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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 months agoThere is some really, really cool non-English music out there. Jaan Pehchan Ho - I imagine this is what it was like for non-English speakers discovering Elvis for the first time. https://youtu.be/XnBbjc5hmho Prisencolinensinainciusol - Artist wanted to make a song that sounds like English to people who don’t speak English. It doesn’t make sense in any language but still sounds amazing. https://youtu.be/RpFhFV58FEs Ievan Polkka - Finnish song from 1928. Used in the gag site “leekspin”. https://youtu.be/hqthspSKZV8 The lyrics are unintentionally hilarious. https://genius.com/Eino-kettunen-ievan-polkka-english-translation-lyrics
minus-squareThis is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months ago Jaan Pehchan Ho - I imagine this is what it was like for non-English speakers discovering Elvis for the first time. https://youtu.be/XnBbjc5hmho And here’s Indian rendition of Mozart’s Symphony no. 40. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYnZy7Zv8gU
minus-squareSpeiser0@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months ago Prisencolinensinainciusol Paradichlorbenzene - A chemical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTUfwLAVSHE
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months ago Jaan Pehchan Ho They used this in Ghost World, which was a great film early-ish in the careers of Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUvqE-4LhSU
There is some really, really cool non-English music out there.
Jaan Pehchan Ho - I imagine this is what it was like for non-English speakers discovering Elvis for the first time.
https://youtu.be/XnBbjc5hmho
Prisencolinensinainciusol - Artist wanted to make a song that sounds like English to people who don’t speak English. It doesn’t make sense in any language but still sounds amazing.
https://youtu.be/RpFhFV58FEs
Ievan Polkka - Finnish song from 1928. Used in the gag site “leekspin”.
https://youtu.be/hqthspSKZV8
The lyrics are unintentionally hilarious.
https://genius.com/Eino-kettunen-ievan-polkka-english-translation-lyrics
And here’s Indian rendition of Mozart’s Symphony no. 40.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYnZy7Zv8gU
Paradichlorbenzene - A chemical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTUfwLAVSHE
They used this in Ghost World, which was a great film early-ish in the careers of Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUvqE-4LhSU