I did do a search and nothing came up within the last two months.
It’s all Britney’s fault. First, I was sure that song of hers was called Operator. But no, the girl just doesn’t know how to pronounce ‘radar’. The other day on the drive in to work (the only time I listen to top 40 these days-- good ole Clear Channel) I hear a Britney song that’s new to me:
One, two, three Peter Potamus 'n me!
My husband turns to me, “She’s too young to remember Peter Potamus.”
I’m glad he said this because I heard Peter Potamus too. Of course, Clear Channel never back announces. Hey, they rarely front announce. Not until today did I learn that she’s (trying) to say “One, two, three Peter, Paul and Mary”.
My lips like sugahhh,
this candy called your sperm
[record sctrach]
Wait, WHAT?! Man, they’re really getting bold on the radio these days, aren’t they? I mean, I know it’s a hip hop song, but jeez.
[googles]
Oh it’s “this candy’s got you sprung”. That’s…slightly better, I guess.
This line is correct (stupid but correct) however I always expect her to say “. . .your vertical smile” because I still speak in the vernacular of a 7th grader:p
For your middle aged ABBA lovin’ dopers, take your teeth out, tell me what’s wrong.
Okay, it’s not really a case of misheard lyrics, more of misanticipated lyrics. In the song Black and White, my brain knows that Sarah McLachlan is about to say “the whole of my undoing.” Nevertheless, some part of my subconscious clings desperately to the conviction that what she is actually going to say is “a hole in my underwear.”
Until this very moment I’ve never figured out if the line in Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl” goes, “why can’t I find a woman like that?” or “where can I find a woman like that?”
[Drum roll as I google the lyrics]
The real answer seems to be “where can I find a woman like that?”, although there are a fair number of dissenting opinions. Therefore, I declare the result inconclusive.
I believe I stand corrected; that *would *make more sense. Clearly that verse is a reference to Hitch, so now I’ll have to analyze the rest of the song to see if there are any other clues. Bad romances certainly are a running theme in Mr. H’s movies.
How about a radio station getting the title wrong?
WXRT in Chicago has a deal where you can text them and get the name and artist of the last 3 songs. My wife got home yesterday and said she’d just heard a cool song; it went something like “Swim until you can’t see land.” I did a quick search on iTunes, and found, sure enough, “Swim Until You Can’t See Land” by Frightened Rabbit.
At the same time, Mrs. Wheelz texted 'XRT and the answer came back: “Swing Until You Can’t See Land.”
Ramones, Bonzo goes to Bitburg: Despite having looked up the song to reassure me what it was about (figured it was a Reagan thing, but was too young to remember the occasion) I still managed to hear “you’re a politician, don’t become one of Hitler’s children” as “you’re a politician, don’t become one, a headless chicken”. It… makes a kind of sense?
Could be an auto-correct gone wrong. I’ve been having that happen with my new iPhone, since its auto-correct works differently from my old (standard) cell phone.
