Last night the kids were sat next to me watching The Voice UK and as usual Lil Princess was unable to contain herself, she grabbed one of the mics from our Playstation Sing Star set and belted out
LP: Annie are you ok? Are you ok innit!
Since when was Michael Jackson speaking Hinglish?
And the dictionary identifies how the ubiquitous “innit” was absorbed into British Asian speech via “haina” – a Hindi tag phrase, stuck on the sentences and meaning “is no?”.
The last time I heard, Smooth Criminal was set somewhere in the U.S.!!
It reminded me of a time when Lil Man was being educated in urban music, with my Trevor Nelson CD.
We were listening to Adina Howard’s Freak Like Me and a short rap comes on
“1 to the 2, to the 2 to the 3
Adina do you wanna get freaky with me.”
Lil Man’s version?
LM: 1 to the 2, to the 2 to the 3
Baby do you wanna get a sweety with me!
I prefer his version!! Every time I hear the song, I sing that now!
Do you have any great misheard lyrics? Kids do it all the time!!
But I Smile Anyway... 