Alicia Keys, 'Empire State of Mind' Misheard Line: "Concrete jungle wet dream tomato" Actual Line: "Concrete jungle where dreams are made of" TLC, 'Waterfalls' Misheard Line: "Don't go Jason waterfalls" Actual Line: "Don't go chasing waterfalls" Taylor Swift, 'Blank Space' Misheard Line: "Got a lot of Starbucks lovers" Actual Line: "Got a long list of ex-lovers" Lipps, Inc.
|
|
Well, Bear, no one else reacted; you must have misheard.
|
|
"Empire State of Mind" has a famously hilarious misheard line.
|
|
Selena Gomez, 'Good for You' Misheard Line: "I'm farting carrots" Actual Line: "I'm fourteen karats" Elton John, 'Tiny Dancer' Misheard Line: "Hold me closer, Tony Danza" (Or, "Count the head lice on the highway") Actual Line: "Hold me closer, tiny dancer" and "Count the headlights on the highway" J-Kwon, 'Tipsy' Misheard Line: "Everybody in the club eatin' chips" Actual Line: "Everybody in the club gettin' tipsy" Lorde, 'Royals' Misheard Line: "You can call me green bean" Actual Line: "You can call me queen bee" College & Electric Youth, 'A Real Hero' Misheard Line: "A real human bean" Actual Line: "A real human being" Jay Z feat.
|
|
Mohab then immediately withdrew his comments, saying he misheard the question.
|
|
But the name got changed when people misheard it as "Cadaver."
|
|
Kennedy later walked back his comments, saying he misheard the question.
|
|
Yes bigly, the misheard version of Donald Trump's favorite catchphrase: big league.
|
|
It's possible -- I guess -- that he either misunderstood or misheard the question.
|
|
That's "salt" not "assault," just incase you misheard me the first time.
|
|
Her spokeswoman said on Wednesday that Ms. Harris misheard Mr. Tapper's question.
|
|
Listeners have also misheard the lyrics of another hit Selena Gomez song.
|
|
Guns N Roses' "Paradise City" has a funnily misheard lyric about animals.
|
|
Sometimes Alexa misheard — and sometimes she just didn't have that functionality programmed in.
|
|
"However, the bakery employee misheard her and the cake said "Happy Birthday Loser.
|
|
Nevertheless, these misheard lyrics can lead to hilarious realizations and even funny videos.
|
|
An episode of "Friends" may be partially responsible for this popularly misheard lyric.
|
|
Eminem and Rihanna's hit song "Monster" has a misheard line related to condiments.
|
|
There was the time she misheard a child and accidentally started spouting porn words.
|
|
Castro had forgotten or misheard what Biden said and not the other way around.
|
|
Eminem's 2013 song "Monster" features Rihanna and one of her lines is sometimes misheard.
|
|
Then his campaign backtracked, said he misheard the question and reasserted his support for it.
|
|
Harris' spokeswoman told the Post the senator had misheard Tapper's question and misspoke in response.
|
|
She misheard him and agreed to play, and then he asked if she was nervous.
|
|
Her famous lip kits — which perhaps Rodriguez misheard as "lipstick" — are a major reason why.
|
|
Harris later walked back her support of eliminating private insurance, saying she misheard the question.
|
|
Instead, he misheard an announcement, and boarded a flight from London to Auckland, New Zealand.
|
|
Later, you can take it back, or blame others for having misheard or misinterpreted you.
|
|
Mark Meadows was misheard to have said "weed out justice" instead of "mete out justice."
|
|
Adele, 'Set Fire to the Rain' Misheard Line: "I set fire to Lorraine" Actual Line: "I set fire to the rain" Taio Cruz, 'Dynamite' Misheard Line: "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes, singing hey-o, Gaileo" Actual Line: "Singing hey-o, gotta let go" Far East Movement, 'Like a G6' Misheard Line: "Now I'm feeling so fly like a cheese stick" Actual Line: The uh, title of the song.
|
|
And then it apparently also misheard them say to send the recording to this particular person.
|
|
Her spokesman promptly told her that she had misheard the question, and she rephrased her answer.
|
|
But Schumer's office afterward sought to walk back his comment, saying he had misheard the question.
|
|
I misheard it as political commentary, because crashing into bitter reality felt like what was happening.
|
|
Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" has a misheard line that seems to mention a major coffee brand.
|
|
This misheard lyric has become a meme that comes around at the end of every April. .
|
|
In a statement shared on Facebook on Sunday, she suggested that Angelucci had "misheard or misunderstood" her.
|
|
At the time we were too shocked to say anything, wondering if we had misheard: We hadn't.
|
|
Per Reddit, here are the most hilarious frequently-misheard song lyrics and, where necessary, the actual lyrics.
|
|
She changed her last name to Starr because, she said, too many fans misheard it that way.
|
|
He then suggested to Trump that he be the "software president," a phrase Trump misheard as "soft" president.
|
|
Amazon admitted that it screwed up in that case, saying the device misheard several commands in a row.
|
|
" The youngster can be heard on video saying the man misheard him when he said he'd "sue him.
|
|
But then his campaign quickly backtracked, saying he misheard the question and that he still supports the measure.
|
|
But then, the reporter realizes he misheard the police scanner and realizes there was no gunman at all.
|
|
The first time Brooklyn-Nine Nine's Rosa Diaz said aloud that she's bisexual, I thought I must've misheard.
|
|
But to others, it's the day when they can finally celebrate the best misheard lyric in pop music.
|
|
Schmidt then suggested to Trump that he be the "software president," a phrase Trump misheard as "soft" president.
|
|
BEIJING, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Property agent Yuan Bin thought he must have misheard when news broke on Nov.
|
|
Amid consternation, the governor later said he had misheard the question and wasn't sure what he would do.
|
|
A Washington Post fact checker analysis found however that the claim was absolutely false, but she said she misheard.
|
|
They told him right there that he landed the part, but he misheard and thought he didn't book it.
|
|
The title is a play on The Beatles classic, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" — Fred misheard the lyrics.
|
|
And the script's genuinely funny lines are so rare that when they occur you wonder if you haven't misheard.
|
|
Penn had apparently misheard her description of how El Chapo's lawyers had been unable to find her mailing address.
|
|
" (He said he misheard the question.) ... defining the NATO gathering in London NATO in May 2019: It's a "summit.
|
|
Many of her best pieces hinge on bygone plot devices: a lost journal, a missing letter, a misheard word.
|
|
This misheard lyric has become a popular meme that comes around annually just before the first day of May.
|
|
The company basically chalked it up as a freak incident where Alexa misheard an entire sequence of commands, but still.
|
|
Ali said the incident took place Wednesday after the boy misheard the words of cleric Shabbir Ahmed during a sermon.
|
|
He noted that the eyewitness was far away when he heard the screams, and said it's possible the witness misheard.
|
|
It wasn't the misheard words or the unreadable community-generated captions that transformed Poynter from beauty guru to caption crusader.
|
|
Here are some of the funniest misheard lyrics of all time as well as what the musicians were actually singing.
|
|
Then, on Wednesday, Biden's campaign said that the Delaware Democrat still supported the law, and had misheard the ACLU volunteer's question.
|
|
" As for the line "Cause her name is Ari," — not "Aubrey," as many people misheard — she knows it's "kind of corny.
|
|
Even Mr Trump knows he went too far: he now says he misheard questions about the KKK and spurns their support.
|
|
When her mother called Dairy Queen to order the cake, the employee misheard "Moana" as "marijuana," resulting in the mix-up.
|
|
One of the last questions Trump took was about Iran, but he misheard it and starting talking about his border wall.
|
|
Howell is extremely soft-spoken, and when he told me what the cop said to him, I was certain I'd misheard.
|
|
" But, Keisel claims Westbrook misheard him believing he shouted a homophobic insult -- "get down on your knees like you used to.
|
|
Over the years, even members of the band have gotten in on the fun by posting Instagrams of the misheard line.
|
|
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' hit 2009 song "Empire State of Mind" has a misheard line that doesn't quite make sense.
|
|
But when video of the exchange surfaced last week, his campaign said he had "misheard" the question and still supported the ban.
|
|
Alexander's attorney says the FBI agent misheard him, and the statement referencing Trump wasn't meant to be an admission of any guilt.
|
|
I wondered whether I should call back and ask if I had misheard the date or do nothing and just show up.
|
|
Through history, we've misheard and mis-sung the greatest songs of all time, embarrassing ourselves and those within earshot in the process.
|
|
Andrew Flosdorf was praised "for his utter honesty" after telling the judges they misheard him when they said he spelled "echolalia" correctly.
|
|
Amazon confirmed the error and said the device's always-listening microphones misheard a series of words and mistakenly sent a voice message.
|
|
On the day after the debate, she said she misheard the question and does not actually want to get rid of private insurance.
|
|
It makes sense because voice assistants are so fragile and even a single misheard word can throw off the usefulness of an answer.
|
|
There were the farmers who asked, with a pang of concern, whether there was just something about Cruz's position that they must've misheard.
|
|
When Percy raised this at the hearing, Lefever suggested that he never made such a statement and that Percy must have misheard him.
|
|
Because you probably misheard something or missed half the story, and a failure to communicate is what made Romeo and Juliet a tragedy.
|
|
Mr. Gordon misheard its lyrics long ago, and it's those mistaken words that he offers up as shaky-voiced requiem to his departed.
|
|
" (Either we were misheard or this observation was written in code.) She went on, "We did our best to maintain surrounding tables impeccably.
|
|
It seems likely that the Echo's voice recognition service misheard something, interpreting it as instructions to record the conversation like a note or message.
|
|
During his stint on the show, fellow contestant Tiffany Pollard misheard news of David Bowie's death and told cast mates that Gest had died.
|
|
" Regular Johnny's response, the midtempo banger "Oh Word?" similarly shocked the world, as did his follow-up "I Misheard What U Said At First.
|
|
And just like pop songs, the lyrics to a chant are often misheard and disputed, especially by those outside the world of professional auctions.
|
|
It's unknown if the incident occurred during a performance of One, with its lyric often misheard as "tied to machines that make me pee."
|
|
Sessions insisted he did not lie under oath during his confirmation hearing -- he just misheard the questions about whether he'd met with Russian reps.
|
|
In South Carolina, Cameron Lewis Baun appeared to have misheard the lyrics from "Do you want to build a snowman?" in the movie Frozen.
|
|
And both make instrumental use of spoken words — words that can be misheard and repeated according to how they are pronounced, stretched out or shrunken.
|
|
So, in many games, the story's momentum can come to a screeching halt because you missed an ever-important clue or misheard a witness statement.
|
|
On Tuesday, however, she said she had misheard the information and that in fact the embassy had told her only that Nguyen had died suddenly.
|
|
The scientists named it "Zika" — Ziika means "overgrown" in the local Luganda language, but the second "i" was dropped by colonialists who misheard its pronunciation.
|
|
In two demos I saw of the software, Translator appeared to handle basic conversations well, but sometimes stumbled with more complex sentences or misheard words.
|
|
It later emerged that Sekulow had simply misheard the phrase "FOIA lawsuits"—although the White House's legislative affairs office insisted, naturally, that Sekulow had been correct.
|
|
But Amazon says that's because the device accidentally misheard part of the conversation as its wake word, "Alexa," then misinterpreted other sounds as a series of commands.
|
|
Later in the day, a spokeswoman for Disney said she misheard the question and has other employees whom she pays less, though she pays her housekeeper $75,000.
|
|
My biggest problem with Live Titles, though, is that no matter how clearly I spoke, it often misheard my words or only captured a portion of them.
|
|
Many people, unable to understand the emu owner's accent, had misheard his pet's name as "Worraz," and a dispute over whether it was Wodders or Worraz followed.
|
|
The name of the song was inspired by Tom Petty's wife Jane Benyo saying that she met Petty at the "age of 17" but Nicks misheard her.
|
|
She had raised her hand on the Democratic debate stage when candidates were asked if they would eliminate private insurance -- but later said she had misheard the question.
|
|
Per a 2017 video from The Cut, the reason these lyrics are so misheard could have to do with one's expectations and the placement of the song's beats.
|
|
" In the song, a distorted version of Gomez's voice sings "What the heart wants" a few times, but people have hilariously misheard the line as "What the Farquaad.
|
|
Besides reducing the number of misheard commands, learning each user's voice could prevent mishaps like when a local news report accidentally made a bunch of Amazon Echoes buy dollhouses.
|
|
But within the mundane, you find those moments that are mistakes, or you find something that was misheard, something that was misread or misinterpreted, or just a bad print.
|
|
These extremely gassed holiday makers probably misheard Migo when he told them his name, and he probably could not be bothered to correct them, because look at their faces.
|
|
The microphones are muddy, no more or less attuned to human speech than to things like rustling paper, and her transcripts are full of question marks, gaps, misheard words.
|
|
In the second debate, Harris raised her hand in support of abolishing private insurance in favor of a government-run plan, but later said that she misheard the question.
|
|
First it's hilarious that their excuse isn't that Biden was fat shaming his critic but instead he is so incapable of forming sentences that we all misheard his intent.
|
|
Rita Ora, 'Black Widow' Misheard Line: "I'm gonna love you like a bad widdle baby" Actual Line: "I'm gonna love you like a black widow, baby" Sublime, 'Smoke Two Joints' Misheard Line: "I spoke to Joyce in the morning, I spoke to Joyce at night / I spoke to Joyce in the afternoon, it makes me feel alright" Actual Line: All that, but with "I smoke to joints" instead of that nice line about Joyce.
|
|
But it's not clear whether Wolff bothered to check if it made sense, if Trump may have momentarily misheard Ailes's remark, or whether something else may have been going on.
|
|
In the video, Gaul becomes angry with his friends for telling authorities he had stolen his grandfather's gun; he asks them to lie for him by saying they misheard him.
|
|
In fact it's so on the brain that Vuolo misheard the cooking instructor when they asked what he was excited about cooking and instead thought they were asking about marriage.
|
|
I find it much more anxiety-inducing to accidentally agree to something I didn't want to do, or do something a partner didn't want to do, because I've misheard them.
|
|
It has the piece "O Fortuna" in it, which you will know if you've ever seen a movie, or if you are a fan of misheard lyrics, as I am.
|
|
Frankfurter, the magazine's senior editor, said it was clear that Mr. Trump was not an anti-Semite and that Mr. Trump "must have misheard the question" from the magazine's reporter.
|
|
But it was just as much an attack — on those journalists, who, he said, had deliberately misheard and conspiratorially mischaracterized his remarks about sexual activity before the age of consent.
|
|
"You," a guy called Nick Reyes unless I misheard (the internet confirms my hearing is sound), are joined by crew mates, including what looks like a robot buddy of your own.
|
|
Tomas Vedestig, 42, a left-leaning municipal councilman in Overtornea, said that when Mr. Muskos made his pitch, his colleagues were so taken aback that they thought they had misheard him.
|
|
He seemed to say yes, but his campaign said Wednesday that he had misheard the question -- though the woman spoke the words "Hyde Amendment" to him twice -- and continued to support it.
|
|
This popular song by Bon Jovi seems simple enough with its repeating lyrics, "Woah, we're halfway there / Woah-oh, livin' on a prayer," but it is still misheard, whether deliberately or not.
|
|
In the chorus, Rihanna sings, "I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed," but the song lyrics are often misheard to be "I'm friends with the mustard that's under my bed."
|
|
Remember her spate of hard hearing a few months ago when a man referred to Donald Trump as "mentally retarded" and she laughed along with him, only to say she misheard the remark.
|
|
That day, in 1994, Jeff Bezos filed the paperwork for Cadabra, which he would rename Amazon just a few months later, after his lawyer misheard Cadabra as "cadaver," which is, um, suboptimal branding.
|
|
That wasn't the answer he was looking for, so he fasted and prayed some more, just to make sure he hadn't misheard or something, but he hadn't, so he went to Brigham Young.
|
|
Of course, Dern most likely just misheard or misunderstood the question, perhaps thinking it was about Lil Baby or DaBaby and not a fictional, 50-year-old green toddler with fearsome force powers.
|
|
On CNN's "State of the Union," Trump's top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow argued that the President had misheard the question from the press pool whether he was having second thoughts about China.
|
|
The meme has its origins in Timberlake's misheard line from "It's Gonna Be Me." Someone simply exchanged the "me" for "May" and we now have a viral meme dedicated to welcoming the month of May.
|
|
Among the possibilities that investigators are considering are that one of the pilots failed to see the other during the high-risk pursuit drill or that positioning messages were misheard over the radio, it said.
|
|
Later that night, Tyler joked that he kept his kilt on just for her because he saw her "peeking," and misheard Hannah when she complimented him on how he "waxed the axe" earlier in the day.
|
|
First, he "misheard the question" may have been an honest answer but probably not the card you want to play too often when your candidate would be 78 the first day he occupies the Oval Office.
|
|
Read more:The most popular one-hit wonder every year since 1955The 57 best one-hit wonders of all time10 country artists you should be listening to right now13 of the funniest misheard lyrics of all time
|
|
Harris, who raised her hand in the affirmative when the candidates were asked if they would abolish private insurance, said later she had misheard the question and still believed there was role to play for the industry.
|
|
Dealing with the problems of these dystopian times, comedians Eva Victor and Alyssa Limperis have released a short clip demonstrating the irritating struggles of chatting on a video call, complete with cut-off sentences and misheard words.
|
|
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A colleague of Katerina Tikhonova from the world of acrobatic rock'n'roll confirmed that she is the younger daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and then later withdrew his comments, saying he had misheard the question.
|
|
Instead, it means that the error rate – or the rate at which the computer misheard a word like "have" for "is" or "a" for "the" – is the same as you'd expect from a person hearing the same conversation.
|
|
Sarah Zhang, who wrote an excellent piece on the phenomenon for Gizmodo last year, notes that Harvard researchers focused on the audio testing capabilities of the sentences specifically designed sentences that could be misheard in poor audio conditions.
|
|
And then yesterday, intelligence officials disputed the reports about Russia's helping Mr. Trump, saying that House members might have misheard or misinterpreted the briefing, and that Russia was intervening in the election but not necessarily to help the president.
|
|
In an article about the film "Moonlight," the film critic for The Toronto Star misheard the term "code-switching," a practice of alternating language or behavior based on the environment and atmosphere, and giddily included the eggcorn in promoting the article.
|
|
This idea has been percolating around in the technology press for a long time, but it seems so bizarre and wrongheaded to normal people that they think they must have misheard me when I tell them it's going to happen.
|
|
"The passenger possibly misinterpreted something that she heard and then relayed that to the police, and they either misheard what she said or they took that information and that was the only thing they needed to arrest my client," he shares.
|
|
For example, both Warren and Harris indicated at their debates that they would eliminate private health insurance in favor of Medicare for all (though Harris later insisted that she'd misheard a moderator's question about that and in fact wouldn't do so).
|
|
Ophelia is good at playing music, but not great at interpreting commands — which becomes a problem when a character frantically tells Ophelia to call the police, only to discover that Ophelia has misheard an order to play N.W.A.'s "Fuck Tha Police" instead.
|
|
Speakers tend to distort what they're broadcasting when pushed too loud, so the ADAPT DRC software goes one step further by enhancing what's being said by boosting specific pitches and frequencies in speech that are easily muffled or misheard with a lot of surrounding noise.
|
|
Andrada said a group of swimmers had risked missing their races after a bus driver meant to have taken them to the Olympic pool misheard the acronym used for the site and drove them instead to the athletics stadium on the other side of town.
|
|
Andrada said a group of swimmers had risked missing their races after a bus driver meant to have taken them to the Olympic pool misheard the acronym used for the site and drove them instead to the athletics stadium on the other side of town.
|
|
He also said a group of swimmers had risked missing their races after a bus driver meant to have taken them to the Olympic pool misheard the acronym used for the site and drove them instead to the athletics stadium on the other side of town.
|
|
Cassandra Walker, an employee at a Dairy Queen in Milledgeville, Georgia knows this all too well, as USA Today has reported that she claims she was fired for creating a marijuana-themed cake after her manager misheard a mother who requested a Moana-themed cake for her daughter's birthday.
|
|
"To this day, I can remember getting the phone call from my editor that the book had hit the New York Times list and thinking that I'd misheard her (at the time, I was in a sleep-deprived haze from my then6-month-old twin sons!)," Giffin once recalled.
|
|
The officials now maintain that the House members either misheard or misinterpreted a key part of the briefing, and that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not mean to say that it believes the Russians are currently intervening in the election explicitly to help President Trump.
|
|
Again, those secure in their identities are those who can more easily obscure or subvert them (for example, the Scarlet Pimpernel was at core a wealthy, well-connected aristocrat), so how can a feminist, so often misheard or deliberately misinterpreted even at her most clear, also be a trickster?
|
|
This is the same person who raised her hand when she was asked if she supported abolishing private insurance at the presidential debates in June, only to say she misheard the question and she thought the moderators meant if she was willing to give up her own private health insurance.
|
|
Amanda Shires, Maren Morris, Brandi Carlile and Natalie Hemby of The Highwomen The Highwomen is an all-female quartet, whose self-titled album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's top country albums list — and people are complaining that requests to play the group's music on Amazon Alexa–powered smart speakers are being misheard.
|
|
Lets not forget this is the same person who raised her hand when she was asked if she supported abolishing private insurance at the presidential debates in June, only to say she misheard the question and that she thought the moderators meant if she was willing to give up her own private health insurance.
|
|
Kennedy claimed he'd misheard a question from Fox News anchor Chris WallaceChristopher (Chris) WallaceKennedy walks back comments on potential Ukraine interference: 'I was wrong' Democrats look to next steps in impeachment Swalwell on pace of impeachment: 'There's an urgency to make sure the election and the ballot box have integrity' MORE while appearing on "Fox News Sunday," causing him to answer incorrectly.
|
|
He didn't do it by whining that not enough people were giving him money, he did it by offering a vision that is yes controversial and frankly to many it seems bizarre to many although I believe it has merit, but he has never backed off or said he misheard the question or introduced a "transition plan" that called the whole thing into question.
|
|
Arguably worthy of equal and probably more fame is this truly epic 2009 gathering in Mexico City of 12,937 "Thriller" fans — and that's just the official tally — to perform the dance routine en masse: Kondaveeti Donga is a 1985 film that gained a second life on the internet around 2007, after its (in)famous "Thriller" parody scene went viral due to a video meme in which it gets a dose of misheard English lyrics.
|
|
It is no small thing to have written the exquisite "Fragile", which has lent itself to a superb, epic reworking by Isaac Hayes; to have created "Walking On The Moon" as a perfect vehicle for the Police's eerie fusion of reggae and rock; to have fashioned perhaps his most celebrated song, "Every Breath You Take", which is widely misheard as an account of loving devotion, but which is unsurpassed in pop as an (entirely intentional) account of sinister, obsessive and controlling behaviour.
|
|
At this point, the Saudi explanation now might as well read: We told everyone to get our dissidents back, so when we wanted to question this guy, they misheard the order as a rendition request, but he's a 60-year-old so he took on our rugby team of spooks, so we strangled him, so it was just serendipitous we had a body double with us, and a forensic expert in the team, and pure luck -- as Erdogan says -- part of our staff had been out in the Belgrad forest 4 days earlier digging holes.
|
|