What does English sound like to Italians? Listen to this 1972 pop song

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Yeah yeah . . . but I still can’t resist watching it, every time :smile_cat:

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This must be the reverse of the post’s vid. (Sounds kinda like Italian/French to me…even the chorus! /s)

(yeah I know it’s French)

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I actually watched it yesterday, and was wondering when it would turn up here next!

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As Italian I heard this song so many times in my life and it still sounds good

I have to cite a previous and inverse case that was “Je cherche après Titine” sung by Charlie Chaplin, where there are mixed words sounding like french, italian and spanish languages

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I achieve the same effect by just listening to Bob Dylan.

(Just kidding, I’m a huge Dylan fan.)

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I like him better the more he shrinks. Give me scrawny, wiry Dylan any time.

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All the b&w versions got yanked a couple of years ago, and only the dreadful one with that questionable classroom introduction were available.

glad to see this back up.

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That video made about as much sense as some songs that are supposedly in English already…

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And hence we get the [Swedish bookstore scene][1] in the movie Top Secret!.

(Oops! Someone should’ve scrolled down…)
[1]: https://youtu.be/uuYTVl0iOkk

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I don’t know why, but I once tried to make a transcript of this song using actual English words…

“Prisencólinensináinciúsol” by Adriano Celentano

Preason call-in ends inane choose-all

You de call May to say one
Preason call-in ends inane choose-all, all right

We do say in the shoes now on hold been the same
And the whole rate maybe get the colour balls dyed
Trrr – checkin’ somebody be key the Cold War, baby
Sustain yeah blue Joe hoe

We been saying the shoes now on hold been the same
In the whole rate maybe if the colour balls dyed
Whether it’s the same age you and copy of steam
You never travel now, but judging out flavours just jam

You do coming up to us no bite for not show, hubba hubba
Just can’t a lot o’ coping of time
Hoping if is to stand why the shoes are go, my man
You would costume a mutt called No-brainer Girls

Hope, someday

Ay eyes my sense let
And he goes up going peas, oh, eyes
You could call May to say one
Preason call-in ends inane choose-all, all right

Ay eyes mine senseless
And he goes up going pays, oh, eyes

Preason call-in ends inane choose-all, all right

Well, I sure don’t sleeping neither giving the same
To lie the tissing all but tough how to get dame let faced go
We been seeing in the same room, the shoes are come up here
This is two of a kind and number four one to grind just ain’t

I ice my chance let
And it films up going pays, oh, eyes
You do call maybe say one
Preason call-in ends inane choose-all, all right

You da is you not feel as you kick out o’ mean door
There’s flavour of ash a-lyin’ bleedin’ y’all

Aye eyes my sense let
And he goes up going peas, oh, eyes
You could call May the same on
Preason call-in ends inane choose-all, all right

You da is you not feel as you kick out o’ mean door
There’s flavour of ash a-lyin’ bleedin’ y’all

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FWIW, the blonde dancing is Raffaella Carra, who had a couple of big international hits on her own (and is still belting them out). She used to sing with the diminutive Topo Gigio quite a lot on Italian TV. However, she’s not singing here, just lip-syncing, the singer is Celentano’s wife Claudia Mori (who appears in the schoolroom video for the song). I would love to know the story behind they didn’t either have Mori dancing or Carra singing on this video.

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Wow! Have the patent trolls heard about this? Somebody warn Bad Lip Reading.

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I didn’t know Dr. Who could sing!

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I hear English like this all the time and I’m a native speaker.

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