"Do goody good bullshit" does not translate well at all to Japanese.mhog wrote:I read somewhere that The Dark Side Of The Moon album or CD is the most globally successful music by any band ever. Does this success include countries like Japan, Russia, etc?
It's not for the lyrics. It's for the music. We focus on music.
Well, we generally focus on the music (universal). If we tried to listen to the lyrics it would be rather weirding...festeringheap wrote:"Do goody good bullshit" does not translate well at all to Japanese.mhog wrote:I read somewhere that The Dark Side Of The Moon album or CD is the most globally successful music by any band ever. Does this success include countries like Japan, Russia, etc?
It's not for the lyrics. It's for the music. We focus on music.
lol @ grandma is still drinking whiskeymhog wrote:He sings in French. I (Italian) understand like: "bambam cosa fai, gigi molla la polpetta, nonna ancora beve il whiskey" ("boom, what are you doing, Lewis? Give me that meatloaf, grandma is still drinking whiskey" etc.
emcee wrote:lol @ grandma is still drinking whiskeymhog wrote:He sings in French. I (Italian) understand like: "bambam cosa fai, gigi molla la polpetta, nonna ancora beve il whiskey" ("boom, what are you doing, Lewis? Give me that meatloaf, grandma is still drinking whiskey" etc.
especially with the "oooh oooh oooh ooooh"
Sure does explain the internetmhog wrote:Well, we generally focus on the music (universal). If we tried to listen to the lyrics it would be rather weirding...festeringheap wrote:"Do goody good bullshit" does not translate well at all to Japanese.mhog wrote:I read somewhere that The Dark Side Of The Moon album or CD is the most globally successful music by any band ever. Does this success include countries like Japan, Russia, etc?
It's not for the lyrics. It's for the music. We focus on music.
For example, when Gilmour sings:
"don't give me that do goody good bullshit"
We (Italians) understand:
"Dante, mi dai due gurkel? Bonjour!"
("Dante, will you give me two pickles? Bonjour!")
When he sings: "money, so they say"
We understand "Marì, son le sei" ("Mary, it's six o'clock)
etc. etc.
Other examples:
In "Wuthering Heights", when Kate Bush sings:
"Out on the wiley... Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, come home"
We (Italians) understand:
"Ho le emorroidi... mio zio è caduto con la pompa"
("I have haemorrhoids... my uncle fell with the hose")
"Talkin' bout my ggeneration" (the Who)
We understand: "Cochi, un bel Martini liscio" ("Dude, a good Martini straight up, please")
"You take me higher" (U2) = "puzzi d'aglio" ("you smell like garlic")
and so on...
NOBODY understand English lyrics outside English speaking countries, trust me...
emcee wrote:Music can make even English sound well, like another language to us who have it as our native tongue. The amount of misheard lyrics - there's another thread in itself.
Bee Gee's - Four legged woman.. four legged women to me..
Police - 'Coz when those elephants escape you, The large one ties you up and rapes you..
Starship - My pony plays the mamba, listens to the radio
Irene Cara - (What a Feeling) - Take your pants off ....and make it happen.
Pop, rap, hip-hop... even rock, maybe. These styles are not representative of each country's culture. You need to listen to their folk (ethnic) music to understand what's about and what are their roots. And instrumental music. When you leave words out of the picture, music will then really stands as an universal language, where each one still shows his/her roots, but the language is understood by anyone else.emcee wrote: But then again, a lot of Asian pop is really trying hard to sound more American than some Americans
This guy here is hilarious, he is one of the most popular Italian singer. This is a 1973 song, that's why he keeps claiming he was the one who invented hip-hop and rap, long before the black Americans. Total ignorance, of course, yet large numbers of people here believe it haha. Rather funny in his sort of statements, though.sjm wrote:Guess it's time for this one then:
I don't agree. Otherwise, the only U.S. music to listen to if you want to understand America would be southern "country" and nothing else. Music styles (pop, rock, jazz, blues, trance, etc.) are international. It is true that 99% of songs around the world come from U.S. (because of post war cultural domination). This however does not mean pop-rock songs from other countries are sub-products or derivative. They are infact as original as the U.S. products. Only, if they are not famous in America first (after being translated into American language), they are totally ignored by the rest of the world. It is so called "American Imperialism". See "Gangamgan style" (or whatever it was called), one of the million shitty songs around the world. Once it became popular in America, the rest of the world started to sing it and the singer had even to apologize on American TVs for his anti-americanismfmr wrote:Pop, rap, hip-hop... even rock, maybe. These styles are not representative of each country's culture. You need to listen to their folk (ethnic) music to understand what's about and what are their roots. And instrumental music. When you leave words out of the picture, music will then really stands as an universal language, where each one still shows his/her roots, but the language is understood by anyone else.emcee wrote: But then again, a lot of Asian pop is really trying hard to sound more American than some Americans
Pop and derivatives are just a sub-product of the american colonized urban sub-culture.
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