submissions
| M.I.A. – Banana Skit Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Maya [direct quote]: "I wrote that because when I was at school that was the type of shit that you have to learn first when you're an immigrant and you get sent to a special school to learn English. And I was always pronouncing everything really badly because the way you say it in Tamil is totally different. I mean, the syllables, the way they come out your mouth is so different: ba-na-na. And that's how that came about. I just wanted to make [the album] quite autobiographical." |
submissions
| M.I.A. – Hombre Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Maya's not speaking portuguese incorrectly. In fact, she isn't really speaking portuguese. She's speaking portañol: portugues + español. It's a mix of spanish and brazilian portuguese. It's spoken a lot here in Miami because of the mix of latin cultures and the fact that portuguese and spanish have so many similarities. It has a lot of slang words and it tends to distort both the languages from time to time. So it's not so much Maya's mistake as it is portañol's. |
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