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Wild at heart tv show soundtrack3/1/2024 The seminal teen drama introduced us to the Cohen and Cooper families of wealthy Newport Beach and to troubled teen Ryan Atwood, who was plucked out of juvie in Chino and dropped in the middle of Kirsten Cohen’s aggressively taupe kitchen. If you are of a certain age and cultural inclination, the sounds of the post-punk indie revival likely became a greater part of your life starting 20 years ago this week, when The O.C. A proposed corollary for the peak aughts teen soap opera might be: When you’re too emotional to talk-because you just shot your boyfriend’s brother, or you hooked up with your daughter’s ex-boyfriend, or you found out that your girlfriend is your grandfather’s long-lost love child, or you’ve been suddenly reunited with your fugitive college girlfriend who burned down a nuclear laboratory and then faked her own death, or maybe that porn you filmed in the ’80s played at your magazine launch party-you play Death Cab for Cutie. This is the best I could come up with.There’s an old cliché in musical theater that when you’re too emotional to talk, you sing. I think most of us who like this song would LOVE it if someone who actually spoke a Bantu language to transcribe and translate this song. This is what we have to do with our friends Obuobu swemeswelalele le ngezanghithe twabano and I'm giving a rough translation thanks to Google Translate. I only have a Zulu dictionary, so this is just a shot in the dark here, but this sounds like what they are singing. I believe this is Xhosa, which is a Bantu language similar to Zulu and Swahili. but, I started learning Zulu after a trip to South Africa a few years back. I do speak 11 languages, none are of the Niger-Congo language family or Bantu language group.
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