Re: OT: Code-switching in music

Then there's always this ridiculously raunchy Sublime song:

Mucho gusto me llamo bradley,
Im hornier than ron jeremy,
And if you wanna get popped in your knee,
Just wipe that look off your bati face

You hate me cause I got what you need,
A pretty little daughter that we call mixie, and,
If you wanna get beat physically
It will be over in a minute if ya

So she told me to come over and I took that trip
And then then she pulled out my mushroom tip
And when it came out, it went drip drip drip
I didnt know she had the g.i. joe, kung foo grip

And it went - uhh
And the girl caress me down- uhh
And thats that lovin sound- it went uhh
And the girl caress me down- uhh
And thats that lovin sound

When I kiss mixie she makes me feel horny,
Cause Im the type of lover with the sensitivity,
When she kiss my neck and tickle me frenzy,
The right kind of lover on sunday morning.

En el otro lado es donde vivi,
Con mi hijita, que se llama mixie,
Y su hermana, si me quiere,
Y ya horita, tenemos un bebe,

Sus padres sus tios me trataron matar
But they did not get too far
Un poco despues tuve que regresar
Con un chingo de dinero
Cause you know Im a star

Me fui a costa rica
Para tomar y sufear
Placticaba con la rasa
Cause they know who we are

Si no so dio cuenta
Then I bet you never were
You must be a muneca
If you're still standing still

And it went - uhh
And the girl caress me down- uhh
And thats that lovin sound- it went uhh
And the girl caress me down- uhh
And thats that lovin sound

Me gusta mi reggae,
Me gusta punk rock,
Pero la cosa que me gusta mas es panochita,

Ponga la nalga en la aire if you know who you are,
Ponga la nalga en la aire y empieza gritar,

No tenga miedo, Im your papi,
Take your chones, y les mandan a mi,
Levanta, levanta, tienes que gritar,
Levanta, levanta, tienes que bailar.

And it went - uhh
And the girl caress me down- uhh
And thats that lovin sound- it went uhh
And the girl caress me down- uhh
And thats that lovin sound

-S


On 10/5/07, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:
> 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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www.terjemar.net

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