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prisencolinensinainciusol - An Italian singer made a song of entirely gibberish designed to sound how English sounds to non-english speakers ears. (youtu.be)
submitted 3 weeks ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/interestingasfuck@lemmy.world
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[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is Will Smith being introduced to the song as the first rap ever during our National Music Festival: https://youtu.be/Pv_lherkc6E

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

He looked just as confused as I was.

But I really hope what they did was show him interpretations of lyrics from his own songs and see if he could figure it out

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

In a similar vein, by one of my favorite music-ish channel:

How rap sounds to non English speakers: https://youtu.be/BdOtR2A5agc

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 points 3 weeks ago

A bluesy, Southern Black American English, to be precise, which goes with the rock’n’roll idiom.

Someone once suggested that this song was an inspiration on Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation”, and once you see that, you can’t unsee it.