Vol. 07 · Misheard ·1984
"Like a virgin, touched for the thirty-first time."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Like a virgin, touched for the thirty-first time."
What's actually sung
"Like a virgin, touched for the very first time." Like a Virgin — Madonna (1984)
Why the ear defaults
Stress-matching misfire — "the VE-ry first time" scans almost identically to "the THIR-ty-first time." The wrong version inverts the meaning completely.
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