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Can You Decipher These Translated Song Lyrics? Tune Twist Quiz #59

It’s time to play Tune Twist, where we translate the lyrics of popular songs into multiple languages and then back into English.
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See if you can decipher this twisted tune.
See if you can decipher this twisted tune. | Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock (Dancing Man on Disco Ball), Sunward Art/Shutterstock (Musical Notes)

In Tune Twist, we run the lyrics of a hit song through multiple languages, then translate them back into English. Here’s a hint: This song, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1985, was recorded for the third movie in a popular franchise; the singer also starred in the film.

According to the movie’s director, they cast the singer in the role as the protagonist’s nemesis because “We wanted to have the sense that before [the events of the movie], she was a genuine hero ... One of the main reasons we cast [her] is that she’s perceived as being a fairly positive persona. You don’t think of [her] as someone dark. You think of [her] ... being basically a positive thing. And that’s what we wanted. We felt that she might be more tragic in that sense.”

Can you figure out what the song is, or who performed it? Test your deciphering skills and your musical knowledge below.

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