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Weird pronunciation of the word "of" in Russians by Sting
(caveat: I'm not a native English speaker)
Your are not mistaken, there is a "vai". Actually, what I hear is:
regardlessovi[pause]deology
Your "vai" is actually the end of "...
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Are there any artists who have written original lyrics in languages they don't speak?
The Police: Hungry for You (J'aurais Toujours Faim De Toi). Written mostly in French, apparently with the help of Trudie Styler, with whom Sting was having an affair at the time.
Reference: https://...
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Anyone have lyrics to "Ich schenk dir mein Herz" by Peter Reusch?
I didn't quite get one word/phrase, but might be good enough for the shower ;)
enjoy
Halt dich fest, wir werden fliegen
Träume siegen irgendwann einmal
dein kleines Herz kannte nur Lügen
du, ich bin ...
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How do you pronounce "Ocoeur", "Saycet" & "El Huervo"?
I disagree with Angst answer on sayCet : As you can heay on this interview video, the woman on the right prononces it merely like you would prononce it in english (with a french accent of course). And ...
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How do you pronounce "Ocoeur", "Saycet" & "El Huervo"?
"Ocoeur" is the alias of French musician Franck Zaragoza. It is, as you point out, derived from the French "au coeur". Since there is nothing on
his biog page to indicate any other ...
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Lyrics - "Matto, Caldo, Soldi, Morto..." by Ennio Morricone
I'm italian and this is the translation:
Original lyrics:
giro giro giro giro tondo
caldo giro giro giro tondo
soldi giro giro giro tondo
ghiaccio giro giro giro tondo
letto giro giro ...
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How is IIII+IIII pronounced “Edgy-Og-Beh”?
Building on Chris' and Angst's answers, the "Odu Ifá" (the sacred oral corpus in the Ifá religion) is composed of 256 liturgical poems. Each one is specified by a combination of two binary numerals ...
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How is IIII+IIII pronounced “Edgy-Og-Beh”?
Sources: the band's own website and wikipedia.
ÌFÉ have connections to Yoruba Ifá religion and music, through
founder Otura Mun who is a Babalawo or Ifá high priest.
The Ifá religion has sacred ...
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Are there any artists who have written original lyrics in languages they don't speak?
Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones of course) - (Si Si) Je Suis un Rock Star (1981) - Has various parts in French, and looking at the quality of those parts it's very hard to believe Mr Wyman is fluent!
Je ...
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What is some good music to improve French listening?
Anything from Jacques Brel will fit the bill.
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What is some good music to improve French listening?
From the tip of my mind I'd suggest to you:
Slow and Melodic songs:
Avec le temps - Leo Ferré (except when he says "comme un cheval fourbu", that is not so common an expression to say ...
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How do you pronounce "Ocoeur", "Saycet" & "El Huervo"?
I managed to get a comment from El Huervo himself (which is cool in itself).
In short, he thought that it meant "wolverine", but it turned out it means nothing. Name should be pronounced in a Spanish ...
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Polish-language pop artists?
I ended up just looking up some stuff by Czesław Niemen on YouTube. YouTube then suggested several other similar artists, after which things rolled along nicely.
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How do the "Hatten är din" meme lyrics correspond to the original "Miin ma kenti" lyrics
My "translation", below, is based on the following sources:
Arabic transliteration (Google search: scroll to the bottom of the lyrics and click "Show in Roman characters")
Swedish ...
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Are there any artists who have written original lyrics in languages they don't speak?
A number of Swedish songwriters have made it big writing English-language pop songs, despite it not being their native language --sometimes with odd results.
One of my favorite groups, Roxette, became ...
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Are there any artists who have written original lyrics in languages they don't speak?
As requested by the OP and with due respect to @Brahadeesh for making me think of it....
In the 1990's, British band Kula Shaker had a number of hits that were written with a substantial part of the ...
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Lyrics - "Matto, Caldo, Soldi, Morto..." by Ennio Morricone
If you listen carefully, the lyrics are actually made of up words from the title of the song. In fact, it's possible it was originally untitled, and the lyrics were used to identify it.
Giro, giro,...
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Identify the language in Virgin Black's Walk Without Limbs
Assuming that the lyric is based on a literal latinised translation of phonetic Hebrew, the closest approximation of this lyric, which makes any sense to me in the context of the song, is:
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How is IIII+IIII pronounced “Edgy-Og-Beh”?
Building on Angst's research -- "Eji", "Og" and "Be" all seem to be syllables used in the rather complex Yoruba counting system.
Although this is just speculation, it seems likely that this title is ...
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