April 29, 2014

Cum on guys...

Very interested in how inaccurate lyrics on the internet get started and take on a life of their own. I've noticed it with my own songs when I've looked them up to try to remember how they go (no it's not "suck cock and asses" thank you very much.) And I've noticed it when I've tried to look up other people's songs to remember how they go too.

I'm pretty sure that the second verse of "Cum on Feel the Noize" says "say I'm a scofflaw but it's no disgrace..." But the internet evidently thinks it's: "along about a week, I stopped this race..." So was it just some Japanese kid trying to parse it out, typing it into web form as best he understood English, and then it just got replicated exponentially till it was truer than reality (because "scofflaw" just wasn't in his vocabulary?) Or maybe it was a kid from Cleveland who didn't have "scofflaw" in his vocabulary? Deep waters...

Posted by Dr. Frank at April 29, 2014 03:48 AM