– Correct: “Eight-inch big, ooh, that’s good pipe” – Misheard: “Eight-inch bagel… that’s good pipe” Saweetie performing at Power 105.1’s Powerhouse 2019 concert at Prudential Center on October 26, 2019, in Newark, New Jersey.
Steven Ferdman // Getty Images ‘My Type’ by Saweetie This auditory misfiring even made its way onto an episode of “Friends,” during which Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow) explains that she hears John crooning to the “Who’s the Boss?” sitcom star. Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music // Getty Images ‘Tiny Dancer’ by Elton JohnĮlton John performing on stage at the 1972 Royal Variety Performance.Įven though the correct lyric is contained in the song’s name-”Hold me closer, tiny dancer”-there’s a long tradition of mishearing Elton John’s 1972 single “Tiny Dancer” as an ode to actor Tony Danza (even though his first Hollywood credits didn’t come until 1978). What Hendrix is actually singing in his seminal guitar anthem “Purple Haze” is the lyric, “‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky”-not “this guy.”
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This song lyric in Jimi Hendrix’s most popular record was so famously misheard it spawned a series of books by author Gavin Edwards, including his “‘Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy and Other Misheard Lyrics,” published in 1995.
– Correct: “‘Scuse me while I kiss the sky” – Misheard: “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy” Ullstein bild // Getty Images ‘Purple Haze’ by Jimi Hendrix
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