This Vietnamese pop song about coronavirus is my new jam

[thomdunn]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/04/this-vietnamese-pop-song-about.html

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[Akimbo_NOT]

This hand wash earwig plays over and over and over and over and over in the restrooms of a local Northern Neck, Va. burger joint.

Sticks in your brain doesn’t it?

[Papasan]

I’m washing my hands right now.

[ludd]

Pho Bo will cure what ails yer !

[Scatterheart]

If they want to stop the virus they shouldn’t have written such a bop, ‘cause this is music that makes people wanna smash.

[Logolepsy]

John Oliver talked about this song and I really liked how he accepted the Tik Tok challenge:

[krylonultraflat]

There are now over 70 tracks on Spotify with the word “coronavirus” in the title and someone has already released an album called COVID-19.

Stop the timeline I’d like to get off please.

[MaiqTheLiar]

…or um…

[Hylyx]

Here’s this jam with english subtitles:

[TheGreatParis]

I like how the coronavirus is wearing a little crown. That’s just clever.

[Lightmatrix]

Wow, the spoken language sure sounds different than what the letters look like they might sound like.

[jeddak]

Muh muh muh my Corona!

[atl]

I’m pretty good on picking up a bit of language for travel – bar and train station stuff – but Vietnamese is really, really hard. I tried for part of a term and I couldn’t do squat with it.

[byron_p]

That’s OK, I suck so hard at languages that it took 6 goes to get 3 semester’s credit for German. And my Spanish is pitiable. I’m just happy that I can do English.

[deepeyes]

I remember watching a Vietnamese woman read a simple board book to her toddler. Nothing sounded remotely like I thought it would.

[Liam]

Doesn’t include the Minutemen’s Corona (the theme from Jackass) = fail