Misheard Music Lyric

[BouncyCactus]

So, I was today years old when I realized that this is the lyric for Poker Face by Lady Gaga

Spoiler: Poker Face

P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)

Spoiler: and not

P-p-p-poker face, P-p-p-poker face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, P-p-p-poker face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, P-p-p-poker face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, P-p-p-poker face (mum-mum-mum-mah)

Like, serious, wtf...this one came up on Family Karaoke Night, and, well, it was awkward as all heck when the lyric came up. None of my folk realized it either...until now that is.

So, anyway. What's yours?

 

[Deleted member 84247]

It happens all of the time with some Eminem lyrics, but I think that is the point. To say something that can also sound like something else.

 

[Shrimp_eater]

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

So, I was today years old when I realized that this is the lyric for Poker Face by Lady Gaga

Spoiler: Poker Face

P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)

Spoiler: and not

P-p-p-poker face, P-p-p-poker face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, P-p-p-poker face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, P-p-p-poker face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, P-p-p-poker face (mum-mum-mum-mah)

Like, serious, wtf...this one came up on Family Karaoke Night, and, well, it was awkward as all heck when the lyric came up. None of my folk realized it either...until now that is.

So, anyway. What's yours?

Spoiler: Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree-Brenda Lee

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Let the Christmas Spirit Ring
Later we'll have some pumkin pie,
And do some caroling.

Spoiler: Spoiler: And not

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Let the Christmas Spirit Ring
Later we'll have some fuckin' pie,
And do some caroling

My coworkers just burst out laughing when I commented on the hypocrisy of profanity in the song... when there was none...

 

[Shrimp_eater]

Spoiler

so... much... fat... crust... so... much... fat... crust...
so... much... fat... crust... so... much... fat... crust...

 

[DemonOppai]

Skyrim dovahkin song

 

[BouncyCactus]

Spoiler: Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree-Brenda Lee

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Let the Christmas Spirit Ring
Later we'll have some pumkin pie,
And do some caroling.

Spoiler: Spoiler: And not

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Let the Christmas Spirit Ring
Later we'll have some fuckin' pie,
And do some caroling

My coworkers just burst out laughing when I commented on the hypocrisy of profanity in the song... when there was none...

I mean, that would be a damn good pie, if the song were to sound like that

It happens all of the time with some Eminem lyrics, but I think that is the point. To say something that can also sound like something else.

Yea, most probably to circumnavigate the censorship of radio and whatnot. But, well, that was one heck of a surprise, lol. Graphically so.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

It happens all of the time with some Eminem lyrics, but I think that is the point. To say something that can also sound like something else.

No, phonetic double meanings, the double entendres, are usually a part of his lyrical acuity.

I believe I have misunderstood lyrics before, but usually I just didn't understand them at all, so I didn't care. If I did, I would look them up. So I don't have a funny story like this. I only have one from when I first watched Harry Potter as a child. You must know for this, I am hard of hearing. Like, I was born with that, because it's the only thing I ever inherited from my father. So yeah, this doesn't make sense in english, so I will write it down in German, so whoever understands it, have fun.
It was the first movie and somehow I didn't question (or care about) it enough to actually ask anyone in my family, until I understood about ten years later, with a broader vocabulary. Because my brain just plugs in words I don't actually acustically understand and it's fast at doing that, so most people don't realize I have the hearing of some geriatric motherfucker, but if I can't really relate to a topic, my brain comes up with bullshit to fill in the blanks, as it did back then.
There's a scene in which Hagrid says: "Sein Name war vorgemerkt und das schon seit seiner Geburt!"
Yet what I understood: "Sein Name war Vogelbert und das schon seit seiner Geburt!" - Well, I was like "But I thought his name was Harry?" and then stopped giving a fuck, so it never occured to me that that was bullshit.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

No, phonetic double meanings, the double entendres, are usually a part of his lyrical acuity.

I know. I am saying I don't catch them all sometimes, but this does make you wonder how you would write that consistently for the phonetic double meaning. The first one I thought of was "people been tryna do the shit to me, so I call them people. Because they're so easy to see through 'em", but in the second one he says it like peephole.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

I know. I am saying I don't catch them all sometimes, but this does make you wonder how you would write that consistently for the phonetic double meaning. The first one I thought of was "people been tryna do the shit to me, so I call them people. Because they're so easy to see through 'em", but in the second one he says it like peephole.

That's from Zeus, right? And yeah, there's so many of them, some even have more than one meaning even if you don't understand them phonetically different. Like Bus the Rhymes to Busta Rhymes, as a shout out, and apart from a reference to him that had something to do with his carreer, there's also a really well-known story with Busta and a Bus. Where he heard Eminem the first time and vibed so hard, he headbanged a windowpane out of his tour bus. Shit like that.
He's a genius artist, and I will die on this hill.

 

[RepresentingDesire]

Rainy day
I heard

Is it sickening 'cause it's sickening.

Actual lyric

Is it sinking in 'cause it's sickening.

 

[bulmabriefs144]

So, I was today years old when I realized that this is the lyric for Poker Face by Lady Gaga

Spoiler: Poker Face

P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, f-f-fuck her face (mum-mum-mum-mah)

Spoiler: and not

P-p-p-poker face, P-p-p-poker face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, P-p-p-poker face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, P-p-p-poker face (mum-mum-mum-mah)
P-p-p-poker face, P-p-p-poker face (mum-mum-mum-mah)

Like, serious, wtf...this one came up on Family Karaoke Night, and, well, it was awkward as all heck when the lyric came up. None of my folk realized it either...until now that is.

So, anyway. What's yours?

I thought Paparazzi was saying Bubble Roxie. Same singer too! She needs to enunciate.

 

[Kamelingil]

Spoiler: Misheard Lyrics

"you make my heart burn"
"you ate my barber"
"you aint my father"
"you ate my burger"
"doing my homework"
"you ate my mother"
"you ing my ha uh"
"you ate my homework"
"do it ma brotha"
"you ate my hotdog"
"you ate my popcorn"
"you make my balls hurt"
"uuh ima aah ah"
"nuking pearl harbor"
"you hit my car girl"
"you make my clothes burn"
"you baked the baller"

 

[Corty]

 

[QuercusMalus]

Not misheard but horrible if you pay attention to the lyrics- Emotionless by Red Sun Rising. I refer to it as the Necrophiliac song.