Vol. 07 · Misheard ·2013
"Pour it up, pour it up, porridge, porridge."
That isn't the lyric.
What you hear
"Pour it up, pour it up, porridge, porridge."
What's actually sung
"Pour it up, pour it up, that's how we ball out." Pour It Up — Rihanna (2013)
Why the ear defaults
Rihanna's repetition of "pour it up" slides into something close to "porridge" for British listeners. A TikTok-fuelled mondegreen that went viral in 2020.
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