Reply To: ¡JoCo en español!
What a HELLISH work week. I swear it would have been less traumatic if the building caught fire during the night. I didn't get to do anything in the translation department during the week.
Update:
The song is translated. It's in spanish, falls in the original's metric, and keeps the original song's story pretty much to a T. It even rhymes! The thing about spanish is that it is longer than english. For example in english you'd say "All we wanna do is eat your brains" that is 9 syllables whereas in spanish it's "Todo lo que queremos hacer es comerles los cerebros" that is 17 syllables! Twice as long (almost)! So I had to squeeze my brain to try and keep the feel of the song, so some stuff had to be cut. I'll post it here (in spanish and the literal english re-translation so you see what I cut) soon.
Now I only have to record it. At first I was going to go all out, electric guitars, bass, drums. Now I know that will take too long so I'm thinking I'll force myself to just do it with my acoustic guitar.
Some questions for those interested:
Before I record it I can still fine-tune the translation only, how do I finish it: in Spain's Spanish or Latin America's spanish? You see, while it is the same language some stuff gets conjugated differently, especially when you speak in terms of many people (i.e: all WE wanna do is eat your brains, WE'RE not unreasonable). In america spanish-speaking people speak the Latin spainsh but JoCo's music has a huge fanbase potential (I think) here in Spain, which brings me to my second question directed at Spiff:
Can I rip your WoW video and change the english audio for the spanish one I will record? I won't change a frame of image it's just that it'd be nice to have some video to put the audio to. Plus there's a HUGE WoW playing crowd in spain (it was one of the first localized versions to come out) which I think would give JoCo's music a wider spread and a bigger chance here in spain (not that I'm altruistic or anything, I just want to see if I can get enough fans so he can be compensated for making an european tour and I can see the man perform live.)
That's it, for now. Cheers!