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Mishearing song lyrics

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Freeasabird76 · 06/03/2024 19:39

Just listened to Beyonce-texas hold emto have genuinely believed she was singing "Fuck Alexa" 😂.Anybody else got lyrics wrong?

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InMySpareTime · 06/03/2024 20:37

Last night sheep were in my room, now my bedsheets smell like ewe (shape of you)

hangingonfordearlife1 · 06/03/2024 20:38

there was a recent song and my daughter thought it said i can put a harry kane on it but was hurricane 😂

transformandriseup · 06/03/2024 20:42

My lover's got no money, he's got his tromboleeze

Feet from desire ...

DiscoBeat · 06/03/2024 20:48

I used to sing Whitney Houston Saving All My Love For You as a teenager and used to belt out 'but that's just an old bathtub scene' instead 'but that's just an old fantasy'.

Oddly, I never questioned the slightly strange words!

Rosestulips · 06/03/2024 20:52

Elton John, cold cold heart I heard as Cocoa Hot 😂

it’s only since his duet with Dua Lipa I’ve discovered my mistake

Mayorq · 06/03/2024 20:57

LittleRedY0shi · 06/03/2024 20:25

I thought Taylor Swift was singing about "Starbucks lovers" in Blank Space.

And I'm also a member of the 'tromboleeze' club...!

Same, and I stand by the fact that it would be better songwriting as a comment on the disposable nature of love in the tinder era likening it to grabbing a Starbucks.

Ultimately though our songstress acknowledges the fleeting nature of it but decides she's going to take the gamble and have some fun, once again using the Starbucks metaphor by writing the prospective lovers name on the blank space on her Starbucks cup

ilovemyspace · 06/03/2024 20:57

@HoneyWogan Herman's Hermits - She's A Must To Avoid: always sounds like "she's a muscular boy" ...... YES!!

.............. and made even better by the next line " a complete impossibility" ......

(altho these days ...... 🤔😂😂)

WhatFlavourIsIt · 06/03/2024 20:58

Taylor swift karma
Karma is the breeze in my hair.
I thought she was saying karma is the priest in my hair. Naughty priest!

LoreleiG · 06/03/2024 20:59

Notimeforaname · 06/03/2024 20:01

A lot of people get this one but Golden brown. For years I thought it was "Lays me down, with my mancheerons". And thought what the fuck is a mancheeron?!

Hes singing "lays me down, with my mind, she runs" 🙄

Ditto. Never even queried what a macheeron was either.

PleaseBeHappier · 06/03/2024 21:02

Sage and onion, sage and onion, tell me you love me, unbreak my...

Maltybiscuit · 06/03/2024 21:02

The Madonna song Like a Prayer

I swear she says Level Crossing
But actually it's Let the Choir sing !

tillytoodles1 · 06/03/2024 21:03

Slade Merry Christmas Everyone. I thought everybody's having fun, was everybody's having scones.

LoreleiG · 06/03/2024 21:03

Rosestulips · 06/03/2024 20:52

Elton John, cold cold heart I heard as Cocoa Hot 😂

it’s only since his duet with Dua Lipa I’ve discovered my mistake

Same! And the devil for a sideboard one too 😂

Snoopsteandcooper · 06/03/2024 21:05

Notimeforaname · 06/03/2024 20:01

A lot of people get this one but Golden brown. For years I thought it was "Lays me down, with my mancheerons". And thought what the fuck is a mancheeron?!

Hes singing "lays me down, with my mind, she runs" 🙄

I used to think it said "lays me down, with my machine guns"

Raindancer411 · 06/03/2024 21:08

Macandcheeese · 06/03/2024 20:18

I always mis hear 'bright young women, sick of swimming..' from The Little Mermaids part of your world as 'pregnant women sick of swimming'.

Me too!! Lol

LoreleiG · 06/03/2024 21:09

Get your money for nothing and your chips for free!

DontBuyANewMumCashmere · 06/03/2024 21:09

There's a song that's been on Capital for the last 6 moths or so, it's called Don't Need Love by 220 Kid and Gracey (apparently, I just had to Google it because I never clocked what it was or who it was by)

Anyway, there's one repeating line that I thought was "Giant testicle mover"
And I've only just found out tonight it is "Don't text to come over" 😂

Probably going to keep singing my version...

Snoopsteandcooper · 06/03/2024 21:12

Adele - Rolling in the Deep. I hear the backing singers as "Never had a sheep, never heard them beep, here's a buttercup, rolling in the deep"

FrankTurnersCat · 06/03/2024 21:12

Meatloaf does not have a Cilla Black fan on bike.
He has a Silver Black Phantom bike...

Layla by Derek & the dominoes "tried to give me constipation" turned out to be "tried to give me consternation"

DeeCeeCherry · 06/03/2024 21:13

'As' by Stevie Wonder

'Until the dolphins fly and parrots live at sea'.

I heard:

'& thru the darkness glides a Paris limousine'.

I didnt realise for 20+ years

JellyIegs · 06/03/2024 21:14

InMySpareTime · 06/03/2024 20:35

Lay a Wispa** on my pillow (must have been love)
Might as well face it you're as thick as you look (addicted to love)
Santa baby, stick a saber under the tree for me
Love lift us up where we belong, where the eagles fry on a mountain high
Young girl with eyes like potatoes (La Isla Bonita)

AHAHAHAHA especially at ‘thick as you look’ 😂

We also sing young girl with eyes like potatoes.

Such a good thread, I’ve lolled at loads of them.

DrJoanAllenby · 06/03/2024 21:19

Showing my age but I loved this song as a child and would sing 'The hills are alive!'

Only it was Israelites by Desmond Dekker.

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LittleRedY0shi · 06/03/2024 21:22

"Ultimately though our songstress acknowledges the fleeting nature of it but decides she's going to take the gamble and have some fun, once again using the Starbucks metaphor by writing the prospective lovers name on the blank space on her Starbucks cup"

I absolutely thought "I'll write your name" was a reference to the Starbucks cups, yes! Hadn't thought it through beyond that, but I concur that it would have been a great metaphor!

TesticularHeft · 06/03/2024 21:23

I guess it rains down in Africa. A hundred men on mars could ever do.

I know the right words now but still sing it as mars.

A friend at uni thought that the words in naive by the kooks were "I know, she knows I'm not from the Ruskin" not "I'm not fond of asking"

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