Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Per Elisa

Conoscete Elisa, la giovane cantante-autrice di Monfalcone 
che un paio d'anni fa vinse al Festival di Sanremo?
Bene, lei di solito compone le sue canzoni in inglese, e se 
le canta.
Che vi sembra del suo inglese?
-- 
Today no, tomorrow yes.

>From: ADPUF 
flyh...@mosq.it
Ci potresti dare il testo di una canzone?
ari

 Ci potresti dare il testo di una canzone?
Probabilmente i testi sono stati "sistemati" con l'aiuto 
di qualche madre-lingua.
Dal primo album:
http://www.elisafunclub.it/testi/PF.htm
Questo è tutto suo, pare:
09. The marriage
 (musica e testo di Elisa Toffoli)
This is the marriage of silence and love 
 Here is the temple where I come to learn 
 Here are the eternal little things I always loved 
 Here are all my tears just waiting for my return. 
 
 This the marriage of silence and love 
 This is the land of the gentle soul 
 Here sometimes I meet the man who can see what I see 
 Live what I dream and be the way he seems. 
 
 And I have no doubt, here I fall and rise 
 Here I can be poor and feel so rich inside 
 Here I come back to me, here I come back to see 
 What he's doing now, what he's doing now. 
 
 Oh, I believe in the marriage of silence and love 
 And I still need some patience to grasp it all 
 I hope I won't forget these feelings fading off in time 
 Trapped behind my face, burning in my mind. 
 
 Oh, I have no doubt, here I become wise 
 Here I can be poor and feel so rich inside 
 Here I come back to me, here I come back to see 
 What he's doing now, what he's doing now. 
 
 At first, I've lost my direction and I was just glad to be 
alive 
 But then I had to meet myself and my depression and I, 
 And I should have swallowed all my pride 
 And I know it now, yes I know it now 
 And I want to know him now, 'cause I want to love him now. 
 
 Still I have no doubt, here I live for now 
 Here I can be poor and feel so rich inside 
 Here I come back to me, here I come back to see 
 What he's doing now, what he's doing now. 
 Here I come back to me, here I come back to see 
 What he's doing now, what he's doing now. 
 
 And I want to know him now.
Qui ci sono brani di 30 secondi:
http://www.elisaweb.net/discografia.htm
http://www.elisafunclub.it/elisa_multimedia.htm
(io non riesco a sentirli, vuole WMP)
Che mi dite della dizione?
http://tesionline.corriere.it/biografie/biografiadelgiorno.asp?g=19&m=12&id=740
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 Che mi dite della dizione?
Da quel che mi è capitato di sentire, molto distrattamente, si tratta di
quella cosa chiamata "inglese internazionale". Forse sembra più americana
che inglese, ma solo perché è mia opinione che una pronuncia un po' confusa
suoni sempre più americana che inglese.
Quanto ai testi, quello che hai riportato è talmente semplice (e
insensato?) che mi pare corretto. Posso sbagliarmi, ovviamente.
Ciao, FB
-- 
"Suppose I say I'm not interested."
"Does five hundred dollars interest you?"
"Very much."
"Then bring it: it's an expensive restaurant".
(The Cheap Detective)


Are we talking of pop music ? If so , I can't think of any English pop songs
(apart from comic ones) over the last fifty years which have been sung in an
English accent . Even the Liverpudlian Beatles sang , I believe , of 'lurve'
, and the public-school Mick Jagger confided very early in his career 'I
cain't get no seddisfection' . Whether the accents are ever truly American ,
I don't know ; I've always looked on them as a sort of mid-Atlantic sound
unique to pop music - which seems to correspond to what you describe . The
young lady has no doubt realised that a true British accent would be totally
lacking in street cred .
Mike

 lacking in street cred .
I've been thinking for some time now that pure British English, at least
RP, just doesn't work in pop music: "I cahn't get no satisfaction" is just
horrible, for instance (but not everybody says [ka:nt] in England). So [a:]
usually becomes [&] ([ae]), t's sometimes become d's the way they do in
AmEng and so forth. 
I have heard an English singer (a girl) on tv recently who sang with a most
strong English accent; I couldn't say who she is.
Bye, FB
-- 
Io ho deciso di rifiutarmi di vederlo: Ettore con la faccia di Eric Banana
mi fa venire i conati.
(commento sul film "Troy" apparso su it.fan.scrittori.tolkien)