Can You Decipher These Translated Song Lyrics? Tune Twist Quiz #62

It’s time to play Tune Twist, where we translate the lyrics of popular songs into multiple languages and then back into English.
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—and this autumn, we’re featuring somewhat spooky songs in the run up to Halloween.

Here’s a hint that might help you identify this tune: The song was the 10th track on the artist’s 11th album, which was released in 2024. She explained that she wrote it “sitting at the piano in one of those moments when I felt bitter about just all the things we do to our artists as a society and as a culture,” adding, “there’s a lot about this particular concept on [this album]. What do we do to our writers, and our artists, and our creatives? We put them through hell. We watch what they create, then we judge it. We love to watch artists in pain, often to the point where I think sometimes as a society we provoke that pain and we just watch what happens.”

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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