Best Mondegreens
Best Mondegreens. Top 5 Musical Mondegreens. When Sylvia Wright first dubbed misunderstood song lyrics as mondegreens back in 1954, I'm not sure she realized what she had started. Yes, she did the world a great service by coining a term for those unfortunate instances where singers garble the lyrics so greviously that people mishear the words, but it's a safe bet that Wright probably never countenanced the fact that such things would become a facet of popular culture, let alone that one day they would be subject to lists of popularity.
However, the blame for that probably rests more on the shoulders of the singers with questionable diction than on her. After all, if more singers sang clearly and concisely, mondegreens wouldn't exist in the first place, would they? So without further ado, let's take a quick peek at the most popular of mispronounced, shall we?
