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DRCEQ Since: Oct, 2009
#1: Aug 12th 2018 at 11:29:57 AM

I'm taking over the Trope Launch Pad for Multilingual Song, and I'm not entirely sure how I should properly sort out the following example before I launch it.

  • Yoko Kanno lives and breathes this trope, as multilingual lyrics are part of her signature Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly musical stylings.
    • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex:
      • "Inner Universe" combines Russian, English, and Latin.
      • "Rise" switches between Russian and English.
      • "Velveteen" switches between English and Italian.
      • "Player" is mostly sung in Russian, but features a full rap verse in English.
    • The aptly titled "Genesis of Aquarion" starts off in Japanese before moving into full English with the Japanese word "Aishiteru" ("I love you") peppered in the refrain.
    • "The Garden of Everything" from RahXephon is a duet between English singer Steve Conte and Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto. The later portions of the song features both of them singing a round with each other in their own languages.
    • "Voices" from Macross Plus is mostly sung in Japanese, but the chorus kicks in with a full verse in English halfway into the song before going back to Japanese to finish out.

The trope will be about songs that are performed in at least 2 different languages. Yoko Kanno is famous for her use of this, and I figured it would be easier to list all the anime works and the songs featured within them as sub-bullets instead of listing them as separate examples and mention that they're all from the same composer each time.

The problem is that Yoko Kanno hasn't worked exclusively in the Anime medium, just mainly within it.

Thoughts on how I should go about this before I launch it?

Edited by DRCEQ on Aug 12th 2018 at 1:30:08 PM

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#2: Aug 15th 2018 at 5:51:57 AM

That's a good one. I think that you have to make a decision about whether you're going to organize the example list by work or by artist, and stick with it. If you organize by work, then you would not create subgroups by artist, as you indicate above.

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