Misheard Lyrics

[BlueApple]

No, I mean, you do understand that it is supposed to be "like a virgin" right?

[Phoenixmgs]

Originally Posted by BlueApple

No, I mean, you do understand that it is supposed to be "like a virgin" right?

Oh, I guess that's good then. I couldn't quite make out some of the English lyrics at the end so I went here to check out the lyrics, and I noticed and was surprised that the "like a virgin" part was in Japanese so I thought I was mishearing the Japanese.

[BlueApple]

Ah, I see. Well, in the lyrics, "like a virgin" is written in katakana which is mostly used to transcribe foreign language words into Japanese.

So therefore "like a virgin" = ライクアバージン= ra i ku a baa ji n

[frecklegirl]

Yeah, this happens a lot in lyrics when the singer knows pretty good English but doesn't think her audience will be able to read what she's saying if written in roman letters, so she makes it katakana when written but sings it in normal English anyway.

[ecogazoo]

Will that same audience understand what's being said?

[TurtleFu]

To a certain degree. In most cases, it's "random words of English to sound cool/give emphasis".

A Japanese speaker might understand "like a virgin" but probably wouldn't understand the whole of "La Salle de Bain"

[Andikki]

Originally Posted by TurtleFu

A Japanese speaker might understand "like a virgin"

After seeing Hello! Project girls having no clue about the simplest English words they sing themselves... I doubt that

[TurtleFu]

It really depends on the age. If they're old enough to remember when Madonna was huge in Japan, then they would likely understand "like a virgin".

ALSO OMG SOMEBODY ELSE WHO KNOWS/LIKES HELLO! PROJECT I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON TO LIKE BOTH SHIINA RINGO AND HELLO PROJECT EVER

*ahem*

[karateexplosion]

H!P's a'ight. I enjoyed them back in the day, when Rika Ishikawa was part of MoMusu. Joshi Kashimashi Monogatari was my shit.

/offtopic

[Andikki]

Originally Posted by TurtleFu

ALSO OMG SOMEBODY ELSE WHO KNOWS/LIKES HELLO! PROJECT I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON TO LIKE BOTH SHIINA RINGO AND HELLO PROJECT EVER

*ahem*

All highly intelligent passions and no simple feel-good pleasures makes Jack a dull boy ;]