Funny Lion King Intro Misheard Lyrics
An episode of "Friends" may be partially responsible for this popularly misheard lyric.
For years, there's been a running joke that Elton John wrote his 1971 song "Tiny Dancer" about Tony Danza, an American actor known for his work in "Who's the Boss?" and "Taxi."
This gag is said to have started after a character sang the mispronounced lyric on an episode of "Friends" and said the song was written about Danza.
The misquoted lyric comes from the line "Hold me closer tiny dancer," which some people may hear as "Hold me close, young Tony Danza."
Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" has a misheard line that seems to mention a major coffee brand.
In 2014, Taylor Swift's famed "Blank Space" song made headlines when hoards of radio listeners and, per a now-deleted Tweet, even Swift's mom misheard the lyric "Got a long list of ex-lovers" as "All the lonely Starbucks lovers."
Naturally, Starbucks was seemingly surprised and presumably disappointed to learn it was not included in her song.
Per a 2017 video from The Cut, the reason these lyrics are so misheard could have to do with one's expectations and the placement of the song's beats.
Selena Gomez's 2015 hit has a lyric that sounds like it's talking about a bodily function instead of diamonds.
Selena Gomez's single "Good for You" was a 2015 hit, but some fans misheard the song's opening line "I'm 14 carats," which refers to diamonds, as "I'm farting carrots."
In an interview with BBC Radio 1's Scott Mills, the singer laughed at the incorrect, vegetable-focused lyric and said the radio hosts may be mishearing it because of their English accents.
She also confirmed that the lyric was "I'm 14 carats."
Many have had fun purposely misunderstanding the lyrics of "Livin' On A Prayer."
This popular song by Bon Jovi seems simple enough with its repeating lyrics, "Woah, we're halfway there / Woah-oh, livin' on a prayer," but it is still misheard, whether deliberately or not.
One of the most famous misheard iterations is: "Woah, we're halfway there / Woah-oh, Squidward on a chair." Squidward is a popular character from the show "SpongeBob SquarePants," which aired in 1999. Bon Jovi's song was released in 1986 — so, no, this track not a tribute to the animated, tentacled character and furniture.
In 2016, there was even a viral Twitter trend that involved making memes out of things that sound like they could be the song's "Livin' on a prayer" lyric, including "Lizard on a chair" and "Lemon and a pear."
"Burnin' Up" has one commonly confused lyric that some fans think even Joe Jonas doesn't know.
The Jonas Brothers' 2008 summer anthem "Burnin' Up" has one widely debated lyric in its chorus. And recently, a fan reached out to Joe Jonas on Twitter to ask if the lyric is "Baby, you turn the temperature hotter" or "Baby, who turned the temperature hotter?"
Instead of answering the question, Joe responded to the tweet asking people what they thought the lyric was. Some fans then began speculating that he was only asking because perhaps he doesn't actually know what the lyric is.
Others pointed out that Joe should know this line considering in 2013, his brother Nick famously interrupted the band's Kiss 98.5 performance to set the record straight on this lyric.
"Do you know it's 'WHO turned the temperature hotter?' cause everyone always sings 'YOU turn the temperature hotter,'" he said. "I've always been curious if they know."
Even the title of "Penny Lane" has been misheard by some listeners.
Released in 1967, The Beatles' iconic song "Penny Lane" is actually about a neighborhood Paul McCartney and John Lennon spent a lot of time in when they were younger.
But some people have been pretty confused about the track's title and lyrics — a number of listeners have mistaken the song as being about a woman called Aunt Elaine.
The song starts with the lyric: "In Penny Lane, there is a barber showing photographs," and so the track would be pretty bizarre if "Penny Lane" was swapped out for "Aunt Elaine."
This hit song from "Grease" has been misheard as a bizarre fashion trend.
Though it was a musical first, "Grease" (1978) is a well-known film and the movie's hit "You're the One That I Want" is a popular duet to sing along to.
But not everyone singing along has the lyrics quite right. Some have heard the line, "I've got shoes, they're made of plywood." The lyric is actually, "I've got chills, they're multiplying."
One of the best-known misheard lyrics is in Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze."
Jimi Hendrix's 1967 hit "Purple Haze" has a misheard lyric that's really made a name for itself.
The song goes "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky," but so many people have misheard it as "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" that some fans think Hendrix started singing that version of the lyric during live shows, as a joke.
"Kiss this guy" grew to become the grandfather of misheard lyrics and even inspired the name of the misheard-lyric website kissthisguy.com.
Listeners have a hard time understanding some lyrics of "Bohemian Rhapsody."
It seems fairly common to mishear the lyrics to Queen's 1975 hit, "Bohemian Rhapsody."
Many people sing the lines "Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango" and "Bismillah! No" incorrectly because of their obscure words and references.
But there's another line later in the song, right before the head-banging guitar solo, that is consistently misheard.
The real lyrics are "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me," but people have misheard it as everything from "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard" to "The algebra has a devil put aside for me."
Keith Urban cleared up a debate about the commonly-misheard lyric in "You'll Think of Me."
Grammy-nominated country singer Keith Urban is famous for songs like "Blue Ain't Your Color" and "You Look Good in My Shirt."
But his 2002 track "You'll Think of Me" has left fans debating over a lyric in the chorus.
Listeners couldn't decide if the line was "Take your cap and leave my sweater" or "Take your cat and leave my sweater" — it's actually the latter.
Urban confirmed the lyric in 2019 when "The Bobby Bones Show" reached out to him about it. He even followed up with a funny video by demonstrating the correct version with an actual cat.
Rihanna's background tracks on "FourFiveSeconds" are sometimes comically misheard.
The unlikely team of Rihanna, Kanye West, and Paul McCartney came together to create "FourFiveSeconds," which they performed for the first time at the 2015 Grammys.
Rihanna has a few background tracks sprinkled in during West and McCartney's verse. During one of them, she says, "I'm on a mystery," but Capital East Midlands radio station pointed out that it sounds like she's saying "I bought a Listerine."
The defunct app Vine helped make this "Because of You" misheard lyric famous.
Kelly Clarkson became a pop sensation after winning the first season of "American Idol" in 2002, and her track "Because of You" was released on her second studio album, alongside hits like "Since U Been Gone."
"Because of You" is an emotional breakup ballad, but it received a funny twist in a clip for the defunct six-second-video platform Vine.
One user pointed out that the lyric "I never stray too far from the sidewalk" sounds a lot like "I never stray too far from the salad bowl."
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Source: https://www.insider.com/song-lyrics-that-people-get-wrong-2019-6
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