The Deep Roots of an Italian Song That Sounds Like English - But Is Just Nonsense

crimsonaudio · Mar 2, 2019

Haha, this is great!

The Deep Roots of an Italian Song That Sounds Like English - But Is Just Nonsense

day-day · Mar 3, 2019

A must see video. Any chance this is Klingon?

BUT THE ROOTS OF CELENTANO’S song go much further back than the end of World War II. “What Celentano is doing, inventing a nonsense language, was already done by Dante and by medieval comedians before him,” says Simone Marchesi, who teaches French and Italian medieval literature at Princeton University. And that practice, Marchesi explains, goes back even further, to the Old Testament.

Bodhisattva · Mar 3, 2019

LOL! Just played the video with the volume up so it would get my daughter's attention in the other room. She hollers back, "Dad, are you playing music by the muppets?" :cool2:

Go Bama · Mar 3, 2019

Absolutely hilarious! I had to play twice for my wife and daughter.

This is how my mind hears rap.

crimsonaudio · Mar 3, 2019

day-day said:
A must see video. Any chance this is Klingon?

I love the how the particulars in our lives directly affect so many facets, even subtly, like this:

“Rock or pop music is often arranged in ‘common time,’ a rhythmic pattern made of four beats with an emphasis on the second and fourth beat,” says Simone Lenzi, an Italian writer and frontman of Tuscan rock band Virginiana Miller. “That pattern goes very well with the English language, which is mostly made of short and monosyllabic words that can easily be arranged on four beats.” Italian, on the other hand, is mostly made of longer words—only about 2 percent of the most-used words are monosyllabic—making it more suited to arias than rock or pop. For example, Tracy Chapman’s “You got a fast car” translates as “Tu hai una macchina veloce.”

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