... English-speaking rock-n-roll sounds like to foreigners?

An Italian singer-songwriter wrote this "song" in
gibberish (makes no sense in any language), but
it allows us English-speaking folks to understand
how foreigners hear English rock-n-roll to their ears
(originally written in 1972)

(nice hook! almost sounds a bit "rappy")

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/17/gibberish-rock-song.html

Speaking of gibberish, this is a popular song by
the the Cocteau Twins (Scottish alternative band)
in which the lead singer admitted she's singing
gibberish - she said she's just singing "whatever
sounded right":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh83z5vIP0w


An added bonus - the Maple Leafs kicked butt on the Bruins :)

That is actually a pretty good song. lol

Agreed ...

The New Yorker described the song thusly:

"In 1970, an Italian man recorded a song long before
disco and rap that is very close to both, and then an
unnamed person choreographed it for a battalion of
dancers in a hall of mirrors. If the results are really as
miraculous as they seem right now...
[...]

The song was recorded at least twice for television broadcast.
The song has been described by scholars as "proto hip-hop".

A lot of groups do that, some English speaking bands have made up words throughout lyrics (Korn, Limp Bizkit, Disturbed). Another group is Era, very melodic and even intimidating music but it is all in a made up language...they composed the entrance theme for then Pride superstar Fedor Emelianenko: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbDy34DuypA

It really just deals with rhythm a lot of the time, I write lyrics and sometimes to set the pace you add in 'fill-in' terms or made up words.

He got that right! LOL


I know, because I can only speak (or understand) english since 1996.

Actually, a surprising number of us writer types have begun some of our best stuff with only cheerful-sounding gibberish. Many artists have told stories, like Paul McCartney's one about how Yesterday started out as Scrambled Eggs.

And to answer your question directly, no I never wondered what we sounded like to them. I spent moist of my early life, with the firm belief that all foreigners thought in English, and then spoke and sang in their weird way to confuse the rest of us.

singing in gibberish?

you've never heard of Eddy Vedder?

James Brown resembles that remark.

That's cute, but really, I've listened to Tejano and some Japanese stuff. Can't understand a thing, but good music is good music!! Like that Sukiyaki song.........