{"id":91089,"date":"2012-06-19T00:57:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T04:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/91089\/love-you-said-rich-crab\/"},"modified":"2012-06-19T00:57:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T04:57:38","slug":"love-you-said-rich-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/91089\/love-you-said-rich-crab\/","title":{"rendered":"I love you, he said. Rich crab, he says"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to take a little break today from Tour d\u2019Joko video making to compose a vanity video.\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s what my \u201crandom videos\u201d are.. Me making a video about my favorite thing, me.\u00a0 This one goes even further in that it\u2019s set to song called \u201cMas Joko\u201d,<\/em> which is Indonesian for..hmm\u2026 \u201cOlder brother Joko\u201d would be the direct translation, but \u201cmas\u201d is used like we would use \u201cMister\u201d, except a little more informally\u2026 Perhaps \u201cDude Joko\u201d\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the thing about trying to translate a language that is used half way around the world in a culture that is so different from modern Western culture\u2026 So much of it doesn\u2019t translate properly due to the cultural context.<\/font><\/p>\n

I copied and pasted the lyrics to Mas Joko<\/em> into the Google translator website and it spat out this:<\/font><\/p>\n

Ouch ouch .. Mas Joko kissed my cheek
\nOuch ouch .. Mas Joko touched my lips
\nI love you, he said
\nRich crab, he says
\nGoose bumps all over my body would<\/p>\n

Imagine eating uncomfortable Mas Joko
\nI can not imagine sleeping soundly Mas Joko
\nMas Joko .. (ta ‘u’ u ‘)
\nMas Joko .. (ya ‘u’ u ‘)
\nburning love, burning rinduku<\/p>\n

The sleek black mustache
\nI do not lose heart memangdangmu (wuelleh wuelleh ..)
\nMyriad of handsome men
\nMas Joko just love my darling (ah uh ..)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So\u2026 that didn\u2019t make much sense, now did it?<\/font><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my translation of the same lyrics:<\/font><\/p>\n

Oooo\u2026\u00a0 Oooo\u2026 I was kissed by Mister Joko
\nOooo\u2026\u00a0 Oooo\u2026 My lips were touched by Mister Joko
\nI love you, he says
\nYou\u2019re so rich, he says
\nI get goose bumps all over<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t eat without Mister Joko
\nI can\u2019t sleep without Mister Joko
\nMister Joko\u2026Mister Joko
\nMy love is burning, my longing is burning for you<\/p>\n

With his sweet black mustache
\nI do not lose heart when I\u2019m with you
\nOf all those handsome men
\nMister Joko,\u00a0 I only love you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Back in the mid-80\u2019s when I first lived in Indonesia, they had no laws whatsoever about music copyrights and piracy and such.\u00a0 Consequently, there was a world-wide ban by the musicians of the world against the word\u2019s 5th most populous nation.\u00a0 No one went there because their albums made no money.\u00a0 As a consumer, back in the brief golden age of the cassette tape (after the LP, but before CD\u2019s), it was paradise.\u00a0 Imagine being able to buy any record you wanted, professionally done on cassette for about $1…<\/font><\/p>\n

\"\"Then again, that\u2019s not so hard to imagine.\u00a0 In the age of file sharing, I haven\u2019t paid one penny for a piece of music in over five years\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

In any case, it’s kind of poetic justice that 25 years later, through the internet, I could rip off and pirate the hardwork of some Indonesian videomaker. <\/font><\/p>\n

Enjoy the Dangdut music, the pop music of Indonesia.\u00a0 Dangdut may sound a little odd to Western ears, as it is based on\u00a0 \u00be time, not 4\/4 time\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

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I decided to take a little break today from Tour d\u2019Joko video making to compose a vanity video.\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s what my \u201crandom videos\u201d are.. Me making a video about my favorite thing, me.\u00a0 This one goes even further in that it\u2019s set to song called \u201cMas Joko\u201d, which is Indonesian for..hmm\u2026 \u201cOlder brother Joko\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,25],"tags":[1352],"class_list":["post-91089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendburst","category-music","category-world","tag-indonesia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}