Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Did I really sing this?

Walking like a man, hitting like a hammer, she's a juvenile scam, never was a quitter, tasty like a raindrop...
And so on. Complete mystery lyrics. To Roxette's "The Look".

Nobody seemed to mind when happily singing a long to a bunch of randomly selected phrases put together purely based on words with syllibals matching the desired rhythm (confirmed by the songwriter). Or as Per Gessle said in the same interview not so long ago - the lyrics are surrealistic in a cool kind of way. And would never have been written by a native English speaker.

The unique use of language only available to somebody who is a non-native speaker.

Lesson learned: keep your personal touch and use it freely for any second (third or fourth) language you speak (or write).

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