remember the Taylor Swift song: “all the lonely Starbucks lovers”? Why do we hum when it’s sentences we don’t know but our brain fills in the blanks (wrongly) when it’s a few missing words?
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When you sing along to a song, you are probably remembering how it sounds, not remembering the words. When that memory fails to be perfect, you still remember the basic sounds like syllables and consonants, and you try to fill in the missing information.
Singing along with the wrong words sounds more correct than not singing any words at all.
It’s like listening to a song. If you sang “all the lonely Starbucks lovers”, I would instantly recognize it as Taylor Swift. But, unless I was paying close attention, I I might not notice the words are wrong. Or if I’m not a big Swift fan (sorry!) I might not know the words in the first place. Because the song’s sound is the most important part!
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