I spent a fair bit of time on netflix while I was breastfeeding Nerys, and after exhausting several series I moved on to trying to find films to watch. One that I came across, that I’d never heard of before, that I actually really enjoyed was ‘I give it a year’. Have you seen it? I really wasn’t expecting that much from it, but found myself laughing out loud several times and have gone back and watched it again recently.
One of the things that really tickled me was the fact that the main female character, Nat, sings the wrong lyrics to songs and it drives her husband absolutely mad. I know that I’ll often sing the wrong words to songs, either intentionally or because I don’t know what the actual words are! My family always sing this version of ‘I can see clearly now the rain has gone’ and it makes me laugh every time!
I really don’t know if I heard this somewhere or made it up myself, but I always find myself singing these words instead of “I kissed a girl and I liked it”
“I travel the world in generic jeans”
This is one from “I give it a year”, when she’s singing along to ‘Sweet dreams are made of this’.
“Gotta love those Starbucks lovers”
I really didn’t ‘get’ this part of Taylor Swift’s song ‘Blank space’, until I read a post that informed me she was actually singing “Got a long list of ex-lovers”! And as it turns out I wasn’t even mishearing it the same way as other people!
“You wash your hair with my shampoo, that’s why I hide it from you”
This one is a real oldy, but I still sing it quite a bit. It was played on Capital radio back in the 90s, and was a parody of “Sweetest taboo”. Love it.
“Here we are now, in containers”
One more from “I give it a year”, this is what Nat sings instead of ‘here we are now, entertain us’. I think I prefer her version!
What song lyrics do you get wrong? I’d love to hear some more!
Ha ha! My mum used to think ‘Tragedy’ was ‘Hercules’! lol #thelist
Hercules, that’s brilliant! x
Haha so funny, I now want to get on Netflix and watch this film!I really thought Swifty did song ‘gotta love those Starbucks lovers’ ?!xx #TheList
It is a pretty good film! And it really does sound like she’s singing about starbucks doesn’t it! x
Take That (first time round) It Only takes America to fall in love #TheList
I love that one, so funny! x
Love ‘I can see clearly now Lorraine has gone’ – made me chuckle! I will look up ‘I give it a year’ too – always on the lookout for Netflix recommendations 🙂 #thelist
It’s a classic in my family that one! x
Oh my goodness very funny and so true. Another one is the REM The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight where we all thought he was singing about Cheryl Baker…#TheList xx
Oh that’s brilliant! x
pooh this is one of those posts that will pop into my head forever more now as amusing alternative lyrics come to me! I can’t think of any now, but I bet I’ll be back 😉
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Haha, hope you do come back when you think of some! x
ha ha! I loved this! My daughter sings a lot of songs how she thinks they are and it often makes me giggle.
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Oh kids come out with some great alternative lyrics don’t they! x
This is hilarious, I always end up making up my own words. My husband hates it haha. George Ezras budapest I just sing a bee da boo da bee most of the time…
Oh yes, there’s a fair bit of la, la, la, de doo be in my singing too! x
Hahaha this is so funny! I usually end up slurring bits I don’t know into funny sounds, I really just don’t pay attention.
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Ah, the classic mumbling/slurring when you don’t know the words, love it! x