History WebVideo / TwistedTranslations

** Subverted for "[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory You've Got a Friend in Me]]", where the woman singing the translated lyrics is initially very rude to the one singing the actual lyrics, claiming that they're not friends and no one loves her, but then they make up and become friends.

* ILoveNuclearPower: The perfect woman is apparently powered by radiation.

* AccidentalMisnaming: [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} Elphaba]] calls Glinda [[MeaningfulName "Glitter"]] in ''For Good.'' Later, in ''Defying Gravity,'' she calls her [[{{Irony}} "Greenda."]] This seems to be a common problem in Oz, given that ''What Is This Feeling'' has the other students call Glinda "Garinda".

* EpicFail: In "Despacito", the title (Spanish for "slowly") ends up being translated to "quickly", its ''antonym''.

** The original "Thriller" is spooky in a fun way. The translation goes into MoodWhiplash between creepy("Now you have to fight for your life tomorrow") and super cheerful ("Have fun, and enjoy being sunny in the day").

** The main Malinda also has a heart attack in "Total Eclipse of the Heart", which makes one of the backup Malinda's ask if anyone's going to call 911 before the main one gets right back up and singing.

* {{Corpsing}}: Caleb Hyles just can't get through the line "If monarchy is headed la la la, count on me! In on African clothing service, well I refuse to be!" in ''I Just Can't Wait To Be King'' without snickering. Given that he got through the translations of ''I'll Make A Man Out of You'' and ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' with no problems, this is saying quite a lot.
** Youtube commenters often ask how Malinda is so good at keeping a straight face - "Google Translate Explains The COVID-19 Vaccine" is the first time Malinda and Tom were in the same room for a full video for the channel, and they opted to leave some corpsing in, demonstrating that she ''does'' corpse when not recording alone.

** The video for "Into the Unknown" was just ''packed'' with jabs at ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2''.

* {{Irony}}: The townsfolk from ''Beauty and the Beast'', who were originally quite judgemental toward anyone they saw as odd or eccentric (such as Belle), are now jovial oddballs themselves who [[AdaptationalNiceGuy don't have a bad word to say about Belle at all.]]

** PlayedWith for the music video for the translation of the Creator/MileyCyrus song ''Wrecking Ball'' is more sexual than Malinda's previous videos. However, compared to the original video it is downright chaste.

** [[WEsternAnimation/{{Encanto}} Pepa]] refers to her brother Bruno as "Ryan" in "We Don't Talk About Bruno."

* [[WEsternAnimation/{{Encanto}} Pepa]] refers to her brother Bruno as "Ryan" in "We Don't Talk About Bruno."

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Several videos have broken away from the ''Translator Fails'' formula in various ways.
** "[[Music/TaylorSwift Blank Space]]" doesn't have a music video. Instead, it consists entirely of Google images.
** "''Translator Fails'' MEETS SIRI!!" is not an actual song. Instead, it has Malinda reading out quotes from previous translations to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri Siri]].
** Then there is ''Donald Trump's quotes and tweets according to Google Translate'', which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** She also made ''Translator Fails:Hamlet'', where she reads [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Hamlet's Soliloquy]], as translated by Google.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heDHGEdqcW8 "HARRY POTTER meets GOOGLE TRANSLATE"]] is one of the biggest diversions from the usual format: It's done as sort of a quiz show, where Malinda challenges guests Brizzy Voices and Tessa Netting to guess the correct versions of google translated quotes and names from the Harry Potter books and films.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRVy3P78FsE "GOOGLE TRANSLATE LIKES FEET?? A Q&A"]] involves Malinda translate questions she was asked on a Q&A on her Instagram. So far, there are three videos that follow this format, and Malinda usually tries to genuinely answer them.
** One video takes one of Andrew Huang's songs and puts them through several layers of autocaptions instead of Google Translate.
** [[https://youtu.be/9oPUl7cupBQ The 21 Pilots medley]] features guest star Elise Ecklund's live ukulele playing, rather than using a prerecorded backing track that emulates the original music.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngv4Brvjpw0 Google Translate Explains Game of Thrones]]" is a summary of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' translated.

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Happens sometimes, when not all words are not translated back into English.

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Happens sometimes, when all words are not translated back into English.

* DeadpanSnarker: Upon apparently being barred from the throne, Elsa snarks, "Discrimination law is probably the queen."
** Also Aladdin in “Friend Like Me” makes snide remarks as a result to Genie's rudeness.

** The video for her original song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0nzfN10hnw "How Dare You"]] has a mild example. The lyrics, and frequent [[MatchCut Match Cuts]] to a more clean-cut persona, suggest that she represents the singer's inner thoughts about a new LoveInterest.
--->'''Youtube commenter''': Malinda is the only person who can go from "the girl you saw once in a bookstore and never forgot about" to "speakeasy singer who might have committed a felony" in less than a second.

* CapsLock:"ATLANTA WILL BE INTERESTING FOR THE STUTTGART" in ''Havana'' apparently came out translated in all-caps.

''Twisted Translations'' (originally ''Google Translate Sings'' then ''Translator Fails'') is a Web series created by Music/MalindaKathleenReese in which she takes songs by famous artists, runs the lyrics through several languages in Google Translate and back into English until they barely resemble the original text, and then performs the song with the new lyrics. HilarityEnsues.

--> '''Queen Elsa!!Malinda:''' ''"Lit white snow on the mountain tonight, no visible legs. Discrimination law, is probably the queen."'''

* NotAMorningPerson: In her translated morning routine, Google!!Malinda prefers to sleep more, and states that she's not awake, but happy to help.

--> '''Malinda!Clinton:''' ''"Note: The United States cannot be trusted and cannot hope to explain."'' [[labelnote: Actual line]]"Don't believe the haters who describe America as hopeless and broken."[[/labelnote]]

--> '''Malinda!Trump:''' ''"Arianna Huffington is charming inside and outside."'' [[labelnote:Actual line]]''"@arianahuff is unattractive both inside and out."''[[/labelnote]]

* SweetPollyOliver: If [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Frollo]] is to be believed, Music/{{Madonna}} is actually a man.

** And in "Google Translate Makes Breakfast", Translated Malinda shouts "We have to eat now!".

** Any time the words "give up" appear, the "Let It Go" translation is referenced.

** Ursula's appears to be "The spirit of abysmal despair"

** In "You're Welcome", "I can explain every natural phenomenon" becomes "I can not describe the natural area".