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Maybe no one else will find this funny, but I do. My parents were Cuban immigrants to the USA. My uncle in particular was in his prime dating age when I was a little kid, so he would play the hits when I was around. Since he didn't know English yet, he would just guess the sounds the singers were making when he sung along. For that reason, I thought the chorus to a song was "spoon apurataaaa" and that songs didn't need to make sense. The singers could just make noises representing their feelings rather than use actual words. It wasnt until much later and a bunch of bullying in middle school that I learned almost all popular songs are based on words and "spoon apurataaaaa" was actually "smooth operator". Til this day, I still think of a spoon when I hear Smooth Operator by Sade.
Not really relevant video of a Smooth Operator