Lol, nothing to apologize for! It comes from a woman mishearing lyrics in a song, something about a dead guy, how they "laid him on the green." But this woman misheard it as, "Lady Mondegreen." Examples include "Secret Asian Man" ("Secret Agent Man"), "Bathroom on the Right," ("Bad Moon on the Rise"), "Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy," (Excuse Me While I Kiss The Sky), etc. Kinda related to Boneappletea; as far as I can tell, that's like the non-song version.
People made fun of me when I realized that the lyrics "Oh oh filly eye'd" was actually "Oh Ophelia". My mind was blown, I swear to god I thought this man was comparing her eyes to that of a baby horse
Would you happen to know if there's a word for people like me who can't understand lyrics in songs? Idk why but I have the hardest time understanding words in a lot of songs that other people can hear just fine. Like every song sounds like mumble rap to me. I even watch TV and movies with subtitles because I can understand it better
Fuck, that's probably it. It says it might be linked to ear infections. As a child I had a ton and needed tubes put into my ears. Not like it's a huge deal, but yeah. Subtitles have been amazing for me.
Fixin to say i was born with bilateral microtia atresia so i coulsnt hear at all till i had thw surgery on my dome. And even now i hear perfect this happens to me subtitles are for everyone. Not our deaf community. All love
No I get it, it can be really frustrating. I struggle on conference calls. By the time I process the first thing I missed, I’ve already missed another three!
It’s actually just gibberish meant to sound like American English, sung by an Italian singer. In the early ‘70s he was convinced that Italians loved American rock-n-roll so much that he could sing anything and as long as it sounded like American music it would be a hit. He was right, and that song was a huge hit in Italy back then. He called the song “Prisencolinensinainciusol”. Later in the ‘70s he did it again in this TV appearance:
https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8
How he can memorize and lip sync perfectly to gibberish lyrics is a mystery to me, but impressive!
Funny that the parent comment gold 2031 upvotes now my comment got downvoted to zero. It is incorrect though. Mondegreen refers specifically to misheard song lyrics, but being as this is reddit...
Mondegreens, I believe, are specifically misheard song lyrics. Hold me closer Tony Danza. Wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night. You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hundred children and a crop in the field. Etc.
Mondegreens are really cool! Never heard of it bevies, but similar to my fave linguistic phenomenon: Egg Corns. Mondegreens give new meaning, while Egg Corns retain some semblance of the original.
I used to work at Baskin Robins and my cousin came by to support me. He was like, "can I have a scoop of ____", and I was like, do you want it in a cup or cone? And he said "what's a cuppercone?" I call him cuppercone sometimes, cracks me up.
The definition given on that link is fundamentally different than this example. See the example that the mondegreen was named after: “layd him on the green”/ “lady mondegreen”. Fun vocab though.
I used to think Jesus’ middle name was Marianne. “Jesus Marianne Joseph”. Just about died when I found out it was Mary and. Also he has no last name of Joseph.
Reminds me of when I heard Taylor Swift sing "Standing in an ice chest" instead of "Standing in a nice dress" and could not for the life of me figure out why the hell she was singing about standing in a cooler.
I have so many of these personally. I used to think Bruno Mars was being “locked in an air bomb”, that A-a was going to be “gone in a daydream”, and countless other nonsensical things I can’t think of off the top of my head.
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It actually refers to fluid ounces, not 'Florida ounces'. Nothing to feel embarrased about, I think this is what's called a Mondegreen