Academic work can be a tad monotone, so, to stay sane, I consume enormous amounts of music.
I am finding increasingly fascinating that songs in different languages can say very similar things in fantastically different ways.
Below some of my favourite songs and their cultural ‘alter-egos’ (let’s see if you can figure out why the last pair is on the list).
Reckon you can figure out which of each pair is my favourite and which the alter-ego?