Comments on: Misheard Lyrics: I Get No Sprouts

By: Yoranmi

Yoranmi — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 03:45:58 +0000

Jejejj God
It is tru sometimes I have a lot of problems trying to understand somo lyrics, but the problem is the way they change the sound just for make the phase more beautiful or something

By: Tania

Tania — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:13:59 +0000

Hi! Thank you for the new phrases (at least to me):
- “You’ve lost your bleeping mind!” and the word “the bleep”;
- out of hand;
- soft money and a smear campaign;
- Step aside!
- He’s an Einstein!

By: Tania

Tania — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:36:05 +0000

Hi! I know about King Kong but I am realizing that I did not see the movie or I forgot.
Anyway I am sure that I didn’t see the 2005 remake.
So I watched with pleasure all King Kong movie clips on You Tube.
Indeed, special effects, maybe too “special” in “Giant Bugs Attack” or “Human Sacrifice”.
I like very much “Kong Battles with Dinosaurs” clip.
Poor girl…thrown from all sides like in our life, but someone sometimes can save you…
And “The Fall of Kong”…his and her last looks…exciting.

Thank you.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:15:49 +0000

The image out up there Is the image of the popular music band named “Bettels ” in 60is.
The post is all about music and lyrics

So ,it is relevant

By: Betty

Betty — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:20:31 +0000

Dear Jeff

Thank you for this honest account of mishearing a song.

I thought “I get no sprouts” and “I get knocked down” are very different. How could it happen? So I searched the internet and found the song from YouTube. You are absolutely right, I heard “I get no sprouts” as well.

In fact some people suggest learning a foreign language from songs. But so often the sound of words in a song are changed to suit the music. I don’t think people can learn a foreign language properly from songs.

The misheard lyrics examples about Beatles, Michael Jackson and Elton John’s songs can’t be true, can they?

By the way, thanks for the Beatles photo. I learned a lot about John Lennon and his Japanese wife Yoko after watching a documentary about them last year.

I liked him and all his music.

Thanks again

Best regards

Betty

By: Emanuelle

Emanuelle — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:56:13 +0000

I feel relieved for not being the only one that has trouble understanding lyrics. I used to feel awful when friend asked me to translate songs and I couldn´t do it properly.

By: valeria

valeria — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:21:45 +0000

Happy Birthday Jeff, i know a little later, but it´s come from Heart.
and thanks for your great job here in the podcast.

By: Tania

Tania — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:49:36 +0000

Hi!
The Arrow and the Song
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (1807 – 1882)

“I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so knee and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterword, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.”

Very nice poem. Thank you.

By: Maryam

Maryam — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 05:06:25 +0000

Hi;
I wonder what is the relation between the photo and the text in this post.
Thank you,
buy

By: Maryam

Maryam — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:53:08 +0000

Hi Jeff;
I think mishearing is a part of listening to songs. In fact, if you play the song for the singer of the song, he or she may mishear lyrics , too!!!
In my mother tongue, I sometimes have trouble understanding lyrics. I think some of our singers, in my country, change the song only because of the music of the song.
However, I enjoy listening to it.
have a good time, bye