When you're sober, you enjoy the music. When you're high, you understand the lyrics.
@rddemolish12 күн бұрын
I'm high and I'm even more confused.
@davmatt94112 күн бұрын
I feel like if I were listening to this while high I would end up getting concerned that for some reason his words weren’t making any sense to me 😂
@jasonbrophy556712 күн бұрын
39 sec mark. When I sang the shoes
@JW-eq3vj10 күн бұрын
When you're high, you're confused yet entertained. Only when you're tripping does this song make sense and then you see God.
@blippedyblop8 күн бұрын
When you transcend, you come up with your own.
@captnsquashypant822 ай бұрын
I know the whole song is gibberish but why does this feel like if I can squint my brain I could understand what he saying
@leannewilkinson5569Ай бұрын
It’s close line between a squint and a stroke
@captnsquashypant82Ай бұрын
@ 😂💯
@wakipaki7381Ай бұрын
Woukd nqot recmnd bran squnt. I jst awayek at hsptlll.
@G94NickАй бұрын
_if I squint my brain_
@viper3183Ай бұрын
Because there are a handful of English words sprinkled - intentionally or unintentionally - throughout the song. You, me, maybe, alright, people, baby, etc.
@NJLev15 күн бұрын
Imagine hearing this while not sober and thinking you forgot English.
@derekeveratt502011 күн бұрын
Quite possibly the best karaoke song ever written
@guyfawkesuThe19 күн бұрын
He does not speak English but figured his fellow Italian countrymen would like anything with English words in it! He was right, as this was a huge hit in Italy!
@tummytub11615 күн бұрын
That's almost evil 😂
@michaeltarlowski93165 күн бұрын
😂😂
@Maulbert20 сағат бұрын
@@guyfawkesuThe1The only thing he proved is no one cares about lyrics if the music slaps.
@rupulstilskin20 сағат бұрын
Uh...I don't think anyone else can learn the song.
@MrDoctor30875 күн бұрын
This should become the new Rick Roll 🤣
@haikuhaikuАй бұрын
This video has answered my own personal existential crisis. What do I sound like to foreigners? This is amazing. Edit: and I just found out he's still the second greatest selling musician in Italy.
@nelsonmena859412 күн бұрын
My native language is Spanish and that is exactly how I hear English when I don't understand it.
@hamrecordings9 күн бұрын
Gibberish and no chord changes. Brilliant.
@helosbonos2 күн бұрын
Truer words have never been sung.
@saintlynnie40375 күн бұрын
My husband and I are also "freezing cold and dancing our shoes off, alright!"
@jeff88352 ай бұрын
There needs to be more songs where the lyrics aren't comprehensible in any language. Even then, this song will always be KING.
@samuelyigzawАй бұрын
Check out the Nier OST.
@TheExplantАй бұрын
Sigur ros
@paulmcdonald8055Ай бұрын
Better than the current So Called Artists with the same message to their fans that’s regurgitated from the 70’s/ 80’s & 90’s!!! At least this was real Artistic Interpretation amongst us back then, long before XFactor & Britains/ Everwhere’s Got No Talent!!! 😉🥴🤫
@FabianMacGintyONeillАй бұрын
Check out Tricky's song 'Beijing to Berlin', the whole thing is done in Missy Elliot-style hip-hop gibberish by the great Chinese rapper Ivy, banger
@jeff8835Ай бұрын
@@FabianMacGintyONeill Thank you!! Tricky's pretty cool, i dabbled with him via Bjork and Mark Fisher, and Ivy is well the name Ivy is sacred to me, and she lives up to it!!
@reefalkaud49802 ай бұрын
The power and influence of this song is that you can enjoy listening to it but cannot understand what is being said.
@roberta56162 ай бұрын
Ciao ! You can' t understand what he' s singing, because he' s pretending to sing in English: it' s a joke. But the sound Is fantastic and very actual. It' s a Song written in 1973 😊
@gotenks56332 ай бұрын
He doesnt understand whats being said either lol, because its all gibberish, its brilliant
@BirgitBohr2 ай бұрын
Einfach genial . Man versteht nichts und doch denkt man , man versteht was 😂 Adriano hat den ersten Rap erfunden 😍
@trollface2592 ай бұрын
I don't enjoy this song, but I understand every word. 😂
@BaptistJoshua23 сағат бұрын
You mean like modern Rap? 🤔
@AbegoldhatchАй бұрын
The ironic part of the storyof this song is that it went to the top 100 charts of almost every country... .
@Geek37664Ай бұрын
You may be cool, but you’ll never be as cool as this dude singing gibberish.
@simonjones7727Ай бұрын
Perhaps after seeing this there is such a thing as too cool?
@davidecortese574412 күн бұрын
He used to be the coolest guy in Italy for decades, until he got old and started believing he could dispense wisdom and networks would allow him minutes of silence on national TV as he elaborated his thoughts before dispensing them. After a while most people got tired of the BS (still loving him as singer and even actor but let him stick to that).
@Geek3766412 күн бұрын
that’s how it goes sometimes
@rawrshacktsu86238 күн бұрын
Even the harmonica girl is too cool.
@davidecortese57448 күн бұрын
@@rawrshacktsu8623 That's the singer wife, Claudia Mori
@janewoodcock4711Ай бұрын
Played during intermission at Sunday at the 12-15-24 They Might Be Giant's concert in Boston...... Those guys always dig up the best oldies to share with thier audiences.....
@NewPorlockАй бұрын
greetings from Italy! I do love TMBG, and the guys had in incredible taste, for sure.
@lawrence_of_osaka9 күн бұрын
saw them in '83 or '84 at the cafeteria at University of AZ campus - excellent then & still excellent now
@AarlingtonКүн бұрын
Aha, nice.
@Dilru-w2 күн бұрын
He a iconic Italian singer and good actor .and very good dancer.
@derpnz2 ай бұрын
this is what you hear when you're building a tower to reach the heavens
@HazaelMorel-bl4tz12 күн бұрын
i see what you did there... very clever my friend
@vihmaussivenitaja10 сағат бұрын
Lol. Off topic, but in Estonia the Lutheran church just got a permit to build what's gonna be the new highest building in the country (an office building, purely to make money from their well located real estate). So we got lots of Babbel jokes going on rn. Especially because they are tearing down a cute historical building to do it.
@edutemoche536914 күн бұрын
The perfect song to play late at the disco for foreigners
@riprockxxx78864 күн бұрын
I don't care what he is saying, but one thing is for sure, I have to learn his dance moves
@danlwarren7 күн бұрын
As true now as it was back then.
@giuseppecostanzo73043 ай бұрын
Grande Adriano sei il più grande di tutti i tempi.....
@lordfordification15 күн бұрын
I've been rocking this for 21 years now. My deutsch teacher in school showed us and explained that it was how italians saw american music at the time. Still kills me when he says "and your color boss died"
@AarlingtonКүн бұрын
Lol
@perryrodent13 күн бұрын
Just admiring the set design, really well made.
@emmyfoshea98182 ай бұрын
I find this so funny bc it’s suppose to sound like English, but as an English speaker, it’s so funny, but also really interesting to hear how people, who don’t speak English, hear the language
@nelsonmena859412 күн бұрын
As a Spanish speaker, I'm agree.
@pozitroncz867920 сағат бұрын
For me as non-native speaker it's interesting to hear how I hear English as a kid before I learned it.
@alilaldin270816 күн бұрын
This song NEVER gets old! Even though I wasn't even born when this came out!
@h20kittyКүн бұрын
This video is hysterical I haven’t seen moves like that since “the wild and crazy guy” Steve Martin
@guyfawkesuThe19 күн бұрын
He does not speak English but figured his fellow Italian countrymen would like anything with English words in it! He was right, as this was a huge hit in Italy!
@LaviadiGesù9 күн бұрын
It has anything to do with that to be real. He explained that in Italian in a longer video that music is universal so despite the words may mean nothing you can make music that is still loved by whoever. There were Italians that already knew Italian at that time too btw.
@FrancescaMancuso3 күн бұрын
I read that it was a huge hit in other non-speaking countries too hehe
@Vic-pg4rgКүн бұрын
@@FrancescaMancuso Yeah. France, Germany, Belgium, etc. Basically other European countries that doesn't speak English.
@Joe-pc3hs20 сағат бұрын
Reminds me of Key and Peele's Funk song
@nigelrobles66713 күн бұрын
O L R I T E
@headhunter19456 күн бұрын
O L R I T E Translate to English: O L R I T E
@CostaCola23 сағат бұрын
The song unironically is a banger!
@tennerear2 ай бұрын
un genio! ! ..saludos desde Argentina
@jimtincher735722 күн бұрын
This never gets old....
@MostPowerfulPMofIndiaКүн бұрын
This is real funny genius 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@marcomauro80413 ай бұрын
Hai dato tanto Adrià, ti prego torna. Non puoi finire i tuoi anni recluso. Sei vita ed energia.
@treylarken6230Ай бұрын
Evidence that the words don’t matter if it sounds good? Heck, how many times were you enjoying a song, until you understood the words?
@natalinabochicchio81673 ай бұрын
Non puoi deluderci ormai ti aspettiamo da troppo tempo, non puoi deluderci ..
@vivianaferri38773 ай бұрын
è sempre bella riascoltare ore 22.30
@densmath80043 ай бұрын
Excellente
@-KillaWatt-Күн бұрын
LYRICS When I shine the shoes, now I hold em the same, the whole way maybe I get the colors all dyed. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, this chance of mine became cold, baby to sustain this average Joe. When I shine the shoes, now I hold em the same, the whole way maybe I get the colors all dyed. Whether she says "you caught stealin'" you'd never just judge a demons jam. You'da coming uptous, Now pray I'm not sure, I hope, I hope I can just crawl up fine. All the differences stand, let's the shoes govern man. Give the customers a call to raiders girls. Always something My eye's mind's sensing and you're so hard to please though, eyes You's a cold day sailor, please, and call and I'd choose her, alright. My eyes mind's sensing and you're so hard to please though. eyes Please call and I'd say I choose her, alright What else you don't see but you keep and seem to anticipate for hopes of a good time... Let fate go. We even seen it sailing let me show it should'a become apparent there were two in the cards and four wasn't exactly at stake. Aye, isn't my chance left. Ain't it going to raise up. High. You'd call the madams day one, please, and you call and I'd say I choose her, alright. You don't know how it feels, you get out my door, that's plenty enough action, like leave me alone My eyes mind's sensing that you're so hard to please though, eyes You's a cold day sailor, please, and call and I'd say I choose her, alright. You don't know how it feels, you get out my door, that's plenty enough action, like leave me alone.
@AdamYeo-o9lАй бұрын
It's so joyous
@GudieveNingАй бұрын
Def Elvis vibes at the start. Brilliant!
@AndrewCook-k2xАй бұрын
I feel like this is better then some actual American music
@poetryemulsion563918 күн бұрын
Not difficult
@619GuitarSteve21 сағат бұрын
I can understand him better than most death metal singers....
@CorradoCenerini3 ай бұрын
Genio assoluto!
@Claudia-ue1su3 ай бұрын
Adriano torna abbiamo bisogno di te . Il mondo e cambiato in peggio e diventato vuoto ma ci sono ancora persone che amano la pace e la tua purezza torna per noi e per gli stolti per me sei meglio del papà che nn si espone tu dici sempre quello che pensa nn usa mezze misure torna torna
@metrojack1262Ай бұрын
If you don't translate this it sounds like the lyrics of the song.🤔
@GiorginaMassariol-qk4qv3 ай бұрын
Che fai Adriano, abbiamo la stessa età, io esco tutti i giorni per fare la spesa fare da mangiare a mo nipote che torna da scuola...ho parecchi interessi specialmente gli studi Antropologi di Roudol Steiner...non mi mancano gli acciacchi ma ringrazio l, UNIVERSO tutte le mattine e tutte le sere per la vita che mi mi dà Ancora
@ElguirideCalafell-sb1yz4 сағат бұрын
It sounds english enough to make my brain go in overdrive.
@bibliotecadelguerrero3937Ай бұрын
Me encanta primera vez que la escucho
@luisellamonni62923 ай бұрын
Bravissimo Celentano ❤❤❤
@openorwap54128 күн бұрын
Sacha Baron Cohen never fails to entertain 😂
@OggiPetliura-rl1yd2 күн бұрын
Super, I like this song a lot
@benitorodriguez6505Ай бұрын
Pure Funk
@ElieenWelch-z8eАй бұрын
Pure genius
@aliyamoon808 күн бұрын
Can we all agree that Adriano is super hot and talented.
@albertotamma32493 ай бұрын
Mitico ❤
@jonathandobbins-i2qКүн бұрын
This tune just makes me happy lol.
@MarilenaMagnani2 ай бұрын
Bravo ❤
@NewEdgeDesigns7 күн бұрын
I’m italiano and this is wonderful!!
@tcme1118 күн бұрын
This song slaps. Love Adriano .❤
@thankyoujesus2918Ай бұрын
So cool,awesome song! Brilliant! I love him,handsome even now that he’s older.Great dancer and singer! Love his wife in the video! Lovely! ❤️🥰😊🙏
@StingrayNGAGEАй бұрын
Love it!
@fulvia89663 ай бұрын
Il piu GRANDE di tutti MITICO
@lauradana47053 ай бұрын
Belli tutti e due
@mimisk7425Ай бұрын
Amo esta canción
@emanuelafalcone52632 ай бұрын
Che tempi meravigliosi bellissimo
@EriChanTheRetroGamerNerd2 ай бұрын
I don't know what it means, but I like it.
@cristinagemafonsescrhiuela5480Ай бұрын
Adriano vuelve nesecutamo tu henergia y tus maravillosas canciones nos retrasmites mucha energia maestro bellisimo 😊
@BlillyGGY5 күн бұрын
Amazing
@AshesAshes444 күн бұрын
This is the classroom next door on Welcome Back Kotter. And that's how John Travolta got his fashion sense for Saturday Night Fever.
@dannydeedsdonedirtcheep1726Ай бұрын
Italian austin powers
@latentcc944819 күн бұрын
Holy shit I wasn't expecting the harmonica solo! Absolutely lost it!
@francofornara831413 күн бұрын
Un artista venuto da un altro pianeta
@ljohnson77342 күн бұрын
So good.
@UsermannnnyNotNow25 күн бұрын
I just imagine him writing the lyrics. Just put his cat on the keyboard 😺
@guitarjacksonblue11 күн бұрын
He said in an interview he just improvised in the recording studio and they looped the refrain. So it's obe of the first Hits with loops
@hulathebulldog41102 сағат бұрын
English teacher: "The listening test will be easy" The audio:
@davidecannata3979Ай бұрын
Torna Adriano!
@GiulianaCon2 ай бұрын
Bei tempi
@jasonrodgers90637 күн бұрын
A bunch of gorgeous young women boppin' down to a driving beat, no tats, no face metal, no bizarre hair colors! DAMN, I miss the past SO much!! I was born in 1958, but never heard of this song until a few days ago. Thanks so much for posting!!
@sarahnotabot6363 сағат бұрын
Ok boomer
@9livescreations7 күн бұрын
The magic of Non Digital music
@gogolouie77686 күн бұрын
This song slaps...
@valero-baglivo2 ай бұрын
E senpre il migliore cantante al mondo per me io sono Valerio baglivo e ti voglio un mondo di bene ciao Adriano ti vedo tutti i giorni cantante ciao
@victorjames78 күн бұрын
🦉🐯 This isn’t gibberish, it’s genius!
@rainerrain968926 күн бұрын
The idea behind it was --->that when Italians listen to Americans sing---> this is what it sounds like to them ,gibberish to the Italians who didn't speak or understand English, but it was fun.
@mariagraziacostantino53132 ай бұрын
Non c'è nessuno più grande di te sei forte Adriano
@MarioGrosso-gc7jp3 ай бұрын
Grande ADRIANO (6) SEMPRE GRANDE ❤❤❤❤❤
@mikemaffeКүн бұрын
My toddler waking me up asking for food
@richl6966Сағат бұрын
Jump around, Jump around!
@featureboxxАй бұрын
I'll stop drinking from today on!!!
@emaliciously3 күн бұрын
Yup. That's what English sounds like. This is actually pretty genius.
@navajyotichetia8968Ай бұрын
He was half way through to hip hop- even the long flowing garments
@ludovicovan32253 күн бұрын
Adriano we miss you. I hope you're fine. I mean ... you're ollrait.
@lw61383 күн бұрын
America is so awesome that even fake American English charts! Also, we needed tooth whitening strips decades ago.
@lumberjack9385Ай бұрын
Hold Something!!
@kereymckenna461116 күн бұрын
I want this to be a song In Guardians of the Galaxy or Star Wars...
@danielenegroarrotino3 ай бұрын
L'unica rockstar italiana
@TheSilentMajorityNationКүн бұрын
🎶Freezing cold and eat a snack too so/ Youre the cold man sailor freezin cold but ate a snack too so/ Alright/ We're not sayin the shoes now i would hope that she seen me say hurry baby wont you come across a diet/ Brrr Chickens and my happy can of coke baby just stay yappin yoo/ We're not sayin the shoes now i would hope that she seen me say hurry baby wont you come across a diet/ Why dont you say man shouldnt have caught me stealin/ You never judge a lot cuz you cause people to jam/🎶
@castironchaos13 күн бұрын
Back in the days when teachers could perform sexy suggestive dances for their students. (And all of their students were over 18.) 😁 Then again, I grew up in the 1980s when we had Van Halen's "Hot For Teacher."
@headhunter19456 күн бұрын
We won't even bring up Oingo Boingo
@Qtipword15 күн бұрын
Hyperactive by Thomas Dolby is this songs sequel!
@kevinkirby637920 күн бұрын
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@JustYetAnotherUser17 күн бұрын
PERFECT 😂😂😂😂😂
@Boop__Doop13 күн бұрын
Literally just tom lehrers Italian cousin, Comedian musician who wanted to call out some behaviour with a hilarious song
@simonjones77272 ай бұрын
This is either the worst thing ever or the best. I don't think there are any other possibilities.