songs

When I first heard "she bangs, she bangs" from William Hung, I didn't understand what it meant until I sang it to the princepal of my middle school in 7th grade, I learned in detention.

nathanrawksihearthim

that music was just instruments. not words also. so when i first heard music with words i got so unhappy and angry.

Anon

from Denmark, so the spelling might not be correct...

that one day everybody would stop making music, because there's only 12 tones. Theres only so many ways you can combine 12 tones, I thought...

danskeren

I used to think that Seven Nation Army was Semination Army.

Anon

I had a pet canary that died. I cried until my dad consented to having a "burial" for it. He put it in a shoe box and we took it to my mothers flower bed to bury it.I fussed 'til he said a few words(he literally said the phrase"a few words")Then he "sang". Now,my father could NOT carry a tune in a bucket! He,in his gruff voice sang,"fiddle-dee-dee"over and over again to some unknown and off key tune.That satisfied me at the time. Now we recall the event and laugh.I am 51 and he is 81.

Connie Leonard

I asked my older sister what Eric Carmen meant when he sang "please baby go all the way" and she said it meant that he loved her so much he wanted her to go away, go all the way away.

Megnolia

In elementary school, for the variety show, soemone I know said that they're group was doing the song Soul man, but I thought she said This old man, like the nursery rhymes, so I was very surprised during the performance.

Aeris

My mom used to like to sing along to the song "Honky-Tonk Women," but she didn't want to sing songs with anything vaguely resembling sexual overtones around her small children, so she changed the lyrics to say "Those Honky-Tonk Babies, Give me the honky-tonk blues." I wondered what a honky-tonk was, why there were so many babies there, and why they gave the singer the blues for the longest time before I heard the song without my mother singing along with the radio.

Anon

I've always been a huge Beatles fan. When I was younger, I remember listening to "Ticket to Ride" - "I think I'm gonna be sad, I think it's today...the girl that's driving me mad is going away." Couldn't figure out for the life of my why someone would be sad if the person who was making them mad was going away - shouldn't they be happy? Of course, I figured it out!

Elizabeth

I was watching a music video with my older sister in which the band members were throwing paint over each other in slow motion. I think it was "Freeze Frame" by J. Gile's Band.

My sister blurted out, "That's not really them though, 'cos they have to sing the song, right?"

My sister was eleven at the time.

Dr. X

I saw a toy that looked like a TV but with mechanical shadow puppet things in it and played music from small record-like disks. I wondered if all records could be played on special record players and you could see the music as well as hear it.

Craig

My little sister used to have her own version of Baa Baa Black Sheep :
"Baa Baa Black Sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full
One for the master, one for the dame
And one for the little girl with holes in her socks."
I have no idea where she picked that up!

Rachel

When I was younger I thought that Bennie and the Jets was a real band (not just a song). We had to do an art project we had to draw our favorite band and i drew Bennie and the Jets!

Anon

When I was little, my mom had a record player, and she had like a song by the beatles or sumthing about the presidents, and i thought abe lincoln was singing the song, and that abe lincoln must be alive because I believed that when you heard someone in a record, they were singing in real life. I was confused.

nick

When I was little, I thought cassette tapes had sheet music written on them and little creatures would play and sing as they tape spun inside the tape player.

Leah

I thought "round yon virgin" was "roundjun urgent" in Silent Night and had no clue what that even meant... Also in Joy to the World when it said "righteousness" in one of the later verses I thought it was just some really weird long word.

Christmas Carol

I thought the song "Pop Goes the Weasel" was about a weasel exploding soda

Anon

I used to hate that song about the Weeping Willow "crying on his pillow" because I thought it was an actual guy as opposed to a tree, and thought it was too sad. Then, I learnt that Willow was a girl's name and thought that maybe the man was actually named William.

Anon

My aunt's name is Marie and we always called her Aunt Ree. When I heard the Christmas carol with the refrain of Rejoice, Rejoice I thought it was all about me and my aunt.

Joyhart

I thoght that "Thick as a brick" by Jethro Tull was actually written by an 11 y.o. boy up until like a week ago.

Molly McKinney