Usually its like just a few words sprinkled in, or at most like one or two lines…

Literally I feel like they’re just trying to say: “Hey this is a foreign language I’m sooo cooool!”

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s not unheard of there to be English language tracks that drop in random French, Italian or Spanish words and phrases

    It’s just regular cultural exposure to other languages ultimately. No rule says you need to stick to one language in a song, so some musicians throw in some stuff from other languages they’ve heard, because why not