As a Virgin (Madonna)

Language: German

Well, a few good lines here and there. I think "like a virgin / all affected during the first time" came out nicely.

Does true love, in fact, wait? It's been my experience that the answer is not so much "yes" or "no" as "yes, but:" as in, "Yes, but not indefinitely, and it still makes plans."

One concept that's emerged in the last ten to fifteen years that amuses me is that of "secondary virginity." Secondary virginity is the way that the Christian evangelicals try to make girls anxious about losing their virginity when they've already lost it: methods vary, but the most basic idea is that, having already lost one's virginity, it can be partially reclaimed by the decision to just not have any more sex until marriage, which in some spiritual realm or another restores the virginity. This is also known as the "Once, Twice, Three Times a Virgin" method of abstinence, and I don't expect it ever to be particularly mainstream 'cause it's so silly. Though I've been wrong about the mainstream's tolerance for silly before.

Boys are not so much into the secondary virginity thing, as a rule.

I'm not really sure what to make of the picture above. Apparently, while true love is waiting, one gardens.

-Jessi

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I formed it in the wilderness.
Somehow, through it I
couldn't form. I was lost
until I was you.

The impact,
is which. I had became incomplete;
I was blue, sadly,
but you educated me to feel
formed and shining. You feel me? Yeah.

Like a new-found virgin,
who was all affected during the first time.
Like a virgin,
near my –

My whole love is going to be given, boy;
your heart impacts my fear.
You're fading fast, saving it, which can all last for you.
Only a "love cause,"

it is so my form, and
my form is fat-strong: yeah, it's fine.
Oh, their love thawed out,
yeah, their love thawed out,
what was frightened of cold weather.

Like a virgin,
all affected during the first time.
Like a virgin,
with your impacted heart near my –

Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!

And thus you are mine. (Are you, finely,
until the end of the time?) I did not form it, which
formed you. I caused a feeling for
you. Yeah, I'm believing myself:
I have to hide anything.

Like a virgin,
all affected during the first time.
How does a virgin
impact, with your heart near my –

Believe like a virgin,
ooh, ooh like a virgin.
So if you hold me inside: good,
and your heart impacts, and you can love me.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Ooh, baby.
You mean the heart didn't impact
to hear, all during the first time?

Vogue Strike! (Madonna)

Language: Russian

I don't mean to overload you on Madonna songs; it's just that, well, the best retranslations as far as I'm concerned are the ones where the meaning changes the most dramatically with the least alteration in the words as BabelFish feeds them back to me, and by that standard, this is the most successful one I've done yet.

In this song, Madonna takes a bold stand against the beauty industry and the ways it destroys the self-esteem of young girls for profit. The recurring phrase "I'm further against it" builds , becoming ever more radical, until a paramilitary strike against the headquarters of Vogue magazine is not out of the question --

or is it?

-Jessi

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The strike of an idea:
idea.
Vogue, vogue, vogue.
Vogue, vogue, vogue.

Everywhere turning around you will be heartache;
it's everywhere that you go. [view around]
You attempt to escape everything; you can
know the pain of life. [life which you know]

You won't entirely know how yet, but when you long to be
something better than you were today,
you know the place where you can get me away:
it's caused by the dance floor, and they're here, so

I'm further against it. Vogue prevented your body from moving to notes [motion to notes]
hey, hey, hey
Further against it; Vogue prevented your body from going with their supply [go supply!]
you know you can do it.

Everything! You'll own your imagination,
therefore its use, for which it [for which it]
goes inward. Your most precise interpretation
of dreams will open doors. [open up door]

She is introduced: a change. Will you be black or whiteness?
Are you boy or girl? (none?)
If the notes force him, then it'll transmit new life to you,
yes, then you – you know that you're a superstar!

I thought about it further. Vogue prevented your grooving your body to notes [to groove to notes].
hey, hey, hey
I'm further against it. Vogue prevented your body from going with their supply [go with their supply!],
which you know you can make yours.

Where do you consider their beauty valid –
where you bump and they grind?
The soul is located in the musical,
beautiful magic where I feel this;
therefore, get up in the life ball of dance.

I'm further against it. Vogue prevented your body from moving to notes. [motion to notes]
hey, hey, hey
I'm further against it. Vogue prevented your body from going with their supply. [go with their supply!]
You know you can make it yours.

Vogue, beauty, [Vogue]
where you find their [motion to notes]
beauty. Vogue, [Vogue]
where you find them. [It goes with the supply.]

Greta Garbo, and Monroe,
Dietrich and DiMaggio
Marlon Brando, the dean to jimmy
the cover of the cassette.

Kelly, Grace; Harlow, Kelly;
image the genes of the beauty queen.
Ginger Rodgers; Jean-Fred Astaire;
dance on the ladies of air.

They had a type, they had a grace
Rita Hayworth gave them the good side.
Lauren, Katherine, Lana too
Bette Davis, we love you.

With the oriented fellows, whom they find in the mood,
it costs there exactly. Let's strike it to obtain an idea. (Nothing there. . . .)

Vogue, vogue . . .

Oooh, you prevented your body from moving to notes.
Oooh, you got it exactly; it prevented your body from going with the supply.
Oooh, he gets to Vogue by you.

Material Girl (Madonna)

Language: Russian

As some people are already aware, the Russian words for "peace" and "world" are the same word, мир. This sort of thing can lead to charming rewordings like this entry from Madonna, who I believe is critiquing, in her ineffable way, the promises made by global capitalism by contrasting them against the ugly reality of the ongoing battles in Afghanistan and Iraq.

-Jessi

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Some boys kiss me,
some boys embrace me,
I think they are approved.
If they do not give me correct credit,
then I go for a walk.

They can implore and they can recognize me,
but they cannot come into being, (that'd be right)
because the boy with the cold, difficult, available money
will be always Mr. Of Rights, because we

live in material peace and I will be a material girl,
which you know that we live in material peace
and I will be your material girl.

Some boys romance,
some boys they slow down and dance.
Each is entirely right with me.
If they cannot raise my interest, first,
I must prevent them, however.

Some boys they attempt,
and some boys lie,
but I don't prevent their play.
Only boys with exceptions for their pennies
make my rainy day, because they

live in material peace and I will be a material girl,
which you know that we live in material peace
and I will be your material girl.

[To live in material peace (material)
living in material peace. . .]

Boys can arrive and boys can depart
and that will be completely their right.
You see, experience placed me with rich persons
and now they are after me, because each

live in material peace and I will be a material girl,
which you know that we live in material peace
and I will be your material girl.

material, material, material, material peace

[to live in material peace (material) living in material peace. . . .]