Misheard Lyric

[chriskisn]

Ok I'm not trying to start one of those threads where everyone says that they think Lindsey says "I'm sick of him nude" etc...although it might turn into that...

I was just thinking before that when I was but a teenager (and yes thats quite a while ago), I used wonder why this woman on the radio was singing about Yemen...

Hmm...turned out she was singing about Rhiannon....

:shocked:

[Musicman408]

Ok I'm not trying to start one of those threads where everyone says that they think Lindsey says "I'm sick of him nude" etc...although it might turn into that...

I was just thinking before that when I was but a teenager (and yes thats quite a while ago), I used wonder why this woman on the radio was singing about Yemen...

Hmm...turned out she was singing about Rhiannon....

:shocked:

Yemen??? That is hilarious. :laugh:

[michelej1]

Ok I'm not trying to start one of those threads where everyone says that they think Lindsey says "I'm sick of him nude" etc...although it might turn into that...

I was just thinking before that when I was but a teenager (and yes thats quite a while ago), I used wonder why this woman on the radio was singing about Yemen...

Hmm...turned out she was singing about Rhiannon....

:shocked:


But considering the recent terrorist attack, Stevie could change the lyrics around and sing about Yemen today. Way to keep things topical!

So, what song do people think Lindsey says, "I'm sick of him nude" on?

Michele

[chriskisn]

So, what song do people think Lindsey says, "I'm sick of him nude" on?

Michele

Second hand news...

[michelej1]

"I'm just sick of him nude, just sick of him nude, yeah."

That's really funny:laugh:. Michele

[nailatixela]

LOL - I've heard "I'm just sittin' here nude, just sittin' here nude, yeah"

[Sahara]

*falls around laughing* :laugh:

[PenguinHead]

Twist of Fate - (Right) Place To Fade

[michelej1]

Twist of Fate - (Right) Place To Fade


LOL. Lindsey misheard those.

Michele

[macpai]

LOL - I've heard "I'm just sittin' here nude, just sittin' here nude, yeah"

Misheard lyrics with benefits! :thumbsup:

[GoS]

I was listening to the album Tusk today (That's all for everyone was the song) and I thought, for a second, that he had said, "I guess it's just too sexy for my knee."

[GoldDustOrphan]

Two friends of mine (who have never met) misheard the lyrics to Gypsy. They heard: "She was just...a witch" instead of "she was just a wish."

[Chrislit18]

I was listening to the album Tusk today (That's all for everyone was the song) and I thought, for a second, that he had said, "I guess it's just too sexy for my knee."
I hear that too....still
:shrug:

[Remy]

Speaking of misheard lyrics...outside Mac, this is precious... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x33PgKEgXwM
(sorry if it was already posted.)

[michelej1]

From MSNBC [a Dreams misheard lyric is mentioned]

http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/27/1868546.aspx

Blinded by the lyric? Study reveals why we get the words wrong
Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 1:44 PM PT

by Diane Mapes

Misheard song lyrics, sometimes referred to as mondegreens, are incredibly common, often hilarious and always a crowd pleaser, judging by the number of stories, Web sites such as KissThisGuy and AmIRight and water cooler chatter devoted to the topic

But while we can rattle off common misinterpreted lyrics (think “wrapped up like a douche” from Manfred Mann’s “Blinded by the Light”), most of us don’t really know exactly why it happens.

A new study by Dr. Wei Ji Ma, assistant professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Tex., may finally reveal why so many of us think Freddie Mercury is singing “Beelzebub has a devil for a son named Steve” in Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody."

Turns out, unless you're looking at a person's face, it’s much harder to understand what he or she is saying (or singing), according to Ma, who recently authored a study on lip-reading.

“Understanding speech can be difficult, especially when it’s noisy,” or overwhelmed by a loud music track, says Ma, whose study appeared in the March journal of Public Library of Science. “We found that this process can be helped a lot by looking at the speaker’s face. If you have only sound information, you will sometimes make mistakes. But if you also have the visual information, the brain will combine those two pieces and get a better sense of what’s being said.”

In the small study, Ma had 33 volunteers watch videos of people saying words with different levels of background noise, then had participants report what they thought they heard. He found that, depending on the noise level, participants got the words right a mere 10 percent of the time when there were only sound cues. Seeing a person's lips move improved understanding of the spoken words up to 60 percent.

The brain is like a police detective interviewing various witnesses after a crime, says Ma.

Visual information is one witness; auditory information is another. But just as in a criminal investigation, the witnesses can sometimes get the facts wrong. The brain basically weighs all the information it has and makes its best possible guess based on its own biases. Which is where that infamously wrong Creedence Clearwater Revival lyric, “There’s a bathroom on the right” instead of “There's a bad moon on the rise” comes into play.

“What seems to be happening with misunderstood song lyrics is that what you hear is not always reliable,” says Ma. “It’s noisy, the singer is singing fast, he’s not articulating well or maybe he has an accent. The sound information is uncertain, that’s step one.”

Step two is when the brain combines the sound information with whatever other information it has at its disposal, including prior beliefs or expectations.

“We hear some (expressions) more often than others,” says Ma. “And we often hear about bathrooms, or we’ll ask about a bathroom at a restaurant and be told that it’s on the right. That’s something we’ve heard many times. It’s much less common to hear a sentence like ‘There’s a bad moon on the rise.’ The brain will combine what it hears — the sounds — with those prior beliefs, those expectations. If the sound is not very reliable, than the prior beliefs will have more effect.”

Upbringing and personality may also have an impact on how a person hears or mishears a song lyric, says Ma.

“I was on one of those lyrics Web sites and found a line from "Bohemian Rhapsody" that goes ‘Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me’,” he says. “But Beelzebub is not a very common word. I saw that someone had misheard that as ‘The algebra has a devil put aside for me.’ Maybe that’s someone who really hates math.”

Is there any possible way to avoid mishearing song lyrics?

“If you’re watching (the video) while listening to the song, you’re going to do much better at understanding the lyrics correctly than if you’re listening to the music on your MP3,” says Ma.

After hearing Ma explain his research, I must admit that years ago I used to mock my little sister for mixing up the lyrics to a certain America song. Instead of riding through the desert on a “horse with no name,” she was galloping across the dunes on a “horse with no mane.”

I have my own mangled version of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.” Instead of “when the rain washes you free you’ll know,” I sang at the top of my lungs. “When Loraine watches you clean your nose.”

Beyond understanding why we get the songs wrong, Ma’s research could help clear up other verbal miscommunication problems. If you want to make sure someone understands exactly what you’re saying, face the person when speaking and don’t cover your mouth with your fingers.

[jedw]

I was listening to the album Tusk today (That's all for everyone was the song) and I thought, for a second, that he had said, "I guess it's just too sexy for my knee."

:thumbsup: me two , I mean me three.

[StreetAngel86]

Two friends of mine (who have never met) misheard the lyrics to Gypsy. They heard: "She was just...a witch" instead of "she was just a wish."

that's what *I* used to hear
and i sung that line at a bunch of SYW concerts :lol:
i learnt better lol

[chriskisn]

Two friends of mine (who have never met) misheard the lyrics to Gypsy. They heard: "She was just...a witch" instead of "she was just a wish."

It makes more sense that way though

[DeeGeMe]

I'm not sure the website it still active, I'm getting a bandwith message when I try to go there tonight, but check out www.kissthisguy.com. My favorite is the person who thinks Stevie is singing, 'Pick up the pizzas and go home".

[goldustsongbird]

I'm not sure the website it still active, I'm getting a bandwith message when I try to go there tonight, but check out www.kissthisguy.com. My favorite is the person who thinks Stevie is singing, 'Pick up the pizzas and go home".

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/SortaSavageLike/Funny%20Stuff/pickuppizzas1.jpg

Mine:
It sounds like she's saying "No hesitation, why, you ass" in Kind of Woman. I sing it that way to this day. :p

[gldstwmn]

Pick up the pizzas and go home is one of my all time faves. :laugh:

[CADreaming]

Misheard lyrics with benefits! :thumbsup:

:lol::thumbsup:

[1Tuskfan]

A friend of mine was watching soundstage for the first time and thought they were singing "CHANGES will keep us together" :]

[thatgirlwasme]

I admit that for a long time I thought the opening to Say You Love Me was "I must say, baby, it's an honor for a girl like me . . ." Instead of "Have mercy baby, on a poor girl like me." Christine's lyrics are so much better than mine!

A

[SortaSavageLike]

Thump her oily hairpins when it's raining...

[goldustsongbird]

I admit that for a long time I thought the opening to Say You Love Me was "I must say, baby, it's an honor for a girl like me . . ." Instead of "Have mercy baby, on a poor girl like me." Christine's lyrics are so much better than mine!

A

Ooh! Now that you mention it, on the Dance DVD, it sounds like she's saying, "P-ssy baby, on a poor girl like me"

*clever velvet underground joke goes here*

[CADreaming]

A friend of mine was watching soundstage for the first time and thought they were singing "CHANGES will keep us together" :]

Hmmm...tell that to the Captain and Tenille...

[1Tuskfan]

Hmmm...tell that to the Captain and Tenille...

:laugh: I didn't even think of that...

[PenguinHead]

Speaking of misheard lyrics...outside Mac, this is precious... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x33PgKEgXwM
(sorry if it was already posted.)

LOL:] This is so funny and brilliant. Thanks for sharing it. I'm in a better mood because if it. I wonder if there's a Stevie song that could be interpreted in this manner?

[suzyvermoesen]

"Come" :

thought that our harmony was the new harmony , oooh dancing in a disco

[Bm7th]

From the song Tusk what does Lindsey say in the very beginning "How is the __________ Johnny?

And from In The Back Of My Mind who and what are they saying in the intro
all I can get is "what's it really like" "sara I know what time it is"

[GypsySorcerer]

From the song Tusk what does Lindsey say in the very beginning "How is the __________ Johnny?



I think he's saying "How are the tenors, Tony?"

[SisterNightroad]

I just found this and i'm happy because it is at times idiot and at times awesome:

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[Macfan4life]

Awesome
Thanks for posting

"I'm doing the lasik" was the best ;)

[lilyfee]

"I'm just sick of him nude, just sick of him nude, yeah."


I cannot stop laughing!:laugh:

I mix up lyrics all the time... The first thing that comes to mind is Stevie's Edge of Seventeen... "Just like the wide window!"

[reebokandlace]

I cannot stop laughing!:laugh:

I mix up lyrics all the time... The first thing that comes to mind is Stevie's Edge of Seventeen... "Just like the wide window!"


or Just like the ONE winged dove... I used to think "that poor little thing, I hope it doesn't meet a cat in the dark".


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[jeffd8382]

I think he's saying "How are the tenors, Tony?"

I always hear "How are the taters, honey?" :nod: :laugh:

[lovethemac1]

I just found this and i'm happy because it is at times idiot and at times awesome:

<iframe width="854" height="510" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mw0GzoUupdU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

OMG, :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: out loud!!!!

[Feather Blade]

or Just like the ONE winged dove... I used to think "that poor little thing, I hope it doesn't meet a cat in the dark".


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Ha! I always thought it was ONE too!

[Feather Blade]

OMG, :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: out loud!!!!


Hee hee, "I don't want to know the reason why I love cheese"...

[Montclare]

In EO17 I always hear "wide wing duck". And in Gypsy, I hear "vapor flowers". I cannot hear her say it as paper no matter how hard I listen.

[Frankenstein]

So I'm back to the velvet mud on the ground. This is still the only thing I hear in the album version. I have never heard "underground"!

[haleyd]

OMG this thread is cracking me up!
Yeah when i was younger I definitely always thought it was "just like the ONE winged dove" and always thought man, that must be exhausting flying around in circles with just one wing.
I also always thought it was "Dreams aren't wine, loves a state of mind"; and i'm usually pretty darn good with lyrics too. But apparently not so much with these!

[reebokandlace]

OMG this thread is cracking me up!
Yeah when i was younger I definitely always thought it was "just like the ONE winged dove" and always thought man, that must be exhausting flying around in circles with just one wing.

Priceless. :xoxo: