Hold me close now Tony Danza.... Okay so who doesn't laugh when they hear this? You just gotta love Elton John which... btw... I found out tonight is the third most "misunderstood artist" in History (right behind the Michael, one-sequence-covered-glove-wearin-fool and The Beetles themselves---oh we were cleaning out my mom's garage she found a signed picture by all four of those mop tops--who knew!) Anywhody! Back to our original point! Elton John. His song "Tiny Dancer" caused quite a laugh when everyone assumed he was singing about the ever popular Tony Danza (who doesn't love a goof ball with an accent?). Good Times. Good Times. Flashback like a real groupie by picking yourself up one of {THESE}! (Don't get lost over there...I've got more to say! Yes I KNOW the "Thank You Mexico" shirt is heeelarious).
And if the T-Shirt and laugh isn't enough....(and just what you always wanted and never knew it) there is a BOOK yup, you heart me right a book about the songs with the most misheard lyrics! Did you know they are called "mondegreens"? (Apparently there is a whole story about where they got the name for them-- I'll add it to the end of my post here, I keep getting off the subject). So if you were like me and sang the words all wrong to your favorite Depeche Mode song you might want to head over to this {website} and check out all the Mondegreens. Tony Danza--at least for me and my sister's take the cake and has long been an inside joke with Molly and her hubby!
*Please note we cannot be held responsible for this song running through your head for the rest of the day*
----The Following is an excerpt from Am I right Dot Com for The Extremely Bored at Work--Citizens with children, errands to run, Nails to bite, soap operas to watch or Generally just have a life need not read any further--
The phenomenon of misheard lyrics was first termed "mondegreen" by Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Harper's magazine article about misheard lines of poetry. In a line of poetry, Ms Wright misheard the line "And laid him on the green," as the name "Lady Mondegreen".
Your brain will helpfully fill in the blanks for you when you are missing information. When you're watching a movie, your brain fills in the split second between frames to create the illusion of motion. When you're listening to a song, your brain fills in missing information using the surrounding words to try and make a guess as to what the garbled words might be.
The result of your brain's helpfulness can be a lot of fun, but it can be serious business, too. The indecipherable lyrics of the Kingsmen's version of "Louie, Louie" launched an FBI obscenity investigation in the 1960s. Concerned parents across the country wrote in to complain the lyrics were obscene, and the FBI sent out agents to gather "interpretations" after the crime labs couldn't figure out the lyrics either. While the feds found plenty of interesting interpretations, ultimately the obscenity wasn't in the song, just in the ears of some creative teenagers. (*tangie jumping back in here...aren't you glad to know where your grandparents money went in the 60's....rock on).
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