Korean Multiculturalism: "Tuts My Barreh"
I have never been one to shy away from controversy over what I consider the dangers of radical multiculturalism and have therefore long cautioned Koreans not to make the same mistake that Europeans have made in rushing headlong toward some putative multicultural utopia only to find themselves in a dystopian reality, but I will always be the first to admit that I have been wrong . . . and I have indeed been wrong.
From my polymathic friend Malcolm Pollack comes this rich linguistic evidence that even radical multiculturalism can work as an unknown young Korean man sings with gay abandon what seems to be a complex multilingual mix titled "Tuts My Barreh." The video can be viewed on You Tube, which also includes the lyrics as subtitles, and I've gone to the trouble to type them up for my readers' pleasure:
Now I may be no credentialed judge of musical ability, but I'll go out on a limb and say that this music video reveals a young man with enough raw musical talent to rival the vocal skills of Paul Potts or Susan Boyle.Tuts My BarrehOyeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEay
I know that you bean waiting for me, I'm weighing too
Inma inaiinasin I be a lump on you
I know you cop dat fever for me hundrentu
Bo I know dat fir sem my temperentthru
If there's a camel up a hill
Then it's Gong Li with me when I do I do
If there's a camel up a hill
Then its asbestos flaygon you too you too
Coz if you run your mother break a bottle sicker run day boo
I will hunt chu down
Coz baby I'm up in my beegees like a windy interview
But dis is prry vee bit two in eye
Tuts my barreh
Pull me on the flow
Wrestle me around
Play it wit some more
Tuts my barreh
Throw me on the bay
I juss wanna mek yu fill like yu never dee
Tuts my barreh
Rape me in my thighs
Uh around your way
Just a little taze
Tuts my barreh
Know you love my cock
Come on a give me water dessert
Bo you can poo me on yolakka branoo eye-tee
I'll honk you berra tara den my favorite cheese
I want you to caress me like a tropical priest
A flororo with you in the caribbean se
If there's a camel up a hill
Then it's Gong Li with me when I do I do
If there's a camel up a hill
Then its asbestos flaygon you too you too
Coz if you run your mother break a bottle sicker run day boo
I will hunt chu damn
Coz baby I'm up in my beegees like a windy interview
But dis is prry v bit two in eye
Tuts my barreh
Pull me on the flow
Wrestle me around
Play it wit some more
Tuts my barreh
Throw me on duh bay
I juss wanna mek yu fill like yu never dee
Tuts my barreh
Rape me in my thighs
Uh around your way
Just a little taze
Tuts my barreh
Know you love my cock
Come on a give me water dessert
Don't you like a teddybear
You won, wanna go Norway?
In the labor luxury
Boys just turn to me
You wanna run for nothing bo
I will give you plankton
Tuts my barREH!
Pull me on the flow
Lesson me around
Play it wit some more
Tuts my barreh
Throw me on the bay
I juss wanna mek yu fill like yu never dee
Tuts my barreh
Rape me in my thighs
Araranyo way
Just a little Tay
Tuts my barreh
Know you love my cock
Come on a give me water dessert
And toss meh
oyEe oyEe oyEe oyEe oyEe a a a a a
ohyEe ohyEe ohyEe ohyEe ohyEe ohyEe
a A a A a
hoOOOooOOoo hoo hoo babeh
oooooOOOOOooOOo oo oo tuts my
aaaaAAaaaAaa aah aahh uhaughh
Come on and give me water dessERt!
hoo!
hooooooohohoOho ohooho ahuh
I anticipate this video soon to go viral.
Labels: Country Music, Korea, Multiculturalism, Paul Potts, Susan Boyle
10 Comments:
That was sure a long run for a short slide, perfesser!
I've been away too long to catch that idiom (or is it special to baseball?).
Anyway, you have to watch the You Tube video to truly appreciate the 'brilliance' of the singer -- did you take a look?
Jeffery Hodges
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Your Missus is a translator isn't she? Might she have some spare time?
JK
(Hope you're feeling better.)
JK, I doubt that even my fully bilingual, pop-music-loving daughter could makes sense of this young man's interpretation of Mariah Carey's song.
Jeffery Hodges
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"And I think to myself: what a wonderful world..."
I'll shake on that, Malcolm.
Jeffery Hodges
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IT'S A MARIAH CAREY SONG??
Hard to believe, ain't it?
Jeffery Hodges
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In fairness to the singer, his words almost sound a lot like how mariah sang the song. If you don't know the lyrics and just listen to both of them, they kinda sound the same.
Getting the words right to lyrics isn't always easy. I recall as a kid in church thinking that I was singing "Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear."
Jeffery Hodges
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