for quite a while a lot of rent heads insisted, despite the written lyrics on the page, that the line "nevers and maybes" from "Out Tonight" was really "neverson babies". there was a website and everything devoted to trying to figure out who the neverson babies were...
Not that it's actually hard to understand, but I thought this was kinda funny...
I gave my sister a copy of the Wicked cd and she listens to it nonstop. In "Thank Goodness/I Couldn't Be Happier," when they sing, "That means the wizard, Glinda..." and Kristin sings, "and fiancee..." My sister thought she said "and Beyonce!"
I used to think it was Beyonce too! And palasis! And I couldn't for the life of me figure out what "and this gift or this curse" (I have inside) was1 My sister had to tell me.
"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."
In "Popular" from Wicked, when she sings,"If I degreenify you..." I had no idea what that was. I kept guessing, "If I, be green, if I, you?" I was so confused.
Yes, StickToPriest! I thought the exact same thing! I was thinking, "Did they change the lyric and I didn't know it??" But after listening to it again, I realized the error of my ways.
This is kind of different from the topic, but when I first listened to "No One Mourns the Wicked" from WICKED, I had no idea what Kristin Chenoweth was saying when she was singing in her higher operatic range. Near the end, the chorus sings, "No one mourns the wicked" and she sings "Good news!". I had no idea what the hell she was saying! I thought she was just vocalizing; I didn't realize that she was singing WORDS. Better diction next time, Kristin! :)
Not from a Cast Recording, but I always thought Jimmy Hendrix was saying " 'scuze me, while I kiss this guy" in Purple Haze when he sings, " 'scuze me while I kiss the sky"
*sheepish*
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being."
--Phylicia Rashad
A misheard lyric is called a "mondegreen", and there is actually a whole website devoted to them called...wait for it, Gypsy...."Kiss the sky.com" (or is it kiss this guy.com??....)
I could never figure out what "I wanna be in this hoy malloy" (From "One Short Day") meant. I still kinda don't know what they say. THats just what it sounds like. I just kinda made an assumption it meant they wanted to be in the city...
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