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crazysamaritan
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Since: Apr, 2010
31st May, 2018 07:04:16 AM
Two of your three examples are native English speakers. The Ace Of Base is the only nonnative.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
Ronfar
Since: Jan, 2001
3rd Jun, 2018 07:31:51 PM
The singers were native speakers. The songwriter, Max Martin
, was not.
There are a number of European songwriters, such as Max Martin
, who write pop songs in English, despite it not being their first language. The results can get weird or confusing some of the time. I'm not sure which if any of the Translation Tropes these would go under.
Examples:
Britney Spears's hit with the infamous line "Hit Me Baby One More Time" - from context, it's supposed to mean something like "hit me up one more time", not "strike me one more time".
The Ace of Base song with the line "All that she wants is another baby" is about a woman looking for a new notch in her belt, not one trying to get pregnant.
The Backstreet Boys song "I Want It That Way" is confusing and hard to find a meaning in. They were offered a version of the song with different lyrics that made more sense, but they preferred the confusing version and refused to change it.
Edited by Ronfar