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Italian singer released song in the 70s with nonsense English-sounding lyrics

janpen 6y ago
Elton John made one around the same time https://youtu.be/lFyvW4DYq88 https://youtu.be/lFyvW4DYq88
- sparky_z 6y ago
  Though that one uses actual English words. It's only gibberish at the semantic level.
matthewsinclair 6y ago
There's another version of the song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8&ab_channel=LePietreRotolanti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8&ab_channel=LePie...
matthewsinclair 6y ago
And if you want to sing along, the songs is called "Prisencolinensinainciusol" and you can find the lyrics here: https://genius.com/Adriano-celentano-prisencolinensinainciusol-lyrics https://genius.com/Adriano-celentano-prisencolinensinaincius...
- hhas01 6y ago
  In case you’ve ever wondered how Lorem Ipsum sounds when set to music. I can imagine phonologists playing this song at all their parties. (If anyone’s ever been to a phonologists’ party, please confirm.)
  - hhas01 6y ago
    Possibly slightly related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzo45hWXRWU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzo45hWXRWU
hhas01 6y ago
Brilliant. Also Sigur Rós and Richard Feynman.
- paul_f 6y ago
  If I remember correctly, Sigor Ros created a new language whereas this is intentional gibberish.
  - hhas01 6y ago
    I believe it’s gibberish too†: https://18seconds.sigurros.com/band/faq.php https://18seconds.sigurros.com/band/faq.php what language does jónsi sing in? on von, ágætis byrjun and takk, jónsi sang most songs in icelandic but a few of the songs were sung in 'hopelandic'. all of the vocals ( ) are however in hopelandic. hopelandic (vonlenska in icelandic) is the 'invented language' in which jónsi sings before lyrics are written to the vocals. it's of course not an actual language by definition (no vocabulary, grammar, etc.), it's rather a form of gibberish vocals that fits to the music and acts as another instrument. jónsi likens it with what singers sometimes do when they've decided on the melody but haven't written the lyrics yet. many languages were considered to be used on ( ), including english, but they decided on hopelandic. hopelandic (vonlenska) got its name from first song which jónsi sang it on, hope (von). tracks 7-9 on takk are in hopelandic. -- † which doesn’t bother me as I can’t understand the words to most songs anyway:)
karmakaze 6y ago
I want this to be in karaoke catalogs!

Elton John made one around the same time https://youtu.be/lFyvW4DYq88 https://youtu.be/lFyvW4DYq88

sparky_z 6y ago
Though that one uses actual English words. It's only gibberish at the semantic level.

There's another version of the song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8&ab_channel=LePietreRotolanti https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8&ab_channel=LePie...

matthewsinclair 6y ago

And if you want to sing along, the songs is called "Prisencolinensinainciusol" and you can find the lyrics here: https://genius.com/Adriano-celentano-prisencolinensinainciusol-lyrics https://genius.com/Adriano-celentano-prisencolinensinaincius...

hhas01 6y ago
In case you’ve ever wondered how Lorem Ipsum sounds when set to music. I can imagine phonologists playing this song at all their parties. (If anyone’s ever been to a phonologists’ party, please confirm.)
- hhas01 6y ago
  Possibly slightly related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzo45hWXRWU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzo45hWXRWU

hhas01 6y ago

Brilliant. Also Sigur Rós and Richard Feynman.

paul_f 6y ago
If I remember correctly, Sigor Ros created a new language whereas this is intentional gibberish.
- hhas01 6y ago
  I believe it’s gibberish too†: https://18seconds.sigurros.com/band/faq.php https://18seconds.sigurros.com/band/faq.php what language does jónsi sing in? on von, ágætis byrjun and takk, jónsi sang most songs in icelandic but a few of the songs were sung in 'hopelandic'. all of the vocals ( ) are however in hopelandic. hopelandic (vonlenska in icelandic) is the 'invented language' in which jónsi sings before lyrics are written to the vocals. it's of course not an actual language by definition (no vocabulary, grammar, etc.), it's rather a form of gibberish vocals that fits to the music and acts as another instrument. jónsi likens it with what singers sometimes do when they've decided on the melody but haven't written the lyrics yet. many languages were considered to be used on ( ), including english, but they decided on hopelandic. hopelandic (vonlenska) got its name from first song which jónsi sang it on, hope (von). tracks 7-9 on takk are in hopelandic. -- † which doesn’t bother me as I can’t understand the words to most songs anyway:)

karmakaze 6y ago

I want this to be in karaoke catalogs!