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JeNNy
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Thu Jul 30, 2020 10:19 am
I'm curious, as a native English speaker can you clearly understand all of a song's lyrics before you actually check the lyrics for the song? I honestly can't for most songs and I'm starting to doubt if I really am a native English speaker. :haha:

Cobalt
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Thu Jul 30, 2020 10:55 am
Mishearing lyrics and/or poor annunciation by the singer, is one of the greatest laughs there are. I've screwed up so many songs it's not even funny. I think half the fun of karaoke is finding out some lyric I thought I knew was so so wrong. LOL

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Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:09 pm
I think that happens for all the languages, im a native spanish speaker and sometimes i dont understand all lyrics, can be for the fast diction, words that I never heard, or the use of specific words/terms/made phrases for each country where spanish is spoken. So I have to search the lyrics and the meaning, which is good cause even its a silly song, we can learn something new everyday.

I know many arabic native speaker people and also happens there, because I asked sometime about it.

Loie
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Wed Aug 12, 2020 1:01 am
When I first got into Beck, one of the reasons I loved him so much was his usage of: "five paper towels... stuck together.. one and all " in Ramshackle.
Who writes a song singing about paper towels! Geez, way to my heart :love:


... it was "flypaper towns. stuck together...." :haha:

still a genius though

i never hear lyrics correctly but i also like to hear things wrong, it's more fun :drink:

TL Kirai
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Wed Aug 12, 2020 4:52 am
I'm not a native speaker and ngl I rarely even bother trying to get the lyrics if they aren't obvious, even when it comes to songs in my language. :haha:

But then, I get a song stuck in my head and have no clue how to look it up. Aye Google, do you take mmmmmm m m m mmm m mmmm m m as an input? :silly: :wailing:

Jazzy
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Thu Aug 13, 2020 12:37 am
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No silly. It's " Cooling in my chair"

Mizz Libra
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Mon Aug 17, 2020 4:45 pm
As a non-native speaker with English as their second of four languages I understand about 85% of the song lyrics of English songs.
If I were to listen to a bunch of new school hip hop I may understand less. I only hear that when customers at work pull up and play new school hip hop, and then I wonder what the heck the artists are saying .

xtine
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Wed Sep 09, 2020 7:05 am
Nope! I have to be activedly listening otherwise it'll just sound like individually words that don't mean anything because the sentences won't really connect in my head if that makes sense.

Vivica
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Wed Sep 09, 2020 12:17 pm
My favorite was Shaggy's It Wasn't Me.

Banging on the bathroom door. :haha: :haha:

Granted, I was like... 13-ish when I heard this song and misheard the lyrics. But still! :silly:
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