Tuesday, March 13, 2012

484. "Get Some" Lykke Li



"Get Some"
Lykke Li
Wounded Rhymes
2011

"I'm your prostitute; you gonna get some" is obviously a provocative lyric.
Lykke Li is from Sweden. Most Swedes speak English (source: my assumption), but what if Lykke Li does not? And what if she just wanted to write a tune about a friendly ice cream man, and her interpreter was just being an asshole?
"Ja, Sven" (all Swedish dudes are named Sven) "Sven I am almost done writing ice cream man song. English translation almost all done, ja?"
"Oh, ja, Lykke Li."
"Ja, Sven vat is English for 'ice cream man'?"
"Ja, Lykke Li, English word is 'prostitute'." (titters coquettishly) "Lykke Li, sit down on your Poang from IKEA and sing your new hit record."
"Ja Sven, all the American and English children will be so happy with new hit record about the friendly cream man giving Haagen-Dasz to all the boys and girls! Lykke Li will be most popular woman in all the world!"
"Ja, Lykke Li, all the boys anyway."
"Vat, Sven?"
"Ist nothing, Lykke Li. Dis hit record will be # 1 hit record song for people who like ice cream, and for fnask."

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