“Live forever!” Mr. Electro told him. Ray Bradbury was twelve years old and had just seen Mr. Electro get strapped to the electric chair at the traveling carnival. Someone threw the switch. Mr. Electro got electrocuted. It was Labor Day weekend, 1932. After the show, after his recovery, Mr. Electro took the young Bradbury aside.…
Nobody except your buddies is going to give you business if you goof up a lyric during karaoke. Bit of different story for the recording artists in this article though. iStockphoto/Thinkstock
Lyrics aren t always meant to be taken literally. Nobody should have to endure some obnoxious guy at a bar pedantically explaining that the sun never goes around the moon. (I don t know why you re at a bar that plays Vanessa Williams songs from two decades ago, but just go with it.)
But some artists just get it plain wrong. Whether it s due to lack of research, laziness or simply a strident desire to stick to the rhyme scheme, there are occasions where creative license turns to pure fiction.