Re: OT: Code-switching in music
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 6, 2007, 1:30 |
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On Oct 5, 2007, at 4:21 PM, li_sasxsek@NUTTER.NET wrote:
>> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of caeruleancentaur
>
>>> li_sasxsek@... wrote:
>>
>>> I'm just wondering if anyone else out there could provide some
> good
>>> examples of music with lyrics that involve some type of
>>> code-switching or mixing in of "foreign" words or phrases.
>>
>> Are you talking about macaronic verse?
>
> Yes, I suppose that's basically what I'm looking for. I wasn't
> aware of the term used.
>
>> How old are you? If you're
>> old enough you will remember Nat King Cole's song "Darling, Je
> Vous
>> Aime Beaucoup."
>
> Sorry, that was probably a bit before my time, but this is the right
> idea of the type of thing I'm looking around for.
Also from the Clash, there's "Should I stay or should I go?". In it,
the Spanish lines are sung kind of in the background after Joe
Strummer sings each line in English; it's hard to make out the
lyrics, and I'm not sure how close to "good" Spanish they are. There
are some pages with lyrics on the net, but there are terrible typoes
in the Spanish.
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