Originally posted by Robtard
Two post and you failed to type: "Ah, you're right again, Robtard. The song isn't fully gibberish, just the vast majority is."
The song is deliberately meant to sound to its intended Italian audience like English spoken with an American accent, but the lyrics are actually pure gibberish, with the exception of the words "all right", spelled in the internet-posted video as "oll raigth". Celentano's intention with the song was to explore communications barriers. "Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang — which, for a singer, is much easier to sing than Italian — I thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn't mean anything." -Link
You didn't cite your source from Wikipedia:
Kroes, Rob (1993). Cultural Transmissions and Receptions: American Mass Culture in Europe. Austin Tex.: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. p. 147. ISBN 978-90-5383-207-3.
I don't think you know what a Primary Source vs. a Secondary Source means. Since I quoted the primary source, you know...the person who actually wrote the song, his interpretation is higher than a secondary opinion. Read this to get a better understanding of why you were wrong from the beginning:
http://www.princeton.edu/~refdesk/primary2.html
So you should have typed, "My bad, dadudemon. I shouldn't use wikipedia for my sources." after I cited that primary source from NPR.
I'll give you a hint: when this song was posted on reddit, the same argument was had until that primary source was found. You're not the first person on the internet to try and claim it was something other than "complete gibberish." There is always that guy: unnecessary and even incorrect pedantry.
Edit - What you're doing is similar to students at UCLA told Ray Bradbury was wrong with his interpretation about what his his novel, Fahrenheit 451, meant. Apparently, it pissed him off so much that he walked out of the talk. How dare the students dictate to him, the author of the novel, what his meant with his novel.