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From the Jesuit Post: If you’re somebody who gets it when words fail then this list of the ten best American pop songs sung in a foreign languauge is for you.
It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then a truly great song, one sung in a foreign language, tops the charts in the USA.1 – 300 million people singing along, with no idea what they are saying. Tower of Babel indeed!
Like every good (American) list, first we need some ground rules… uhhh, rule. Here’s mine:
- The only rule: for a song to be eligible the whole song, not just the refrain, needs to be in a foreign language.
- Clarification of the only rule: not to get into an argument about the (non-existent) official language of the USA, (after all, this is for Fun.), but TJP is written in English,2 so we’re defining “foreign” as “not-English.” Trust me, I understand that there are places where English is clearly NOT the dominant language in the USA – my own house, for example.
- A joke in relation to the only rule: what do you call someone who speaks three languages? A Polyglot… Two? Bilingual… One? American.3