To have only realised after THIRTY FIVE years that George Michael wasn't planning on a golden solo?!

[WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles]

Yes, I may as well share this with MN as it cheered DH up so much this morning...

I have only just realised (embarrassingly whilst singing this in earshot of DH ) that in Wake me you before you go go, George Michael wasn't actually singing "I'm not planning on a golden solo" and instead he just didn't want to be going solo

(disclaimer: I was young when this song came out! I assumed a golden solo he meant he didn't want to be in the spotlight - having written that down I realise how fucking stupid it sounds )

Also, he wasn't singing Cherrybug in this song either. Well who knew? (According to DH - everyone)

I'm dying a little inside here.

My love has got no money, hes got his trumpoline (I thought it was a musical instrument mash up of a trumpet and like a violin or something lol)

And I miss you, like the desert's mystery (lolol I dont know why I thought this)

Love is a guinea pig (or a giddy thing, apparently) - Mumford and sons

Anyone remember Annie, I'm not your Daddy by Kid Creole and the Coconuts? And singing
Ona, Ona, Onomatopoeia,
Ona, Ona, Onomatopoeia
(I don't, I don't, I don't want to be your...)
I loved it that a song had the word onomatopoeia in it!

These are so funny!

Just to clarify my freeze...sweat wasn't Pantera, it was some bizarre band we saw live who must have been covering the song. It was many years ago, I can't remember the details, just the burning sense of shame I have a vague recollection of falling over and ripping my tights as well that night...

Lots of people obviously think there is such a thing as a trombelise-- -- you're all wrong as it's definitely a Stromboli - he has no money, so can't buy lunch you see, so made his own budget lunch out of dough. In my mind this totally makes sense...

nandaandm me and my best friend heard a slightly different version of that Bananarama song...
“only you can set me free, cos I’m guilty, guilty as a drunken bee” oh how my dad laughed when he heard us! 😂

@kungfupannda
I am totally shocked about Preacher Man lyrics as I actually used to perform it as a solo with my choir.

It was always popular so we did it at many concerts over the years.

I thought the cousin reference was a bit ... odd, but I put it down to the song being about Hicksville in the Deep South.

I do wonder now if the other 30 people and our ( excellent) choir leader were also deluded, or were quietly cringing for me.

Until now I had counted it as one of my finest hours.

I always thought the Dire Straits song was "Money for nothing and your chips for free".

I remember thinking free chips would be good!

Eddie are you wonky? Are you wonky Eddie?
Michael Jackson

Don't cry tonight by Guns and Roses I thought the line was Don't cry tonight as where having a ball now baby which thinking about it why would she crying if they were having a ball? It's actually Don't cry tonight there's a heaven above you baby ,who knew!

Lots of people obviously think there is such a thing as a trombelise-
all wrong as it's definitely a Stromboli -

Surely not! You're wrong too. He has his jumbalees, obviously.

Dd7 thought the little mix song was
“just a touch a la la “ .. although it does sound like that tbf

Funnily enough , just last night I was listening to radio one (sorry) and they played Womanizer by Britney Spears and a caller said they used to think she said “one banana”

I am loving this thread! Just had my mind blown again at Kid Creole and the Coconuts...

Up til fairly recently, I thought the Pussycat Dolls were singing,

"I wanna see the world
Drive nice cars
I wanna have boobies..."

Groupies. It's GROUPIES.

“I’m gonna take my horse to the hotel room, I’m gonna ride til I can’t no more”

My dp thought this, not me thankfully!

Has no one mentioned ABBA's supertrouper yet? 'When I called you last night in Tescooooo' ?

Oh, I thought it was onomatopoeia too!

For a couple of years I wondered if Aretha Franklin, when singing, "It Ain't Necessarily So" was saying that Jonah "made his home in that fish's asshole". I knew that couldn't be it, but could NOT hear what it was meant to be.

Turns out, Jonah "made his home in that fish abdomen". Except whales aren't fish, so it's still wrong.

Oh god, just realised another one. For YEARS I was singing along to Boston "More Than A Feeling" with:

I see my derriere walking away.

Again, I knew it couldn't be, but couldn't hear anything else. Turns out it's Marianne. Marianne is walking away.

Oh and a mate of mine used to sing, "Get your rock salt, get your rock salt, honey" until we all burst out laughing at him.

I never actually misheard the words "I'm not planning on going solo." But I've thought for a long time that they were a bit misleading, given that we fairly soon found out that he was planning on going solo.

Just thought of another one but in reverse.
A friend and I totally cracked up in my car listening to I Got Life by Nina Simone where we thought she sang;

Got my mouth, got my smile
I got my tongue, got my chin
Got my neck, got my boobies ...

Looked it up when I got home to see what she 'really' sang and it IS boobies. She sang I got boobies.

Another one- when my sister was very small she thought Spandau Ballet were singing "Gold! Always believe in your soul, you got the power you know, you're indespicable". We have always sung that since. Sorry Kempy.

A lovely colleague I worked with a couple of years ago once sang along to "freed from desire" by Gala.

Actual lyrics "my lovers got no money, he's got his strong beliefs".

She sang: "my lovers got no money, he's got his tumbleweed"

Still makes me chuckle whenever I hear that song!

Love has* ffs!

My love has got no money!! Dang it!

Still can't get over the "snap ma picture" 😂😂😂

Rachel Stevens song yonks ago called sweet dreams my LA Ex.

There's a line ''if I were in your shoes''
My best friend at school loudly belting out ''if I were in the ocean!''