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I found this lyric transcription a few years ago and it has now spread to like every lyrics website (lemmy.world)

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If you just search for "hand me out to drive", literally all the results are websites that copied this insane transcription.

(For anyone not familiar, the actual phrase and what the song says is "hang me out to dry")

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

We’re reentering the “lyrics are functionally not online” era of trying to understand lyrics. I’ve noticed this with trying to search for videos with lyrics on YouTube, whatever content mills churn them out are all pulling from the same source with the same typos.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The quantity of lyrics isn't huge but the open lyrics database has pretty good transcription from what I've seen. (And it's way less annoying to contribute to than things like musixmatch) https://github.com/Lyrics/lyrics-database

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That’s neat, thanks for the link!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Song context?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

https://genius.com/Hamster-rose-bouquet-lyrics

No idea if it's a good song, I've only listened to enough to figure out that it was the transcriber's bone apple tea not the singer

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

lol, I thought for a minute it was Cold War Kids, but that song is "Hang me up to dry" and followed by the lyrics "you rung me out" instead of "chew me up."

I looked up the Hamster song and the lyrics are also wrong in YT Music. And yeah, she very clearly says "hang me out to dry."

Lyrics are a pain now, and close captions on everything are hot garbage now too since they use "AI" to auto transcribe.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Metronomy, "Hang me out to dry", I think.

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