Way less funny than expected

That's funny, but continues to propagate that widely misheard lyric; it's "maybe you're just like my mother".

summerafternoon said:

That's funny, but continues to propagate that widely misheard lyric; it's "maybe you're just like my mother".

there are people that hear it as anything else?

How can you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold)
Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other?
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

could have been more complex though.

uuhson said:

summerafternoon said:

That's funny, but continues to propagate that widely misheard lyric; it's "maybe you're just like my mother".

there are people that hear it as anything else?

Not as many as I thought, as it turns out.

I remember reading something about that very (misheard) line in Black Beat magazine or something (woah, woah: I didn't buy it, I was just doing a little tachiyomi in a Montreal Multimags).

An example of the kind of stuff I've read over the years is on this very forum:

http://prince.org/msg/7/363674). But a Google search on the relevant phrases shows that the accurate hearing edges out the fantasy-hearing (which does fit neatly into the "Prince is weird" mental model).

Not that "I'm just like my mother, she's never satisfied" is that weird, but for some it was. The good old days, in other words.

I like that...funny!

I like it. But I like the song AND flow charts, so I'm an easy audience.