This is yet another video-posting…another one recycled from someone else’s blog. I don’t have as much time these days as I usually do so you’ll have to excuse the laziness.
Remember back when Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey made a song together called “One Sweet Day” that was played on radio stations at least 50 times a day at its peak popularity? Back then, I was a kid who didn’t buy CD’s (I think tapes were still widely used too), had no internet, and didn’t have MTV. So I didn’t even know the title of the song for a while. But I’d hear it all the time, and I understood the chorus as:
…And I know eventually we’ll be together…ONCE WE’RE DEAD!
(instead of “one sweet day”)
In the context of the song it totally makes sense! And that’s how I understood it and sang along with it as. I think it was a very excusable mistake.
The point is, it’s very easy to misinterpret song lyrics — people do it all the time. But while my error was one line of the song, I’ve never seen it done with virtually every line of a song. Someone decided to write out the misinterpreted lyrics of Christina Aguilera’s “Ain’t No Other Man” and make it into a video, complete with visual aids:
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Don’t watch the video anymore. I discovered it has greatly and rapidly diminishing returns. Well, looking up the lyrics is probably to blame…I couldn’t help it.
Looks like I’m back to posting a youtube video with every post now too. I’ve just recently started stealing whatever people have posted on their blog. Yeah, it might be lazy, but it means I don’t have to work as hard…yeah….haha (But seriously, don’t you hate it when those spam blogs do it?)
I found this video on Yoshke’s blog. He used a much more…racy line of the lyrics for his post though.
Song of the Day:
Funny. I hate when I find out I have been singing the wrong lyrics for ages. It happens a lot.
Yeah…I feel like an idiot when I do that.
hi::: really enjoy reading your posts! i know what you mean. for the longest time i thought whitney houston was singing ‘entertainment from the stars couldn’t hold us’ rather than ‘and the chains of amistad couldn’t hold us’. (from your love is my love.) doesn’t even make sense – sad, but true!
Do you remember that song “How bizarre” by OMC? This guy I know kept arguing that they were saying “Amazon, Amazon”!
In case you forgot:
It sounded like “hah bazaan” or “help is on” to me…certainly not “how bizarre.” It’s amazing how much titles clear up these things sometimes…
I hate when I’m on the wrong side of those arguments. It happened tonight…I thought Nicole Kidman played Catwoman back in the day. It was Michelle Pfeiffer. I said I was weirded out by Kidman’s cat-like face ever since she played Catwoman…which she didn’t. Now Pfeiffer really does look sort of feline. But Kidman still sort of looks like a cat to me.
And shayla, I think “entertainment from the stars couldn’t hold us” can make sense. There are many people in my lit classes who are quite good at making stuff mean whatever they want it to mean…trust me, it can be done…all too often