The Hit Song with Pure Nonsense Lyrics
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- Опубликовано: 3 июн 2024
- In 1972, Italian pop star released a song called "Prisencolinensinainciusol" that topped the charts in several European countries. The song doesn't contain a single word of Italian, English, or any actual language for that matter. Celentano wanted to see whether Italian audiences would listen to anything provided it sounded American. The lyrics were pure nonsense, designed to mimic what American English sounds like to non-English speakers. SO nonsensical, that Celentano didn't even write down the lyrics, but instead improvised them over a looped beat, making it one of the first pop songs made using a loop. Five decades after its release, Celentano, at the age of 74, performed it to thousands of adoring fans, confirming this gibberish song is an international hit. #popmusic #gibberish #media
Here in Italy in the 50s 60s and so on , we have many singers who took inspirations from American Rock'n'Roll stars. Some of them were supposed to be almost copycats of Elvis Presley such Little Tony or Bobby Solo. They gave themself exotic nickname (nom de plume) and do look like Elvis. They have lot of success. Celentano was well above all of them since he doesn't merely copy but go a league of its own.
He is amazing! He was super popular in Ukraine and I grew up listening to his songs when we went on long car rides to visit our relatives there.
📝 Any more recs?
@@Shockguey From Little Tony : Cuore Matto. From Bobby Solo : Una Lacrima sul Viso. From Adriano Celentano : 24000 baci
little tony is (or better, was) sammarinese, not italian
Of course the Italian Elvis is named “little Tony”
Americans assumed it was in Italian and Italians assumed it was in English. That right there is some professional trolling
Everyone assumed it was English
I speak English I don't speak Italian. No, it's English
It's not trolling, it's not even a prank. The Italians just liked America after WW2 and wanted to make a song that sounded American to them.
Wasn't meant to be a joke. The real amazing thing is that we lead the world through culture, they actually invented a word for this, they call it "soft power." It's power through being a fucking jewel, leading the world purely through being awesome. Something we did all the way up to the 90's, into the 00's a bit.
Another example of it was Paris in WW2, when Hitler's general refused orders to torch the place because it was... Paris.
This is the best “What English sounds like to non-English speakers” I’ve came across. Most just use actual English words in the wrong order, this is much more realistic.
exactly, that's what i've been saying
IIRC this is because he actually studied how American English sounds and what sounds go together so it still follows the phonetic “rules” of English. An example of one of the rules is that vowel sounds tend to occur in a specific order when items are listed like tic tac toe vs toe tac tic
@@joshm9782 I aint reading allat
EDIT: people don't seem to fucking see my other reply that it was a FUCKING JOKE, MAYBE?
EDIT 2: people are fucking salty and keep shitting on this, but since you're wasting your time reading it, here's a little message, GET A FUCKING LIFE.
@@thisaccountisnotinuse he basically said that Cementano studied how English sound like to make the song better
There's an episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine called Little Green Men where the universal translators aren't working right, and it's not too dissimilar from this
Heard Prisencolinensinainciusol once as a teenager and was absolutely hooked. Not even slightly ashamed to say it’s one of my most played songs on iTunes and does decent numbers on my Spotify. It is gibberish, but it’s very catchy, very vibey gibberish
Me too!! I was looking up videos about non English speakers and how they heard English, and this MV popped up, and It was on repeat for 2 years.
You dudes have excellent taste
Is this how the world sees americans??😂😂😂😂
This is hilarious. Just like we pretend to speak Italian sounding nonsense, of course they do the same with us. I love it!
Your tiny brain really melted there, richt?
Actually, yeah. It sounds exactly how i hear american english when I'm not paying attention.
same for me too
Fr lol 😂
me listens to song: down in the town walking high
me not focusing: dop bo colopush igh
Same fr
real
he wondered if italian audiences would listen to anything sounding american, he just severely underestimated how much of an absolute banger he would create
Everybody underestimate the future.
Maybe he learned that Italian audiences would listen to anything HE made, regardless of what language he was singing it in. 🙏❤
@@MelancholyRequiem At some point Celentano could recite the phone directory and still sell millions...
@@jimbotron70 I like that! That's intense to me.
He has been popular with audiences in Italy and Europe for 60 years. He has worked with famous musicians in Europe and the US. He invented and was the first to use the loop beat that is now a standard in rock and pop music. That's talent.
This is awesome, hilarious, creative, and clever! He actually sounds American, without using words! This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen! Thank you!
A tv host in my country used to be a DJ at weddings. At 4AM, when everyone was drunk, she'd play Japanese music, and nobody realized. They'd just keep dancing.
To be honest, when you‘re drunk at 4am you don’t care about anything at all 😂
If it's catchy people will dance. No need to understand the lyrics.
😂😂😂
Bro came from The Sims 3
this is your first comment
He knows...
Jesus loves ya!
@@alissacrizler4908 me personally dont believe in god or jesus
@@alissacrizler4908yikes
Yeah, this often gets put on at 4am house party.
Poor all your souls for listening to that old crazy man.. we Italians know him very well unluckily 😮💨
@michelemonfrecola9225 What the hell did you just write?
@@imnotscammer7882 their stroke 😂
Jesus loves you so so very much!
@@-pyrosef- @imnotscammer7822 If you two can't read his reply I am genuinely concerned for your brain's health.
After 50 years, I still know that nonsense word by heart. Love Adriano, He was hilarious in his music as well, as his films. A genuine allround artist
Once you're a few blunts deep with some Italians you can be guaranteed that this and some Pino D'angio is gonna be queued up. It's marvellous.
Thats a hell of a troll
whatyatalkinabeet
@@nasion420 bruh
@@nasion420 beat me to it 😂
Imma call you Donny tha dealer🗣️🗣️
I didn't notice the profile pic or name😂
As a non-American, this is what English sounded to me when I first learned the language from TV shows
I'm eating potato chips.
No you don't @@keyboardkween8744
@@keyboardkween8744 were they good
@@FatKitty123 meh, too salty
@@keyboardkween8744 aww man, what brand tho
Celentano is in a league of his own
This man is a damn legend
As an American who is half asleep at 3:48am, this passes the "it sounds like English" test
As a person whose first language isn’t English… yeah, that’s pretty accurate. I like to listen to music on the background and this is exactly what any song sounds like in my head when I’m not paying attention to lyrics
As an person who firsts language is english it sounds like when someone talks to you when you don't hear then right
It sounds fine to me.
As a Brit, I can confirm this is what a Texan sounds like to me (Or a weaker version of Texan. More diluted? Idfk)
@@TheSpy605??? it’s still english I think you’re just deaf
@TheSpy605 that's prob german texan
How catchy songs with deep meanings sounded to me as a kid:
Well, since I'm not an English native speaker, that is 101% legit. Before learning English properly, all the songs I loved as a child sounded just like as this gibberish.
From time to time, I still find songs to which I haven't heard from a very, very long time, and I'm always surprised to listen to things that I would sing as "Da da da, da da da" but now actually understanding them... Sometimes I must say, I would prefer to remain ignorant. Some others, I like the song even more due to the beautiful lyrics
pretty much half of the lyrics in many songs sound gibberish to me because I can't separate the background music and singing sound that well
😂😂😂
Dude literally 😭 it’s like me, as an English speaker, listening to “Racing Into the Night” by YOASOBI without knowing what the actual song was about 💀💀
That's actually so relatable! And I used to try to copy them by singing gibberish
This guy is a master. He didn't write down the "lyrics," but he still performs the song a half-century later.
One more win for "songs are vibes, not lyrics" camp
It's in simlish
feet
My brain is actually making it make sense somehow and I could actually hear words
@@Litterally_mesame
@@kol.43wha
@@kevinlockwood5384feet. Just feet
As an english speaker, this is pretty much what id imagine what english sounds like to non-english speakers. Wonderfully done!
And I think you're right. I'm brazillian, I'm not fluent in english and often have trouble understanding what people are saying. When he started singing I felt like it was just another sentence in english I can't understand.
@@guilhermedeluca9229this is actually rango Tejano, a dialect from the panhandle/east Texas in the U.S.A. Notable speakers are: Jeffery Boomhauer III, Stock Actioneers, Kirt Cobain, and Mike Judge.
Chelentano: We ain't sayin too choose now, and hold build saying to build your get your bars dye(d).
A notable speaker of this is AvE@youtube.
American English* not actual english
I am not a native speaker, but speaker on a native level due to working and living abroad for decades. If I close my eyes it could really be English. There are still some US folk singers that I have trouble understanding (old records and sometimes friggin weird dialects).
@@kisakion same could be said for Mexican Spanish is not real Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese is not Portuguese, or Canadian French is not French, etc....
Proves it isn't WHAT you're saying, but more HOW you say it which grabs the attention... And anyway, this song absolutely slaps.
As an American and a mom this sounds like a toddler trying to tell me that they don’t want to take a nap but they want to eat chicken nuggets and watch paw patrol 🤔😂😂😂😂
dawg i speak english as a first language and i was still tweaking trying to make out words
same
That’s what I’m saying. I can’t imagine being high as balls hearing this completely out of context
@@broice9222 i wouldve actually thought they were speaking English it sounds so... uncanny?? like i hear words but also there's none
@@ImNotJonniIt's like the audio version of the uncanny valley effect. It's close enough to language that our brain feels uncomfortable when it can't make sense of it. It's like trying to remember the lyrics to a song you heard in a dream.
@@tjenadonn6158 I actually remember the lyrics of songs I hear in a dream. Funnily enough, if said song is in a foreign language, the lyrics truly are gibberish.
Interviewer: So what's this song about?
At the same time Celentano wrote the most based italian song with "Il ragazzo della via gluck".
I knew what song this was about before even clicking the thumbnail. I legit love the song. The night I discovered it, I listened to it about 20 times in a row while following along the written lyrics. Memorized a couple verses, then went and recited it to my wife. She said "are you having a stroke?"
LMAO
😂😂😂
😅😅😅
Please listen to Mike Reid from 'Eastenders' 80's version of it too
also watch the clip where Adriano tries to convince Will Smith, it's hilarious 😂
Music really isn’t about lyrics as much as some people think. It’s all about the vibe and feel more than anything.
Yes!!!! 💯
Yeah I don't pay attention to the lyrics most of the time. It's like the side of my brain in charge of making sense of sounds shuts down.
That's why I prefer Vocaloid; you don't have to know the lyrics to enjoy the songs. 😅
Metalhead here! Some bands yes, I don't need to know what Jens from Meshuggah is saying, but for a band like Haken or Periphery it's nice and helps improve the vibe. On the topic of Meshuggah, their song New Millenium Cyanide Christ has great lyrics and they are genuinely great lyricists
@@MSuyay it's just the beeps and the boops innit
The crazy thing is that this actually sounds like a conversation between some southerners in the USA. This guy also had moves ahead of his time.
This literally sounds like a song you'd hear on the Pop station in Sims
In a similar vein, I remember there's a Japanese band out right now that purposely sings in what is pretty much gibberish. They said it was because growing up, their favorite acts were American and they couldn't really understand what they were saying, but they could still feel a sense of emotion and resonance within the songs. So now they are trying to recapture that sensation for others, where you can feel a sense of emotion and connection to their songs, regardless of language barriers
I looked it up because I was curious! Is it Kikagaku Moyo?
Is it Dizzy Joghurt? Because I had the same vibe when listen to their songs
There is also a band called Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra that writes all their songs in a made up language.
"where you can feel a sense of emotion and connection to their songs, regardless of language barriers"
guess whatever that band was smoking was the same shit toru minegishi was making the music for splatoon /lh
@@LimeyLassen ALICE SCHACH IS PEAKKKKK
I have auditory processing issues and I've finally found the best representation of what I hear when I listen to a song for the first time without looking at the lyrics
Someone asked me once what they were saying in a song (a really fast one mind you).
I wanted to disappear.
I honestly do not know what causes it but I like it.
You do realise that most of us struggle to understand words in songs unless the lyrics are written down? Unless it's a slow song or sung very clearly?
Why is everyone desperate to claim they have conditions that give them quirky symptoms?
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@RS-zp6hb
That is an actual condition, i dont know why your first response is to be an asshole over someone sharing their experience.
@@RS-zp6hb Hard of Hearing, look it up. You may just very well be one of us all along.
Bro walked so that Pearl Jam could run
“chains of mine get cold yeah baby just stay and push your hold”
sh-t this actually sounds exactly what english sounds like to me when I'm not concentarting or focusing
Concen-tart-ing 😂 im gonna use that.
@@unicornkitteh5332 I got booed off stage after I concert-fart-ed too much.
Definition of “y’all don’t wanna hear me sing, ya just wanna dance”
Nice reference
@@zanizone3617 Outkast
Migos ❤️
said no one ever
@@zanizone3617of what
The guy improvised gibberish lyrics on the fly and didn't accidentally let a single actual word slip out? Now that's impressive!
What any song sounds like when I'm not reading the lyrics:
In all honesty, as a native English speaker if this was playing in the background and I didn’t pay attention, it would take a while for me to notice it’s jibberish
Ditto
I keep this on my spotify playlist, and I absolutely love it. It feels like a timeless sound while being complete nonsense.
Definitely, English isn't my native language, and my brain can't stop trying to understand it and interpret random words into it.
Here's what I hear if I try to understand the gibberish :
Seeing somebody behind the Cole
Baby just stay, yeah flute your hole
With the sailing shoes, now the whole building see: a horret men forget the carnevours diet
@@thorbenwaschulewski9797 Chant somebody be getting ghoul beverages day yep with joe ho with the sand in the shoes and lie(bricks?) my own home building seeing in a horrid men begin to call the bus diet.
It's that good, isn't it? 😂 I love it
Same thing happened not too long ago with Spanish song "asereje" from "Las Ketchup". The stanza is gibberish meant to mimic a catchy tune in English. And boy it is catchy!
It also sounds suspiciously like rappers delight
It's meant to sound like rapper's delight by sugar hill gang
when i just read the title i thought for a second he would talk about aserejé lmao
Thats a banger tho
@facundosuarez7081 Actually, it's because Diego, the guy from the song, was high and couldn't understand the words in English of the song their were playing at the club. The song was Rapper's Delight.
Man performed a social experiment and it had exceedingly excellent results
I've never heard a better encapsulation of what english sounds like without it being actual english. I bet my parents wouldn't notice it's not real language. Bravo
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He actually sounds American. I’m from Chicago Illinois, absolutely sounds American to me just making jiberish but that’s an incredible thing in itself? Right? Since most times mimicking a language often sounds like you’re doing just that. Does not fool anyone. This one is crazy.
I'm an English speaker and I'm not gonna lie, the lyrics did sound like actual English at some points. I was hearing a southern country accent too 😂
You’re not from Chicago you an immigrant.
I'm from Alabama and I thought the same thing
@calreeGAZA yeah the lyrics felt very Southern. But you have to remember that this dude is still a professional musician. He definitely had the skill to do that sort of thing. Still very impressive considering that American English isn't an easy dialect to master.
@@silentoccasion4359American dialects are the easiest to pick up in the world because of American cultural hegemony since the war.
As a native English speaker with auditory processing disorder: yep.
The message is not important, the feeling is 🎵
Splatoon songs be like
Fr
BANG BANG 🗿🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
Nasty majesty be like AAAaaAAAaaA
ketchup ketchup there's no ketchup there's no ketchup pasta tea 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@Octol1ngexclamation explanation bet your fries and crusty lake 💥💥💥
This is one of the best things I've ever seen online. My uncle used to sing nonsense "operas" in the car and it was hysterical. Years later my son, as a little one, thought that nonsense talk was too funny. Can't wait to show them this.
Heard this on Ted Lasso and instantly fell in love with it.
How did he remember the lyrics to perform it again 💀
Here in Italy, Celentano has always been considered a brilliant troll.
Thankyou, all these people saying no he wasn't trolling acting like fuccin experts.
An absolute legend!
He made an anime on himself: ADRIAN - LA SERIE EVENTO, something that was so horrible that become a meme
Only thing he managed to prove is that people will love a banger no matter what language
eww
Quite a catchy song. If only the title is not too long & unpronouncable😂
There's also the song "The Hook" by Blues Traveler that proved how little the lyrics matter; it has complete nonsensical lyrics (though the words are English).
this shit is NOT a banger
@@atm2538most anything with a jazz brass section turns into a banger including this one
What makes song attractive is not always the meaning, but the tone and energy
So basically they proved back then that you can make a song with any kind of words in it and people will still love it.
Everything about this song is so surreal. Catchy as heck, mind boggling lyrics and the dance moves are somehow hypnotic yet incredibly uncomfortable to watch. I love it.
His nickname was "il molleggiato" or the springy one because of these weird dance moves.
This story is hilarious, plus it actually sounds pretty good from the snippet in this video
No wonder it was a hit
It’s a jam.
It was not meant to be a troll. Celentano wholly made this song, together with a linguistics team who coached him to make the proper inflections and sounds for the accent, trying to emulate the sound and feel of Bob Dylan specifically.
His aim was more to show how powerful music is that it transcends language.
Video of whole song is in RUclips. Him and dancers perform on a tv show. It’s wild.
There are some amazing nonsensical earworm songs on RUclips that are catchy as and major ear worms!
It sounds actually quite catchy if you ask me. I like it.
Its incredibly confusing how much my brain wants it to be english, but it just isn't...
This is what I hear in movies when i dont have captions on
A brother in deaf.
It makes it better to me.
It's crazy to play videogames and have to come up with what is happening.
Songs also tend to sound like this if I do not read the lyrics. If I do they suddenly make sense.
I have auditory processing disorder so thats just what every song sounds like to me until i look up the lyrics tbh
Came here to write this exact comment 😂
I hear the same, it's almost impossible for me to make out lyrics unless the song is extremely clear.
"i hAvE aUdItOrY pRoCeSsInG dIsOrDer"
@@OsakaBancho Bro for real. 2 comments down from this one is someone else saying they have "auditory processing disorder". And even in this comment string there'[s a guy who said he came here to say this. Lol. Sounds like one of those made-up things because everyone wants to have something wrong with them. It's sooo hard being them, don't cha know.
Thats awesome its like a filter
So this is where Anthony Keides got inspiration for his song writing
What song is this?
Parents: Listen to the lyrics.
The lyrics:
As a native English speaker, yeah. I am surprised that if I stop paying attention that this really does sound like English
I agree, I think its a work of genius. 😂 It's also hilarious when you know what it actually is.
Celentano is not only a great musician, he is also a brilliant comedian.
In Germany this song didn't make it, but other songs sure did. And he was famous among the young generation for his funny movies.
There's a vinyl record on my shelf of him.
Oooohhhhhh... I just remembered that I haven't seen "Der gezähmte Widerspenstige" ("Il bisbetico domato") for at least a year now. I can't possibly leave it like that. :D
as a bilingual person who also has auditory processing issues, if i'm not paying complete and total attention and you played this song for me i'd assume it was english without a second thought
He really touched on every genre. That's a long way from Azzurro!
Played this for my dad the other week and he was jamming out to it for a week😂He grew up in Europe/Germany so he thought it was HILARIOUS!
He is an absolute legend here in Europe, not just in Italy
In Soviet countries too, I was practically raised on his movies
Just goes to show that music is about emotions. I don't have to understand the lyrics of "Despacito" to know that the vibrations make my brain feel good.
Aliens in a distant universe: Aight boys he just told us that humans are not ready yet we have to wait
As a native english speaker with auditory processing issues, this is what all music sounds like to me
Just say your stupid bro it's okay
lol me too!
for real😂 I closed my eyes and it just sounded like a regular song😂
I love how he made "English sounding" jibberish. My hearing isn't great nowadays and it sounds just like a quiet english song if I'm not paying attention. All of the sounds are right, I just can't make out what hes saying. Masterful.
It sounds as though he he says “hold something” at one point. So there are 2 real words there! 😂😂😂
@@grumpyoldgirl8582 My brain need to be fixed, I heard
"Pinch your h*e" 🙃
Bro speaking Simlish before Simlish existed
As an English speaker, I can confirm I sounds like American English gibberish rather than Italian. He has the phonemes right.
I love the "sounds like a certain language but is actually just gibberish" genre because it blows my mind everytime
Do you have other examples of this? I'd love to hear some
I heard this years ago as an English speaker and it’s an eery experience as it sounds so English that your brain keeps trying to identify the words that aren’t there. It’s bizarre and super impressive.
Let's also take a moment to appreciate how smoothly the video loops back over
This is an accurate representation of what happens when my audio processing fails and I try to pretend I know what they’re talking about.
It sounds exactly like when you aren't really paying attention to someone talking.
"This song doesn't contain any word of Italian, *_English_* or any other actual language"
"Alright"
"Aye"
And push, yo oh, etcetera.
Prison calling, anything else is cute though. 😂
died
How the TV show sounds to me when my dad turns off the subtitles:
My brain recognizes it as a tipical "it's english but I can't understand the pronunciation"
As an American. I thought he was hiphop artist from new York.
We had some exactly like this ..
If u hadnt told me this was gibberish
I d have thought i have hearing issues
Oh man. Don't give them any ideas. I hate the this new mumble rap stuff. 😄
😂😂😂
Sounds about right. Inflection and approximation are great! Can't tell. Good sound!!! Does he replicate it the same every gig? Too cool!!
Yes, somehow he manages to sing the exact same "lyrics" live, you can see many examples around YT
@@Professicchio Wild!!
This is Gold! I can see where a non English speaker COULD think it's in English. That's TALENT!
To actually memorise that whole song full of gibberish must have been very difficult for that artist, bravo.
Celentano is a fkn legend, he's always trolled the audience in the most creative ways, but most of all he's one of those very rare celebrities you can't buy, and always had very intelligent things to say.
Esattooooo
In French we even have a word for this kind of lyrics. It's called yaourt (chanter en yaourt; singing in yogurt) which is the same kind of english sounding nonsens. It was a quite popular style in the 60s.
It's so weird, because it sounds like I should understand it but just don't 😂
It’s such a good song, I learned of it in a cracked article YEARS ago and have loved it since.
Adriano Celentano has his own dystopic sci-fi anime with himself as protagonist
Let that sink in
This tune is an absolute banger!
I first heard it in a German club while on a school trip. The driving beat was mesmerising. It was another thirty years before I found it again. Needless to say, it’s now on rotation on my Spotify playlists.
I'm Italian and i absolutely love Celentano for this. Absolute banger
Pour une première vidéo, elle est vraiment de très bonne qualité ! J'adore. Ta voix est très apaisante et douce.
Those pelvic thrusts were next level 😂😂
The guy speaks better English than most kids born in America and the fact its gibberish is speaking volumes! Platinum Trolling Skills😂😅😢
Does he though?
@@bearlh40he does.
@@gravityVL1485 But, really?
@@bearlh40 dude
@@bearlh40yes he does
I am italian and this is absolutely accurate
Ma perché continuiamo a dare importanza a quel'imbelle? La "serie evento" non vi è bastata per notare lo stato dei suoi neuroni?🤦🏻♂️
@@michelemonfrecola9225 Fra... ma che t'ha fatto di male Celentano? É vecchio sonato é normale che perda colpi 💀.
Rimane comunque un indiscussa icona della musica italiana
@@h2hydro mica ora ha iniziato a "perdere colpi"💀 più che Celentano mi fanno ribrezzo i polli come te che gli vanno dietro per cose banali 🤦🏻♂️
@@h2hydro "indiscussa icona" solo per i decerebrati che lo ascoltano perché è famoso, perché di talentuoso non ha neanche la faccia 💀 lo si potrebbe definire "coraggioso" per le scelte "rivoluzionarie", ma non c'è bisogno di coraggio quando sai che i tuoi "fan" compreranno e guarderanno qualsiasi cagata vomiterà, proprio come la "serie evento" che nonostante "perda colpi" rappresenti per intero il suo "apice" (di fama) ed il declino 💀
That's actually really impressive. It's quite hard to do the pov of what Americans sound like to non Americans but he did it perfectly.
With English being my first and only language, I absolutely love the concept of this song😂