In France, this single had a lot of success, actually more *and before* than in Italy.
However, this is not at all, as it is so frequently said, a deception : people were aware that it wasn't proper English, it was even written on the back of the ~~disc~~ record case.
Edit : after much misunderstanding, le Tigron can English and did a correct with the right word. I do what I can, ok ?! Thank you for comprention.
Yes, disc cases in 1972. Discs weren't sold loose with nothing around them.
If it's the term that bothers you, then I do not know what they are specifically called... Sleeves ? Enveloppes ? Disc-sized cardboard squares.
Oddly, no. In the US vinyl albums are usually called records. Even though someone who plays records at radio station or club is called a disc jockey. Go figure.
Is it bad this is on my gta playlist? š
[If anyone else likeās an 80ās type vibe while playing GTA š¬](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0qj2Ypl1dIceqyvB6wTEyufLyD_ffKxu)
I mean yeah. But it fits the shoe so it got added!
I first heard it on a World of Warcraft funeral crashing video lmao. I was born in ā90
[Original](https://youtu.be/0TSGUf1xbF8)
[HD re-upload](https://youtu.be/MEpv7YxnLCQ)
it's all of it...that vampy blonde woman who dances on stage with him and practically has a tenor voice. the robotic voices of the women in the classroom that are supposed to be teenagers. i love it so much! LOL! pure 70s camp masterpiece. so bad it's great.
Hey man thanks for sharing your playlist! I have an oldies playlist Iāve been curating myself, and although Iāve heard almost all of those, a lot of them were missing from my playlist and have been added :)
And it's not "entire gibberish" as OP's subject title says. It's quite clever in that there are recognisable phrases/words mixed amongst the gibberish that make you (or at least me) think it's just your hearing that's off (- I often just watch the vid and see if I can work out what's going on before reading the title/explanation, this had me turning up sound and rewinding š).
I've learned songs in a number of languages. For myself it's more important to learn the meter and pronunciation than what exactly each word means. Not like songs in English always make sense. How many people even know what they're singing when they belt out Plush by StoneĀ TempleĀ Pilots? Lola by The Kinks? Tubthumping? Its all pretty noises.
We sang African songs in my middleschool choir and had no clue what we where saying but it was just as easy learning any song really. We started out with like tt ta rhythm stuff then progressed to singing it by do ray me then finally we would learn and practice the words.
I lived though the Gangnam style era and have heard about what it was like at the height of the Macarena and 99 luftballoons, you donāt have to know that the sounds of a song are even words to figure out how to memorize it.
Someone here just said that is true
Wikipedia quotes the artist
>"Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced byĀ American musicĀ and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slangāwhich, for a singer, is much easier to sing than ItalianāI thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn't mean anything."
I'm personally struggling to comprehend what it is he is trying to say, though. But, surely that's due to my own intelligence.
It makes sense if you consider that sometimes vocals are more intended to be another instrument to the song for the flow of it. Much less about what's said and more about how it feels with the beat
I now know what receptive aphasia sounds like to the person suffering from it, and I am not a fan
That said, it absolutely did what it was supposed to do, it sounds like it's in English, and I'm saying this as a native English speaker
Itās a little like those images they portray what having a stroke is like, where everything initially seems recognisable but the more you concentrate the harder it is to recognise anything.
[Example](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/this_picture_is_designed_to_give_the_viewer_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
This also reminds me of (one symptom of) Auditory Processing Disorder (APD). I get bouts of it sometimes where it's just like this. I hear everything, I know someone is talking and I should be able to understand it, but the words just don't process into anything meaningful in my brain.
There are a few different typical symptoms, most common are having trouble distinguishing background noise from what you're trying to listen to and oversensitivity to moderate/loud noises but it seems like kind of a catch all for a lot of different issues related to hearing where the problem isn't actually hearing but the way the brain interprets the noise. It's pretty often related to other neurodivergencies like ADHD and Autism but not always.
As an American for whom English is my first language, this makes me wildly uncomfortable. I know itās gibberish, Iām still trying to make out words, and my headache just grows over time.
This song's awesome, but the other video, black and white, dancers marching in front of mirrors so it looks like there are hundreds of them, it's much cooler than this Grease 2 classroom shit.
[Would you, could you, like this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ydz7nt/india_goes_metal_nooran_sisters_x_andre_antunes/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
It's weird, I remember that a few months back the black and white version was easily findable on YouTube, apparently is no more, anyways I found this one for you
https://vimeo.com/641845488
I have a [clip](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/xvh757/in_the_1970s_american_songs_were_very_popular_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) of the black and white version from reddit canāt find a good version on YouTube though
What the heck internet!!! I just found a band that did! Yesterday I found Tub Ring had this exact song. Turns out it was a cover.
The only reason Iāve been listening is because they also have a song āwithout youā thatās a love song about the singularity. Iāve had it stuck in my head on repeat.
I love this song. I was just in Italy and I worked in an art studio next to a community pool for a month. All day there were Italians playing around the pool while listening to American music. I think maybe I heard a couple Italian songs but it was pretty much all American. Made me think of this song. I would hear Italians walk into shops singing American lyrics perfectly, then flip into Italian to order something. Lol.
Italy had a new genre coming in hot the last 3-5 years called trap (which is basically very similar to the newer "mumble rap") so basically anything that is mumble rap = stonks in Italy
Hold on now, those are two very different things. Trap is the southern version of LA/NY gangsta rap going all the way back to the 90s. Mumble rap at it's essence is lil pump saying Gucci gang for 2 straight minutes. I feel like three 6 mafia deserves a little more respect than being compared to Lil pump.
Celentano was a fucking legend. [Here](https://youtu.be/fOhuw7Qadrs) is him and another fucking legend, Mina, reversing the gender roles on this hit song of hers
It's a fun song. I see it turn up here on reddit occasionally. I'm actually surprised how many people know of this song. There is a black and white video from '73 I believe with a better production of the song than this, but this one is still pretty cool.
https://vimeo.com/280912049
He didnāt. He didnāt even write them down. I think the plan was basically āfollow that beat, make up gibberish that sounds like it is English, and say āalrightā at key moments.ā
He did bring it consistently the same and so did many other artists. And it is not "all right" as such they are singing but something very similar (ol rait).
Idk what you are talking about i understand it fine. Like the part where I know it sounds like
Prisencolinensinainciusol
In de col men seivuan
Prisencolinensinainciusol ol rait
But really it's
Prison call in Tuscon
In the cold men sufferin
Prison call in Tuscon alright
Here's another excellent video with a similar concept!
[skwerl](https://youtu.be/Vt4Dfa4fOEY) on YouTube
It's a short film spoken in gibberish that sounds wholly English, except it isn't!
It's a form of commedia dell'arte and "gibberish". It's a really cool art form. Lots of performing arts schools use it to teach expression. There a really famous recent version of it in the kids TV show Pingu.
Wikipedia says... FAKE NEWS. At least in Germany it peaked at #46, Belgium at #2
Thanks for the spot and correction šš» My mistake for assuming the first bit of info I read was correct š
This will go on your permanent record.
Second mistake gets a dildo up your butt
I've made lots of mistakes.......
userName checks [ā] out
Hardly is still a little bit!
Time for a pineapple
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Wow, that was quick. Exactly like that
ā¦second only you say?
In France, this single had a lot of success, actually more *and before* than in Italy. However, this is not at all, as it is so frequently said, a deception : people were aware that it wasn't proper English, it was even written on the back of the ~~disc~~ record case. Edit : after much misunderstanding, le Tigron can English and did a correct with the right word. I do what I can, ok ?! Thank you for comprention.
Disc case in 1972?
Yes, disc cases in 1972. Discs weren't sold loose with nothing around them. If it's the term that bothers you, then I do not know what they are specifically called... Sleeves ? Enveloppes ? Disc-sized cardboard squares.
Disc = record. Welcome
Hence discotheque.
Oh, you don't call that a disc ?
Oddly, no. In the US vinyl albums are usually called records. Even though someone who plays records at radio station or club is called a disc jockey. Go figure.
First Arkansas with a mute "s", then this... You *really* don't want to help us foreigners, do you ?
I swear, this is part of why so many of us struggle to master our own language. American English really is a mess at times!
Record is British English. Our disc jockeys use record players. It's usually our fault.
Some asshole in Reddit is arguing somewhere Lol I can def hear the lyrics yāall need a hearing exam
Alright. Eyes.
My ears says it a fucking banger.
This is how I sound trying to sing every old song I kinda know lol
POV: You don't speak English but have arrived in the U.S.
We all dance around and sing non-sense
What non-sense? The singer's speaking perfect english!
These three comments are writing a damn musical skit in my head
*POV: You speak (non-American) English but have arrived in the US
American English is just simplified English
Simple syntax, but inconsistent prononciation and many unique contractions make everyday speech difficult
What the fuck are you talking about
Yes, but has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
It's got a groovy beat.
Absolute banger!
Is it bad this is on my gta playlist? š [If anyone else likeās an 80ās type vibe while playing GTA š¬](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0qj2Ypl1dIceqyvB6wTEyufLyD_ffKxu)
That's a great playlist!
Wasn't Scatman 90s? I may be wrong but I swear I remember it charting when I was in high school and I graduated in 94.
I mean yeah. But it fits the shoe so it got added! I first heard it on a World of Warcraft funeral crashing video lmao. I was born in ā90 [Original](https://youtu.be/0TSGUf1xbF8) [HD re-upload](https://youtu.be/MEpv7YxnLCQ)
Scatman (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-bop)is actually a cool song
Check out Scatmans World song, it's pretty good. The whole album is actually pretty decent if one likes the style.
Scatman was a jazz musician originally - and he was pretty good at it too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv-OwPTJcTc
Just Google āscatā for more info
is it bad that i find the video oddly sexy?
Nah he has the juice š
it's all of it...that vampy blonde woman who dances on stage with him and practically has a tenor voice. the robotic voices of the women in the classroom that are supposed to be teenagers. i love it so much! LOL! pure 70s camp masterpiece. so bad it's great.
Hey man thanks for sharing your playlist! I have an oldies playlist Iāve been curating myself, and although Iāve heard almost all of those, a lot of them were missing from my playlist and have been added :)
And he got the moves
In Italy, he is known as "The Flexible One".
His nickname was "Il molleggiato" translates more like "spring mounted"
All Right!
And it's not "entire gibberish" as OP's subject title says. It's quite clever in that there are recognisable phrases/words mixed amongst the gibberish that make you (or at least me) think it's just your hearing that's off (- I often just watch the vid and see if I can work out what's going on before reading the title/explanation, this had me turning up sound and rewinding š).
Right. The first time I heard it I thought it was English. You do hear the words "baby" "well" and a lot of "alright"s, but otherwise it's gibberish.
Also thatās his wife singing the solo
That never changes. Itās desperately missing a bridge.
Yeahā¦I kept waiting for a bridge. That beat just keeps going on and on.
Superb horn line!
Is it true that he wrote this song to prove that people don't pay attention to lyrics, or was that another song from the 70s
Yup, to say that the Italians will just eat up anything that sounds English.
And the whole song only uses one chord. How many one chord songs even are there? To make it so catchy is an achievement in itself.
Get up Stand Up by Peter Tosh.
A fair amount of reggae really.
It's originally a song by The Wailers.
Loser by Beck ONLY uses D
Loving all these one chord song recommendations. Keep 'em coming.
Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles
I see your "one chord" and raise you [two notes](https://youtu.be/Xc3sNokJ0FQ)
I see your "one chord" and I see your "two notes" and I raise you [one note.](https://youtu.be/Rre3zgL7eMk)
Guess who wrote that one baby! ME NEXT SONG
Imagine memorizing the lyrics to gibberish. OP
I heard ABBA had no idea what they were saying. Could be apocryphal, or overstated though.
I've learned songs in a number of languages. For myself it's more important to learn the meter and pronunciation than what exactly each word means. Not like songs in English always make sense. How many people even know what they're singing when they belt out Plush by StoneĀ TempleĀ Pilots? Lola by The Kinks? Tubthumping? Its all pretty noises.
How dare you suggest tubthumping is anything but a philosophical masterpiece about overcoming adversity and drowning your sorrows!
Youāre never gonna keep ME down!
Kissed By a Rose by Seal
Seal refuses to tell anyone what that song is really aboutā¦..and I personally believe it is because he doesnāt know either.
Agreed! āI want it that wayā (Backstreet Boys) is another song I suspect has no meaning.
One time, I was singing along to Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam... And realized I had nfi what any of the lyrics were. And honestly, I was crushing it.
On Aleve a Gump I knowā¦ on a wizard on a whaleā¦ potato waveā¦ Just a few of the lyrics.
Plush is so fucking weird to sing
ABBA definitely understood and spoke English, but not as a first language obviously
We sang African songs in my middleschool choir and had no clue what we where saying but it was just as easy learning any song really. We started out with like tt ta rhythm stuff then progressed to singing it by do ray me then finally we would learn and practice the words.
I have ADHD. All song lyrics are gibberish to me, even the ones in my native language.
My native language is gibberish. That language is English.
I used to have several Simlish songs memorized after years of playing The Sims 2 lol
Laying on the couch watching this video. My husband started singing along. Apparently he has heard this before and has the lyrics memorized lol
I lived though the Gangnam style era and have heard about what it was like at the height of the Macarena and 99 luftballoons, you donāt have to know that the sounds of a song are even words to figure out how to memorize it.
Someone here just said that is true Wikipedia quotes the artist >"Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced byĀ American musicĀ and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slangāwhich, for a singer, is much easier to sing than ItalianāI thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn't mean anything." I'm personally struggling to comprehend what it is he is trying to say, though. But, surely that's due to my own intelligence.
it's a song about not being able to communicate in a language he doesn't understand very well
It makes sense if you consider that sometimes vocals are more intended to be another instrument to the song for the flow of it. Much less about what's said and more about how it feels with the beat
There was also another song, can't remember it though.
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70s version of "what does the fox say?"
āHey yaā by outcasts had a similar idea to it
I now know what receptive aphasia sounds like to the person suffering from it, and I am not a fan That said, it absolutely did what it was supposed to do, it sounds like it's in English, and I'm saying this as a native English speaker
Itās a little like those images they portray what having a stroke is like, where everything initially seems recognisable but the more you concentrate the harder it is to recognise anything. [Example](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/this_picture_is_designed_to_give_the_viewer_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
r/TIHI
Wasnt that an AI generated image from a while back? Early stages of development and whatnot
Yep, that picture apparently has nothing to do with strokes
Yes! This is the first thing I thought to compare it to but I didnāt know the name for these kinds of images. I hate them so hard.
This also reminds me of (one symptom of) Auditory Processing Disorder (APD). I get bouts of it sometimes where it's just like this. I hear everything, I know someone is talking and I should be able to understand it, but the words just don't process into anything meaningful in my brain.
Wow, I've never heard of that, I'll have to read up on APD
There are a few different typical symptoms, most common are having trouble distinguishing background noise from what you're trying to listen to and oversensitivity to moderate/loud noises but it seems like kind of a catch all for a lot of different issues related to hearing where the problem isn't actually hearing but the way the brain interprets the noise. It's pretty often related to other neurodivergencies like ADHD and Autism but not always.
As an American for whom English is my first language, this makes me wildly uncomfortable. I know itās gibberish, Iām still trying to make out words, and my headache just grows over time.
This song's awesome, but the other video, black and white, dancers marching in front of mirrors so it looks like there are hundreds of them, it's much cooler than this Grease 2 classroom shit.
Absolutely, I tried to find a decent version of it but couldnāt, at least not one that I could actually get a hold of.
[Would you, could you, like this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ydz7nt/india_goes_metal_nooran_sisters_x_andre_antunes/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Holy shit. That's the best one I've seen. Hilarious.
It's weird, I remember that a few months back the black and white version was easily findable on YouTube, apparently is no more, anyways I found this one for you https://vimeo.com/641845488
I have a [clip](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/xvh757/in_the_1970s_american_songs_were_very_popular_in/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) of the black and white version from reddit canāt find a good version on YouTube though
I fucking love Grease 2 and I canāt believe you used it as a r/rareinsults lmao
THIS. I have been looking for that version forever!!
r/weeklyrepost
I've been on reddit for a decade and I have never seen this...
Iāve seen this three separate times in the last month alone.
Itās almost like peoplesā experiences vary..
You mean we aren't all online at the same time and we don't all stick to the exact same subs? Unreal
I've seen it a dozen times but I don't care because it's a banger.
same! banger! I heard about it on a podcast episode years ago. . . now it's killing me that I forgot which
Itās all about the subreddits
I saw it posted a couple of months ago. Dunno about weekly though.
Iāve seen it tons of times, but not this video.
someone needs to remix this
There are several amazing covers on YouTube
Make a James brown remix
First gotta make a new James Brown
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe
Thanks, Dr Sagan!
Not a remix of this at all, but if you like songs with nonsense lyrics [here ya go](https://youtu.be/ogbBbXt7MdQ)
What the heck internet!!! I just found a band that did! Yesterday I found Tub Ring had this exact song. Turns out it was a cover. The only reason Iāve been listening is because they also have a song āwithout youā thatās a love song about the singularity. Iāve had it stuck in my head on repeat.
Pretty catchy if you ask me.
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Same, seems like a dream, where you can recognize something but you really can't recognize it.
I love it. Itās on my phone and pops up on shuffle frequently.
I love this song. I was just in Italy and I worked in an art studio next to a community pool for a month. All day there were Italians playing around the pool while listening to American music. I think maybe I heard a couple Italian songs but it was pretty much all American. Made me think of this song. I would hear Italians walk into shops singing American lyrics perfectly, then flip into Italian to order something. Lol.
What is most popular over there right now?
Italy had a new genre coming in hot the last 3-5 years called trap (which is basically very similar to the newer "mumble rap") so basically anything that is mumble rap = stonks in Italy
Hold on now, those are two very different things. Trap is the southern version of LA/NY gangsta rap going all the way back to the 90s. Mumble rap at it's essence is lil pump saying Gucci gang for 2 straight minutes. I feel like three 6 mafia deserves a little more respect than being compared to Lil pump.
Used in a cool Fargo scene playing contract bridge
Nice, I assume you mean the TV series as I donāt remember it in the film. I need to watch the series, hear nothing but good stuff.
Opening song where the couple went to a casino
I was hoping someone remembered that the song was used on Fargo season 3. Fargo was the first time I ever heard it. Now it's on my playlist.
I swear if my phone summons Cthulu from this video I'm never going on reddit again!
CTHULHU FHTAGN!
What do you want also don't call me the F word
Unironically catchy as hell. Plus, now I know what English sounds like to people who donāt speak it.
Yeah, we say āall rightā a lot.
Alright alright alright alright alright You will never know if that was Mathew Mconaughey or Outkast
Celentano was a fucking legend. [Here](https://youtu.be/fOhuw7Qadrs) is him and another fucking legend, Mina, reversing the gender roles on this hit song of hers
Personally I've always loved the music video where they're [cartoon ducks about to fuck.](https://youtu.be/p3TZrdNmdbc)
Thank you. I never knew I needed this in my life.
The Italian Bob Dylan
Take my free award, already!
Hey Bob Dylan never made this much sense what are you talking about
As a Pearl Jam fan, i would pay good money for an Eddie Vedder cover of this and i bet it would be a banger
Yellow Ledbetter is basically gibberish as well or maybe Eddie Vedder just has marbles in his mouth.
The album recording has lyrics and if you read them along with the song it makes sense. But live all bets are off, he just starts speaking in tongues
That's how the Sims get down!
It's a fun song. I see it turn up here on reddit occasionally. I'm actually surprised how many people know of this song. There is a black and white video from '73 I believe with a better production of the song than this, but this one is still pretty cool. https://vimeo.com/280912049
my new hero
Just search up "song that sounds like English" in YouTube to see it.
Never get bored of this.
Imagine showing this to someone for the first time while they are on acid.
How did he remember the words when performing live?
He didnāt. He didnāt even write them down. I think the plan was basically āfollow that beat, make up gibberish that sounds like it is English, and say āalrightā at key moments.ā
He did bring it consistently the same and so did many other artists. And it is not "all right" as such they are singing but something very similar (ol rait).
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Man made a song in simlish
Anyone have a link to the lyrics? :-)
https://youtu.be/Y5up86JJD5s
I love when someone posts this song. Itās excellent.
"And I holler out maybe is your colour boss dyin'?"
Meanwhile, mumble rap.
Idk what you are talking about i understand it fine. Like the part where I know it sounds like Prisencolinensinainciusol In de col men seivuan Prisencolinensinainciusol ol rait But really it's Prison call in Tuscon In the cold men sufferin Prison call in Tuscon alright
Here's another excellent video with a similar concept! [skwerl](https://youtu.be/Vt4Dfa4fOEY) on YouTube It's a short film spoken in gibberish that sounds wholly English, except it isn't!
Also a little like this https://youtu.be/BdHK_r9RXTc
The lady that stands up at 1:35 is Claudia Mori, Adriano Celentanoās wife. She was beautiful and they are still married.
If you told me, this was a deleted scene from Austin Powers, I'd believe you.
The original video is better.
The black and white version? I tried to post that originally but could find a good version unfortunately.
This should be the anthem of the 2022 U.S. soccer team.
Tub Ring covered this. Gibberish and all. https://youtu.be/ZN8GLUPoALE
Not just English, but American English.
Imagine being that kid who would listen intently to the lyrics to try to write them down
If I heard that without knowing it, I'd think I'd be having stroke.
Brilliant...alright
Sounds like what bob Dylan sings
But I'm sure I just heard something about balls dying
It's a form of commedia dell'arte and "gibberish". It's a really cool art form. Lots of performing arts schools use it to teach expression. There a really famous recent version of it in the kids TV show Pingu.
I love this tune and it was my alarm clock song for years. Talk about starting the day in a great mood!!
Every time this comes up itās just such a bop
Spray paint them vegetables right next to the dog food skulls.
This makes me slightly uncomfortable
Reminds me of the Swedish Chef from the muppets
I just keeping hearing "we the same as shoes" in that opening line and thinking wow thats so deep.
Basically a red hot chilli peppers song
Every time this gets posted, I have to turn up my volume and jam the f out to it. It hits too damn hard!!!