We've all been there. You choose a song for karaoke and the next thing you know, a string of words completely different than the ones you were prepared to belt appears on the screen. Or, a speedy word vomit bridge trips you up so much that the best you can manage is to mumble “dun nuh nuh nuh” and hope no one notices.
You're not alone, and if you listen closely, you'll probably notice no one actually sings the right words to these hit songs. Maybe it's a song with misunderstood lyrics where everyone sings the wrong words, maybe it's a garbled, nonsensical mess, maybe a hushed silence falls when that one part comes on. But, no matter. We'll keep tuning into these confusing, impossible to understand bangers.
1You have so many relationships in this life
Only one or two will last
You go through all the pain and strife
Then you turn your back and they're gone so fast
Oh, yeah
And they're gone so fast, yeah- Album(s): MMMbop
- Composer: Taylor Hanson, Zac Hanson, Isaac Hanson
- Length (seconds): 3:41
2It Wasn't Me
ShaggyHow ya fi give the woman access to your villa?
Trespasser and a witness, all the hacklin' a yuh pillow
You better watch your back before she turn into a killa
Best review the situation that you caught up inna
To be a true player, you haffi know how fi play
If she say, "A night," convince her, say, "A day"
Never admit to a word weh she say
And if she claim a yuh, tell her, "Baby, no way!"
3Well, I tried to tell you so (Yes, I did)
But I guess you didn't know
As the saddest story goes
Baby, now I got the flow
'Cause I knew it from the start
Baby, when you broke my heart
That I had to come again
And show you that I'd win- Album(s): Return of the Mack, Mark Morrison
- Composer: Mark Morrison
- Producer: Mark Morrison, Cutfather & Joe, Phil Chill
- Length (seconds): 4:33
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4But she was blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night- Album(s): The Roaring Silence
- Composer: Bruce Springsteen
- Length (seconds): 3:15
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5Poor old Johnnie Ray
Sounded sad upon the radio
Moved a million hearts in mono
Our mothers cried
Sang along, who'd blame them?
You're grown (You're grown up)
So grown (So grown up)
Now I must say more than ever (Come on, Eileen)
Toora, loora, toora, loo-rye-aye
And we can sing just like our fathers- Album(s): Too-Rye-Ay
- Composer: Kevin Rowland
- Length (seconds): 4:32
- 6
With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido- Year: 1991
- Album(s): Nevermind
- Composer: Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic
- Producer: Nirvana, Butch Vig
- Length (seconds): 5:1
