“A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song .” I just was reading about this one: In Britney Spear’s song “If U Seek Amy,” the lyric All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy can easily be misheard as All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to F-U-C-K me. Check it out here.
We’ve all played the game telephone, where you whisper a phrase in someone’s ear, and pass on the phrase that you hear, eventually the mishearing and imagination can create some lovely mistakes. What if we designed a project for our collaborative that was a “documentary” version of the game telephone. For example, we would start with a phrase. Perhaps, a myth statement? (I have an idea for one, but I won’t say it.) The first person would go out to produce a short piece of documentary media. It would be screened only to one person, who would write down the myth that they observed. Then the third person, not knowing the original statement, would have to create a new short documentary based on the new myth statement. Several iterations later, we screen the documentaries and the intervening myths in order.
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