And if you want to sing along, the songs is called "Prisencolinensinainciusol" and you can find the lyrics here: https://genius.com/Adriano-celentano-prisencolinensinaincius...

In case you’ve ever wondered how Lorem Ipsum sounds when set to music.

I can imagine phonologists playing this song at all their parties. (If anyone’s ever been to a phonologists’ party, please confirm.)

Possibly slightly related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzo45hWXRWU

There's another version of the song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8&ab_channel=LePie...

Elton John made one around the same time https://youtu.be/lFyvW4DYq88

Though that one uses actual English words. It's only gibberish at the semantic level.

Brilliant. Also Sigur Rós and Richard Feynman.

If I remember correctly, Sigor Ros created a new language whereas this is intentional gibberish.

I believe it’s gibberish too†:

https://18seconds.sigurros.com/band/faq.php

what language does jónsi sing in? on von, ágætis byrjun and takk, jónsi sang most songs in icelandic but a few of the songs were sung in 'hopelandic'. all of the vocals ( ) are however in hopelandic. hopelandic (vonlenska in icelandic) is the 'invented language' in which jónsi sings before lyrics are written to the vocals. it's of course not an actual language by definition (no vocabulary, grammar, etc.), it's rather a form of gibberish vocals that fits to the music and acts as another instrument. jónsi likens it with what singers sometimes do when they've decided on the melody but haven't written the lyrics yet. many languages were considered to be used on ( ), including english, but they decided on hopelandic. hopelandic (vonlenska) got its name from first song which jónsi sang it on, hope (von). tracks 7-9 on takk are in hopelandic.

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† which doesn’t bother me as I can’t understand the words to most songs anyway:)

I want this to be in karaoke catalogs!