#157 – Lyrical
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
My son really likes to dance and sing along with music. A lot of pop songs contain brand new words that he has never heard before. This doesn’t stop him from approximating the sounds a syllables with made up lyrics. Most of them are hilarious enough that I can’t stand to correct him. He will be embarrassed at some retro music party when he’s in college.
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Tags: kids, lyrics, songs
is that across the universe by the Beatles
This reminds me of a video I saw years ago, of some korean guy trying to sing ‘Can’t Live Without You’
Ken Lee! Ib leebu deebu oub oooo’
Ken Lee! Ken Lee Benny Moore!
Apparently I misremembered, and it was actually a Bulgarian Lady. O.o
Look up: Ken Lee or Without you by Mariah Carey
I knew this one guy in high school who couldn’t get any lyrics right to save his life. I wonder if he’s still rising above and beyond the call of the Mondegreen today?
I still do that! But I don’t sing my versions in front of anyone else.
Thank you. You are a good person.
(For reasons I don’t understand, I find it incredibly grating when I know people are doing this, even if it’s to a song I absolutely hate. Ditto for singing badly off-tempo. My least favorites are the people who do this with lyrics they submit to compendium-of-lyrics sites, with artists who think it’s cute to not include song lyrics in album booklets as a runner-up).
From my childhood, I remember “My country tears of thee”.
i just have a lot of problems at ‘retro music parties’ and retro nights at bars and such because i THINK i know all the lyrics, but it turns out i just know the weird al ones…
yeah, same here, I know a lot of song parodies, but whenever someone start singing the actual song it throws me off completely.
Hysterical! A little girl next door singing God Bless America: “from the mountains to the fairies to the oceans . . .”
Look up the lyrics to “Diesel Power” by Prodigy. Then listen to the song. Then look up more lyrics to try and find out the “correct” ones. You won’t be able to, because they’re all different. Some people’s interpretations are pretty hilarious, though.
“I pledge alleigance to queen fragg and her mighty state of hysteria…”
–From Calvin and Hobbes.
I always wanted to hear the rest of that, but Calvin was hauled off before he could finish.
And to the disruption of which I planned…
I saw people arguing over lyrics on youtube. Line was “she gives them butterflies, bats her cartoon eyes” or according to the other side “she gives them butterflies, but to coconize.” The person said “It’s coconize! I don’t know what coconize means, but that’s definitely what she’s saying!”
The correct term for this, if anyone was wondering, is a Mondegreen ^^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen Very interesting read 😛
Lovely. 🙂