The Best Word Salad in New York
Songs don’t always have to make sense for us to fork out for the album and listen to them until we can’t stand it. Just look at Hanson’s incomprehensible chorus in “MMMBop” or the most memorable part of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” where she belts, “Rah rah ah-ah-ah! Ro mah ro-ma-ma-ma! Gaga oh-la-la!”
When Jay-Z and Alicia keys paired up for “Empire State of Mind,” they used real words, but several listeners heard “concrete jungle wet dream tomato.” The mondegreen is so popular that Redditors don’t even need to attach the song to the misheard lyrics when referencing them. Everyone already knows what they’re talking about.