[Multilingual Monday Music] Foreign covers, vol. 7572

[aadroma]

Today we look at two popular English-language songs, covered in other languages:

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アンジェラ・アキ / Angela Aki - Kiss From A Rose

Angela is a popular singer, songwriter, and piano player in Japan, and here she covers Seal's song of the same title, with two thirds of the lyrics adapted into English. I say adapted as, though the basic idea of giving into

Comments

[bosendorfer_boy]

I really enjoyed that rendition of Kiss from a Rose. Thanks for sharing that!

[bosendorfer_boy]

Okay, that was a pretty awesome interpretation of Hallelujah, as well.

Just curious, and I should probably already know this after all these years; you're fluent in Hebrew, yes? Do you understand sung Hebrew without any difficulty?

[aadroma]

I'm DECENT in Hebrew; I wouldn't say exactly FLUENT, but I can get by, certainly. Sung Hebrew's a bit more difficult as it's more terse usually than spoken modern Hebrew but it's not so bad ...

[bosendorfer_boy]

Okay, gotcha. I'm more or less fluent in Spanish, but I often have difficulty understanding Spanish lyrics.

[kumazuki]

I cannot express how much I love you!

[aadroma]

Oh, honey. (HUG) I love you too.

(But really, what did I do? :: laugh :: )