Considering the Totally Tunes about lyrics in French was kinda popular, and it's not like I have a lot of ideas in mind, I said "why not" and here's an article about music with full or partial lyrics in Italian. It's the language of love, the language of turtle-murdering plumbers, and a language I can't speak for the life of me. But hey, it sounds pretty in song.
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| Mamma mia! via Pexels |
As usual, we open this article with the song that gives this week's Totally Tunes its subtitle, a song written for a movie, which was later used in other movies, and endlessly referenced in popular culture:
This song is possibly one of the most famous Eurovision entries of all time, even though it didn't actually win the competition, and was covered endlessly by countless artists:
Speaking of Eurovision (and that's pretty much where all my foreign-language song knowledge comes from), I can't help but to post this really fun tune of the 2017 edition, complete with a dancing gorilla onstage.
Also Italian, but from a much older edition of the contest, is this superb Nicola di Bari song.
To close, let's give the highlight to an adorable stop-motion opera man:
What's your favorite song in Italian, or with some lyrics in the language? What languages would you like to see covered in this feature?
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