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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Unfortunate Sonic Coincidences
Description: Here are a couple of musical terms you may have heard of…
Earworm: that’s when a clip of a song keeps running through your head on a loop over and over and over again.
Mondegreen: a misheard lyric…a great example is in Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze”…he sings “’scuse me while i kiss the sky”…some people hear that as “’scuse me while i kiss this guy”…there are lots of mondegreens in popular music…
I propose we need a third term…it’s that opinion that overcomes us when we believe one song sounds almost exactly like another…<...