Lay them on the green.

[hannah]

Gang.

Folks.

My dudes.

Fellow participants of this given social network.

I'll get to it: I need Mondegreens. When I started the fic I'm currently working on, I decided it should take its chapter titles from misheard lyrics. I figured it'd add to the atmosphere and create a slanted commentary on the subject matter, and I'd finally get to do something I'd wanted to try out for a while in something approaching a reasonable context.

Today I realized I needed some help in the matter. That, and it'd be better asking around for specific examples than scrolling through compilations of the more common ones. I'm not looking for "hold me closer, Tony Danza" - I'm looking for "it's all part of the palimpsest." (Trouble, by Voxtrot, and yes, that's going in there.)

If anyone's got something, I'd love to hear it.

Comments

[akamarykate]

I don't know if this is too common, but back when Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" first came out, there were a lot of people who thought "Got a long list of ex-lovers" was "Go tell my Starbucks lovers."

A friend of mine in high school used to mishear lyrics all the time. She thought "There's gonna be a heartache tonight," was "There's gonna be a party tonight," and she thought "Our love's in jeopardy, baby, ooooo," was a follow up to an even older song, "I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy," because she heard it as, "I shot the deputy, baby, oooooo." As in, the singer repented and decided to confess that he had, in fact, shot the deputy as well as the sheriff.

[linaelyn]

When my daughters were of an age to squeeee over Ms. Swift, and buy themselves tickets to go see her, LIVE, at the Local Stadium Venue for Said Artist.. as I dropped them off, there was an ENTIRE GIRL SCOUT TROOP with white t-shirts that displayed the iconic green mermaid corporate logo, emblazoned with the words "STARBUCKS LOVERS" and "TROOP #1042"

I love fandom, in all its forms.

[hannah]

But "Starbucks lovers" makes sense in the cultural context Swift was engaging with! Man, now I'm disappointed she didn't go for that.