Everyone’s done this. Your driving along, or shopping, or cleaning… whatever it is that you’re doing… you’ve got the radio, or your favorite CD, or your MP3 player going straight into your brain… and that song comes one… the one you can NOT help but sing along with. You sing along, almost without even realizing it… loudly… and someone who’ve you either forgotten or didn’t even know was there says, “What’d you say? That’s not the words!”
Today’s VVW is dedicated to those moments.
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This first video was the first “Misheard Lyric” vid I saw on YouTube. Unless you’ve looked up the lyrics to this song, you probably wouldn’t know what the real words are anyway, but you sing along because it’s got a great beat and an infectuous melody… it sounds like a magic spell for fun.
Sean Paul’s Temperature:
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And of course… There would hafta be a Numa Numa misheard lyrics video. Songs in English are often hard enough for English-speakers to understand, and one in another language… especially one so popular… is like Christmas at Ritchie Rich’s house, the presents just keep coming!
Numa Numa misheard lyrics:
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I once saw a commercial with the next vid’s song part of their own misheard lyrics joke. Rock the Cat’s box? Rock the Cash Bar? Sadly, this song is ACTUALLY in English.
Rock the Casbah:
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This next song is on my MP3 player, and I know I always sing along. Whether I sing the right words or not, I don’t know… though, after watching this vid, I’ll probably never sing them right again. They’re hilarious!
Fall Out Boy’s Thanks for the Mmrs misheard:
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And finally, this last vid is one of the best known Misheard Lyrics singing. Thanks to the popularity of American Idol and the globalization the Internet has brought us, the Bulgarian Idol show has made us all wonder…
who in the heck is “Ken Lee?”
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Next week’s Viral Video Wednesday topic: LOST
So what’s your favorite songs to sing out loud and along with whenever you hear them? What’s the worst case of misheard lyrics you’ve heard? or even sang?
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In the Shadow of Mt. TBR 
Those are too funny. I had to stop watching Rock the Casbah because it was making the wrong words stick in my mind.
I love the Pearl Jam videos! I sometimes think Eddie Vedder does that on purpose! lol
Ken Lee??? oh that was funny.
I used to sing were wolves of london as were wolves of tunder. I ust confess I was always confused as to where tunder was but I sang it anyway.
For years my primary school teacher sang the national anthem wrong ergo so did us kids. When she left her farewell gift were the lyrics framed. Im still not 100% sure if I am singing it right the rare times I need to LOL.