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Красивая история
Алан Черкасов
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Other than the corny lyrics, this is not a bad song. After I asked my fiance if he knew it (he didn't), we listened to it together and now we joke about it.

About the line "Люблю тебя я до луны и обратно" (I love you to the moon and back), he said, "we don't say this in Russian". I suspect the song author took the English phrase and literally translated it into Russian.

We change the chorus around in jest sometimes, and once we attempted to sing it in the same style as the Russian but with very literal English

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Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know
Britney Spears
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Share a song that sounds like your favorite childhood memory.

Again, not favorite memory, but I remember singing along to this album as a kid with a karaoke machine that we had. (It was one of those like a CD player that sat on top of a speaker, and it also had a microphone). Not sure why my parents bought this Britney Spears album. In particular, I remember singing "Oops, I did it Again" and this track a lot

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Can You Love Me
Lian Ross
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What's a song you'd want your best friend to hear for the first time?

It's not a bad song, but I think it's funny when people know where I first heard it.

I was living with a host family in a culture with strict gender roles (men go out and work, women stay home with the children, men drive but women rarely do, men should be strong and women should be softer, etc). I first heard this in my host dad's car as he was driving me from the regional town to our village. He didn't know any English, so I'm sure part of it is that he didn't understand what Lian Ross was saying, but the contrast between my host dad being a "big, strong man" and listening to this in his car didn't go unnoticed. (I'm not saying that you have to stay within strict gender roles if your culture has them! It was just unexpected for me 🙂)

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Nights on Broadway
Bee Gees
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Share a song that captures the feeling of being homesick.

I remember my aunt got a Bee Gees record one year for Christmas (I suppose it must have been the Main Course album), and this was the opening song. (To be clear, this was past the high-time of records...this was some time within the last ten years or so.) When I heard it playing, it struck me as familiar, probably because my dad had played it at home over the years when I was a kid, but not often enough that I remembered the name of the song or the group. This memory, spending time with my relatives, where I easily felt at home (maybe even more so than at my actual house), and especially during such a joyful part of the year, makes me feel a little homesick

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1685
Zedd & Muse
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What song makes you feel like you're part of something bigger?

I listened to this song a ton during the preparation of and during a student English competition last school year. The song makes me feel like I'm part of something bigger, but not the lyrics 🙃

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Tokyo Drift
Teriyaki Boyz
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I don't know how to answer "What song do you associate with your favorite book or movie?" because I don't really have a favorite book, and I don't like movies. So this is "a song I know from a movie that my fiance made me watch"


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