Re: relient k song

Sally Caves wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert B Wilson" <han_solo55@...>
>
>
>>i just got the new relient k cd, "two lefts don't make a right ...but
>>three do", and there is a song on it called "gibberish".  i wrote before
>>that i read an interview in a magazine in which matt thiessen said that
>>the verses were written in a language that they made.  here are the words
>>to the song:
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> [pasted below]
>
>>is this actually a conlang?
>
>
> Is the misspelling intentional?  (Relient K)  My husband says there was a
> Plymouth "Reliant," whose design was called the "K" car, hence the "Reliant
> K."
>
> I'm interested in "musical glossolalia," as I'm calling it.  Have any of you
> heard of the Icelandic group Sigur Ros?  Rolling Stone Magazine wrote that
> the words in their "white" CD (blank white cover, blank white book with some
> sketchy gray stuff, blank white CD, no written script, much less
> translations) were sung in an "invented language."  It's delightfully
> strange, musically, and practically every "sentence" starts with /ju/.  For
> all I know, it might be just as unorganized as the following, but there is a
> great deal more structure that I'm hearing in Sigur Ros than in what I'm
> seeing in Relient K.
>
> Who's heard of Sigur Ros?  Or Ekova?  Now there's a beautiful CD featuring
> gorgeous songs in a fantasy language that Deirdre De Bois claims in her
> interview is purely musical.  Like Lisa Girrard.
And there's of course Magma, who sing their songs in Kobaïan, which they
made up themselves. Not sure how "complete" it is...I kind of doubt that
it has a grammar. It seems to just be a bunch of random words with
meanings assigned after the fact. However, they claim that the lyrics
tell a story, so who knows?

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