A little while ago I went on vacation to Las Vegas. My parents could only find out how to turn the rental car's radio to one station, and it was the crappy 80s and 90s station.
We were driving around the strip looking for some restaurant, and I was bored out of my skull when suddenly a song came on that I thought went,
'EEEEMO WOMAN!'
So I started laughing hysterically, picturing the typical "emo kid" sterotype and the band ELO singing about it. My parents were like, "What are you laughing about?"
So I told them, expecting them to be like "Oh yeah! Isn't this song funny?"
They actually just corrected me. Turns out it was actually "EEEEVIL WOMAN!"
They have NEVER let me forget this.
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- I used to think that when a song finished on the radio it would play again on the next station— Maria
- I thought the line in the song "more than a woman" was "four-legged woman".— boo
- I used to think that the song "Evil Woman" was "Medieval Woman". Anon
- I used to believe that when a song came on the car radio, the band was sitting on top of our van.Anon
- I used to wonder how they managed to fit the orchestra into the radio station.
— sally - I used to believe that if you spoke into the speakers that they would hear it at the radio station. — natalie