Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by lnx01 on Saturday January 27, 2018 @04:53AM
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"Well, old Alabama, just a sweet Carolina
Just a-rockin' and rollin' may leave town
Got to be a scoogie, lay on my boogie
Let me hear you say you got my hole around"
LOL
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by kibwen on Saturday January 27, 2018 @03:08PM
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To be fair, this appears to make about as much sense as your average rock song. :P Even something as venerable as Stairway To Heaven has lyrics that are, at best, allegorical poetry, or, at worst, sweet-sounding gibberish.
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by 0x0 on Saturday January 27, 2018 @01:17PM
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Haha nice Markov Chain going there
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by fny on Saturday January 27, 2018 @12:32PM
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This reminds me of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by doodpants on Thursday February 01, 2018 @10:22AM
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Especially if you replaced Alabama and Carolina with California.
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by mariodiana on Saturday January 27, 2018 @07:56AM
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Maybe they're total gibberish, but just for the sake of comparison, I knew a woman who sang in a band that performed "Come Together" (from the Beatles). I remember her saying, "Don't distract me when I'm singing this, because the words make no sense, and I can't remember them if I don't concentrate."
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by ahdroit on Thursday February 08, 2018 @11:37PM
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https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/11/i-...
also off topic:
on William F. Buckley and his understanding of the spanish language: for context start at minute 14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNxzQSheCkc
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by freehunter on Saturday January 27, 2018 @02:23PM
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Yeah The Beatles were one of those bands where their songs are so personal that many of their lyrics only make sense to them and may as well be total nonsense to everyone else. I fully believe they're as popular as they are partly because everyone who listens is trying to find their decoded meaning.
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by cbr on Saturday January 27, 2018 @07:59AM
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I don't know, these lyrics make about as much sense to me as most songs written by English speakers.
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by yeahforsureman on Saturday January 27, 2018 @06:35AM
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Here's a great one from Estonia, featured in this very weird Soviet-era movie https://youtu.be/jpW9Fcrw5kE
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by elmar on Saturday January 27, 2018 @04:57AM
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Nothing beats the Spanish dictator Franco speaking English
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by jerok on Saturday January 27, 2018 @08:01AM
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Maybe 'el principe gitano' does, he is a Spanish folk music singer. He liked Elvis Presley's 'In the ghetto' very much but didn't know a word of English. He sang it anyway... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGSgAfJQsic
Re:An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense
by krapp on Saturday January 27, 2018 @10:33AM
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>He liked Elvis Presley's 'In the ghetto' very much but didn't know a word of English. He sang it anyway...
Also see: many, many Korean and Japanese pop songs....
In this case, the lyrics are actual English words, but the verses they form are just total gibberish: https://genius.com/Hurriganes-get-on-lyrics
It's a pretty sweet rock piece and really famous in Finland. The recording was supposed to be a 'demo' and the gibberish lyrics replaced later with actual lyrics by someone who could English (the drummer/singer here, Remu Aaltonen, could not). But the band thought the demo good enough and decided to release it anyway on their next album. The rest is Finnish rock history.