Apr 13 2011

Machete Love

Category: VideosChrisM @ 8:56 pm

Final post for today, I’ll stop polluting your RSS reader/twitter stream/facebook news for now 🙂
This is a YouTube video of a song that has had English subtitles added. Not normally my favourite style of music necessarily, but Ira skyped the URL earlier, so I had a look. What do you think?

2 Responses to “Machete Love”

  1. Alex C says:

    Intersting. It’s always strange seeing foreign lyrics in English; they seem to read funny, not like what you would put in an English song.

    • ChrisM says:

      I think part of it is the translation – you can easily fit English words into a song that mean the same thing as another set of lyrics, but one would sound like a perfect match, whilst the other would seem disjointed.

      Lets her hair hanging
      like weeds turn
      Mrs. Greengrass

      Greengrass for women

      puff trees turn tangerine
      The sky suddenly puff green
      your eyes breath in a state of mind
      is starting to fly

      … …
      In any case, wind is not so important for me to I

      Mama, do not want to make you cry

      So what did you think of the yellow steppe song?