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MisterToodleoo Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
#401: Dec 12th 2021 at 6:00:35 AM

I think it was when I was three years old when one of my cousins was singing “London Bridge” to me at my house. To me, the way she sang the word “keys” sounded like “keef” even though I knew what she meant.

On Sunday, August 21, 2011, it was the last day of a vacation in the mountains that I was having with my parents. I think we had recently started driving towards home when I first heard the song “Video Killed the Radio Star”. (Just to clarify, it was a radio airing of The Buggles’ recording of the song.) That day, I misheard the Title Drop as “Video cue/cube in the radio store,” and I don’t know how long it was before I found out the title. (By the way, hearing the song that day was a positive experience for me, except for one thing. You see, when I heard a certain vocalization shortly after the first chorus, I thought something along the lines of “‘Uh-oh’ is right! What if my mom forces me to forget knowledge I gained from the Internet?” This was around the time when I was just starting to worry about that bullcrap. If I had asked her about it that day, I could have saved myself from a year of worrying.)

Edited by MisterToodleoo on Dec 12th 2021 at 4:58:07 AM

Dristarg Will D. Downing from Daventry, UK Since: Mar, 2019 Relationship Status: Singularity
Will D. Downing
#402: Dec 13th 2021 at 3:46:50 AM

It was relatively recently that I found out that Elvis wasn't singing, "Anne-Marie's the name of his latest flame".

I'd rather be known as a "wrong 'un" than a "right one".
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#403: Dec 24th 2021 at 11:49:49 AM

This wasn't me, and there was also a language barrier involved, but it still sorta fits: My friend was out at a local dive bar that serves food, and asked for chips and salsa - the bartender warned him that the only person working in the kitchen right then wasn't fluent in English but he'd try to ask him. He ended up being served chips and sausage - as in sausages and potato chips.

jacksonk987 The one and only AstralCat from [REDACTED] Since: Jan, 2020
The one and only AstralCat
#404: Dec 24th 2021 at 5:23:41 PM

When I first saw the episode of None Piece that the line appeared in, I misheard "I'm insulting your wardrobe!" as "I've been searching your wardrobe!" due to the accent.

Thousand Dreamers, Watashi wa Saikyo, and Believe slap so hard.
AmourLeFou You'll never find out who I am from Colorado Since: Apr, 2021 Relationship Status: One Is The Loneliest Number
You'll never find out who I am
#405: Jan 12th 2022 at 10:32:21 AM

As part of a TRS effort to split Mondegreen, I made a page called JustForFun.I Heard That As. I've mined some examples from this thread. Feel free to add the examples you posted in this thread to the sub-pages.

Check out my forum game: Rate the above YMMV.
OverwroughtDoeling Since: Mar, 2017
#406: Apr 8th 2022 at 7:30:56 AM

When I was a little kid, I thought the lyrics to “Cool Jerk” went “We know a guy who can really do the Koopa.”

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#407: Apr 13th 2022 at 2:58:03 PM

In The Scorpions' "Love Drive," the singer guy says "My whore's got wings!" Thanks to the way he pronounced it, though, for the longest time, I thought he said "My heart's got wings!" ^_^;;

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
MisterToodleoo Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
#408: Apr 17th 2022 at 2:01:23 AM

"Bombtrack" by Rage Against the Machine:

Actual Lyrics: "Landlords and power whores on my people, they took turns. Dispute the suits I ignite...”

What I Heard (circa 2014 or 2015): “That molten power holds all my people, they took turns. Just keep the suit dry at night...”

Moopadoop2 from The Red Door, There And Back Again Row Since: Aug, 2020 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#409: Apr 25th 2022 at 3:51:51 PM

When I first heard the Imagine Dragons song Thunder, I thought they we saying “Fun Dip”, as in the candy. So did my sisters. It took two or three years for us to realize our mistake; we don’t listen to that kind of music unless it’s playing in stores or some such.

Thinking back on it, the line “Fun dip! Feel the Fun Dip! Lightning and the Fun Dip!” should have clued us in.

“Always expect the worst. That way you can never be disappointed.” - John Flanagan
tehSmile from That very Lugansk Since: Dec, 2018
#410: May 3rd 2022 at 6:51:49 AM

As a kid, I thought that UEFA anthem chorus is literally "UEFA-FA, UEFA-FA...", or maybe "FIFA-FA, FIFA-FA..." (of course, I didn't know the name of the song, it just played when there was football on TV)

Excessive-Menace Time to SLEEP from the Velvet Cage (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Time to SLEEP
#411: May 4th 2022 at 8:57:03 PM

I keep hearing a certain line of Collective Conciousness from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance as:

I give my people the lies they need! The Russians will succeed!

Is the song about the Cold War now?

SING TO ME, LEND ME THE SONG OF BLASPHEMY
bowserbros No longer active. from Elsewhere Since: May, 2014
No longer active.
#412: May 11th 2022 at 4:45:49 PM

For a good length of time I heard the lines "thought I oughta bear my naked feelings; thought I oughta tear the curtain down" in "The Final Cut" as "for my honor, bear my naked feelings; for my honor, tear the curtain down."

Be kind.
Zanreo Gizmondo from Glitch City (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Gizmondo
#413: May 15th 2022 at 12:52:06 AM

While playing Lumines Reastered, I kept mishearing parts of Shinin' in various ways:

On the light of day/Melt into the wave/Find it's still away

Actual lyrics:

Unbearable pain/Melt into the rain/Find the stilly ray

My favorite failed console tbh
MagmaTeaMerry My Head Is On Fire from A forest somewhere Since: Sep, 2020
My Head Is On Fire
#414: May 19th 2022 at 12:38:16 PM

I regularly listen to the MadWorld and Anarchy Reigns soundtracks when I'm working out.

On the AR soundtrack, there's a song called "Ruthless" with a chorus that starts with:

"No hopes and no dreams, I'm ruthless"

I know what he's singing, but I can't help but keep hearing it as:

"No hopes and no dreams, I'm useless"

... Thereby turning the song from a Badass Boast to Self-Deprecation.

Edited by MagmaTeaMerry on May 19th 2022 at 9:40:46 PM

My AO3 profile. Let sleeping cats lie and be cute and calming.
ThatAsianInTheCorner the biggest hair of all from the corner. read the username, dummy. (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
the biggest hair of all
#415: May 31st 2022 at 11:04:08 PM

When I used to play New Super Mario Bros. on my emulated nintendo ds, every time Mario would clear a level, he would say the usual:

"That's-a so nice!"

I thought he was saying "That's-a sausage!" for some reason

Edited by ThatAsianInTheCorner on Jun 1st 2022 at 1:05:28 AM

"...This is too much information for a brain that just wants to visit Planet Tensuns..."
arimothereindeer Boi from here to eternity, that's where she takes me Since: Dec, 2016 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
Boi
#416: Jun 8th 2022 at 7:37:03 PM

...you know, until reading this I'm pretty sure I thought he was saying "thanks-a-so-much" or something, like he's thanking you for controlling him theough the level. Looking up the voice clip it's "that's so nice" clear as day, but maybe the DS's speakers not being the greatest made me hear it wrong.

Reindeer in the direction of reindeer
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#417: Jun 12th 2022 at 8:57:34 PM

Watching Dumb and Dumber for the first time in a while, the captions are on, and I just now realized that I had misheard a line for years - JP identifies Harry and Lloyd as "the guys who whacked Mental", not "the guys who act mental" as I previously thought. Both make sense in context- Harry and Lloyd accidentally killed a hit man nicknamed Mental, but also JP still thinks they're using Obfuscating Stupidity, or to put it in 90s slang, "acting mental".

Edited by MikeK on Jun 12th 2022 at 8:58:04 AM

MisterToodleoo Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
#418: Jun 13th 2022 at 12:14:34 AM

In “Safety Dance”, I misheard the phrase “victory cry” as “bitchin’ ride”.

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#419: Jun 14th 2022 at 4:47:57 PM

As a kid, I thought that UEFA anthem chorus is literally "UEFA-FA, UEFA-FA...", or maybe "FIFA-FA, FIFA-FA..."

Kinda reminds me of first hearing "Amoeba" by Adolescents in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and thinking it was something written specifically for the game, since it starts with a chant of "To-ny Hawwwwwk, To-ny Hawwwwk!" etc (It's actually "A-moe-baaa!"). In fact the song is 20 years older than the game, and Tony himself would have been 13 when it was first released in 1981. I apparently wasn't alone in this, as I've seen memes referencing it.

Edited by MikeK on Jul 14th 2022 at 11:31:54 AM

NotSoBadassLongcoat The Showrunner of Dzwiedz 24 from People's Democratic Republic of Badassia (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Puppy love
The Showrunner of Dzwiedz 24
#420: Aug 17th 2022 at 5:35:33 AM

[up] Oh, I misheard "Amoeba" as "Tally ho!" when I was playing THPS.

Also, yesterday I misheard "Taste my hammer!" battlecry in Tower of Fantasy as "Where's my wallet?!" Since it was during a livestream, my response was "Fuck off, I didn't steal your wallet!"

"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von Lewis
KingofNightmares Since: Aug, 2016 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#421: Sep 28th 2022 at 11:41:53 AM

I've listened to Uncontrollable for some time and now I've liked it (despite not having played the game itself), but I practically butchered the song.

The main examples being:

  • "There's no direction for us" becomes "There's no pirate ship for us"
  • "Do not tire yourself" becomes "Do not fight your friend"

"It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times?"
NotSoBadassLongcoat The Showrunner of Dzwiedz 24 from People's Democratic Republic of Badassia (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Puppy love
The Showrunner of Dzwiedz 24
#422: Oct 11th 2022 at 4:01:18 AM

Now I remembering mishearing "Blitzkrieg Bop" as "Let's make popcorn" the first time I heard the song.

"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von Lewis
Berrenta Bejeweled (she/her) (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
Bejeweled (she/her)
#423: Oct 27th 2022 at 6:53:40 PM

Remember that cellular phone ad (forgot what brand) in which a guy mishears Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me" as "Pour some shook-up ramen"? Well, I was young when the ad was running, and since I never heard of ramen at that time, my mind heard his mishearing as "shook-up Roman".

...which made his next line trying to explain to the girl with him that it's a soup make no sense.

Edited by Berrenta on Oct 27th 2022 at 8:54:31 AM

Archsage Professional Simp from My House Since: Apr, 2022 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Professional Simp
#424: Oct 28th 2022 at 5:10:27 AM

The first few times I heard Sam Smith's "Unholy" I thought he said "coffee shop" not "body shop". I'm not entirely sure which version I like more, but I'm leaning towards coffee shop

Best advice I ever got? Keep repeating the joke till everyone is forced to laugh.
CardboardBot from Saudi Arabia (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#425: Oct 28th 2022 at 6:05:20 AM

My baby brother was watching Cocomelon in the living room while I was preparing to take a bath, and at one point the song sounded like:

"God is mourning God is mourning God is mourning"

Over and over. I wonder what kind of lyrics I misheard.

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.

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