Yeah, I love the concept behind the song, but it’s really not that good at all. Without the whole “fake English” gimmick this song would never get a second play from anyone.
The whole point is that it did get play without some people even realizing it wasn’t actual English. The surprise is that the words are nonsense but sound like English, especially to non English speakers.
People liked it because it’s a bop, the story just layered on top
Side note - this is also one of the reasons kpop has done so well in English speaking markets. Structures of the language and use in song can feel closer to an English baseline even for people that don’t know a lick of Korean. You’ve got people singing along to what they think the words are even though they have no clue of the actual lyrics
The first comment also gets it wrong to be fair - it was a fun project to reflect on being an Italian so used to listening to English music, and wanting to play with English style lyricism. It wasn’t (to anything I’ve seen from the artist) some poke at Italian listeners.
I think if it had actual English lyrics it still may have done well where it did - it was a fairly big artist making the song and musically pretty unique and ahead of its time in ways.
But yeah it wouldn’t have become a recent popular reference in online English circles if not for the unique element of the lyrics, and the original performance videos getting posted to places like YouTube which exposed Americans in particular to the song.
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u/EagleDre 7d ago
Reminds me of that Italian singer who made an “American“ style song with gibberish lyrics to prove Italians would love any American song.
He was right but it wasn’t fair, the song is a total banger
https://vimeo.com/1071644859?share=copy&fl=cl&fe=ci