The song is called Prisencolinensinainciusol, written by Italian artist Adriano Celentano in 1972. Recorded by Celentano and Claudia Mori in an American accent, it sounds like it should be English, but the lyrics are pure gibberish. Link -via Metafilter
weewillie
Thank you for sharing this. it’s my new favourite song. Just genius!
Alex
He’s a modern day Richard Berry! He wrote the indecipherable song “Louie Louie” for those of you who don’t know …
endgame47
This is like the opposite of the Family Guy “babadi boopi” scene
Groovy tune though
MickeyDJ
Hi
In Italy I used to put this song in playlist for Funk/Seventies stuff. I sssure you this is a floorfiller, audience getting crazy to this.
Hey guys, consider this is from 1972, it can be considered a visionary anticipation of the Hip-Hop to come many years after. Nugget!
Finagle
Lyrics to Prisencolinensinainciusol :
Ai ai smai sesler eni els so co uil piso ai
in de col men seivuan prisencolinensinainciusol ol rait
ai ai smai senflecs eni go for doing peso ai
in de col men seivuan prisencolinensinainciusol ol rait
Alex
This must be what pop English songs sound like to those who don’t speak the language!
gdw3
That is one of the more psychedelic things I’ve seen in a while! Especially knowing that they’re singing jibberish.
Larfin Jackarse
Late to post again. Ahh well.
I was once at a disco in Finland near the Arctic circle and met this Finnish girl who could reproduce any accent while speaking nonsense (she only spoke Finnish). Her American and UK English accents were perfect while the meaning was gibberish. All her friends thought she was a legend and they were right.
Interesting to see a song around the idea.
Damn she was cute.
forestofthedead
This has become popular on CollegeHumor under the name “What English Sounds Like to Foreigners”. Of all the videos to spread throughout the web, this is a good one. 
Adriano
its actually not recorded by Raffaella Carrà, shes an actress who was lipsinging in the video. Claudia Mori sang the lyrics.
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