I have a lot of thoughts on this thing called the Mandela effect. I think it’s mostly bullshit, because the science shows it’s known as an effiecint memory when you can’t recall stupid worthless stuff, like the lyric to the song. I got to thinking this morning and tonight, as I’m apt to do, about memory and priorities. When you’re a singer, you might be more prone to remembering vocals better, it impacts the mind more. Same for whatever instrument you fancy most. I love guitar, so I see a lot through the lens of a guitarist.

So this morning, I busted out my Slash AFD Epiphone Les Paul and plugged it into a Femder Mustang amp, with a cry baby. I was just mesyaround as I am apt to do. So for some reason, Crmison and Clover popped into my head. The Tommy James and the Shondells song. My parents were born in the 60s mind you and I heard the song growing up, my parents had albums of a lot of different 60/70/80s bands. So while I’m not overly familiar with it, my mind can still recall it, via something like pitch perfect. So as I am working out a rendition by ear, I was thinking of that one echo fx in the chorus and I was like “oh, cry baby it.” This was before I decided to listen to the song and see what parts of it i might be forgetting.

The echo effect is in the vocals, via plugged in mic with the tremlo set high. My priorities have always been to guitar though, so it isn’t weird that my first thought for that part was the cry baby. Especially since I’m not a vocalist, since the only ways I can carry a tune is by doing death metal vocals or punk vocals. I can use the stuck chords and almost sound like I know what I am doing. Granted I can do a few vocal parodies, but those do not count. So naturally my thought is to make my guitar sing for me. this is a form of thinking things out, just not entirely honed for most people. Since one of my goals since I was young, was to always be a better guitarist, I am aware of this because I want to hone that thinking aspect in the same way I have honed all my other thinking aspects since I was younger. Be razor sharp at as many things as I can be.

I watched a few YouTube videos after I worked mine out to see what others were interpreting and while I found some interesting arrangements. I noticed that, similar to myself, their memory of the song was based in what was a priority to them.

So to recap, I believe this is actually one of the many things people blame on the mendala effect, which isn’t. I call it ignorance from priority. It’s when you have a priority, even if it’s unbeknownst to you and your mind attempts to work it out as if you would as a guitarist or anything else for that matter, even if you’re not a musician, actor, director or anything else for that matter, because feasibly you could do any of these things, even if it’s not at the highest level. People then take it as if they got it wrong, when they didn’t, they just weren’t aware of a cognitive bias working the figurative math out.