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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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MermaidEyes · 17/05/2024 10:07

perverted lyrics 😆😆

You'd have been great in the Mary Whitehouse era.

Wonkypictureframe · 17/05/2024 10:06

OP, do you realise that thousands of songs, by mainstream artists over decades, have ‘seemingly harmless lyrics’ that are actually utter filth?

BustyLee · 17/05/2024 10:04

AhBiscuits · 17/05/2024 09:11

It's the refusal to laugh and back down which is making it more funny.

It is hilarious. Op is like a character from a Carry On film.

Youdontevengohere · 17/05/2024 10:01

MangetoutsaysGetOutMan · 17/05/2024 09:54

I disagree. If the artist has form for writing perverted lyrics then he will have carefully chosen seemingly harmless lyrics which are in fact homophones so yes he might like her A List but he knows we will mishear it as an*s and that is his point.

But as he has no fear generally of using ‘perverted’ lyrics, surely if he means anus in this case he’d just say anus?
Why can’t you just write anus? It’s not a swear word. It’s a body part.
I’m starting to think this whole thread is a wind up 😂

PilgrimsGrin · 17/05/2024 09:59

MangetoutsaysGetOutMan · 17/05/2024 09:54

I disagree. If the artist has form for writing perverted lyrics then he will have carefully chosen seemingly harmless lyrics which are in fact homophones so yes he might like her A List but he knows we will mishear it as an*s and that is his point.

A list is not a homophone for anus 😂 just admit you got it wrong.

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MangetoutsaysGetOutMan · 17/05/2024 09:54

I disagree. If the artist has form for writing perverted lyrics then he will have carefully chosen seemingly harmless lyrics which are in fact homophones so yes he might like her A List but he knows we will mishear it as an*s and that is his point.

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AhBiscuits · 17/05/2024 09:11

It's the refusal to laugh and back down which is making it more funny.

imgoodthanks · 17/05/2024 08:28

CJsGoldfish · 17/05/2024 01:15

Thank you for your validation. There are threads on here about the rise in anl sx on girls as a standard part of sx which is why I took it at face value
LOL There is no validation.
So I didn’t mishear, he did it on purpose?
No. You definitely misheard
You didn't think to google the lyrics before you started a thread on MN?

Don't be so hard-on OP, it was an analmalous situation. Usually she's more asstute in assertaining beforehand

Dollydoo15 · 17/05/2024 07:32

My daughters interpretation of lizzo Good as hell

i do my hair toss, check my nits 😂

we all sing that version now

blue345 · 17/05/2024 06:49

My Brother thought the old 1970’s song “Street Life” was “Street light “

Wait, it isn't?!

My son loved Toy Story and used to sing you've got a friend in meat (which isn't too far off describing his diet in fairness).

I don't know why but my mind always thinks Ed Sheeran is going to sing one friend left to sell dope rather than clothes in Castle on the Hill. It's also my phone ring tone (tragic I know) so I really should try to stop it.

Wonkypictureframe · 17/05/2024 06:42

On holiday, our kids were in a show put together by the kids club staff. There was a dance to Cake by the Ocean, the staff were not native English speakers, the NON radio edit of that song includes the lines ‘let’s lose our minds and go fucking crazy’, and result was parents looking a bit taken aback.

When I mentioned it to the kids club people, they found it hilarious (as did I to be honest) and they showed me the advert already shared about English lessons.

PurplePositivity · 17/05/2024 06:36

Pottedpalm · 17/05/2024 00:34

A friend attended her DC’s assembly in year 1 to find the class singing along to So horny, horny horny horny!
Parents all looking at each other in shock…
It transpired that the teacher thought the lyrics were So honey, honey honey hony 😬

This has made me proper laugh, I can just imagine the WTF faces Grin

tigger1001 · 17/05/2024 06:13

"Thank you for all these messages, I haven't laughed out loud so much for ages. My favourite was the Average White Band - Play that fucking music white boy. Absolutely hilarious."

My son was deeply offended when he heard that on the radio and through that was the lyrics. He would have been about 10 and was aware what swearing was. Full hands on the hips and saying they are saying a bad word! On the radio!

He was so indignant I couldn't stop laughing

shearwater2 · 17/05/2024 05:52

I can still remember my interpretation if the chorus, aged three, of the first song I remember hearing on a fuzzy medium wave radio, Night Fever.

Once in an onsee-on
We know how to share it!

Then a couple of years later, Super Trouper

...like I always do
'Cause summer in a God bless you

And DD1's rendition of Mamma Mia, at a similar age.

Mamma mia, does it show again
My my, populary sister

Frangipanyoul8r · 17/05/2024 01:36

How on earth has the OP failed to laugh at themselves for this epic hilarious blunder!!??

CJsGoldfish · 17/05/2024 01:15

Thank you for your validation. There are threads on here about the rise in anl sx on girls as a standard part of sx which is why I took it at face value
LOL There is no validation.
So I didn’t mishear, he did it on purpose?
No. You definitely misheard
You didn't think to google the lyrics before you started a thread on MN?

Cluelessaf · 17/05/2024 00:52

turbonerd · 16/05/2024 19:08

Oh no, I have avoided listening to the lyrics in Come On Eileen because I didn’t want to know.
Crap.

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I've read them for you and I think it's really quite the reach to say they are rapey. They are full of longing and a bit of frustration and despair. Nothing like blurred lines.

GrandTheftWalrus · 17/05/2024 00:50

This has given me and dh a right laugh tonight.

Mirabai · 17/05/2024 00:36

neilyoungismyhero · 17/05/2024 00:27

I've always thought that! What is it then?

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It is that.

Pottedpalm · 17/05/2024 00:34

A friend attended her DC’s assembly in year 1 to find the class singing along to So horny, horny horny horny!
Parents all looking at each other in shock…
It transpired that the teacher thought the lyrics were So honey, honey honey hony 😬

maudelovesharold · 17/05/2024 00:33

neilyoungismyhero · 17/05/2024 00:27

I've always thought that! What is it then?

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It is ‘talking Italian’!

neilyoungismyhero · 17/05/2024 00:27

Devilsmommy · 16/05/2024 11:45

Someone I knew thought Robert DeNiro was waiting, talking Italian 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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I've always thought that! What is it then?

bagginsatbagend · 17/05/2024 00:15

EnglishBluebell · 16/05/2024 23:18

@IDroveAllNightAndCrappedInYourRoomIsThatAlright I have to ask - what the bejesus is your username all about?!?!?!

Assuming it’s from the lyric ‘I drove all night & crept in your room, is that alright’

VeryHappyBunny · 17/05/2024 00:08

TeabySea · 16/05/2024 18:19

This reminds me of the first time The X files was on. Dana Scully said '...something something Fox..' and my mum leaped up to turn it off, appalled about "disgusting language on television". We said "But he's called FOX, what did you think she said?"
(FWIW mum was quite strident about not having any 'bad language' in the house, so that made it about 10x funnier)

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Another example of hearing something wrongly and going on a rant about it was a woman turning on the radio to hear the presenter saying "tits like coconuts", she turned off and complained to the broadcaster only to be told it was a nature programme giving info about the favourite foods of birds. They also like bacon rind, apple and seeds etc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for all these messages, I haven't laughed out loud so much for ages. My favourite was the Average White Band - Play that fucking music white boy. Absolutely hilarious.

5YearsLeft · 16/05/2024 23:22

EnglishBluebell · 16/05/2024 23:01

@AlltheFs You can say anus. You can’t say Fuck me in the arse.

There's a sentence I bet you didn't expect to be typing this evening

It was this exchange that got a laugh out of me.

Also, I think the confusion with OP is because she said, “maybe your a* (sounds like a planet.” She should have dropped “your” and just said it sounds like a planet at that point, so we’d have “maybe Uranus,” because instead, it’s “maybe your a+uranus.”

Or she could have just said anus. As one does.