Originally Posted by WaoBand
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it's "normal" that foreign vocalists will probably nearly always mispronounce English words and that there'll probably still be mispronunciations even after revisions;
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Those of us who are old enough will no doubt remember the Dutch band, Shocking Blue and their massive 1969–‘71 hit, “Venus” and its opening line, “The godness on the mountaintop…” Mariska Veres didn’t speak English and sang it phonetically.

Even though they re-recorded the vocal immediately and sang it correctly live, the original was the monster hit and is the only version you’ll likely find today.

Loved that song in 1970 and when I learned to play the lead note-for-note, it was a big deal. That opening line always bothered me, however. I leaned a bit about the music business, too, when a Japanese exchange student at my school told me that the song was a big hit in her country a year before we heard it in the US.

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