She’s got electric boobs
No, I haven’t discovered some sort of disco bra; I’ve discovered the movie 27 Dresses.
There is a great scene where Jane and Kevin are dancing on the bar in some dive singing along to Benny and the Jets by Elton John.
I nearly peed my pants when Jane sings the line “…she’s got electric boobs…”. I was thrilled to discover that someone else had misheard that line in exactly the way I had misheard that line.
Never mind the worn out “…excuse me, while I kiss this guy…” stuff – electric boobs are WAY funnier.
I’ve misheard lots of song lyrics – but this one is my favourite. What song lyrics have you misheard?
Bonus points to those of you who have sung the wrong lyrics in public!
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Well, I did hear the line from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds as “the girl with colitis goes by” even though I was a child and had no idea what colitis might be since I was just a little thing back then (no, not when the song was new; I’m not that old). Many years later, that misheard line appeared in one of those “mondegreen” books, so I’ve kind of lost my claim to that one.
However, I can offer another (from my store of many) that is flat-out bizarre and inexplicable. It doesn’t even sound like the lyric, but somehow I got it in my head that the line from Yes’ Roundabout was: “Mormons come out of the sky / And they stand there”
Now, “Mormons” sounds nothing like “mountains,” so I’m quite at a loss. In my latter-day (sorry) theorizing, I’ll note that the preceding line is “In and around the lake,” so I can speculate that perhaps it put me in mind of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, i.e. Mormon Country, and Mormons are famous for doing door-to-door spiels, which necessarily involve a lot of standing.
Since I’ll not be able to go back in time to interview my 12-year-old self (thank goodness!) to see what the hell I was thinking, I fear this will remain a mystery.
Fixed!
Ugh. Messed up my coding again (only nothing was supposed to be italicized). *sigh*
@Pan – I like your version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds better. Colitis. Heh.
Not as funky as electric boobs, but still pretty neat.
Even if I could immediately recall some lyrics I’ve misheard, I’d never get the bonus points because I make it a point not to “sing” in public, mostly because my most ardent attempts still do not qualify as singing.
wha? you mean the line isn’t ‘she’s got electric boobs’?????
as a kid, i used to think that these were the lines from mjackson’s billie jean:
“billie jean is not my mother. she’s just a girl and princess, i am the one…”
nevermind the fact that the words made no sense. i was 10. had no clue the song was about the paternity of a baby…
actual line: “billie jean is not my lover…she’s just a girl who thinks i am the one…but the kid is not my son…”
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