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Annie, are you walking? Are you walking, Annie?

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BarbaraVineFan · 17/06/2025 23:10

…the lyrics of MJ’s ‘Smooth Criminal’, or so I thought until the age of about 25!!
Anyone else have funny misheard lyrics to share?

OP posts:
JBJ · 18/06/2025 01:24

HelpMeRhondaHelpGetMeOutOfThisDress · 17/06/2025 23:27

"There's a bathroom on the right " - Credence Clearwater Revival

"Someone's taken my rear away" - Adam Faith

I’m glad it’s not just me that’s been wondering why there’s a bathroom there 🤣

Trombelees · 18/06/2025 01:30

Who ya gonna call? Those bastards! 👻

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Trombelees · 18/06/2025 01:35

BeeGees: You Should Be Dancin’

What you doing on your back? Became
“What ya chewing on? You’re fat!”.

bellabelly · 18/06/2025 01:36

RatherTardy · 18/06/2025 00:50

So did my bff at school. I'm now wondering if you're her. Hello 👋 ❤️

Hmm, was it a school in Derbyshire?

Trombelees · 18/06/2025 01:47

Jason Derulo:

It’s too hot to sleep, I’ve got the shits on the floor, nothing on me. And I can’t take it no more, Yes I gotta pee!

———
A-ha

Take on meeeee! Take me on!
i’ll beeeeeee gone!
Yeeeehawwwww owww weeee!
(actual lyrics is “inside a week” but my lyric was the sound of his wheels screeching off and him yelling yeeeee hawww

———

TLC

Don’t go Jason Waterfalls!

———

Wiley - Heatwave

When I’m right, den I’m balls in a heatwave! Balls in a heatwave.

It’s when I arrive, I’m causing a heatwave. Balls in a heatwave, sweaty bollocks, quite the image there Wiley!

———

George Ezra, Budapest

but for you, yoooooou,
I’ll diddley doo.

———

🇺🇸 US national anthem. I always thought was a sort of “up yours” at the beginning to the Mexicans:

José can’t you see?

🤣 Thanks for the laughs everyone! Badly needed today.

NotAnOptimist · 18/06/2025 01:49

Outing myself here but that’s my first name and I can’t walk without an aid so this was a very confusing thread title 😂😂

Trombelees · 18/06/2025 01:50

NotAnOptimist · 18/06/2025 01:49

Outing myself here but that’s my first name and I can’t walk without an aid so this was a very confusing thread title 😂😂

Are you ok though? MJ was very concerned!

FrodoBiggins · 18/06/2025 01:53

Andoutcomethewolves · 18/06/2025 00:37

AHH this was literally the one I came on to post! I'm 40 and only know in the last year it was 'strong beliefs' as my H mocked me for singing trombelese.

Might be a bit niche but Debaser by the Pixies - I'd been singing along to it with mumbled words for two decades until H informed me about Chien Andalusia.

My personal favourite mistake (there have been many more than noted here, I have poor hearing!) is the Eurythmics - sweet dreams are made of cheese. Made sense to me as I love cheese!

Ha ha same here - "chmmm ahemmeurrr... I WANT YOU TO KNOW"

Devianinc · 18/06/2025 02:01

I think it’s from teennn spirit

LadyWiddiothethird · 18/06/2025 02:03

JabbaTheBeachHut · 17/06/2025 23:20

Lola by The Kinks.

For years I thought they sang...

'She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a cockerel voice she said Lola.

I must admit I even tried saying 'Lola' in the way a cockerel might 😳

😅😂🤣

LoveItaly · 18/06/2025 02:05

ABBA Super Trouper

I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Glasgow

I always thought it was Tesco, finally looked the lyrics up to check a couple of years ago.

CarrieMoonbeams · 18/06/2025 02:20

Another ABBA one from me. In the song Fernando, I thought - right up until last year! - that she was singing "They were shining there for you and me, for Lee and for Fi, Fernando" instead of "for liberty". I just thought that Lee and Fi were their friends!

CrocsNotDocs · 18/06/2025 02:36

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

”Badder than Al Capone” is what I hear, when in fact it’s “Badder than Old King Kong”

Considering this song is about a Chicago gangster, I think my version makes much more sense.

Stephenra · 18/06/2025 02:43

I heard 'My girl is red hot / Your girl is doodle squat' as 'My girl is red hot / Your girl is poodle snot.'

LemondrizzleShark · 18/06/2025 02:55

RatherTardy · 18/06/2025 00:50

So did my bff at school. I'm now wondering if you're her. Hello 👋 ❤️

I think there was an advert that used it wasn’t there? For milk. In the 80s.

And “I believe in Miracoils” a few years later, for a mattress company.

1980s furniture adverts also totally ruined the Monty Python Galaxy Song, as I can only ever hear “see you all in Courts”

Ivytheterrible2025 · 18/06/2025 03:21

3678194b · 17/06/2025 23:44

'Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
It's Miller!

No, we will not let you go (let him go)
It's Miller'

I used to think it was Miss Miller as a child. Thought they had locked a teacher in a classroom or something - "Miss Miller! We will not let you go!". 🤣

BeanQuisine · 18/06/2025 03:26

In the 1980s discos, I kept hearing this song:

When I'm with you, baby
I go out of my head
And I just can't get it up
And I just can't get it up
All the things you do to me
And everything you said
I just can't get it up
I just can't get it up

I just can't get it up
I just can't get it up
I just can't get it up
I just can't get it up

garlictwist · 18/06/2025 03:55

Ok so I thought it was Annie are you walking too. Well I never.

Slatterndisgrace · 18/06/2025 04:00

PennywisePoundFoolish · 17/06/2025 23:44

"...City lights lay out before us
your arms and legs wrapped round my shoulders..."

🤣🤣

Ilovemyshed · 18/06/2025 04:27

Tonight, I sellotape my love to you

Daffodils8 · 18/06/2025 04:36

I'm going to praise you like a shoe 🙈🙈🙈

garlictwist · 18/06/2025 04:42

My sister and I used to sing "silence like a casserole" to Simon and Garfunkel.

Andoutcomethewolves · 18/06/2025 04:48

FrodoBiggins · 18/06/2025 01:53

Ha ha same here - "chmmm ahemmeurrr... I WANT YOU TO KNOW"

Ha! Exactly that 🤣