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I think something vaguely similar is happening in the Benny lava song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyC1BrQd6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyC1BrQd6g).
by fellellor 9y ago
I think something vaguely similar is happening in the Benny lava song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyC1BrQd6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyC1BrQd6g).
Though the song is coherent in Tamil, the bad audio makes the whole thing hilarious for someone who can't understand the language.
- sundarurfriend 9y agoThe so called "buffalax effect" (from the username of the guy who made the first such video). There are a few such videos, in different Indian languages. I'm a Tamil guy, and interestingly enough I can see the effect when it's a Hindi song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpROhIg9eA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpROhIg9eA, possibly nsfw wording), and understand how they hear it as those English words. But when it's a Tamil song like the one you linked, I can't hear the English words at all, however much I try to shut down the Tamil-hearing part of my brain.
- namanyayg 9y agoWow, I'm a Hindi speaker and the effect completely fails for me on the first track. However, Buffalax' Rajinikanth does sound completely true. I'm amazed how the two of us are completely perceiving opposite things in the same songs.
- smcl 9y agoAn early-00s example of this was a flash video called "Irrational Exuberance" where a guy animated an interpretation of the lyrics to a Japanese song called "Yatta" by Happatai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ljsPqIfPD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ljsPqIfPD0 I remember watching this in my teens and completely losing it at "Who dong hide", and "You look up to eating one calorie!?"