Lost in Translation
May 31st, 2009 by benpatton
Dear Uncle Sam,
Muller and Patton, in our songwriting / producing role, have begun our peaceful infiltration of Filipino pop music. More on that to follow.
Want to hear a funny story? Good.
In a newspaper interview concerning Kelsey Adam’s album, Jaye and I were asked which contemporary songwriters we respect the most. We answered Adam Schlessinger, and explained that his biggest hit to date was the movie song “Way Back in to Love”. The article was translated to Filipino for the paper’s sister publication, and apparently not very accurately, because word got around that we were claiming to have written “Way Back into Love” ourselves. In a press conference / performance in a prominent Cebu mall a few days later, the first and only question a journalist asked me was if I’d really written “Way Back Into Love”. I said “No, did you?” There were no further questions.
I recently had the pleasure of hearing a song I wrote called “The Stuff That I’m Made Of”, performed in Mandarin. The song appeared in the thriller / drama “Hui Lu”, sung by beautiful Chinese actress Margaret Wang.
I have no idea if my lyrics were translated faithfully, but I could care less. Here is a recording. : )
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