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@jengd It’s definitely a Billie thing, not an American thing! Hahaha. “Herbs” is a funny example because it’s one of those instances where the h is included in the British pronunciation and silent in the American pronunciation. But in most cases, he actually sounds British to me when he pronounces words with a silent h —  he should def be saying the h in heads to say it normally. Another example that comes to mind is in Give Me Novocaine — he doesn’t pronounce the h in “Jimmy says it’s better than here” and so it either sounds British or like he’s saying “better than air” to my American ear!

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34 minutes ago, stories and songs said:

@jengd It’s definitely a Billie thing, not an American thing! Hahaha. “Herbs” is a funny example because it’s one of those instances where the h is included in the British pronunciation and silent in the American pronunciation. But in most cases, he actually sounds British to me when he pronounces words with a silent h —  he should def be saying the h in heads to say it normally. Another example that comes to mind is in Give Me Novocaine — he doesn’t pronounce the h in “Jimmy says it’s better than here” and so it either sounds British or like he’s saying “better than air” to my American ear!

I always thought he was saying “better than air” until I bothered to look up the lyrics one day.

”Gunshot heads” doesn’t even make sense. I know it’s in the lyric book that way but it sounds more like just a sound like “hey” and that works better I think. 

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53 minutes ago, stories and songs said:

@jengd It’s definitely a Billie thing, not an American thing! Hahaha. “Herbs” is a funny example because it’s one of those instances where the h is included in the British pronunciation and silent in the American pronunciation. But in most cases, he actually sounds British to me when he pronounces words with a silent h —  he should def be saying the h in heads to say it normally. Another example that comes to mind is in Give Me Novocaine — he doesn’t pronounce the h in “Jimmy says it’s better than here” and so it either sounds British or like he’s saying “better than air” to my American ear!

Wait!  Are you telling me he is saying "here" and not "air"????  20 years of studying Idiot, i always assumed it was a typo when I saw it.   Really?????? Here??? I'm from the southern United States....

2 hours ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

ngl I as a french canadian I first heard cumshot cumshot heads.

Brad Taste In Music says the whole song sounds like Cum City.  And....he's not wrong.  I still want to make a point that Billie says "mom" and not "ma" in Look Ma. It’s very important.

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28 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

”Gunshot heads” doesn’t even make sense. I know it’s in the lyric book that way but it sounds more like just a sound like “hey” and that works better I think. 

It sounds like he’s saying something hey/yeah to me too! I hear nothing resembling “heads” lol. And I agree, I think it works better as is!

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From where I come from in the UK we're renowned for not pronouncing the "h" at the beginning of our words or within them :lol: Probably why I heard it as "here" and not "air" :lol:

Love the BTS video

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So how far is Coma City from Murder City? Trying to plan a vacation here 😆

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According to Billie's IG story, he wants to play this song in empty mall. Sounds fitting.

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1 hour ago, Miko said:

According to Billie's IG story, he wants to play this song in empty mall. Sounds fitting.

Apparently an empty mall in Richmond (East Bay) that he used to go to. A show or video. How cool would that be?! Probably won't happen but still 

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3 minutes ago, Cali89 said:

Apparently an empty mall in Richmond (East Bay) that he used to go to. A show or video. How cool would that be?! Probably won't happen but still 

Acoustics would probably be horrible but it would be cool nonetheless!

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On 3/1/2024 at 8:17 AM, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

Love the "bankrupt the planet for assholes in space" line

I just came to this thread to say this lol! Also this song really grew on me

On 1/25/2024 at 5:43 PM, stories and songs said:

The lyric is “a gunshot, gunshot heads.”

I know Mr. Armstrong has an aversion to pronouncing H’s, but I hear absolutely no attempt at forming this word. :lol:

I'm blown away by this, never even considered it was anything but a random sound :lol: 

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