Mentre guardavamo il film a cartoni animati "Pets", in vacanza, Margherita, sentendo la canzone di testa, mi ha proposto: "Mamma, potremmo tradurla...".
In effetti, "Welcome to New York" di Taylor Swift è molto orecchiabile e semplice, nella sua ripetitività.
Una volta rientrati dalle vacanze, mentre io cercavo testo e informazioni, sia Margherita che Mariangela hanno disegnato alcuni dei personaggi del cartone...
Mariangela ha scelto Max, il cane protagonista
Margherita, la gatta Chloe...
... ed il coniglio Nervosetto.
Venendo alla canzone, Margherita l'ha tradotta in un attimo, anche solo vedendo ed ascoltando i video.
...ed è andata subito a proporla anche a Mariangela, che dal mese scorso - con l'ingresso ufficiale in 1a media hs - ha iniziato, come la sorellona, a tradurre una canzone al mese: "La puoi tradurre anche tu, è semplice!".
In generale, le due ragazzine sceglieranno probabilmente brani diversi, a seconda dei loro gusti e del livello di difficoltà (Mariangela, per ora, vorrebbe tradurre tante canzoni Disney già tradotte in passato da Margherita), ma per questo mese la scelta è coincisa.
The song of July
WELCOME TO NEW YORK
Walking through a crowd
The village is aglow
Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats
Under coats
Everybody here wanted something more
Searching for a sound we hadn’t heard before
And it said
Welcome to New York
It’s been waiting for you
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
It’s been waiting for you
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
It’s a new soundtrack I
could dance to this beat, beat
Forevermore
The lights are so bright
But they never blind me, me
Welcome to New York
It’s been waiting for you
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
When we first dropped our
bags
On apartment floors
Took our broken hearts
Put them in a drawer
Everybody here was someone else before
And you can want who you want
Boys and boys and girls and girls
Welcome to New York
It’s been waiting for you
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
It’s been waiting for you
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
It’s a new soundtrack I
could dance to this beat, beat
Forevermore
The lights are so bright
But they never blind me, me
Welcome to New York
It’s been waiting for you
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
Like any great love
It keeps you guessing
Like any real love
It’s ever changing
Like any true love
It drives you crazy
But you know you wouldn’t change Anything, anything, anything…
Welcome to New York
It’s been waiting for you
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
It’s been waiting for you
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
It’s a new soundtrack I
could dance to this beat, beat
Forevermore
The lights are so bright
But they never blind me, me
Welcome to New York
It’s been waiting for you
Welcome to New York
Welcome to New York
"Welcome to New York" is a song by American
singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on
October 20, 2014 from Swift's fifth album, 1989.
Swift is donating all proceeds from the sale of the single to the New York City Department of
Education.
When discussing the song, Swift states that "The
inspiration that I found in that city is kind of hard to describe and hard to
compare to any other force of inspiration I've ever experienced in my
life." She continued on by stating "I approached moving there with
such optimism it as a place of endless potential and possibilities. You can
hear that reflected in this music and this first song especially."
When discussing the song's placement on the album Swift
stated the reason she wanted the track to be the first song on the album was
"because New York has been an important landscape and location for the
story of my life in the last couple of years. You know, I dreamed about living
in New York, I obsessed moving to New York and then I did it."
Jim Farber of New
York Daily News criticized
the song saying "Unlike the classic odes to our city, Swift’s lacks the
sophistication, or substance, of Gotham-themed hits by Frank Sinatra ("New York, New York"), Billy Joel ("New York State of Mind")
or Alicia Keys/Jay Z ("Empire State of
Mind")."
Jen Carlson of Gothamist called it "the worst NYC anthem
of all time."
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd of Jezebel called the song a "gentrification
anthem so obtuse it makes one wonder if (Swift) is, in fact, trolling at this
point."
Esther Zuckerman of Entertainment
Weekly pointed out that
"It honors the city... but only skims the surface."
Robert Christgau, who called it his favorite song on 1989, felt critics had been too
harsh so as to not appear to be fans of Swift.
In more enthusiastic critique, Forrest Wickman from Slate considered it "a soaring
synth-pop anthem of the kind you could imagine being sung by Katy Perry."
Nate Scott of USA
Today praised the song and
said it would be "the next New York anthem" and stated that the song
"works. It works because Taylor Swift is the kind of artist that doesn’t
care — at all — that the “I’m a young person who just moved to New York!”
narrative is a tired cliché. She just lived it: She moved to New York, and she
felt her life was changed by moving to the big city."
Jason Lipshutz of Billboard gave the song three stars out of five
and praised the song stating that it "naturally arrives with a warm grin
slapped on the first carnival-themed synthesizer, while criticizing the song by
stating that "Swift’s experience of moving to New York is probably a bit
different than those of us out-of-staters who have had to make the post-college
pilgrimage to the big city; while Swift perkily admires how 'the Village is
aglow,' she doesn't remark on the subway rats or waking up in closet-sized
bedrooms.
The song had a great success in the United States and
performed well in Oceania, Hungary, Spain,, Denmark and UK.
The
song is one of the
several additional music featured in the film but not included on the
soundtrack of The Secret Life of Pets.
The Secret Life of Pets is
a 2016 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment.
Upon release, it received positive reviews and became the
highest-grossing original animated film not produced by Disney or Pixar,
and the sixth
highest-grossing film of 2016.
Plot
A Jack
Russell Terrier named Max lives
with his owner Katie in a Manhattan apartment. While she is at work during
the day, he hangs out with other pets in the building: tabby cat Chloe, pug Mel, dachshund Buddy, and budgerigar Sweet Pea. One day, Katie adopts Duke,
a large mongrel from the pound, leaving Max jealous because of her divided
focus on Duke. Enraged by Max's attitude towards him, Duke tries to abandon Max
in an alley, but they are both attacked by cats led by Sphynx cat Ozone who removed both dogs' collars
and leave them to be caught by Animal
Control. Duke fears that he will be put
down if he goes back to the
pound. Gidget, a white Pomeranian actually discovers that her friend Max
is missing.
Meanwhile, he and Duke are rescued by a white rabbit named Snowball, the leader of
"The Flushed Pets" – a gang of sewer-dwelling animals who hate humans
because their owners mistreated them. After Max and Duke pretend to despise
humans as much as they do by saying they killed their owners, the Flushed Pets
invite them to join. Before they can prove their loyalty by allowing a viper to bite them, Snowball learns from the
cats that Max and Duke are domesticated.
The two dogs escape the sewers and board a ferry to Brooklyn, inadvertently killing the
viper in the process; Snowball vows to kill them and leads the Flushed Pets
after them.
Meanwhile, Gidget recruits a red-tailed hawk named Tiberius to find him, but
mistakenly returns carrying Ozone, whom Gidget coerces into telling what he
knows about the dogs. They then enlisted Mel, Buddy, Chloe, guinea pig Norman and Sweet Pea. On the way, they
meet Pops, an old Basset Hound,
who helps Gidget and the pets find Max. Meanwhile, Max and Duke raid a sausage
factory for food.
Meanwhile, the group encounters Snowball, who vows to kill
them as well, and Norman is captured as the rest of Gidget's team flees.
Meanwhile,
Duke tells Max about his previous owner, Fred, an elderly man who adopted him
as a puppy and loved spending time with him. One day, Duke got lost while
chasing a butterfly and was caught by Animal Control, but Fred never came to
claim him. Max convinces him to visit Fred's house in a nearby neighborhood,
confident Fred will still love him and take him back. When they arrived at
Fred's house, Duke learnt that Fred died.
Heartbroken,
Duke accuses Max of attempting to get rid of him and barks at the new homeowners
who had just returned to the house, who call Animal Control. The handlers catch
Max, but Duke interferes long enough for Max to escape and ends up being
captured instead.
While trying to rescue Duke as he follows the Animal
Control van, Max is attacked by Snowball who tries to kill him. However, when
his gang is captured, Snowball realizes that he and Max must work together to
rescue them. They drive a city
bus into the van on the Brooklyn Bridge, stopping traffic. The
Flushed Pets encircle Max, unaware of his partnership with Snowball, but Gidget
and her team save him. When Gidget is using her kung-fu fighting skills, Max
starts to fall in love with her. The van gets stuck in scaffolds and the Flushed Pets escape. Once Max
got the keys to Duke's cage, the van plummets into the East River with him inside. Max is unable to free
Duke, so Snowball jumps into the river to retrieve the keys, allowing them to
escape the sinking van. Once out of the river, Snowball realizes how good being
heroic feels.
The entire group returns to the apartment block by
pig-driven taxi. Max expresses
his love for Gidget, who returns his affection. Snowball and the Flushed Pets
then come up with a new plan to annihilate all humans, but a little girl named
Molly arrives to adopt Snowball and the remaining Flushed Pets return to the
sewers. At first, Snowball resists, but gives in and lets himself become a
domesticated pet. The domesticated pets return to their homes and embrace their
owners, and Max and Duke finally reunite with Katie, sparking a true
friendship.
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