Pieces of well-known songs appear in these two videos, can you identify any of them playing the video with the sound off?
In this two funny videos the comedian Bec Hill creates humour with a common phenomenon I'm sure you have all experienced at some time when listening to songs in English: MONDEGREEN.
Mondegreen happens when a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but it's in fact entirely incorrect.
When we listen to something we don't clearly understand we try to extract meaning from "the noise". This happens a lot when we listen to songs, even in our own language, as many times songs tend to have lyrics that are a bit unexpected or unusual.
If you enjoyed the videos you might also like the following website, an archive of misheard lyrics:
Enjoy it (but avoid creating your own mondegreens in listening exams!😉)
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