Disney Songs in Icelandic

November 25, 2007 7:42 PM

For whatever reason, this girl has uploaded over a hundred and fifty videos of Disney songs dubbed in Icelandic (as well as a few other languages). I just can't wait to be king, Strange Things, the Siamese cat song.
posted by borkingchikapa (17 comments total)

My boyfriend has the Disney collection in Danish. It's a bit random to hear "Hakuna Matata" in a Scandinavian accent.
posted by divabat at 8:11 PM on November 25, 2007

Do you like sulphur?
posted by loquacious at 8:24 PM on November 25, 2007

I am addicted. I know the words so well, reading the literal translations is fascinating. Also, put Beauty and the Beast in another language and it seems more... beastiality-y.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 8:40 PM on November 25, 2007

Jesus. The Siamese Cat Song makes me very uncomfortable. I think I might be offended...
posted by mr_roboto at 9:29 PM on November 25, 2007

I think I might be offended...

Oh get a life.
posted by autodidact at 10:04 PM on November 25, 2007

Eh. I guess I'm not offended.
posted by mr_roboto at 10:09 PM on November 25, 2007

go, tunfiskur, go.

you are a real "tune fixer."
posted by cogneuro at 10:40 PM on November 25, 2007

I hate Disney music.
posted by parmanparman at 11:31 PM on November 25, 2007

For the record, tunfiskur means tuna fish.

It's weird for me to see those, because I grew up watching them in English, Icelandic dubbing of Disney movies hadn't really started and by the time it had my English was good enough and my adolescent original-is-best fundamentalism starting to set in that I went to see Disney movies subtitled after the dubbing started.

If you think hearing Hakuna Matata in an Icelandic accent is weird for you, think of how much weirder it is when the song's all different from the one in your memory and you understand the words!
posted by Kattullus at 12:25 AM on November 26, 2007 [1 favorite]

This thread just inspired me to re-watch Bambi and boy was that a good thing.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:31 AM on November 26, 2007

*was about to go shoot a bunch of deers*
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:31 AM on November 26, 2007

I feel bad about not understanding anything, but they sing too fast. (I usually understand some Icelandic since Norwegian and Icelandic used to be the same language).
posted by JoddEHaa at 12:36 AM on November 26, 2007

Norwegian and Icelandic used to be the same language

Ah, those were the days, eh?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 3:16 AM on November 26, 2007 [1 favorite]

I just noticed, for the first time, that those Siamese cats have buck teeth and Tojo-by-way-of-Warner-Bros accents.

When I was five my dad used to reduce me to fits of hysterical laughter by singing that song.

When my dad was five, in 1937, my grandmother snapped a picture of him doing a Heil Hitler while cross-eyed and grimacing with a toothbrush moustache made from shoe polish.

It all becomes clear ...
posted by xthlc at 6:18 AM on November 26, 2007

Disney seems somehow less evil in Icelandic.

It must be a trick.
posted by R. Mutt at 6:21 AM on November 26, 2007

Disney seems somehow less evil in Icelandic.

How conveeeeenient...

Yay for dubbing. :)
posted by zennie at 7:32 AM on November 26, 2007 [1 favorite]

We watched the Siamese cat song multiple times last night -- I said to my boyfriend "it's as if Björk were trapped in the body of our cats!"

And then the cats came in and gave us a dirty look.
posted by bitter-girl.com at 10:22 AM on November 26, 2007 [1 favorite]