I think Mandela effects on songs is hard to confirm because we always sing following what we think we hear until we see the lyrics or find out in a karaoke that we were wrong the whole time

I’ve literally never heard it as “hall” it’s always been halls all my 35 years of life.

Honestly, ever since I noticed people saying "I COULD CARE LESS" (which would make it seem like you care somewhat) instead of "I COULDNT CARE LESS" (which is obviously about how you dont care at all) I realise that people mishear, misunderstand all the time. It's always been "deck the halls with boughs of holly."

Interview with a Vampire makes more sense as the vampire makes it sound like there is only one vampire out there.

I always remember it being 'Deck the Halls' as I grew up in the 1980's.

In the "official Piano Man" video, the old man sitting next to him says, "Son, can you play me a memory...". That is the only time memory is used. Then "melody" is used for a similar phrase twice more. Watch Billy Joel as he is singing - he clearly says "memory."

Interview with a vampire is my all time favorite movie since it came out. It has always been 'A' not 'The' you can not convince me of anything else

I remember back in elementary school in the early 1980s, the teacher telling us that Ben Franklin was the only person on US money that wasn't a former President.

Okay, for Chick Fil A ...I CLEARLY remember it being Chik Fil A because the cows writing the graffiti on the billboards wrote "Eat More Chiken"!

George Washington was the first president. He served 2 terms, and was in office 1789-1797. Benjamin Franklin died in April 1790, so just exactly when would he have been president?

Can you explain why the hell you blurred Annie’s face??

I love how earnestly Mike78 said that "You can't play a memory" and handwaving away that it's a metaphor while ignoring the metaphorical line "there's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin" that precedes it. I sometimes wonder if Mandela Effect mysteries are just spread by people who don't understand nuance and metaphor.

I swear Target’s logo had the red bullseye with 3 rings, It’s a hard knock life for us, Mike N Ike, Ben Franklin was never president and had a tricorner hat and bifocals. Didn’t he invent bifocls? Chic-Fil- A, Deck The Halls, “Peace Up A-Town Down” Usher Raymond, “Play Me A Melody” Billy Joel, Benny from Dora had a gold nose ring, Interview With A Vampire. That’s what I remember anyway. But I’m old and my memory isn’t as good as it used to be. 😂

I am 57 born in 1966 and I remember all my life singing Deck the HALLS with boughs of holly fa lalalala lala la la!

Piano Man -- He's an Old Man -- he's feeling nostalgic for his youth -- so yes, metaphorically speaking he says: "Son can you play me a Memory" -- not trying to repeat myself -- however -- he is being nostalgic -- it's a memory of a song from his younger days and he would like the Piano Man to play it for him -- he even says "it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete, when I wore a "younger man's clothes" -- this too is a metaphor for when he was a young man! If you listen to the whole verse -- you would see that it is entirely self explanatory -- a Memory of a Song from when he was Young . . . Peace!

Went & just listened to this song so I can write this comment, while eating some Mike and Ike😅😅😅... I have a very old download of Piano man... I downloaded it off my mom's Dell computer, on a NAPSTER like program in 2009-2012... Billy sings: Hey Son can you play me a memory, I'm not really sure how it goes, but it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.... I hope this helps... And yes, I'm a Gen X'er (1980) & I rather have music in mp3 form & not stream.. I still buy music...😂

In the 60's, the peace sign always had the two "arms" in the lower portion of the circle.

I remember when the movie Annie came out. All the posters had her face in focus. Is this another part of the Mandela effect?

Ok the interview with the vampire one is easy. Journalists reviewing the book and movie regularly misreported the title. I have a first edition copy of the book (as well as 3 more different printings) and the titles are all “interview with the vampire”.

This is probably not a Mandela effect but the Deck The Halls segment brought it to mind. In The Twelve Days of Christmas, day 4 is almost always sung as "four calling birds". Most of the earliest versions say "four colly birds"-colly being a regional English expression for "coal-black". It makes sense that it would be 4 Blackbirds, 3 French hens, and 2 Turtledoves. I mean, why would they describe what the non-specified birds (four calling birds) are doing but not what the French hens and Turtledoves are doing?

In the movie big daddy the little boy has a tri corner hat and glass, in the school play. Where he plays Benjamin Franklin.

I met a guy from Kentucky that told me he had been taught that Ben Franklin was the second president of the United States of America. He told me that he had gone on a hike one afternoon at age 13 and got caught in a sudden powerful electrical storm. He took shelter in an old shack and ended up spending the night. The next morning he went home, only to find out that he had been missing for 8 days as far as the rest of the world knew. Because he kept telling everyone he was only gone for one night, his family sent him to therapy He also noticed that Franklin was no longer the second US President. He said that a lot of little things like some items in the house were either no longer around or were in different locations. Years of therapy still couldn't convince him that Franklin was not a President. I thought he was a little crazy. A few years later, I met a man from Tennessee that told me a similar story. In his case, he said that after a really bad electrical storm, he thought he was going crazy because a lot of things in his life had suddenly changed including no one knowing that Franklin had been the second US President. In his case, He did not lose any time. After thinking about this I wonder if electrical storms can cause people to shift from one universe to another. Now I get a little nervous with heavy weather. Anyone else hear about anything similar?

Every time I watch a Mandela effect video, I feel crazy!

2:32 "halls refers to the whole building which won´t make much sense" Uhh yes? Like "decorate all over", isn´t that the point of the song? I´m not even a native english speaker and I know is plural cause it refer to everywhere being festive for the holidays.

People forgetting lyrics or getting lyrics wrong has been around for as long as there have been lyrics. Actually I find all of these "Mandela effect" claims to be "humans forget shit and get shit wrong all the time "effect. Call me a skeptic?

Ben Franklin isn't really a Mandella effect, it's an "I didn't pay attention in school" effect. A lot of people assume all the founding fathers were presidents at one time.

These people would rather believe they stepped into an alternate reality than accept they are flawed.

Yes, I first read the book as a teenager in 1979. It was "A".

I have always wondered why, when the conundrum is a book title, movie title or scene, a song title, lyrics, etc., and the author or actor(s) are still living, WHY doesn't someone ask the person/people involved what their memory is? It seems that no one ever does, and I truly wonder why? It would go a long way to deciphering what occurred if the actual people involved had a definitive memory or opinion. AARGH!

I've never heard anyone call it 'Interview with a Vampire'. I live in the UK, maybe it was more of a US thing.

Well I remember when we were kids we used to sing... Deck the halls with gasoline Fa LA la LA la LA la, strike a match and watch it gleam, Fa LA la LA la LA la LA la LA. La, watch the teachers bust some asses, Fa la la la la La La La La, But watch the school burn to ashes. Fa la la.....la la la lah! And no, in no way were we serious. We were just little kids singing a song the way we heard it sang. Ya know, we were mini tape recorders back then...in the 80's.

The only place I've ever heard "Deck the Hall" is in A Christmas Story.

I absolutely remember Mike&Ike - not an N and definitely not 'and'. Crazy

Maybe they got rid of the nose ring due to complaints? Parents can be odd that way, they see things 'wrong' even if their kids aren't bothered. Some Mandela effects can be explained by mishearing or genuine mistakes, but others really are odd. Like one about Disney and Tinkerbell at the beginning, tapping the castle. I totally remember that! I also recall Deck the Halls, not Hall.

weird thought i just had. you know how in online video games they have servers and for one reason or another they merge servers together, maybe due to not as many people playing anymore or they have better equipment and so on so they merge the servers to bring everyone together or free up resources. it could apply to mandela effects in a sense. even more so if life is a simulation like some propose.

Worked at video store in the 80s and remember the big red "A" in "Interview with A Vampire".

Has anybody ever thought to ask what percentage of the world’s population is affected by the Mandela effect? Without an exact estimated number we won’t know how far this goes.

I remember when youtube didn't have this video.

Whats with the wierd supposition that the "government" would have some role in the Mandela effect? What government? From where? Of whom? To what end?

For me, the only "mandela effects", i.e. things that I seem to remember wrongly, are: Monopoly man, I clearly remember that he had a monocle and I don't know what other thing the whole monocle could have become. Pikachu's tail was black at the end of my mind when I was in middle school. I think I remember that so clearly. The second was that James Bonf movie scene where jaws fell in love,I remember so clearly those braces on the girl.

what I remember: jiffy, ''deck the halls'', ''mike n'ikes'' ,pikachu's black tail, ''shazaam'' ,cola with a dash, kit-kat with a dash.

So has anyone ever played telephone? People are naturally susceptible to suggestion, and one person says something and some people follow it, and others follow it, and so on. Memories can easily be manipulated, which is why witnesses in court can be so unreliable.

Deck the Halls: It's as simple as this. Some people don't have the verbal skills that others have. Essentially, they don't pay attention to grammar structures as much as other people do. So they don't hear something properly, then they repeat it improperly, then store it in their memory improperly, then are stunned when it turns out they were wrong to begin with. Swearing that something has changed doesn't mean something has changed.

Never remember deck the hall ......always deck the halls......Mandela effect is nonsense

The Mandela Affect is : 1. People misremembering things 2. People not paying attention to things that get changed. 3. People not knowing that some things are changed in other countries due to any number of reasons. 4. Spoofs being more popular than originals Example: Mike and Ike changed in 98 or 99. I remember the commercial on the radio back then because I felt like I heard it every 15 freakin minutes.

There is stupidity effect!

It has always been "halls," and the peace sign has NEVER been with the arms held up.

Something changing back and forth is not a Mandela Effect; it is some people misremembering something. A Mandela Effect is the claim that it has always been different than how people like remember it, like the cornucopia in Fruit of the Loom.

In the words of Usher “Peace up,A town down” 😂

i loved Interview with a Vampire growing up i was obsessed with vampires and i remember it being Interview with A Vampire. and Benny the bull did have a septum piercing. I hate that the government keeps doing this and messing with everyones heads to keep us fighting with one another and keep us distracted from whats most important

The "V" peace sign with fingers was first used when the allies defeated the Germans in WWII. The soldiers first used it for Victory In Europe Day.

Just because one delusional person has a distorted memory of an object or event does not mean the rest of the world has to change their memory. Especially if this person is a teenager and the rest of us have lived with the correct memory for over half a century.

Interview with the Vampire would only make sense if there was just one single vampire in the world, or if the vampire being interviewed was THE definitive vampire.

I like my own comments

I was a kid in the 60s and the peace sign has never been any different than it is now.

Its always been deck the halls to me

All Mandela Effects are false memories. There's nothing creepy about it.

I watched Dora with my kids, from 2010-2015. Benny never had a ring anywhere on his body.

Being wrong about something has nothing to do with the 'Mandela Effect'.

Ben Franklin never being the president threw me hard back in school once. I had an argument with a classmate about it because I strongly remembered him being listed as the president in a history text book but when this classmate and I checked that same textbook, he wasn't there.

I have an old Billy Joel CD (from the 80s or 90s) which has the lyrics to Piano Man on the sleeve. It’s: “son, can you play me a memory.” It’s figurative language and damn good lyricism. No, you can’t literally play a memory, but music is one of the most evocative things we as humans can experience. When we hear a song that had deep meaning to us, 5, 10, even 20 or more years ago all those emotions can come rushing back. This unknown character in the song is feeling nostalgic and asks for a specific song in order to remember specific memories.

I remember in 2016 when the Apollo 13 movie was a huge Mandela effect topic. I also remember when it flip-flopped on KZfaq. It made the heated discussions more heated.

As for lyrics, not all music apps and websites have the same lyrics for the same song, some of the words are different cause anybody can write them how they hear them

Ask any Boomer about the Peace symbol. It meant "peace" and only peace without all the origin information. However, it secretly meant "piece" and was symbolic of free love (if you look at the parts). The peace sign of two fingers stemmed from the WW2 Victory sign, which indicated the end of war, thus peace.

When I was about 5 or 6 I remember my dad giving us a tape recorder and a tape cassette for each of us to record things on. We would sing nursery rhymes and things like that and then play them back - and I was positive that the recorder sometimes played things back slightly differently than we had recited them. I thought I was the only one who noticed until my brother and I sang a song and then played it back - and we both agreed the lyrics were completely different from what we had just belted out a few minutes ago. We decided that sometimes tape recorders forget what they were just told.

I thought the peace symbol was supposed to represent the footprint of a dove? The dove is also thought of as a symbol of peace.

Jiff..."Choosey mother's choose Jiff"...there's also another brand called Skippy, so it's possible that this is the source of confusion.

It’s worth asking the question after you see this video “what difference does any of this information make in my life?” And when your answer is NONE. Then you can ignore this BS and get on with your life.

Instead of assuming that universes are merging in and out, how about the more simple explanation that people's observation and memory are just bad?

The "Billy Joel" one is memory. The complete line goes "Son can you play me a memory? I am not really sure how it goes. But's it sad and and it's sweet and I knew it completely when I wore a younger man's clothes." The man is recalling wanted to remember his youth and a happier time when he was younger and he feels like he is forgetting how it feels to be young hence why he says "Memory" not "Melody". I grew up on Billy Joel, have been listening to him since before I was born, and it's always been memory.

People: are bad at remebering details overtime Also people: acknowledge and document how bad they are at remembering details overtime, and even find ways to work around it Idiots everywhere: "pArAlLeL uNiVeRsEs!!!"

Regarding the peace sign, I just looked at an ad in a comic book, a physical copy from the early 70s, not on the internet, the ad is for patches. The peace sign is on a couple of the patches. The lines are at the bottom of the circle. Did the Mandela effect change 50+ year old comics??

It's always been deck the halls. Hall mightve just been a typo

have seen The Truman Show at least 15 times. I've always been interested in the concept of how lives can be manipulated and redirected from a source we are unaware of. I was in a deep conversation with my girlfriend about how changes have occurred a couple of days ago that I have realized at my place of employment and this happened while The Truman Show was playing my TV. I decided to watch this movie probably because of the recent events and because my girlfriend has never seen it before. During my work related phenomenon conversation a scene happened which if you've seen The Truman Show you know Truman is back at his house after trying to escape with Meryl his wife but is cut off from forest fires and a nuclear radiation threat. When Meryl speaks to the officers she clearly said good night and has a fight with Truman about his mental state. Truman holds Meryl with her advertised all in one knife and Marlon enters with a 6 pack of beer defusing the situation when he sees them. Problem is now it's daytime shown through the cracks of the blinds and door Marlon enters from which I am 100% positive was not the case before. It was dark. There was no light. It was nighttime. Is there anyone out there that can confirm this?

For "Hard Knock life" the makes more sense to me as it is implying how bad it is that they are the only ones suffering "It's the Hard knock life for us". I Do feel however, audio recording weren't the best in 70s and 80's so the and a could sound similar. Also some songs change lyrics throughout the show (Tomorrow at fist says "always" a day away and later in the show says "only"

The septum is a very delicate part of a bull's anatomy. Owners placed rings in their noses so they could control the rather unruly beasts by grabbing the ring or by holding a rope tied to the ring. It also demonstrated that the bull was already owned and under the power of the owner. This practice is the origin of the phrase "being led around by the nose." That bull was forced to walk in whatever direction he was pulled because if he didn't, he would be in immediate, excruciating pain. A bit in a horse's sensitive mouth is used for the same purpose. Bulls in old cartoon were often depicted with the ring because it was a stereotype. The depiction has fallen out of favor because certain minority groups can take it as a symbol of dominance/control/ownership since slaves were sometimes pierced similarly, or collared, or chained -- in other words, treated as beasts unable to control their own lives.

Watched Interview with the Vampire a hundred times growing up and it was fairly late when I learned and memorized its English title which to me always was Interview with THE Vampire. Here in Sweden the title is completely different though as we call it "A Vampire's Confession".

The Peace Symbol was right side up. It is the Nordic Rune ALGIZ in a circle. If you know what that rune means it makes sense. The fact that it is reversed , just like in tarot, magic, religion, etc. shows you what is going on. What controls whatever this is. The mirror verse. And this isn't the Good side.

I think anytime someone edits / scans the written word , the Editor s changes words, AI might correct English language. A lot of songs shorten or make up word. The language of the spoken word and written or always different.

I always thought it was Melody, same as in the other three places the line is used in the song. But consider He says, “Son can you play me a memory" but the next three lines are about music. "I’m not really sure how it goes", "But it’s sad and it’s sweet", "And I knew it complete", When I wore a younger man’s clothes.

*It's called a timeline jump!! There was a timeline jump in 2012.*

I remember the Target change. I pointed it out to my sister and realized it looked like they just filled in the middle dot. The open dot still showed up for the curb side pick up door.

Interview WITH THE VAMPIRE makes it seem as if there is only ONE Vampire. Saying "A" vampire makes more sense

Just this morning we were discussing Tinkerbell and the Walt Disney beginning. We both clearly remember tink writing the name and dotting the "I"

I had " Interview with a vampire" in my video collection's back in the day with my VCR..God I wish I still had that box to prove it!🤔

The first time my wife and I went to a Chick-fil-A I asked her why it was spelled funny, because it didn't have a "k" in it. She didn't know of course. That was years ago. I still remember that conversation.

I found a Mandela effect about a year ago. The song Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys. This was one of my favorite songs growing up and it had always said, " Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys, don't let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks make them be doctors and lawyers and such". But now it says let them be doctors and lawyers and such. Then a couple of months ago my mom and stepdad was watching Walker Texas Ranger and at the end of the episode Willie Nelson was singing this song and on there he sang it make them bee doctors and lawyers and such. So obviously even Willie Nelson thinks that's the way it should be.

Hall vs Halls isnt Mandela effect. Thats just normal memory problems.

Since when do commonly misheard lyrics count as a mandela effect?

Always been Interview With The Vampire as long as I remember. It's one of my favorite movies.

Another video that could be explained by a single semester of anthropology 😂 Nevertheless, I’m entertained by these Mandela effect videos.

The one that always gets me is the "no, I am your father" as apposed to "Luke, I am your father" My mate was a 'superfan' and knew that film backward. The look of fear on his eyes when he 'proved it was Luke' by playing the VHS tape and Vader said 'No..' was terrifying in itself.

I just listened to this song and it says “memory” not melody.

There are like 3 versions of the peace sign, the downward 3 point was most popular, black panthers used their own version, UK had their own also. It is both hall and halls as several companies print carol books.

Remembering the song as singular or plural is not a Mandela effect, but due to people singing or writing the word both ways. There has only been 2 presidents' whose first name were Franklin. President Franklin Pierce (14th president), and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd president).

I remember Halls, but back in the day a Hall was a central meeting place for cultural or political events. For instance, in SLC we have Abravanel Hall, where the Utah Symphony performs. The hall would have been where the Lord of the manor would have held dances and feasts. So Deck the Hall IS decorating the whole building.

I distinctly remember the peace sign NOT having that bottom middle line. It was always an upside down Y. I remember seeing it with the middle line and thinking "oh, people got to lazy to draw it properly" but then it was everywhere. Billy Joel definitely sang "Melody". Online lyrics are unreliable because half the time they are wrong. I remember hearing it with my own ears. Franklin definitely wore a tri-corner hat.

I remember the peace sign having the "arms" being at the top. Until this video I didn't realize that it was changed.

Here's an interesting aside, whilst listening to some music a few weeks ago a George Benson video popped up, out of curiosity I googled Mr Benson and was saddened to hear that he died in the 80's aged 42. Last week and once again listening to some music vids my wife and I once again started discussing Mr Benson, during the conversation I once again googled for more info and was astounded to see that George Benson had toured in 2023 and indeed was planning another tour in 2024! This led me to ask Alexa (here comes the really weird part) Alexa told us that he died in 1982 aged 42 years, I then asked Alexa for George Benson tour dates and lo and behold she reeled off a list of upcoming dates for 2024! (give it a try, I would be interested to see what others discover) I give up........................................Oh, and it's Looney Toonz and Interview with "A" Vampire!! I'm seventy-three and saw the movie when it came out and remember watching "Looney Toonz" with my children!!

Pathe News clip from a CND (Committee for Nuclear Disarmament) march in the 1960's showing the original Peace sign: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kM9oZ6SZspjVg6M.html