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Today Ian Chapman explores the entertaining and often amusing world of the mondegreen - aka the misheard lyric.
Many of the world's biggest and most-loved pop and rock artists have released classic songs that feature hard to discern words or lines. When this happens listeners will frequently insert their own interpretation(s) - for better or for worse.
Today’s show will feature several examples of this phenomenon, including some where the artist has later acknowledged the ambiguity and even playfully adopted a mis-heard version in place of the original.
Ian Chapman is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Music at the University of Otago.
