« For me, formidable ! » What are your favorite bilingual or multilingual songs?

[Deinonysus]

Charles Aznavour, one of my favorite French singers and truly one of the greats, has died today at the age of 94. He was still touring internationally until very recently, and I regret missing him when he came to the US a couple of years ago. One of my favorite songs of his is « For me, formidable ! », which is a song in French and English that is loaded with bilingual puns:



In his honor, what are some of your favorite bilingual or multilingual songs? And of course, English does not have to be one of the languages.

[jeff_lindqvist]

Skype me maybe:

[Sayonaroo]

I liked the trillingual super junior song. at first when i heard the lyrics were going to be in korean, spanish, and english I expected a hot mess but it surprisingly works. there's also a korean version without the spanish with exception of the lo siento's. now that i think about it, most kpop songs are billingual by default since they always put it in english.

[vonPeterhof]

Obligatory link to a thread in the old forum. I believe I made two posts in that thread. Now here are a few songs I've heard since then.

Norwegian + Uyghur


Assyrian Neo-Aramaic + English


Latvian + Lithuanian + Estonian


Kazakh + Mandarin


Czech + Slovak


Japanese + Russian (if only someone сould also add in the Avar of the original poem...)


A whole bunch of Slavic languages

[DaveAgain]

Angèle 's la loi de Murphy. Not a great song, but my current fave video.

[eido]

The first one is my favorite:




I'm sure there's a lot with the English/Spanish mix.

[Asarena]

A lot of Kpop songs have English in them, so I'll try to pick out some I like that either have longer English parts or a language other than English mixed in.

First up is Matryoshka by 3RACHA(which consists of three members from the group Stray Kids). This song has some English, but it also has some Russian words in there as well.


Up next is Yestoday by NCT U. One of the members, Lucas, has an English part that lasts for about 20 seconds or so.


Lastly, there's O Sole Mio by SF9. From what I've read in the comments of the video, it has Korean, English, Italian, Spanish, and Latin.

[nooj]

Basque-Spanish

[samothin]

In Malaysia's hip hop scene, there are few bilingual songs (MS+EN, MS+EN+ZH, EN+TA, etc). But the best one in my opinion is this song "Who do it better" from Malaysia's OG Joe Flizzow (MS+FR+EN), it's a really good flow

https://youtu.be/2ab4HzmBRsE

[ilmari]

Let's Get Together Now - 2002 FIFA World Cup - Korea Japan