this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
41 points (93.6% liked)

interestingasfuck

8255 readers
60 users here now

interestingasfuck

founded 2 years ago
41
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 days ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/interestingasfuck@lemmy.world
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 4 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 points 2 days 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.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

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

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