None of you English or American ppl will know this, but one of the most beautiful Dutch evergreen songs is one that is half Dutch, half English: Oude Maasweg, by The Amazing Stroopwafels. Starts out in English, ends in Dutch. You don't need to understand either or both languages to realize it's a great song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVghH346RIk
Any more examples of this? Bilingual songs? Whatever the languages, list them here!
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 7 November 2014 23:50 (ten years ago)
Noooo, actually used the wrong YT link. Meant this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp1LbP-6CRY
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 7 November 2014 23:51 (ten years ago)
First one I thought of:
Rita Pavone - My Name is Potato (Italian/English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJXWkWeS2k
― emil.y, Saturday, 8 November 2014 15:11 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXMey9IT7hk
― challop (Willl), Saturday, 8 November 2014 16:10 (ten years ago)
2nd half is welsh btw
― challop (Willl), Saturday, 8 November 2014 16:12 (ten years ago)
Welsh is the best language
― individual meta dater (wins), Saturday, 8 November 2014 17:03 (ten years ago)
The partisan by Leonard Cohen is a great song
― individual meta dater (wins), Saturday, 8 November 2014 17:05 (ten years ago)
My first instinct was to say something by Lhasa de sela but I don't think she actually had any songs that did this despite writing great songs in 3 languages
― individual meta dater (wins), Saturday, 8 November 2014 17:08 (ten years ago)
Haha lady marmalade is playing in the pub as we speak
― individual meta dater (wins), Saturday, 8 November 2014 17:12 (ten years ago)
This is becoming more and more common in French chart music, e.g.Julien Doré - Paris-Seychelles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmE_aahc448which has verses in pretty high-level/poetic French but a chorus in simple English. The video is very cool.You see the same for urban tunes that are aimed at young people who are vaguely familiar with US R&B likeIndila - Run Run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0HiCLw7q0Magain verses in French with a chorus that's a mixture of French and English.
― Sharkie, Saturday, 8 November 2014 17:16 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuadw6jBESw
New Challa by Reshma, I'm not sure what language the bits of this that are not in English are, I think it's Punjabi?
― soref, Saturday, 8 November 2014 17:17 (ten years ago)
I have a feeling this happens a bit in K-Pop too? Am I just making that up?
― emil.y, Saturday, 8 November 2014 17:22 (ten years ago)
a bunch of African artists i like have songs that seem to veer between French or English and different African languages
― Stim McRaw (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 November 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)
It's very common in Japanese and Korean pop - often with bits of English interspersed seemingly at random.
Perennial favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ctiB6M8njs
Tommy February6 - Lonely In Gorgeous (Japanese / English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRvCjkd3p08
CSS - Music Is My Hot Hot Sex (English / Portuguese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm7Fns9KI8A
Gogol Bordello - Zina-Marina (English / Russian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMhXP0hVHJI
Los Super Elegantes - Por Que Te Vas (Spanish / English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BZlJK-HNZw
Eva Polna - Je T'aime, Ya Tebya Tozhe Nyet (Russian / French)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4FE85bo4cI
Magic System - Un Gaou a Oran (French / Arabic / something else)
Lots of Eurovision songs are dual-language, including the greatest of them all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10XR67NQcAc
Ruslana - Wild Dances / Dyki Tantsi (English / Ukrainian)
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Saturday, 8 November 2014 18:04 (ten years ago)
almost a UK hit, fond memories of hearing this on daytime radiohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVrg6av-nI8
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 8 November 2014 18:19 (ten years ago)
greek / nihongo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpugFa8XAQk
just my $0.02
― fuhgeddaboudit! (missingNO), Saturday, 8 November 2014 18:36 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lKCS1ANpmo
― challop (Willl), Saturday, 8 November 2014 19:05 (ten years ago)
xp
Magic System are on my black list since their recent singles (Tu es fou, Magic in the Air), I mean a priori they seem like a serious group but why do they insist on creating this party-in-a-box garbage, it's unbearable
― Sharkie, Sunday, 9 November 2014 11:19 (ten years ago)
god help me I'm gonna try not to post any Mars Volta here
― imago, Sunday, 9 November 2014 11:21 (ten years ago)
xp, the recent EDM singles have not been good but Mamadou from last year was terrific.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Sunday, 9 November 2014 11:25 (ten years ago)
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GWHn4FAvEbY
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 9 November 2014 11:38 (ten years ago)
oops. Try again... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWHn4FAvEbY
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 9 November 2014 11:40 (ten years ago)