More people speak English than any other language

It’s not unheard of there to be English language tracks that drop in random French, Italian or Spanish words and phrases

It’s just regular cultural exposure to other languages ultimately. No rule says you need to stick to one language in a song, so some musicians throw in some stuff from other languages they’ve heard, because why not

you know the saying that english is five languages in a trenchcoat that drags other languages into alleyways to ruffle through their pockets for loose nouns?

english is basically the european pidgin language.

Just looking at the words in your title, “country”, “random”, and “imagine” were all borrowed from Old French.

I can think of quite a few English songs with random words from other languages.

That would’ve been brilliant for Firefly.

This is more of a question than a thought, but apparently the English language borrows from lots of Latin-ish and other alphabetic languages of centuries past.

Yes English is awkward. I didn’t write the rules or definitions either. 🤷

English contains a veritable shitload of loanwords as well.

But you’re not wrong when you think they’re trying to be cool. You’ll hear this most often in hiphop, which started in English and not every language lends itself to rap. So they throw in an f-bomb here or there. Imitation is the highest form of flattery type stuff.

Also, English is the most commonly learned foreign language on this planet. A lot of contemporary music genres came out of North America. I would say internet culture is most pervasive in English as well. A lot of tech jargon becomes English loanwords in other languages. There are reasons beyond wanting to sound cool as well.

Watch firefly, they have a lot chinese words mixed in with English. I don’t speak Chinese, so I don’t know if it’s real, but subtitles say [mandarin] so I assume they’re real words. But they flip flop quite beautifully.

I wager the same reason a lot of comic books reference japanese culture or style in some form: they revolutionized comic illustration and printing technology for the modern era.

The USA had a similar effect on Television, movies, and radio broadcasts.

If tomorrow India invented a Neutron Teleportation based communication technology and used it to broadcast media to a receiver through the crust of the earth faster than sattelite, then whatever media they broadcast in the beginning would likely have longlasting impacts on culture everywhere.

Same reason some English songs have random words in other languages I guess.

I was in Germany once many years ago, and was riding the train with a bunch of college kids. They only swore in English, everything else was German.

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto…
Michelle, ma belle, Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble…
Psycho Killer, Qu’est-ce que c’est?..
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?..
Jeux sans frontières, Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane…
Eyes without a face, Les yeux sans visage…
This indecision’s buggin’ me (esta indecisión me molesta)…
Ooh, appelle-moi, mon chéri, appelle-moi, Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any way…
and many more.

Wonderful day!

Just in case, there’s a term in “anglicism”:

…word or construction borrowed from English by another language. Due to the global dominance of English in the 20th and 21st centuries, many English terms have become widespread in other languages.
Technology-related English words like internet and computer are prevalent across the globe, as there are no pre-existing words for them.
English words are sometimes imported verbatim and sometimes adapted to the importing language in a process similar to anglicisation.

Source

For more than a decade, I’ve been trying to learn Russian, mostly for the art and the job I have. And, I did notice that there are words, in common/casual speech that do indeed include pure English terms/words, or even adapted from.
There’s a Russian page for “Anglicism”, too:
- https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Англицизмы

It makes sense, since it’s one of the most easiest languages out there, with straightforward rules, with some exceptions you get on the road, and rare/archaic words you get eventually memorized in your own dictionary.
The Email messages are in the common/formal form/template even, you may know, too! I.e., header/body/footer/signature.

For example, I’ll try recalling some:

- “гаджет” ~ “gadget”;
- “дилер” ~ “dealer”;
- “фрилансер” ~ “freelancer”;
- “комп”/“компьютер” ~ “computer”;
- “чилить”/“чилю” ~ “chilling”;
- “таск” ~ “task”;
- “бейба” ~ “baby”;
- “чика” ~ “chick”;
- “аутсорсинг” ~ “outsource”;
- “секси” ~ “sexy”;
- “гайд” ~ “guide”;
- “булинг” ~ “bulling”;
- “трабл” ~ “trouble”;
- “маркетинг” ~ “marketing”;
- “постить” ~ “to post” (social network posts/articles);
- “гамать” ~ “to play a game”;
- “клатч” ~ “clutch”;
- “дедлайн” ~ “deadline”;
- “бит” ~ “bit”;
- “байт” ~ “byte”;
- “клуб” ~ “club”;
…
- or even… “эйчар” ~ “HR” (head hunter, employer)…

These I recalled now only, and I do believe it’s possible to write/base any English word in Russian.
Though, nowadays, my main is English, I was born in Lithuania, and Lithuanian language does also feature such words!
For example, “skenuoti” (to scan); “baitas” (byte), “seifas” (safe/safebox); “clubas” (club); etc.

Such a miraculous magnificent world of language development!

That feeling when you go to block someone, and you realize they’re an alt of someone you already blocked…