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It’s always a little embarrassing when you get something completely and publically wrong. Like singing along to a classic hits station in the car and being told that Carly Simon wasn’t really singing about clowns in her coffe; or being in primary school and finding out about oral sex, only not quite getting it and thinking that it meant kissing with your tongue, and then spending the next six months gleefully pointing it out in your high-pitched voice at every opportunity. ewwww. theeey’re having oral seeeex.

My face is still a little red over that one…

Watching this happen, the funniest part is always the moment of realisation. Where they step back, rewind and re-analyse what they’ve been doing with this small but crucial new piece of information. The question in the top of their mind is always “how much of a dickhead have I made of myself?”

It must be a thousand times worse for a band. You can’t re-edit an album once it’s been released, and you can’t make people forget a hit single (unless you appeared on Popstars or American Idol). This brings us to some cringe-worthy examples.

Nosebleed Section, from Adelaide hip hop crew Hilltop Hoods is on high rotation on JJJ right now. It starts with a dedication to “my people in the front in the nosebleed section”, and the chorus samples the title lyrics from the Melanie Safka song “People in the front row”. Unfortunately, the nosebleed section is the name for the seats right up the back of a stadium - named for the tendency of people to get nosebleeds at high altitudes.

One of the more popular songs on Rocket Science’s Contact High album was the Isaac Asimov-inspired “One Robot”. It even contains a quote from his book; however none of the band members must have actually read it, as it as the book is titled “I, Robot”, with the “I” meant to indicate self-awareness.

The second track on Ice-T’s 1991 O.G album, is a woman giving a faux-academic analysis of Ice-T. It contains the quote “…after further analysis of his music I can deduce that he is the epitome of anti-disestablishmentarianism who embodies the entire spectrum of the urban experience and struggle.” So he’s against separation of church and state? That’s not very street.

Maybe we should all just not use words we don’t understand.

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