Listening to the new episode of Cerebro and Sebastian from The Little Mermaid came up.

So, Sebastian has a Jamaican accent. In the movie he sings Under The Sea by himself.

But in Kingdom Hearts II, it's performed by Sebastian with Ariel and Sora. And there's a line near the end of the song

That's why it's hotter
Under the water

Which rhymes in the original. But in the Kingdom Hearts II version it does not, because the first line is by Sora who does not bother hitting those Ts, but Ariel does

Many people on here may recognize TM Network from "Beyond the Time," the end credits song to Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, but I've been checking out the rest of their stuff, and I'm really charmed by how much of a time capsule this video is, both in the musical style and in how it captures a lot of ordinary life in late 80's Hong Kong. My favorite part is the boat operator towards the end waving to the camera.

karpe from last week's wmw are the biggest rap duo in norway. paf.no, off their album omar sheriff, is titled after the url of the patel & abdelmaguid foundation, which handles distributing the revenue from their music towards causes that help immigrants and refugees. it also, in its own right, bangs.

aside from the bars riffing on money and its worth, a decent chunk of the song borrows lyrics and tune from a tunisian folk song called sidi mansour. the course of the original song goes something like "oh god, father, peace be upon you, father/saint mansour, my father, peace be upon you, father" and then spends the rest of the song asking sidi mansour what to to about being lovestruck. magdi here tweaks the lyrics to fit karpe's track, but it still works imo.

and look, it's not exactly a chant of "no borders," but in a time where islamophobia and the east-west culture clash narrative is alive and well, there is something kind of endearing about seeing a sold-out stadium's worth of norwegians shouting "allah, allah, yah baba/wa salam alayk, yah baba." i'm glad we live in a world where that's possible