Posted by admin on 26 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: politics, protest
The Lebanese guerrilla leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah is the subject of a song that is being circulated widely in Palestine. A five-piece wedding band, Firkat Ishaman, rewrote lyrics to an existing song to praise the man that has become a folk hero in many parts of the Middle East following the conflict between his party [...]
Posted by admin on 20 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: meanings
Take teen sex, add some raunchy lyrics and rap and you already have a recipe for interesting headlines. The web this week covered an interesting report that suggested that teens that listened to “raunchy” lyrics are more likely to have sex within two years. Associated Press reported that researchers from the Rand Corporation interviewed 1,461 [...]
Posted by admin on 02 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: meanings
There’s always a lot of fun to be had from misheard lyrics. Remixer Nathan Jay has taken the Chinese pop song “Ye Man You Xi” by Jolin Tsai and given it a literal interpretation as if it was written in English. The result is easily the video of the week.