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Lyrics to fifty famously misunderstood songs, explained

The word mondegreen is divers as a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your caput, but is, in fact, incorrect. The term was coined in a November 1954 Harper's Bazaar piece, where the writer, Sylvia Wright, recalled a childhood mishearing. According to the writer, when she was immature her mother would read to her from a book called "Reliques of Ancient Poesy." Her favorite poem from the 1765 book went like this: "Ye Highland and Ye Lowlands / Oh where have y'all been? / They accept slain the Earl o'Moray / And laid him on the green." Wright, yet, heard the last line as "And Lady Mondegreen."

A mondegreen actually takes place between auditory perception (the concrete act of hearing) and meaning-making (when our brains imbibe the noises with significance). This is essentially what happens in the childhood game of phone. As one friend whispers a discussion or phrase into another'southward ear, it can become wildly distorted, and a totally different give-and-take or phrase tin come up out the other side. The acoustic information that's received and the interpretation a brain comes up with just don't match up. It's not exactly entirely clear why this happens, we merely know that it does.

One instance nosotros encounter this happen a lot is in song lyrics. You can blame it on the overwhelming amount of auditory signals, like instruments and groundwork singers, or the fact that some words and phrases merely sound remarkably similar others, but chances are you've had at least ane instance in your life where you lot've misheard what the singer is saying. Today, we're hither to help you out. Stacker rounded up l famously misheard songs, explaining what'south actually being said. From "hold me closer Tony Danza" to "at that place's a wino down the route," read on for lyrics to 50 famously misunderstood songs.

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'Tiny Dancer' by Elton John

- Misheard: "Hold me closer Tony Danza"
- Correct: "Hold me closer tiny dancer"

I of the most ofttimes misheard lyrics, this Elton John blooper has spawned a life of its own. For example, the single, which went iii-times platinum in April 2018, spawned a joke on an episode of "Friends." When discussing the well-nigh romantic songs of all fourth dimension, Phoebe says that, in her stance, it's "the one that Elton John wrote for that guy on 'Who's the Boss'."

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'We Congenital This Metropolis' by Starship

- Misheard: "We built this urban center on sausage rolls"
- Correct: "We congenital this city on stone and roll"

This misheard lyric from Starship's first-ever unmarried is so common that it prompted a parody song. YouTuber LadBaby (aka Mark Hoyle) held the #1 position on the U.K. singles charts during the 2018 holiday season for his cover well-nigh pork-blimp pastries. Beating out artists like Ariana Grande and Mariah Carey for the laurels, all proceeds from his rails were donated to the Trussell Trust, a food bank clemency.

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'Drift Away' past Uncle Kracker

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'Blank Infinite' by Taylor Swift

- Misheard: "All the lone Starbucks lovers"
- Correct: "Got a long list of ex-lovers"

This lyric was misheard so frequently past Taylor Swift fans, that the singer actually poked fun at her own vocal on Valentine's Mean solar day in 2015. In a at present-deleted tweet, she wrote: "Sending my love to all the lonely Starbucks lovers out there this Valentine'southward Twenty-four hour period… even though that is not the right lyric." To which the coffee chain playfully replied: "Wait, it's not?"

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'Maverick Rhapsody' by Queen

- Misheard: "Saving his life from this warm sausage tea"
- Correct: "Spare him his life from this monstrosity"

Anything less than a piping hot cup of tea is an bodily nightmare for about Brits, but it turns out that's non actually what one of their well-nigh famous musicians was crooning about. The vocal's popularity in the country has endured regardless. As of 2018, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the tertiary-all-time-selling U.K. single of all time, and is ofttimes cited as ane of the greatest rock songs world-wide.

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'Baby Got Dorsum' past Sir Mix-A-Lot

- Misheard: "I like large butts in a tin of limes"
- Right: "I like large butts and I can not lie"

When Sir Mix-A-Lot'southward famously irreverent song fabricated its debut in 1992, its equally outrageous video was briefly banned by MTV due to its bootylicious nature. Rather than squashing the song's popularity, the ban actually additional information technology, and in the end, the runway spent 5 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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'Message in a Bottle' by The Police

- Misheard: "A year has passed since I broke my nose"
- Correct: "A year has passed since I wrote my note"

The Constabulary considered "Message in a Bottle" one of their most lyrically deep songs. In fact, when discussing the song in "1000 UK Number Ones," Sting said, "I think the lyrics are subtle and well-crafted plenty to hit people on a different level from something yous just sing forth to."

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'Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In' by Fifth Dimension

- Misheard: "This is the dawning of the Age of Asparagus"
- Right: "This is the dawning of the Historic period of Aquarius"

A true hippie canticle, "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" is actually a mashup of 2 songs written for the musical "Pilus." It'south besides somewhat of a rarity in the music industry as it was recorded by the group in two dissimilar cities: Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Despite its nontraditional origins, the unmarried was certified platinum past the RIAA in Baronial 1991, 22 years after its original release.

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'Waterfalls' by TLC

- Misheard: "Don't go Jason Waterfalls"
- Correct: "Don't go chasing waterfalls"

In 1995, TLC won the MTV Video Music Honour for Video of the Yr for this signature rail, which spent vii weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Yet, that didn't proceed fans from actually knowing all the lyrics to the now-classic track. The "Jason Waterfalls" lyric even has its own Urban Lexicon page, setting fans directly on their mistakes in one case and for all.

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'Smells like Teen Spirit' by Nirvana

- Misheard: "Here nosotros are at present in containers"
- Correct: "Here we are now, entertain u.s.a."

Legend has it, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana's lead singer, used to use the correct line, "here we are, now entertain united states of america" whenever he entered a party. Information technology was such a signature for him, that he institute a way to work it into the song, only to accept information technology misheard frequently by listeners. The defoliation didn't stop the alternative track from reaching #vi on the Billboard Hot 100.

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'Nosotros Will Rock You' by Queen

- Misheard: "Kicking your cat all over the identify"
- Correct: "Kicking your tin can all over the place"

In 2008, Queen'south singles "We Are the Champions" and "We Will Rock You" were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It was a well-deserved honour for the tracks (which, despite being two divide songs, are nigh always played together and oft referred to every bit a single entity). In 2017, the rails went four-times multi-platinum, with more than than 7 million certified units sold.

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'I Want to Agree Your Manus' by The Beatles

- Misheard: "I want to concord your ham"
- Right: "I want to concord your hand"

Arraign it on the British accents, but the showtime Beatles song to catch on in America besides has one of the grouping'south nigh frequently misheard lyrics. According to manufacture lore, Bob Dylan also misunderstood a line in the vocal. He allegedly idea that "I tin't hide" was "I get high." Later on finding out that the group was not, in fact, marijuana smokers, he introduced them to the recreational practise and cemented himself a spot in Beatle history.

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'I'm a Believer' by The Monkees

- Misheard: "Then I saw her face, now I'm gonna leave her"
- Right: "Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer"

Popularized by the movie "Shrek," "I'm a Laic" was actually released 35 years prior by The Monkees. The original version was an instantaneous hit, going gold within two days of its release and property the #i spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for 7 weeks.

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'Blinded by the Light' by Bruce Springsteen

- Misheard: "Wrapped up like a deuce, another rumor in the dark"
- Right: "Revved upwards like a deuce, another runner in the nighttime"

This famous Bruce Springsteen lyric gets misheard in all sorts of means. In 1993, a Canadian sketch-comedy prove, "The Vacant Lot," included a "Blinded by the Light" sketch on their prove that poked fun at the various wrong renditions out in that location.

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'Bad Moon Rising' by Creedence Clearwater Revival

- Misheard: "There's a bathroom on the correct"
- Right: "There's a bad moon on the rise"

Some musicians love getting in on the joke of their misunderstood lyrics—John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of them. During his 1998 "Premonition" concert taping, he really sang the wrong lyric on phase (close listeners can hear it quite apparently after the final verse). It'southward likewise been reported that during other concerts he'd point to the closest bathroom whenever he got to the line.

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'Similar a Virgin' by Madonna

- Misheard: "Like a virgin, touched for the 31st fourth dimension"
- Right: "Live a virgin, touched for the very first time"

"Like a Virgin" was Madonna's first #one striking in the U.S. The runway topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for vi weeks. Its racy lyrics reportedly made it harder to detect a recording studio and production team who would bring the song to life, simply the finished product ultimately fix Madonna autonomously from the horde of other 1980's pop singers.

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"It's Gonna Be Me' by NSYNC

- Misheard: "It's gonna be May!"
- Correct: "It's gonna exist me"

In contempo years, this misheard lyric has spawned its ain meme that pops upwards each bound: a picture of a frosted-tip, curly-haired Justin Timberlake spouting the wrong lyrics. The song hit #one on the Billboard Hot 100, but fifty-fifty some of the virtually diehard '90s boy band fans admit that this lyric is difficult to understand.

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'Cups (When I'm Gone)' by Anna Kendrick/Pitch Perfect

- Misheard: "You lot're gonna miss me by my walk, you're gonna miss me by my taco"
- Correct: "You're gonna miss me past my walk, you're gonna miss me by my talk, oh"

This made-for-a-movie song is a combination of a Carter Family song, "When I'm Gone" and the cup game, which was invented past the British band Lulu & the Lampshades and went viral on Reddit in 2009. It reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, and inspired legions of covers that were posted on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. Several of the covers actually included this misheard lyric.

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'Work It' by Missy Elliott

- Misheard: "Iss yurr fweminippi fwep withal"
- Right: "Ti esrever dna ti plif nwod gniht ym tup I"

Missy Elliott's "Piece of work It" spent 10 weeks at #two on the Billboard Hot 100. During that time, most fans causeless this line was but gibberish. In that location was fifty-fifty speculation that it was a coded dingy message. But it turns out the real lyric is "I put my thing downward flip it and reverse it" merely flipped and reversed.

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'We Didn't Start the Fire' past Baton Joel

- Misheard: "We didn't start the fire, it was always burning, said the worst attorney"
- Correct: "We didn't kickoff the burn, it was always called-for, since the world's been turning"

"We Didn't Start the Burn" ranks low on the list of Billy Joel's favorite songs, but American listeners disagreed. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and received heavy airplay later on its release in 1989. The track is a stream-of-consciousness-style song that lists all the events Joel feels defined his generation. The list is so lengthy that Joel has admitted having trouble remembering all the lyrics.

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'Forget You' past CeeLo Green

- Misheard: "I guess he'due south an skilful, and I'm more an attorney"
- Correct: "I approximate he'due south an Xbox, and I'm more Atari"

In the original, expletive-laden version of this song, CeeLo Greenish drops the F-bomb 16 times in the bridge of 3.five minutes. Even still, it reached #two on the Billboard Hot 100 and bankrupt the two million view marking on YouTube inside one week of its release.

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'Desperado' by The Eagles

- Misheard: "Yous've been outright offensive, for and then long now"
- Correct: "Y'all've been out riding fences, for so long at present"

"Desperado" was the last song The Eagles always performed on tour. It closed their bear witness out on July 29, 2015, and six months later their atomic number 82 vocalizer, Glenn Frey, was dead. While the song is a fan favorite, it was never released as a single, which helped to boost anthology sales.

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'Blurred Lines' by Robin Thicke

- Misheard: "Mushrooms are nasty"
- Correct: "Must want to get nasty"

Amidst all the controversy that surrounded the song's suggestive and possibly demeaning lyrics, Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" was decorated breaking records. It not simply took the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, merely information technology also held the #one spot on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop songs for 16 weeks, the longest any song had held the position since the 1940s. A big part of that success was due to the media attending that surrounded the unrated cut of the video, which featured topless women, being banned.

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'Large Yellow Taxi' by Joni Mitchell

- Misheard: "If it ain't paradise, and then put up a parking lot"
- Correct: "They paved paradise to put up a parking lot"

The Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton comprehend of this song might exist the most famous version, but Joni Mitchell'southward was the original. Mitchell told The Los Angeles Times that she wrote the song after her outset trip to Hawaii, where they had literally paved paradise to put up a parking lot.

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'Our Lips are Sealed' by The Become-Gos

- Misheard: "Fifty-fifty Dallas games, people play"
- Correct: "In the jealous games people play"

The Get-Gos originally started as a punk band in the 1970s but shifted to pop with the release of their album "Dazzler and the Beat" in 1981. "Our Lips are Sealed" was the breakout hitting from the album, peaking at #20 on the Billboard charts.

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'Stairway to Heaven' past Led Zeppelin

- Misheard: "There's a wino downward the road"
- Correct: "And as we wind on down the road"

Although "Stairway to Sky" has been called "the best rock song of all time," it actually never charted. The track was never released as a single; instead, radio stations received promotional singles that have get collector'southward items.

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'Sweetness Dreams (Are Made of This)' past The Eurythmics

- Misheard: "I travel the world in generic jeans"
- Correct: "I travel the earth and the seven seas"

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, the duo behind the Eurythmics, wrote "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" about the search for fulfillment and the desires that motivate us. But not everyone hears information technology that way. The 2013 rom-com "I Give It A Year" poked fun at listeners' most frequently misheard lyric with ane graphic symbol quipping, "Practise you think Annie Lennox is singing about whether she happened to travel the world in Levi'southward or Wranglers?"

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'Dancing Queen' by ABBA

- Misheard: "See that girl, watch her scream, boot the dancing queen"
- Correct: "Come across that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen"

The just one of ABBA's string of hits to make it to #ane in the U.S., "Dancing Queen" too hitting #1 in thirteen other countries. Information technology might also exist their most misunderstood song. Co-ordinate to a poll conducted by Blinkbox in 2014, 22% of listeners reported hearing the famous lyrics this mode.

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'Papa Don't Preach' by Madonna

- Misheard: "Poppadom preach"
- Correct: "Papa don't preach"

When "Papa Don't Preach" was first released in 1986 there was a lot of controversy surrounding the song, equally its lyrics dealt with teenage pregnancy and abortion. The media attention ended up helping heave the overall popularity of the song, which hit #one in both the U.S. and the U.G. While nosotros know Madonna as a very outspoken performer today, this was one of her first tracks to openly deal with a political effect.

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'Royal Haze' by Jimi Hendrix

- Misheard: "Excuse me while I kiss this guy"
- Correct: "Alibi me while I osculation the heaven"

While it only ever hit #65 on the Billboard Hot 100, "Imperial Brume" is often cited as 1 of Jimi Hendrix's best songs. There'due south a usually misheard lyric buried within information technology, and, for his role, Hendrix did piffling to ever set up the record straight. He even went so far equally to occasionally sing the incorrect lyric in concert while nodding or pointing at a male person member of his band upwards on the phase.

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'The Sidewinder Sleep Tonite' past R.E.One thousand.

- Misheard: "Calling Jamaica"
- Right: "Call me when you effort to wake her up"

One of R.E.M.'s most overall confusing songs also holds one of their virtually commonly misheard lyrics. Yet, one affair that anyone who has ever heard the song can probably place is the track's first four notes, which mirror those from "The King of beasts Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens. Rather than stealing the sequence, R.E.M. paid The Tokens for the rights to use the riff and concluded up covering the other "The Lion Sleeps This evening" as a part of the last deal.

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'Like a G6' past Far East Movement

- Misheard: "Like a cheese stick"
- Right: "Like a G-vi"

Far Eastward Movement was essentially a i-hit-wonder. Their simply American hit, "Similar a G6," reached #i on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2010, and 2 additional songs charted in the U.K. Fans misheard the lyrics to their sole hit, as G-6'due south aren't actually planes (just something the ring made upwardly that could conceivably go faster than a G-four).

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'Ii Tickets to Paradise' past Eddie Money

- Misheard: "I've got two chickens to paralyze"
- Right: "I've got two tickets to paradise"

Eddie Money didn't have a long or storied career, but his hit "Two Tickets to Paradise" has become a archetype rock staple. Later on its release, the song only always hit #22 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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'Summer Sadness' by Lana del Rey

- Misheard: "I'yard feeling sick like Drake this night"
- Right: "I'm feeling electric tonight"

Blame it on the vocalist'south sultry accent, or the unusual pacing of the song, but few listeners get this lyric correct on the first try. "Summer Sadness" was a single from Lana del Rey'due south beginning major album "Born to Die." The rails, which has a sound that del Rey describes as "Hollywood sadcore," reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (In the Garden of Eden)' by Atomic number 26 Butterfly

- Misheard: "In a glob of Velveeta, beloved"
- Right: "In-a-gadda-da-vida, honey"

Arguably the get-go heavy metallic vocal, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" peaked at #30 on the Billboard charts. The original song is over 17 minutes long but uses only 30 different words. Information technology was this version (not the four-infinitesimal radio cutting) that Iron Butterfly was set to perform at Woodstock earlier they got stuck in an drome and couldn't get in.

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'Addicted to Dear' past Robert Palmer

- Misheard: "A digital love"
- Correct: "Addicted to love"

Hitting #i on the charts, Robert Palmer'southward "Fond to Love" is most memorable for its music video. The prune features a handful of models, all dressed and made-up identically, pretending to play instruments backside the singer. Information technology was parodied constantly throughout the '80s and '90s, including in a Pepsi commercial that featured fellow musician Britney Spears.

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'Take a Chance on Me' by ABBA

- Misheard: "If you change your listen, Jackie Chan, I'one thousand the first in line, Jackie Chan"
- Correct: "If y'all alter your mind, accept a take a chance, I'k the first in line, accept a chance"

While "Have a Hazard on Me" only reached #3 in the United States, information technology striking #1 in the chart in the U.K., Austria, Belgium, Republic of ireland, and Mexico. The unmarried was certified Golden a year after its release in 1978.

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'SexyBack' by Justin Timberlake

- Misheard: "Go hippie, become hippie, become"
- Right: "Go ahead, be gone with information technology"

The get-go single from Justin Timberlake's second solo anthology "FutureSex: LoveSounds," "SexyBack" topped the charts both in the U.K. and the U.S. It combines elements of electronic dance music and disco, creating a sound that's totally unique and was definitely ahead of its time when the track was released. In June 2007, the unmarried went 3-times multi-platinum.

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'Vertigo' past U2

- Misheard: "Hullo, hello! I'grand in a place called Oregon"
- Correct: "Howdy, hello! I'm at a identify called vertigo"

Despite only reaching #31 on the U.S. charts, "Vertigo" won iii Grammys at the 2004 awards: All-time Rock Vocal, Best Rock Operation past a Duo or Grouping with Vocal, and Best Short Form Music Video. It'south too amidst the songs the band played when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a yr afterwards.

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'Blowin' in the Air current' by Bob Dylan

- Misheard: "The ants are my friends, they're bravado in the current of air"
- Correct: "The answer my friends, is bravado in the current of air"

It is thought that this is the most covered Bob Dylan vocal. In fact, Dylan's version was never all that popular—information technology was the Peter, Paul and Mary cover that everyone knows best. In 1999, the track, which Dylan claims to have written in 10 minutes, was introduced into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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'Piano Man' past Baton Joel

- Misheard: "Sing u.s.a. a song for the yellowish man"
- Correct: "Sing us a vocal, y'all're the piano man"

Arguably one of the nigh recognizable songs in the world, "Piano Man" was Baton Joel's breakthrough single after signing with Columbia Records. In October 2018, the single went three-times multi-platinum. Even still, not everyone knows the words.

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'Paradise City' by Guns North' Roses

- Misheard: "Accept me downwardly to a very prissy metropolis"
- Correct: "Take me down to the Paradise City"

Despite it literally being the title of the song, many fans mishear this lyric. According to the band, Paradise City is Los Angeles, while the very next line ("where the grass is green, and the girls are pretty") is about the town where Axl Rose's family would vacation, Bloomington, Indiana.

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'Milkshake It Off' by Taylor Swift

- Misheard: "And the bakers gonna bake, bake, bake, bake, broil"
- Right: "And the haters gonna hate, hate, detest, hate, detest"

The lead single from Taylor Swift'due south first purely pop album "1989," "Shake Information technology Off" debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 where it spent a total of four weeks. Dissimilar some of her other misheard lyrics, T-Swift has never addressed this misquote publicly.

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'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' by The Beatles

- Misheard: "The girl with colitis goes past"
- Right: "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes"

After the Beatles released this track in 1967, the BBC banned "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" for its excessive amount of drug references. While the band originally denied that the song had anything to do with drugs, Paul McCartney finally confessed, in a 2004 interview with Daily Postal service, that it was "pretty obvious" what the vocal was actually about.

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'Chasing Pavements' by Adele

- Misheard: "Or should I just keep chasing penguins"
- Correct: "Or should I just proceed chasing pavements"

A much more lighthearted twist on this archetype heartbreak song, the mixup between chasing penguins and chasing pavements has been reported past multiple listeners. While "Chasing Pavements" didn't perform as well on the charts, it is credited with giving Adele her American breakout. The crooner performed the song on "SNL" in 2008, which gave her a huge amount of exposure in the United States.

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'I Can See Clearly Now' by Johnny Nash

- Misheard: "I tin can see conspicuously at present, Lorraine is gone"
- Correct: "I tin can see clearly now, the rain is gone"

The first reggae song to striking #i on the Billboard Hot 100, Johnny Nash's "I Tin can See Clearly Now" also has 1 of the nearly ordinarily misunderstood lyrics in music history. Nash wrote the lyrics to the hit himself, only his thick Texan emphasis tin can make it hard for some listeners to figure out exactly what those lyrics are.

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'Unmarried Ladies' past Beyonce

- Misheard: "Got gloss on my lips, a man on my hips, hold me tighter than my very own jeans"
- Correct: "Got gloss on my lips, a human being on my hips, agree me tighter than my Dereon jeans"

"Single Ladies" won 3 Grammy's at the 2010 awards: Song of the Year, Best Female R&B Song Performance, and Best R&B Song. In the middle of her multi-platinum track, Beyonce plugs her ready-to-article of clothing wear line, Firm of Dereon.

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'Niggling Talks' by Of Monsters and Men

- Misheard: "Cause though the truth may vary, this sh** will carry our bodies safety to shore"
- Correct: "Cause though the truth may vary, this transport volition comport our bodies safe to shore"

"Lilliputian Talks" by Of Monsters and Men went multi-platinum. Information technology turns out the lyrics of the band'southward stand-out striking aren't quite every bit profane as you may have thought, although they may sound like information technology. According to the group's lead singer, Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, the song is actually about a wife talking to her recently deceased husband.

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'La Isla Bonita' by Madonna

- Misheard: "Terminal dark I dreamt of soft bagels"
- Correct: "Last dark I dreamt of San Pedro"

While it was never a hit on the aforementioned level as many of Madonna'south other songs, at least in the U.S., "La Isla Bonita" still holds a special place in the Queen of Pop's itemize every bit it was her first track to take Latin influences. And information technology's not terribly surprising that this lyric is oftentimes misheard, as San Pedro is not a real island.

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'Livin' on a Prayer' by Bon Jovi

- Misheard: "It doesn't make a deviation if we're naked or non"
- Correct: "It doesn't make a difference if we make it or non"

Originally, Jon Bon Jovi didn't recall that "Livin' on a Prayer" was up to the aforementioned standard equally the rest of the ring'south work, and intended to leave the track off of their 3rd anthology "Slippery When Wet." Thankfully, the group convinced him to include information technology in the end, and it became the grouping's signature song (too as the unofficial anthem of New Bailiwick of jersey). In 2013, the runway was certified by the RIAA every bit 3-times multi-platinum.

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