Posted by Graeme Gigante on January 24, 2025 at 17:15:58:
For tonight’s 4th Hour Theme, I was thinking possibly one playing songs with misheard lyrics. Which would include popular songs many of us have sang along to at one time or another without realizing that what we have been singing to the song might not exactly be the lyrics we thought they were, and have therefore been mislead to believe what the correct lyrics actually were. And they would be mainly songs from the 50s-80s.
What inspired me to think of this idea for tonight’s 4th hour theme? Well just a few days ago I went with my mom to the doctors at the medical building down the block from our apartment, once she was thru with her appointment, we went back to the lobby area where we sat to wait for our handicapped bus to arrive to take back home. While we were doing so, we were listening to the radio that was turned on and playing in their lobby area to either a certain music streaming platform or station that played a variety of both older and newer songs of all different genres. This one song in particular we heard play was one that my mom in particular misheard the lyrics, and that is to a song by Miley Cyrus called “Jaded”, which came out only about a year or 2 ago. Granted, none of us are big fans of Miley Cyrus, but the lyrics particularly to the chorus line in her song we heard them play were “I’m sorry that you’re jaded”. But my mom misheard those lyrics and she thought Miley was saying/singing “I’m sorry that you’re dead”. And when I used certain song identification software from my phone to identify the name, artist, and lyrics to the song, as well as the year it was released, I was able to get all that info along with the lyrics and I showed and told her what the correct lyrics actually were. We laughed about it and the moment just stuck with me for the rest of the day since and it gave me the idea for a theme for misheard lyrics.
So anyone that sees and reads this, plus knows of any songs from the 50s-80s that were known for misheard lyrics, feel free to suggest and listen them down below in response. And let’s see if this theme can be put into works.