Avril part of the Mandela effect

what the heck? LOL
Sometimes I remember things from a time I thought I was younger, but I was actually older when it happened, but this is weird X'D

I sang the lyrics of Jason Maraz I Won Give Up two months before it was released. Never heard it before that. Didn't read the lyrics...

Am i also being a victim of the Mandela effect

Damn they must have a really bad connections with memories

The Mandela effect rocks!
I like the Mandela effect. For me is so interesting! And is real science, the Mandela Effect is something that psychologists study.

I've never heard of the Mandela effect before (I honestly thought it had something to do with Nelson Mandela ) but I have heard of the concept of people remembering events wrong and tricking their brain into thinking it's part of their memory. Logically there is no way any of these people could have heard Girlfriend before 2007. Claiming to have heard it in the late '90s, well Avril was a young child then, let alone did she have a record deal or make that song. It's impossible.

They are probably mixing it up with a song that sounds similar or one of her other songs. They were probably a young kid listening to Hey Mickey, which sounds similar, and their brain just associates it with the same song, or perhaps they were listening to Sk8er Boi which was around in the period they claim to have heard Girlfriend (early 2000s) and is also an upbeat pop punk song with a similar kind of story (guy and girl relationship, Avril ends up with him in the end). I could see people confusing the 2 easily. Either that, or they are remembering the years wrong. Perhaps they even are mixing her up with a similar kind of artist like Alanis Morissette or Michelle Branch. But it's very strange that, not just one person, but several people can claim to have known this song before its existence.

Sometimes we rewrite events in our minds and end up remembering events or memories incorrectly. Especially if a memory is based on what someone else told us. Like our parents telling us about what we were like when we were babies, we obviously have no memory of it, and can only rely on what other people have told us.

This makes me think about the concept of deja vu. I feel like it happens to me pretty often. Like every once in awhile I'll just be somewhere and suddenly I get a weird feeling, like I've seen this before or this particular thing happened before. It's really weird. Who knows, maybe that and the Mandela effect are similar concepts and it has to do with like different dimensions in time or something. Because how can you feel like you experienced something once before when you know you never have? Maybe in a different dimension you experienced it? Just like in another dimension people heard these songs? Eery.

@t1spork is more a psychological reconstruction of the past with fiction memories. More like BogoGog24 explained. Without the N-dimensional, and without the superstrings and the warpdrives.
But i loved the warp drive explanation as a reader of science fiction.

I like the suggestion of the mind by scientists and illusionists. You can tell a person what to remember and what to no remember if you know how. Someone with this knowledge can be undetectable in a mugshot because the witnesses remember fiction.

I think I've heard Fly on a local radio station in 2004.