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28th April 2016
05:48pm BST

There's even a science behind it all, as explained in this New Yorker piece.
Of course, comedian Peter Kay performed this by-now legendary routine on mondegreen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ukn2YT5jeM
And Phoebe in Friends had one of the most quoted examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvSZzRJWMn4
https://twitter.com/Daddy_Berry1/status/720486141691092993
One of the most high profile cases of misheard lyrics in recent years was in Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space'. When the song first came out, a LOT of people thought TayTay was singing: "Got a lot of Starbucks lovers (or "All the lonely Starbucks lovers"), they'll tell you I'm insane", when, in fact, she was singing:
Indeed, it was such a pop culture sensation that Swift's own mum had to agree:
https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/601986374774882304
Another more recent case is Lukas Graham's hit '7 Years Old':
https://twitter.com/mhmmMana/status/720005863243706368
Indeed, there are so many other magnificent cases of mondegreen that no one list could possibly capture them all, but here are a few real classics:
https://twitter.com/Elby_Kanyon/status/719739442982834176
https://twitter.com/JoBuckingham/status/719940724431654912
https://twitter.com/krodNM/status/720383691487195137
https://twitter.com/zjerious/status/721031787502153729
The late, great Prince might have been one of the greatest song-writers in history, but, boy, did one of his most famous tracks confuse a lot of people:
https://twitter.com/JohnPaulBunyan/status/723955560886972417
https://twitter.com/garyschiff/status/723332643719417856
There's this violent interpretation of ABBA:
https://twitter.com/_ecdv/status/720389369308258304
One would imagine it does make a very big difference to Bon Jovi:
https://twitter.com/Welshrarebit6/status/720387968620306433
Disney tunes are also a leading cause of mondegreen:
https://twitter.com/JenniferBurchfi/status/720759050636550145
https://twitter.com/cdanielson92/status/722175151610208257
Tbf, these work too:
https://twitter.com/TracyinWales/status/720384037953609729
https://twitter.com/Perignonic/status/722000491618525189
https://twitter.com/KatharineHarper/status/721669480087203840
We all thought this at one point, Lizzy:
https://twitter.com/smileitsmonica_/status/721448376647200772
Rejected Drake lyrics:
https://twitter.com/PeterAttwah/status/721154280766443520
One Direction lyrics take a turn for the raunchily surreal:
https://twitter.com/paintedhumaan/status/720229816738426880
None of us aspire to be someone's monkey bread, do we?
https://twitter.com/NicholasWalkest/status/721103458540077056
Finally, there's this case of personal mondegreen, in response to Shania Twain's 'Man I Feel Like A Woman':
Alas, the real lyrics are "colour my hair":
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