Re:FBI Investigation: “Louie Louie”, The Song (1964)
by YCode on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:22AM
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The irony is in order to match those patterns you'd have to have all that info floating around in your head before listening to it, meaning the people who were offended had far dirtier minds than the casual listeners who were supposedly being affected.
Re:FBI Investigation: “Louie Louie”, The Song (1964)
by Sumaso on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @01:40PM
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More likely your associating that style of music and the artist to that image. Essentially your hearing what you want to hear.
Re:FBI Investigation: “Louie Louie”, The Song (1964)
by Tistron on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:36AM
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Matt Parker (standupmath at youtube) does a presentation he calls "Clutching at Random Straws". It doesn't, as far as I can recall, specifically deal with Mondegreens, but about 38 minutes in he does a fun demonstration of how perception is a process of actively patternmatching for what we expect: https://youtu.be/sf5OrthVRPA?t=2297
Re:FBI Investigation: “Louie Louie”, The Song (1964)
by Turing_Machine on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:07AM
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The phenomenon of alleged "backward masked" lyrics is very similar.
Re:FBI Investigation: “Louie Louie”, The Song (1964)
by Declanomous on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:17AM
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I love Mondegreens, but I feel the Mondegreens I fall for are way more pervasive.
Try as I might, I still hear "Starbucks Lover" instead of "Star Crossed Lovers" in T. Swift's Blank Space, and "Galileo" instead of "Gotta Let Go" in Dynamite by Taio Cruz.
Re:FBI Investigation: “Louie Louie”, The Song (1964)
by stephen_g on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:27AM
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It's actually "Got a long list of ex-lovers." First time I heard it I was sure I was hearing "Got a lonely Starbucks lovers" or "Got a lovely Starbucks lovers" which didn't even make sense!
Re:FBI Investigation: “Louie Louie”, The Song (1964)
by SpoilerAlert on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:22PM
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Sometimes they sing the words differently. I've noticed other bands doing this.
I.E. "refresherator" instead of "refrigerator" on "I Want My MTV" by Dire Straits.
It's actually a fun exercise, and educational. Make a list of some dirty nasty words you'd like to find in Louie Louie. Or even some innocent ones. Make it 10 or 20, let's say, but try to avoid the real lyrics. (Don't look them up in advance, though, that will scramble the results.) Read it over a few times to familiarize your brain with what's in there. Now listen to the song. I virtually guarantee you will now hear at least some of those words in there. When you are actively listening for something, you tend to hear it.
Since no-one else has used the word so far in this discussion, see also the idea of Mondegreens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen