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Liking foreign songs

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2012-05-15 14:35:41 in Media
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

If you don't know the language, you can't sing them in a typical way.  You have to resort to humming or some other placeholder syllable.


Alternatively, you can try to find a singable translation of the song, or make your own.

Comments

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    edited 2012-05-15 15:19:14
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    Well, most of the songs I listen to are in English anyway. It's like "mmmMMMmmm trallallallaaaa yeah baby laaalaaaalaaablahblahblahblaaa", or "grwrwrwrhwghwrghwrghwrgh SATAN gwgwhwgwhrrrrrr", or "[I could understand it if I wanted]".

  • StormtroperStormtroper

    ^ Obligatory:


     


  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know

    I just look up the lyrics (Or make my own up according to what I hear, which is what I used to do when I was younger)... but then again, there are a lot more Japanese music fans than I dunno, Swiss music fans?

  • DonZabuDonZabu
    edited 2012-05-16 00:07:24
    It doesn't help that the foreign writing of the lyrics sometimes makes recitation confusing

    (IJBM: French orthography).
  • DYREDYRE

    Even if you don't know a language, it's not that difficult to tell what a person's singing.  You won't know what it means, necessarily, but that matters so little as to be negligible.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    It's much harder to learn what they're singing if they're effectively singing nonsense syllables to you.

  • DYREDYRE

    It's harder, sure, but I don't think it's impossible.  Since I know from experience that it is possible.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2012-05-16 14:14:07
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Oh, it's possible.  I know the lyrics well enough to quote them without understanding the language for...let's see...one song.  Which I first heard in like 2002.  FYI it's "Makenai ai ga kitto aru", the Japanese opening theme for Mega Man X4 (Rockman X4).

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Wait, let me try recalling the lyrics right now.  Or at least what I think they sound like.


    Why, sukina kimo chiwa, sunu, doni, doke


    Why, nabuniso iuto, chibunisali salu


    Don, nan, do, dona [? ? ?] nagaseme badaya you temo


    Gan ke wa,...


     


    and later there's some "migete ban, cali (migete ban, cali)", I think somewhere in the second verse.


    further in the verse you have "takishi mete [? ?] sukena", or something


    the "refrain" is "makenai ai gatto, ko nonumeri kanalazu ayu haatsuyo, dashikana ai gatte" and some other things.


     


    ...okay, I'm pretty clearly not even parsing the Japanese properly, and I still have holes.  Granted, I haven't heard this song in a while.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Actually, I'm starting to learn the lyrics of Suihei Liebe ~Mahou no Jumon~.


    Though that's partly because they're singing the names of the chemical elements, and it's easy to follow along.


    And it's FREAKING CATCHY.


    Sui hei li be bokunofune
    nanamagaru shippusu kurakuka
    sui hei li be bokunofune
    [? ?] oboete nouberushou


    suisoni heriumu, richiumu beririumu
    houso tanso chisso, sanso fusso neon (? ? ? anki de)
    natoriumu maguneshiumu, aluminiumu keiso rin (rin!)
    yoshi ou! enso argon (argon!) kariumu karushiumu (karitto bo-n!)


    and so on

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