Comments on: Singing In (the wrong) Tune

By: TanyaK

TanyaK — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:19:07 +0000

When I was in middle school, the girls in my neighborhood would get together to hang out after school. Many times we would sing along to the radio.
The funniest time I can remember was when Rick James’ “Superfreak” was playing. One of the girls thought the line
“The kind of girl you read about in new wave magazines” was
“The kind of girl you read about in Newsweek magazine”.
We giggled until we were blue.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:19:54 +0000

Andrew Bird’s song, Fake Palindromes! I used to think that the line “so you bite on a towel” was “sew your butt on a towel.” Whoops.

By: Alyson

Alyson — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:24:33 +0000

Too funny. My really bad goof was hearing an Eric Clapton song on the radio a few times and decided to sing along – I thought it was “Way Down South” and it was “Lay Down Sally”! Oops!!

Alyson LID 01/27/06

By: Kim L

Kim L — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:33:32 +0000

Ummm… how many songs do I actually know the right lyrics to? recently, for example, i was trying to figure out why a country song was all about a “Blueberry mountain.”

Realized that the line was actually “I’d move every mountain for you.”

By: bybee

bybee — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:19:50 +0000

I don’t know who did this song but it’s called “Dude looks like a lady”. I thought they were saying “Do the naked lady.”

Also…there’s some group that did a song called “Elegantly Wasted”. I thought they were saying “We’re better than Oasis.”

By: Krista

Krista — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:32:22 +0000

Ohhh, I JUST remembered this one. up until age 6 or so, I thought that “Hey Jude” was “Hey Jew”.

By: janelle

janelle — Sun, 18 May 2008 03:26:04 +0000

Ok, it wasn’t ME who butchered the song, but it was my twinny…so, it was in the early 90′s or maybe late 80′s. Bon Jovi was King and we all had big bangs with lots of spray. Anyway, I digress…so his sang, Dead or Alive…the line in the chorus, “And I’m Wanted, Dead or Alive”, yeah, my sister thought was, “Wanted, little road hog”. HAHAHAHHAAHA, I never laughed my ass off as hard!!!!

By: raych

raych — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:58:45 +0000

If you youtube ‘misheared lyrics’ you get some hilarious videos. My personal favorite is Pearl Jam’s ‘Yellow Ledbetter’ because there aren’t any REAL lyrics, so no one can say what’s right and what’s wrong.

By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:36:28 +0000

I love misunderstood song lyrics – I have a book of them and now thanks to one of your other readers, I have a website. I used to sing (very loud, I’m sure) to Bon Jovi’s “Never Say Goodbye”. I thought it said – “hold on we’ve got a child”. It made perfect since to me because of the lyric “you lost more than that in my backseat”. Later I found out it said “hold on we’ve gotta try”. I can’t think of anything recently not that I am not singing any lyrics wrong, I just haven’t been called out on it!

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:46:15 +0000

Heh heh, have you ever seen kissthisguy.com? It’s a whole website about misunderstood lyrics — the title comes from Jimi Hendrix. You know: “Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.”