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Dylan Mondegreen (born Børge Sildnes) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. [1] His debut album, While I Walk You Home , was released in his native country on 17 September 2007. The second album, The World Spins On , was released in 2009.
A mondegreen (/ ˈ m ɒ n d ɪ ˌ ɡ r iː n / ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. [1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.
However, the lyrics of the song don't support such an interpretation, being slight and treating the country as merely a place for a romantic getaway in the sun, apart from a fleeting reference to "people living free". [1] This amused some of Dylan's fans, who did understand the satire. [2]
Dylan shrugged his shoulders and replied, "Well, you know, it seems to be what the people want to hear." [9] Critic Michael Gray called it "the archetypal protest song." Gray commented, "Dylan's aim was to ride upon the unvoiced sentiment of a mass public—to give that inchoate sentiment an anthem and give its clamour an outlet.
In August 2021, Lee confirmed on his official TikTok account that the lyric "I want a TV embrace" was a mondegreen based on a misheard Fiona Apple lyric. In Apple's song " Sleep to Dream ", Lee had thought Apple had sung "This mind this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your TV embrace"—the real lyric being "This mind this body and ...
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The 83-year-old Dylan has recently begun posting on X, and earlier this week wrote, “Timmy’s a brilliant actor so I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger me.