• mineralfellow@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    When I was a teenager, I thought it was so funny that the guy sang, “Life would be ecstacy, you and me and Lesley.” Took a while to realize it was “endlessly.”

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    Reminds me of the anime Jormungand. One of the fansub groups got the intro lyrics completely wrong but the correct lyrics were worse than the wrong lyrics.

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      11 months ago

      Don’t we all just sing weird romanji translations and go crazy when the song as 3 words in English totally weird because they can’t pronounce the words properly? :D

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    I sing karaoke fairly often. I sing the nonsense lyrics and no one seems to notice, especially if I sing 90s rock.

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      Yeah same. Many artists themselves like to change around their lyrics in live performance so I’ve stopped giving a shit. Finding out it’s wrong I’m like “oh cool” but I’ll still sometimes intentionally sing it wrong or differently.

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      11 months ago

      i’d say in karaoke bars a good performance in most places is staying roughly on beat and sing notes that are closer to notes in the right key than not, no need to know the actual words

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      11 months ago

      Once upon a time there were some funny youtube videos about “misheard lyrics”. Highly recommended.

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    In one of the 5FDP’s song I always hear “Right or wrong, I can hardly tell, if I’m on the wrong side of heaven or the righteous side of hell” but in the lyrics its “wrong side of heaven And the righteous side of hell”, which doesn’t make sense to me, but that might be before English isn’t my first language

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      That’s because the song doesn’t say “if”. It says

      “Right or wrong, I can hardly tell”

      As one statement, and

      “I’m on the wrong side of heaven And the righteous side of hell”

      As a second, related statement

      Essentially saying he’s not able to tell because he’s in between both

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        Just my imagination, but in my head the concept that hell and heaven borders each other was a bit far fetched. With ‘and’ to me it feels like two are a gradient. With ‘or’ its different place or room, and not knowing if you are in one or the other without seeing the other, while understanding neither is a good place to be.

        Guess it doesn’t matter over all, the main point is same with both.

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          Well, he’s not talking about literally directly bordering, as much as his decisions and/or heart. Basically, hard to tell whether he’s making good choices (leaning bad) or bad choices (leaning good).

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      11 months ago

      Well fuck man, tbf, in that song Vedder was probably like “imma go for that non English speakers pretending to speak English kinda sound”

      Edit: wording

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    11 months ago

    I just realized I’ve had the lyrics to the red by Chevelle wrong in the last few months and I’ve been listening to that song since it came out