"Excuse me while I kiss this guy." Despite being fully aware that the lyric to legendary guitar god Jimi Hendrixs most iconic song is excuse me while I kiss the sky, once youve heard it pronounced incorrectly its impossible to unhear it. Everyone's done it - some try and correct themselves or play it off, while the more brazen embrace the change and proudly shout the wrong thing at the top of their lungs. Youll hear a song and think it says one line, sometimes singing it incorrectly for years before realising the error. But by then its too late - the line is ingrained in your memory for all-time and no matter how hard you try to sing it properly, you cant. Sometimes its force of habit and other times its just because the wrong version is simply a lot more fun. Some songs - like the aforementioned Purple Haze - have become infamous for their lyrical follies. Others on the list may not be as well known, but once you mishear them in the manner described, youll never again be able to listen to and sing them the same. Here are the ten craziest. This one goes out to all the Starbucks lovers out there...
Brad Hamilton is a writer, musician and marketer/social media manager from Atlanta, Georgia. He's an undefeated freestyle rap battle champion, spends too little time being productive and defines himself as the literary version of Brock Lesnar.
