“I can’t believe you kiss your cock at night” Shania Twain – That don’t impress me much (2.20) The /th/ in “another” can sound like a /v/ sound, and the /shun/ sound in “dimension” can easily sound like “shit”. “I’m having a big shit, I’m having a big shit…” For me, it improves the song immeasurably. This is the closest your brain can come up with. I think they’re just singing nonsense and the human brain tends to impose order on nonsense, so your brain searches for meaning. “I’m blue I will pee on a guy, if I was green I would die. They all contribute to a funny misunderstanding! The vowel sounds are pretty similar, and the emphatic way it is said. It just sounds like “wet dream tomato” to me. “Concrete jungle what dreams are made of”
“New York – Concrete Jungle Wet Dream Tomato” So, “six string” can sound like “sex dream”. Sometimes a /dr/ sound can be similar to a /tr/ sound, especially when they follow a /ks/ sound, like in “six”. Ok so she’s actually singing, “How do I?” but just a little bit of imagination for the /k/ at the end, and you’ll never be able to hear this song in the same way again. I expect he wants to say “larger” but I think it’s definitely “lager”. The ‘d’ in “wind on” disappears as the /n/ sound and /d/ sounds fuse together with the same tongue movement.įor me, it just sounds like he’s saying “lager”. In this case, it makes it sound like she’s singing about junk food. We use “does” for emphasis, or to insist something. “We can’t go on, thinking, nothing’s wrong – pork pie”Īgain, I have no idea what he’s on about. “Smoke on the water” – you need a bit of imagination to hear “Small cousin Walter” but it’s there! There’s another example of “the sky” sounding like “this guy”. “Small cousin Walter, is firing this guy.” The rest is some imagination or perhaps some connected speech. *Audible offer* Creedence – Bad Moon RisingĪll the vowel sounds are the same. Singing it with passion extends the vowels, and the consonants disappear into a slightly ambitious zone. Also, when you stretch out a note, it’s usually a vowel sound and the consonant sounds might get shortened. I think this is because she doesn’t sing it clearly, and the vowel sounds are the same. “Gets tough” sounds almost exactly like “Get stuff”. The beginning part of the phrase doesn’t work, but “and get stuffed” sounds pretty good! The /m/ in ‘make it’ can quite easily sound like an /n/ sound, and the /t/ in “make it” sounds like a /d/, so there you go… “It doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not” “It doesn’t make a difference if we’re naked or not” The real lyrics: “If you start me up I’ll never stop” Sounds like: “In Yugoslavia you’ll never starve” “What a nice surprise, when your rabbit dies” (3.25) The real lyrics: “You got me begging you for mercy” Sounds like: “You got me begging you for birdseed” Because the ending of the word trails off, it’s quite easy to imagine he’s not adding a /d/ sound at the end. “Living” can sound like “little” when you remember that the /t/ sounds are often softened in US English. The real lyrics: “because livin’ with me must have damn near killed you” Sounds like: “cos little women must have damn near killed you” Let’s see if you mishear them too, and we’ll consider why they might be easy to get wrong. So, let’s listen to some song extracts and try to understand exactly which words are being sung. Of course, he’s actually singing “So lonely”. Is it just me or is he singing about salami? For years I thought Sting was singing about sausages in this song. Well, if you do often mishear lyrics, worry not – it’s really common and it happens to everyone! There are loads of songs like that for me. In fact, I think “kiss this guy” and “kiss the sky” are identical.ĭo you ever do Karaoke, see the song lyrics on the screen and realise you’ve been hearing all the words wrong, all these years? Or do you wonder if maybe the guy who did the karaoke subtitles didn’t have a perfect command of English and misheard all the lyrics?
The connection of ‘this’ and ‘guy’ makes the /g/ and /k/ sound almost exactly the same. The real lyrics: “Excuse me while I kiss the sky” Sounds like: “Excuse me, while I kiss this guy” In fact, everybody does! Let’s listen to some song extracts in which the lyrics don’t quite sound as the singer intended. Do you ever listen to songs and completely mishear the lyrics? I do it all the time.
0 kommentar(er)
