Adulterer with Enthusiasm

October 14, 2016 6:58 AM

Malinda Kathleen Reese runs songs back and forth through Google Translate, then sings the results. This being MetaFilter, let's put the Hamilton one above the fold: You'll Be Back

For "Blank Space," she adds a side-order of Google Images.

And chiming in on freethefeet's excellent FPP earlier today, here's Google Translate Sings: Bohemian Rhapsody.

Many more (plus some conventional covers and vlogs and such) on her YouTube channel.

posted by Shmuel510 (13 comments total)

"Cat lover game/young people 'cause we're stupid" is pretty close to Taylor's general lyrical feel these days, actually.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 7:13 AM on October 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

I admire its purity.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 7:20 AM on October 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

The Sound of Music gets an A+++++++++ for execution.
posted by overeducated_alligator at 7:48 AM on October 14, 2016 [5 favorites]

Truly the best of the web!
posted by Alterscape at 8:00 AM on October 14, 2016

I was prepared to merely smile but I laughed very hard. I don't know why absurdism never gets old.
posted by GuyZero at 8:27 AM on October 14, 2016

Hilarious, and she's also an incredible singer. Funniest music humor since misheard Joe Cocker lyrics.
posted by Miko at 8:49 AM on October 14, 2016

We all dwell in an amber subdomain
posted by Miko at 8:50 AM on October 14, 2016 [3 favorites]

I would like to watch the entire musical Sound of Music in this style. Although I would like "Sixteen going on Seventeen" to be completely replaced by Winger's "Seventeen."

And the Music Man. And Oklahoma. Shit, any of that style of musical would be lots of fun.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:10 AM on October 14, 2016

I have heard "Let It Go" far too many times, but one more didn't hurt. She can't punch it out quite like Idina Menzel, but then Ms. Menzel didn't have to deal with lyrics that didn't scan, rhyme, or, for that matter, make any sense at all.
posted by It's Never Lurgi at 9:56 AM on October 14, 2016

Ha! I found the Bohemian Rhapsody one through the other FPP and was thinking that her work might make for a good FPP.

That Beelzebub, behind my bedroom ***king!
posted by nubs at 10:17 AM on October 14, 2016

Took me a while to realize that the real lyrics are at the top of the screen - in case anyone else couldn't remember was "your behind" was a mistranslation of.

Still not sure where Canadian Marines came in.
posted by maryr at 10:47 AM on October 14, 2016

"I sent the armament squadron to remind you to my baby" works quite well for "I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love."
posted by zachlipton at 10:50 AM on October 14, 2016

I regularly sing "Give Up" to myself at work.
posted by Aya Hirano on the Astral Plane at 1:25 PM on October 14, 2016