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Misheard lyric coverup conspiracy

gandalfe said:
The 1st example you give doesn't show a mid-line rhyme. The corresponding rhyme in the 2nd example would be company/Serengeti, which is definitely not perfect either, but it disproves your whole "they're all perfect" narrative.

Here's the other question: What would be the point? Like, they have fully admitted they didn't know what they were talking about already with the Serengeti thing, so why deny it for this? What is the payoff?
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I couldn’t answer that question. It’s impossible for me to squeeze Olympus on top of it with a fully enunciated R and appealing to “why would they do that?” doesn’t quite resolve what I’m hearing. I was willing to go along with that at first and for a number of years, but I’m now unwilling to collude.
 
infection said:
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless, longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like [Olympus / a leopress] above the Serengeti
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I think this is rhyming Company and Serengeti, the other rhyme is merely coincidental.
 
Here’s the last I’ll say… go watch the official video on YouTube. It’s at 1:57. Slow the playback speed to 0.25x and tell me honestly if you hear Olympus.
 
infection said:
Here’s the last I’ll say… go watch the official video on YouTube. It’s at 1:57. Slow the playback speed to 0.25x and tell me honestly if you hear Olympus.
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Slowing it down like that is not really a good check, it's like zooming in on a picture until all you see is pixels. But when I do, what I hear is Oooooooooollllllyyyyyyyyymmmmmmmmmmpppppppusssssssssssss with a bunch of crackling and audio artifacts inside it that sound like demons trying to get out.

There's also the theory that it's about a werewolf looking for a cure. I think that one's way more interesting.
 
infection said:
Here’s the last I’ll say… go watch the official video on YouTube. It’s at 1:57. Slow the playback speed to 0.25x and tell me honestly if you hear Olympus.
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I did that with my headphones on. I tried 2 different versions of the video. I legitimately hear Olympus. One thing I did notice is there is an instrumental effect right during the word Olympus, whether a tom or something, that distorts the word a tiny bit. Maybe that is what you are hearing. Not sure.
 
Let's see if this works for a clip of that moment. What does everyone else hear.

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Here it is at half speed.

edit: never mind it won't keep the speed setting but everyone can change it themselves in the video at the gear icon
 
Here it is in a live version.

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I will say this, their live version is really good. So often you get live versions where they are just riffing or can't sing it properly, or whatever, but they pretty much nail it live. Especially the vocals.
 
Even when I tried to hear leopress I couldn't. Played it normal speed and it was the least clear. Slowed it down and the "Oh" sound was very prominent at the beginning of the word. Definitely not an "aye" then leopress. I really wanted to see if I could force myself to hear leopress so I did 1.5x and 2x speed and it was actually more clearly Olympus the faster I played it.
 
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