Date: November 19th, 2002 09:56 am (UTC)From:jinty
I know this was a long time ago, but after all I've been away...
Without impugning your preference for English and your theory that it's easy to learn because there are so many ways of saying things (which I think is a nice point), I can't agree that English is now the only language for music. It very much depends what sort of music you're talking of. For pop, punk, rock -- yes. Rock in portuguese always sounds a bit fundamentally daft. But samba and bossa nova sound equally daft in English -- Sting's translation of 'Insensatez' into 'How Insensitive' is a butchering of a great song. And Brazilian party music is delightfully full of really really basic double entendres that are so straightforward they're almost single entendres, and it goes with the language too.
Also -- Fado from Portugal -- if it's Portuguese (as opposed to Brazilian) it has to be mournful. So even within a language there are regional/cultural distinctions.
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Re: About English language
Date: November 19th, 2002 09:56 am (UTC)From:Without impugning your preference for English and your theory that it's easy to learn because there are so many ways of saying things (which I think is a nice point), I can't agree that English is now the only language for music. It very much depends what sort of music you're talking of. For pop, punk, rock -- yes. Rock in portuguese always sounds a bit fundamentally daft. But samba and bossa nova sound equally daft in English -- Sting's translation of 'Insensatez' into 'How Insensitive' is a butchering of a great song. And Brazilian party music is delightfully full of really really basic double entendres that are so straightforward they're almost single entendres, and it goes with the language too.
Also -- Fado from Portugal -- if it's Portuguese (as opposed to Brazilian) it has to be mournful. So even within a language there are regional/cultural distinctions.