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Can’t believe these lyrics I heard on Radio 1

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MangetoutsaysGetOutMan · 16/05/2024 11:08

I was listening to Radio 1 with children in the car and I had to turn it off.

Attracted to your status, maybe your a* (sounds like a planet)

Who is this H? I’m surprised the BBC let it through.

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CaveMum · 16/05/2024 14:47

Pedallleur · 16/05/2024 14:19

Let us remember that when Lou reed sings Walk On The Wild Side there is the verse about Candy who in the back room was everybody's darlin'. But she never lost her head even when she was giving head.

Been playing it on the on the radio since 1972

Also see Robbie Williams’ “Rock DJ” with the line “Give no head, no backstage passes”

ISpyNoPlumPie · 16/05/2024 14:45

JohnSt1 · 16/05/2024 14:11

My absolute favourite misheard lyric by Rihanna:

I’m a big butt kisser????

ISpyNoPlumPie · 16/05/2024 14:44

shearwater2 · 16/05/2024 14:36

I was definitely one of those who heard "lonely Starbucks lovers" in Blank Space (long list of ex-lovers).

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WHAT IT’S NOT STARBUCKS LOVERS???

easylikeasundaymorn · 16/05/2024 14:42

maudelovesharold · 16/05/2024 11:22

But there is nothing wrong with the word anus anyway. It’s hardly offensive.

No, but I think Radio 1 would balk at (not very) veiled references to anal sex in song lyrics!

Dunno, blurred lines was played constantly a few years ago without censorship and that included such charming lines as "I'll give you something big enough to tear your ass in two."

GirlOfThe70s · 16/05/2024 14:41

My friend says she doesn't remember this, but I'm sure she's just blanked it out. Many years ago she was singing (for some reason) the Elvis hit 'Are You Lonesome Tonight'. When she got to the line 'Do the chairs in your parlour seem empty and bare?', she sang 'The chairs in your parlour, cementy and bare'. She said that perhaps he had taken the real chairs away and she had to get cement ones????

IDroveAllNightAndCrappedInYourRoomIsThatAlright · 16/05/2024 14:38

Pedallleur · 16/05/2024 14:19

Let us remember that when Lou reed sings Walk On The Wild Side there is the verse about Candy who in the back room was everybody's darlin'. But she never lost her head even when she was giving head.

Been playing it on the on the radio since 1972

I remember the horrible Rolf Harris doing a cover of this and he Bowdlerised it to when all around were losing theirs.

At the time, this just seemed a natural thing to do for a beloved innocent family entertainer...

GirlOfThe70s · 16/05/2024 14:37

About a hundred years ago I was singing a cheery pop ditty from a band called Herman's Hermits. My mother overheard and said 'what are you singing?'
I confidently sang the chorus to her again - 'She's a muscular boy'.
Mother - 'I think you'll find it's "she's a must to avoid".

The tables were turned decades later when I caught her warbling away to Bohemian Rhapsody, 'spare him his life from his Walls sausages'. (Walls was a company that made sausages, maybe they still do.)

shearwater2 · 16/05/2024 14:36

I was definitely one of those who heard "lonely Starbucks lovers" in Blank Space (long list of ex-lovers).

LutonBeds · 16/05/2024 14:31

Dunkinn · 16/05/2024 11:54

You could be right - I'm sure that if I can mishear "shits" for "sheets," then I can also mishear "too hard" for "too hot"!

Regardless: as far as I'm concerned, this is now a song about diarrhoeia.

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OperationPushkin · 16/05/2024 14:31

MangetoutsaysGetOutMan · 16/05/2024 11:49

So I didn’t mishear, he did it on purpose?

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What? Of course you misheard the lyrics. And in a quite hilarious way as well. 😄Just admit your mistake and laugh about it.

Testina · 16/05/2024 14:29

ToriTheStoryteller · 16/05/2024 14:25

Ohhhhh. I thought OP meant it rhymed with "a planet", not the name of an actual planet. I was trying to work out if Thanet or Canet was the new word for twat 😂

Oh Lordy, I also thought she was rhyming Planet and Anus. I’m kinda disappointed.

Testina · 16/05/2024 14:27

Now in my defence, I am hearing impaired.
Sometimes you just fill in your best guess based on the sounds and pattern that you did get.

Fifth Harmony, “Worth It”.

I swear to god this is what I heard first time:
”Yeah baby I’m worth it”
”Yeah baby I’m a whitebait”

I realised that was fishy 😌 and googled. I think I would have googled Planet Anus before taking to the internet with my horror 🤣

Can’t believe these lyrics I heard on Radio 1
Youdontevengohere · 16/05/2024 14:26

ToriTheStoryteller · 16/05/2024 14:25

Ohhhhh. I thought OP meant it rhymed with "a planet", not the name of an actual planet. I was trying to work out if Thanet or Canet was the new word for twat 😂

To be fair, she could have avoided all confusion by just typing the word ‘anus’!

StaunchMomma · 16/05/2024 14:26

All in your dirty mind, OP!

HOWLIN' 😂😂😂

OneTC · 16/05/2024 14:26

Yeah I got stuck on Planet Thanet for a while

ToriTheStoryteller · 16/05/2024 14:25

Ohhhhh. I thought OP meant it rhymed with "a planet", not the name of an actual planet. I was trying to work out if Thanet or Canet was the new word for twat 😂

TheMerryWindow · 16/05/2024 14:25

'But it got me thinking of when music didn't mention any body parts.
I got to the 18th century, but only because there was no words to the music.'
Henry Purcell? (1659-1695)

Youdontevengohere · 16/05/2024 14:25

Testina · 16/05/2024 14:11

I’m only here to ask which anus the OP is on…

no seriously - aside from the fact that you can type anus on here - it’s not even a swear word, though those are allowed too - I need to know in what dialect you can rhyme anus and planet!!!! 🤪

Sounds like a planet = Uranus!

Pedallleur · 16/05/2024 14:24

x2boys · 16/05/2024 13:42

On another misheard lyrics thread a poster misheard Bryan Adams " I got my first real six string "
As " I got my first real.sex dream"!

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he has said the song may not be about the Summer of 1969 but a Summer of 69 (the sexual position/preference for many).

minou123 · 16/05/2024 14:22

IDroveAllNightAndCrappedInYourRoomIsThatAlright · 16/05/2024 14:07

The song is about Aitch wanting a famous girlfriend

Ah, so definitely not the guy from Steps, then!

Is there not a union for pop singers with the equivalent of
Equity rules for actors, so that if somebody has already got your name, you have to use a different one?

The man from Steps already has H; the bloke from Jamiroquai
already has JK... but afaik 'I' is still available if this new chap wants it?

I love misheard lyrics - they're always guaranteed to entertanus!

entertanus 😂😂😂

You're on fire @IDroveAllNightAndCrappedInYourRoomIsThatAlright

samarrange · 16/05/2024 14:22

The word in the lyric is "A-list" because it rhymes a couple of bars later with "playlist".

However, the song continues like this. So the OP might be correct to think that this particular artist's oeuvre may not have be as easy on sensitive ears as that of, say, Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

Hit me with a WAP I know that pussy is damaging
Now I can’t feel my muscles like I’m popping a Valium
Just gimme the mic and let me rip it I’m nice
Sing Jorga a song and then I’ll kiss her goodnight
Wrist full up with Ice now I’m just missing a Spice
I know Snoochie got cake I’m tryna get me a slice
Fly LAX for Ella Mai a little getaway
With my dirty arse she’ll probably hit me with some pepper spray

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Sparklfairy · 16/05/2024 14:21

Dunkinn · 16/05/2024 11:22

Oh, that's brilliant.

Mine is Jason Derulo, Want To Want Me. It starts off, "It's too hard to sleep, I got the sheets on the floor..." Except the way he says"sheets" really sounds like "shits." So every time that song starts on the radio, I hear: "It's too hard to sleep, I got the shits..." and I do a double take. Like WTF, Radio 1?! I don't need to hear about this guy's digestive disturbances...

I'm pretty sure I've posted this before, but I was horrified aged about 9 or 10 when I heard Shania Twain sing I can't believe you kiss your cock at night in That Don't Impress Me Much.

It's 'I can't believe you kiss your car good night'... But somehow my version made logical sense with the rest of the lyrics being about a bloke that totally loves himself Grin

TorroFerney · 16/05/2024 14:20

BettyBooper · 16/05/2024 11:50

What?! Is it not?! 😳

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He is talking italian, she says it again more slowly after the main line. It's apparently because she sees him in the Godfather where he is talking Italian.

Pedallleur · 16/05/2024 14:19

Let us remember that when Lou reed sings Walk On The Wild Side there is the verse about Candy who in the back room was everybody's darlin'. But she never lost her head even when she was giving head.

Been playing it on the on the radio since 1972

IDroveAllNightAndCrappedInYourRoomIsThatAlright · 16/05/2024 14:17

TheYearOfSmallThings · 16/05/2024 14:01

In fairness H has the strangest mangled up voice, he sounds like he is swallowing his words up his nose and choking on them.

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There's an eminent folk singer - who is genuinely an amazing, matchless songwriter - who sings a bit like that.

I won't name him, though, as he has very easily-angered loyal fans who will insist that his voice is actually like those of Matt Monro, Roy Orbison and Freddie Mercury rolled into one, only three times as good!

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