Showbiz

For those that mishear the Blank Space lyrics, Taylor Swift's mother is on your side

Today in extremely important news, Taylor Swift has revealed her mother also thinks the "long list of ex-lovers" lyric in Blank Space sounds like "lonely Starbucks lovers".

Swift's mother Andrea joins the growing list of Starbucks truthers.

For those wondering why people keep mishearing the lyric, New York Magazine recently explained it's basically an auditory hallucination where we hear things we expect to hear. “When we understand what someone says, it’s always at least partly a hallucination,” University of Pennsylvania linguist Mark Liberman said.

"There’s a piece of what we understand that comes from the sound that comes in our ear [but] there’s a piece of what we understand that comes from the expectations in our brain."

More: Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift send each other adorkable texts before bed

The Conversation (0)
x