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Friday
23Oct2009

Prisencolinensinainciusol

DateFriday, 10.23.09 @ 03:00AM

 

Those who think rap music began in 1979 haven't heard the 1972 song Prisencolinensinainciusol, by Adriano Celentano. The lyrics are neither English nor Italian; they are pure gibberish. Someone called this "what English sounds like to a non-English speaking person." Okay then. (via Metafilter) 


 

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Cool!
10.23.09 @ 08:05AM | Unregistered CommenterBrother Bill
I am not a native English speaker but I have been exposed to the language since childhood...and this sounds just downright weird.
10.23.09 @ 08:12AM | Unregistered CommenterJay-R
Maybe it should be no surprise that the Romans, as it were, arrived at perfect forms of disco. (All that practice in the Arena.) This makes me feel better about speaking fake Japanese and Navajo.
10.23.09 @ 09:01AM | Unregistered CommenterDan
Haha...if I hadn't known this was gibberish I would have thought I was just having trouble making out the lyics. The sounds could definitely be a part of English words. In fact, my brain was trying really hard to make sense of they were saying!
10.23.09 @ 09:09AM | Unregistered CommenterKelsey
Kelsey,

I was thinking the same thing. It's like hearing a song for the first time in a club and you're really drunk, you just think you know what they're saying.
10.23.09 @ 10:14AM | Unregistered CommenterDude
That rocked my socks!
10.23.09 @ 11:46AM | Unregistered CommenterJohnny Cat
There is a Spanish hit song from 2002 with the title of "Aserejé / The Ketchup Song". The chorus of this song is the first few lines of Sugarhill's Gang's "Rapper's Delight" but quasi phonetically in Spanish. I know about both songs but found this entry in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ketchup_Song
10.23.09 @ 12:09PM | Unregistered CommenterRafael
I've often wondered how English sounds to a non-English speaker, which makes this song completely fascinating to me. And you can dance to it! :-D
10.23.09 @ 12:38PM | Unregistered CommenterMarMar
It sounds like your average Bob Dylan sng to me.
10.23.09 @ 01:11PM | Unregistered CommenterJustin
Lurv it!
10.23.09 @ 02:47PM | Unregistered CommenterThe Creature
The song is sooooo cool. The lyrics really do sound like they're in English. This song SHOULD have been a Eurovision entry, but I think the Italians have other things to do during 1972.
10.23.09 @ 09:57PM | Unregistered Commenterkarl
This is crazy! All html will be ESCAPED
10.24.09 @ 06:20AM | Unregistered Commenteryanyan
That's rather cool, and it really does sound like English when you don't understand it.
10.24.09 @ 10:14AM | Unregistered CommenterAnathème
how is this rap? sounds like every other song from the, cool with the "english" though
10.24.09 @ 08:44PM | Unregistered Commenternick
This is like listening to sting sing. You can only understand the last three words of a sentence.
ALL RAIGHH?
10.25.09 @ 10:25PM | Unregistered CommenterCrispy
Just listen to this song at full power on your stereo - it'll blow your head off! :-)
(try to get a better quality though than from this utoob vid)
10.26.09 @ 05:53PM | Unregistered CommenterP2
I like it, but I don't know why. Why is that you think?
11.05.09 @ 09:41PM | Unregistered CommenterWyatt
I have a hearing problem so almost all song lyrics sound like this to me, at least at first.

I love the beat and the brass. I can't stop listening to this. I wish there were a translation of the Italian in the classroom scene. Also, who is the woman with the dark brown hair in the classroom? She's featured as if we should know who she is.
11.16.09 @ 02:01PM | Unregistered CommenterTerraByte
Hi, I'm italian (so sorry for my english :P)

The traslation:
-Listen, professor...
-Yes, tell me.
-how come you wrote a song with strange words which mean nothing?

The dark haired woman is Claudia Mori, Adriano Celentano's wife.
11.17.09 @ 07:29PM | Unregistered CommenterRoberto
LOL
11.18.09 @ 01:28AM | Unregistered CommenterA
LOLLOL
11.18.09 @ 01:29AM | Unregistered CommenterAl
this is weird.
just weird.
11.18.09 @ 03:12AM | Unregistered Commenterrobb
I don't think it's the words that sound similar to American English, but the accent.
11.19.09 @ 02:50AM | Unregistered CommenterMJN
I DIG IT
01.01.10 @ 11:28AM | Unregistered CommenterCOSMO
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

there are many gibberish songs: Maresey dotes and dosie dotes and little lambsie-divesies,I am a walrus,gibberish by relient k, etc.

hurray for gibberish of all kinds .. anything to alter a mundane existence is welcome
01.01.10 @ 11:48AM | Unregistered CommenterGerund Dipthong MD
The question is, does he sing it the same--is the gibberish the same--every time?
01.01.10 @ 09:57PM | Unregistered CommenterMark
Yes, its the same every time. This was a big hit in Italy, and fans learned to sing along with it.
01.01.10 @ 10:06PM | Registered CommenterMiss Cellania

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