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mixing languages in a song?
  why would they do that?!
  sounds interesting
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LiL_PRiiNCESS

PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:32 pm


I'm actually very fond of mixing languages in songs 3nodding
Some German artists I like do that.
PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:08 pm


the only ones i can remember that mix languages are anime theme songs, where they throw in bits of English here and there to throw you off

example:

I got to be free all right,
yes i wanna be a star
Jidai to iu na no machine ni mata gatte

(Whoah, Whoah...) x2

Me mo kuramu you na hard days
Faasuto daun ubaezu ni time out
Shaabetto jou ni toketashita taiyou
Nomi hosu sa i am a loser

Dare no sashizu mou kenai to
Hashiri tsudzukeru like a rolling stone
Daremo ga ikiru tame no riizun
Kangaeru hodo ni meikyuu sa so blue

Moteam shiteru passion
Nuritsubusareta question
Shinjitsu ha maru de fiction

I got to be free all right, yes i wanna be a star
Jidai to iu nanomachine ni mata gatte
I got to be free all right, i decided to be a star
Inochigake no bakageta game to iki gatte

they just randomly throw in english word; its hilarious

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:30 pm


I've only heard Japanese songs mix with English. It sounds nice =)
PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:47 pm


It depends on how it's done, sometimes it's annoying. In the opening theme for Chobits the singer says "I kiss you my darling," I know there's language differences and they're sentence structure is different but it annoys me. To me if the singer is looking up English to put in a song, they should figure out how to put the words in a sentence. Dare I say that if an English speaker messed up Japanese, the English-speaker would be considered a "Baka Gaijin?"

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PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2008 12:50 pm


In Welsh, I know one band - Radio Luxembourg - who mix English and Welsh together.
When I listen to a song, say in an English point of view, I think, "great! this is awesome!" But if I listen to it with my Welsh-state-of-mind cap on, I think it sounds terrible XD

PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:15 pm


It really depends the song, some of the mixing just...makes me want to tell them to learn more than one word in a foreign language =S

Example of BAD mixing - 'fuego' by cheetah girls

Examples of GOOD mixing - 'dreams come true' by S.E.S
and 'ya no llores' by baby boy
^^;;

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:25 pm


Danish-Swedish and Norwegian-Swedish mixes sound great because they usually involved two different people.

Christian Brøns featuring Patrik Isaksson - Tilbage hvor vi var
Johnny Deluxe featuring Anna Nordell- Drømmer jeg?
Bjørn Eidsvåg featuring Lisa Nilsson- Mysteriet deg
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