Funny Cases of Misheard Lyrics – What Are Yours?

A few weeks ago I was having drinks with a group of girlfriends and somehow we stumbled onto the subject of misheard lyrics. We’d all gone to college together, so had fond memories of one of our classmates once mistaking Timbaland’s “it’s too late to apologise, it’s too late” for “it’s too late to form a child, it’s too late.” And that just opened the floodgates for more hilarious examples.

Obviously we all thought Taylor Swift was singing about “Starbucks lovers” not “a long list of ex-lovers” in Blank Space, but some of the confessions that followed were much stranger…

For example, I listened to a LOT of Michael Jackson when I was growing up (he was my first crush, alongside Eric from The Little Mermaid), and I thought Liberian Girl was “Librarian Girl” because I spent so much time at the library. I also sang “you’ve been hit by, you’ve been struck by a spoon” instead of “a smooth criminal” until I reached the age of 7.

My friend Natalia confessed to thinking LMFAO’s “I’m sexy and I know it” was “I’m sexy and I’m Polish”. Whilst Holly once believed that stupid song Blue by Eiffel 65 was “I’m blue and I got beat up and died”, rather than “I’m blue da ba dee da ba die” (fair enough, I say, because at least her version uses actual words!).

And one of my all-time favourite cases of misheard lyrics has to be when my mum’s best friend thought Natasha Bedingfield’s “these words are my own” was “Venus de Milo”.

Can you beat those? I want to know what your funniest cases of misheard lyrics are, so leave a comment below or tweet me at @cocosteaparty.

Photo: Karlie Kloss for Free People, 2012 (source)

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