SMOGON KARAOKE 2012 ROUND 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

[Chill Murray]

Hello, Smogon, and welcome to 2012's edition of Smogon Karaoke, where the votes don't matter and the prizes are non-existent. Once again, I'm your host, Chill Murray.

Last round featured a late entry getting a surprise surge in votes and finally edging out the second place entrant by a single vote. Congrats to STONE'S DAD! Sadly, the $500 secret prize I was going to give out was for members of the site only, so instead Stone's dad will just have the achievement of singing better than a bunch of socially awkward kids on a Pokemon website.

Anyway, on to the next round!

THIS EDITION'S THEME IS:

FOREIGN LANGUAGES!

March 5-11 will be National Foreign Language Week in the United States this year, and since the tail end of this round is during that time, we'll do something to commemorate it. For this round, participants must choose a song that is in a language other than their native tongue.

Here are some specifics:

• Since this is an international website, English will not be the first language for many users. Please keep this in mind before calling bullshit on anyone's entry.
• If a song has a few words in your native language but is mostly in another language, you can still use it. Mostly is the key word here. If you question whether or not your song should count, find a different song.

Karaoke rules:

• You have ten days to submit your entry. Since this round begins on February 26th, you have until 11:59 pm of March 6th to submit your entry, at which point voting will begin. Voting will last four days, at which point a new round will begin.
• You are permitted to reserve a song for three days. If the three days come and pass and you still haven't posted your entry, the song becomes fair game and you will not be permitted to reserve another song until the next round.
• You are allowed to submit entries after the deadline for any particular round, but keep in mind that once people vote in the poll they can't change their votes.

Here are some sites that will work for uploading your entries:

http://soundcloud.com/
http://tindeck.com/

Also, this is a rather nifty program for recording your entries!

 

[Hipmonlee]

Voting hasnt finished for the other round man..

I havent finished listening to all the submittals even.

 

[Lord Jesseus]

Whilst maybe not bullshit I would say that this being an English speaking (or writing whatever) forum doing it in English would probably be rather boring.

If I can find the time I'll do Gorillaz - Latin Simone, which is in I think Spanish?

 

[Rayquaza2233]

Um, I'm not a native English speaker but it's my primary language now. Does that mean both languages I speak are off-limits?

 

[kittenmay]

Hehehe, score.
All those hebrew songs I know are at my disposal!
Mwahahaha

 

[Vineon]

I've got to say I believe it would be a bit lame if there were too many Spanish entries.. it seems like the easier go-to foreign language. Italian and French as well I suppose but I'm still really hoping to hear some French in this contest.

If I were to wish for one last thing, it is that people do not pick a foreign language rendition of an English song. That would be exceptionally lame.

 

[Chill Murray]

Um, I'm not a native English speaker but it's my primary language now. Does that mean both languages I speak are off-limits?

The official stance will be that you will be allowed to sing in English, but you'll probably be shunned for doing so.

Shunned.

If I were to wish for one last thing, it is that people do not pick a foreign language rendition of an English song. That would be exceptionally lame.

Shunning will also occur in this circumstance. Songs that had English translations done after the fact will not be subject to shunning.

 

[Ampharos]

Against my better judgement, sure.

Reserving Richie Valens - La Bamba[/B

i know i'm so creative

edit: nevermind i'll do something different

 

[ChildDaemon]

I knew my Vocaloid/manga fandom would come in use someday... heh heh... I think my nerd is showing...

Decisions decisions...

 

[Ninahaza]

boy, i really hope i see this round through because i REALLY like my reservation

 

[Brammi]

Can I do dual language song if at least half of the words are in a different language?

 

[Chill Murray]

Can I do dual language song if at least half of the words are in a different language?

If a song has a few words in your native language but is mostly in another language, you can still use it. Mostly is the key word here. If you question whether or not your song should count, find a different song.

Unless neither of the languages are your native language, then I'd say no.

 

[Ninahaza]

you know, English is my 3rd language,

so i guess the question here is, how much shunning are we talking about if i do an english song wer?



EDIT: dont bother answering this question wer, i was obviously joking (the English being my 3rd language part wasn't a joke), plus i really really like the song i've already reserved anyways

 

[Brammi]

Ok, let me put it this way, would I be able to do We Are?

 

[Improbability]

Oh now this should be good.

 

[ck49]

So for an Indian guy whose first language is English, we can do Hindi/Kannada/Tamil, etc songs right?

 

[Snorlaxe]

FUCK YES WORLD MUSIC let's get some japan up in hurrrr

reserving first love by utada hikaru!

 

[RODAN]

benny lava

 

[pookar]

lvia lviaquez

 

[Shii]

You know, I was super tempted to do a French or Japanese song, but this time I'm gonna mix it up.

Reserving Missä Muruseni On by Jenni Vartiainen. It's Finnish. I've never spoke a word of Finnish in my entire life. This will be a learning experience.

 

[WaterBomb]

Well, technically my native language is Gaelic, but I'm not going to cop out and use English :)

 

[DM]

lvia lviaquez

this should be interesting

 

[X5Dragon]

ITT: One Piece Covers

At first I read this topic and I was like "awesome I can sing in Arabic!" and then I read it again and I was like "fuuuuuuuuuuuuu".

Anyway since English and Arabic are both my first languages I'm gonna reserve something Japanese, undecided yet :/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGIswJBe9PU

 

[mattj]

Like others, at first I thought this would be hard, but then I remembered a song I've sung at church before that was a translation of a Spanish song.

Tómalo by Hillsong United

I'll get to recording.

 

[WaterBomb]

it's too bad Caress Me Down is only like half Spanish and not mostly Spanish. I'd totally rock that shizzle.