In contrast with my usual theme of "here are 5 songs in french that you may or may not understand," today I have chosen to select 6 songs in french and other languages that you may or may not understand!! I don't usually like listening to music where I have No fucking clue what is being said, but these songs have the magickal power to transport you across the language barrier.............................. Please tell me whether or not you like them!!!!
catherine ferroyer-blanchard - c'est bien trop tardFerroyer-Blanchard is probably my favorite hyphenated last name ever, and this song sounds like she is the Princess of Monaco!! and she has locked herself in her bathroom on her wedding day. The title means "It's way/far/much/etc too late" and Catherine (or whoever wrote the lyrics on
her myspace) clearly opposes any and all perversions of the French language, as we see in that she spells the word for "key"
clef instead of the disgusting new spelling
clé.
kaaos - ei enaa koskaanOnce upon a time, I made the mistake of thinking that Finnish was just another scandinavian language, which everyone knows are all just even uglier ways of speaking german with really weird letters like ø, å, and ð. But now I understand that Finnish is a beautiful language whose only living relatives basically are Estonian and Hungarian!
What a people! Anyway, Finnish is full of k's and double vowels and really angry punk songs like this that just sound funny because they have titles like "Politiikkaa." Sometimes I think about learning Finnish, but there's only like 16 million Finnish speakers out there and I can't be certain that I would like any of them.
zемфира - итоги (zemfira - itogi)I don't remember what this song title means, and my dictionary is I don't know where, so it means
Fuck you guys, I don't know what it means. This song is in the grand tradition of such vaguely Lesbian Artists listened to by college girls in the '90s the country over because, well, just
look at this woman. And don't even -try- to tell me that it should be Земфира, because the band's name starts with Z. Just ask Wikipedia,
punk.
malaria! - eifersuchtHere are some more lesbian-looking women singing in a language most people think is ugly! If I recall, the title means "Jealousy" and the song is all "we were so lucky, you and me, you only had love for me, hitler hitler auschwitz volskwagen, do you want to betray me, lederhosen, somethin, dear, and fear, yes, you are mine, i must free you." BUT I DON'T REMEMBER!! Why are European women east of like, Switzerland always short-haired and brunette??? Did you know that "ch" represents two different sounds in German? I didn't either, and I'm still not sure, but I could link you to a fascinating discussion on
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linguaphiles about regional pronunciation and these sounds if
any of you gave a shit at all.
helena vondráčková - utíkejRemember when a lot of people used to say things like "Czech it out!" or "Cashin' czechs!"* Or when they made those eastern-european doctor gay porns called "Czech Up"?? Well, Helena Vondráčková is also Czech! I think the title of this song means "race**," judging by the google image results for "utíkej," which, by the way, sounds like she is chanting "UGK, UGK, UGK" over and over again! I like this song a lot because just when it starts to grate on you with the Ethnic-ness*** of that like weird slav-ass string instrument, she starts singin' all pretty!
*I don't remember anyone ever saying this either!
**Not the white kind, but the running kind!!
***I could have said "ethnicity," but y'all would have misunderstood!
super junky monkey - shukuchoku-no-choro-wa-chirou-de-sourouI don't speak Jewish-American-Princess-anese and I don't know the correct characters for that, and I also don't really care!!!! What I do know is that on the CD this is translated as "Old Man On The Nightshift With Prostatitis" and that it is sung in Absolute Gibberish with possible cameo appearances by Japanese! When I weighed 300 lbs (Before I discovered TrimSpa), my friends and I used to "sing along" to this song in my room, and we used to know all the "words!!!" My favorite part about this song is probably the EEEYYYAYEYEYAHHHHHHHAAAHHHHHHIYAAAAAAYII
IIAAHHHHHHHHHHH-ing.
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