Or: "Partially Ruining a Christmas Classic"
Driving to my parents house with the Christmas music on the radio and Josh Groban's rendition of "O Holy Night" comes on. I noticed something askew.
It's a high quality rendition of a classic song for the most part but I couldn't stop noticing something absolutely inexplicable about it.
The first two minutes, everything's as it should be. Once we get to 2:00 Groban sings "O Knife Divine." Thereafter, almost every instance of "night" is replaced by "knife." The only exception is at 4:15 where there's a legitimate "night" but even that is followed up 2 seconds later with another "knife." So it's "O night / O knife divine."
And now I will never un-hear "O Holy Knife." This is the biggest lyrical scandal since "Poker Face."
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