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.