldo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    “Don’t bring me down… Bruce!” as heard by everyone ever.

    (It’s “gross,” supposedly. Apparently Jeff Lynne sings “Bruce” sometimes in concert just to mess with his fans.)