Earlier this week, the famous singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus was a guest at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Apart from discussing her upcoming album and a sudden change in her image, Cyrus and Fallon did a skit singing a couple of music hits… with Google-translated lyrics.
The lyrics of hits such as Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You and Dusty Springfield’s Son of a Preacher Man were first Google-translated to Croatian, than back to English. Sheeran’s I’m in love with your body turned into I like that cadaver, and a line from Super Freak that girl is pretty kinky now says this girl is my relative – makes you wonder what the translation system thinks about us Croats.
There’s one thing that made me think Google translate was on to something, though: Springfield’s he’d kiss and tell me everything was all right turned to he married me and said that he was correct. Sounds more like real life now, doesn’t it?
Watch the entertaining Google-translate takes on popular songs in the video below:
