Readers recommend: foreign language versions – the results

From Ring of Fire in Spanish to Kraftwerk in French, there's a real pleasure in hearing familiar music sound unfamiliarI don't buy the canard that one language is any more or less suited to singing pop music than another. But artists and listeners carry assumptions and prejudices about what singing in a certain language signifies: singing in French sounds romantic, German industrial, Italian operatic, and so on.There were often sound commercial reasons for these tracks' existence. English hasn't...

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