Prisencolinensinainciusol with English subtitles

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Comment by Mya (The Galumphing Cephalopod) on April 5, 2011 at 5:56pm

I love how this version of the video shows the words that it SOUNDS like they are saying.  It's gibberish in any language!

K-Mod Comment by Gumbo123 on April 4, 2011 at 11:26am

"Prisencolinensinainciusol" [prizɛnkɔlinɛnsinɛnˈtʃuzɔl] is a song composed by Adriano Celentano, and performed by Celentano and his wife, singer/actress-turned-record producer Claudia Mori. A very popular performance of the song, broadcasted by RAI, shows Celentano with showgirl Raffaella Carrà, who is dancing and lip-synching to Mori's vocals. It was first released as a single on November 3, 1972, and later on his album Nostalrock. The lyrics are pure gibberish.

 

In an interview, Celentano explains that the song is about "incommunicability" because in modern times people are not able to communicate to each other anymore. He added the only word we need is prisencolinensinainciusol, which is supposed to stand for "universal love". Celentano's rationale for the song was that, after releasing albums about ecology and social issues, "having just recorded an album of songs that meant something, I wanted to do something that meant nothing".

The song was recorded at least twice for television broadcast. The song has been included on the 2008 dance compilation album Poplife Presents: Poplife Sucks.  The song has recently enjoyed a revival as a nascent Internet meme,having been posted on Boing Boing in December 2009 and subsequently picked up by the Italian press

 

Gibberish (sometimes Jibberish) is a generic term in English for talking that sounds like speech, but carries no actual meaning. This meaning has also been extended to meaningless text or gobbledygook. The common theme in gibberish statements is a lack of literal sense, which can be described as a presence of nonsense.