UK vs. US

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 170789

> > Ken wrote:
> Would you defend this practice if it were common, for example, to
> Americanize Bach's works with notes and chords and rhythms that
> sounded more familiar to American ears? The very notion is hideous. I
> find it just at bad that written language is subjected to this
> treatment. I read the books to learn about Harry Potter of Little
> Whinging, not his hillbilly cousin from Kentucky. I love American
> music too but don't you *dare* mess with Bach.

Montavilla47
Well, I don't tend to mind if they translate the German words
to American English when they sing it.  

But you made me think about something I'd heard, which was that 
"I Wanna Hold Your Hand" was written specifically for American
audiences, because *someone* (either the Beatles or their manager)
thought that their other songs were too British to appeal to the 
taste of the Yanks.

And speaking of Yanks... there's that lovely moment in "Life is Sweet"
when Natalie tries to make a pun about Yanks and Yanking and 
Nichola looks for her aghast and calls her a "racist."