(When you thought the lyric was one thing but it turned out to be totally different)

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    12 year old me is at the dentist in the middle of getting a cavity filled when Benny and the Jets comes on.

    I’m trying not to laugh while the radio keeps saying “She’s got electric boobs!”

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    Not mine but one day my buddy’s 6 year old asked “what’s parking tips?” My buddy being a veteran dad gives him some generic parking advice, doesn’t think much of it until later when he hears his kid singing along to the shaboozy song but instead of “everyone at the bar getting tipsy” he’s sing about how everyone getting parking tips.

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    What prompted the post: I feel silly even saying it, but there was a rap song playing at my gym with female vocals in the chorus singing what sounded like “it’s the batteries of your mom”, which I’m certain are not the correct lyrics.

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    15 days ago

    “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”

    It always sounds like the lady wants some “fuckin’ pie.”

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      15 days ago

      Been singing that for years. My wife can’t unhear it.

      In Jingle Bell Rock, I always hear “giddy up, jingle whores, pick up your feet!”

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    There is a famous one here in Germany that everyone gets wrong.
    The original line being sung: “Es tobt der Hass da vor meinem Fenster”, meaning “Hatred is raging in front of my window”.
    What everyone hears: “Es tobt der Hamster vor meinem Fenster”, meaning “The hamster is raging in front of my window”.

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    In Lambada by Kaoma there is a part where every dutch person hears “what is that little zebra dog for?” And everyone sings along for that sentence when the music is playing.

    In dutch it goes: lalalalala waar is toch dat zebrahondje voor.

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    When I was a kid listening to the oldies station, I heard “Little blue scoop” instead of deuce coupe.

    Later my mom actually called in and requested it that way. I think they played the request on air.

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    In the song “Better Dig Two” by The Band Perry, the chorus has the line “I’m gonna tell the gravedigger that he better dig two”. There was a good like year or so where I heard it replacing the d in gravedigger with an n…

    Also in the song “High Horse” by Kacey Musgraves I thought it was just a really long way of saying “whores” I stead of “high horse”.

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    A song by Fear factory called Linchpin the intro the singer goes “can’t take me apart!” Sounds like “cat, give me your paw!!”

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    15 days ago

    When listening to a Michael Patrick Kelly song outside of a running car for the first time, it turned out it wasn’t a nerdy song about “Beautiful maths”, but just another boring love song called “Beautiful madness”:-)