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[Blind Gossip] This under-30 female singer observed the positive reception Justin Bieber got for his remix of of the hit Spanish song Despacito with great interest.

She is now talking about doing a song where she sings in Spanish. She sees this as a good opportunity to expand her fan base to the Spanish-speaking community.

The only trouble is, she doesn’t know any Spanish… and she doesn’t seem to want to learn, either!

She said, “Well, I speak some Spanish. Just have someone help me with the pronunciation of the words I don’t know.” It turns out that all the words she knows are taco, burrito, quesadilla, gracias, and de nada. She thinks that means she knows how to speak Spanish! LOL. She doesn’t want to take lessons or anything. She just wants someone to help her fake it.

So, basically she knows menu items and a couple of courtesy words. That should certainly make for an interesting song!

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[Optional] Good idea for her to do a song in Spanish?


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  3. MikeInSanJose says

    Selena Gomez? Just because she has a spanish last name doesn’t guarantee that can speak the language of her ancestors. I can’t speak Gaelic…

    FWIW – the Swedish ladies in Abba learned English through their song lyrics, enough to perform and to get through interviews. Not sure about Frieda, but last I hear Agnetha won’t do anymore interviews because she forgot all the English she used to know.

    This singer might be able to pull it off. Or not…..

  4. yo1774 says

    Well, it’s not like Bieber knows spanish either. His pronunciation is ok on the recorded version but he seems unable to sing it live.
    The good thing is his colaboration make the sales go up (the song was doing well before) but the credit is given to Luis Fonsi who is the one who should be credited for the success

  5. vodkabarbie says

    I’m going with Ariana Grande.

    If she does I hope she’s doing a cover of “Taco-Flavored Kisses” from South Park.

  6. KCeagle says

    Selena Gomez

    It would be rather disrespectful of Selena to fake the funk, especially given her Latina heritage. Spanglish is so NOT a language. Stick to what you know, like…ya’ know?

  7. TheSalmon says

    Don’t know who the singer is, but what’s the big deal? Beiber famously doesn’t know Spanish either. He blah-blah-blahed his way through the song in a club this summer, laughing about only knowing the few words he sang on the record.
    I like the version without him better anyway.

  8. amagod121 says

    Miley Cyrus. (Taytay is another possibility but I don’t think she’d be too lazy to learn Spanish lyrics.)

    Good idea? I dunno. Do we want her grabbing a sweet little abuelita’s breast while fake singing Spanish lyrics to a Spanish speaking crowd? Sounds a little manic even for Miley.

  10. gossipzillaisback says

    I’m gonna go with Ariana Grande on this, clueless enough to think she can pull it off, and she is of Italian descent so it would make sense that she knows almost zero Spanish.
    I think Selena Gomez’s Spanish skills are better than 5 words, and Taylor just doesn’t need this publicity stunt. Rihanna fits the age clue too but she has a pretty large non-white base already.

    Optional: if she can pull it off, yes. But Despacito is successful because it’s a catchy rythm, not because it’s in…

  12. rexczarina says

    Bieber’s dopplegänger Miley Cyrus. Correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve always been under the impression that part of the training opera singers go through is learning to speak Italian and German since so many operas are in those languages. So it might make a difference when it comes to pronunciation. Native Spanish speaker here.

  14. traherne says

    No idea, but this reminds me of the J-Lo spoof “Taco-flavoured kisses” on Southpark

  17. Blkgoddess says

    Miley Cyrus? Taylor Swift? Although for some reason I can’t see her being lazy about learning proper Spanish.
    If she’s serious singing a song in Spanish it will look like she’s trying to bite off Beiber’s success in this aspect. So no it’s not a good idea in this case.

  19. michellelnne says

    In Selena Gomez defense , the original Selena didn’t know how to speak Spanish neither

  21. Missing44 says

    Selena, who recently said she wants to learn to speak Spanish fluently. Idk how much Spanish Demi knows so it could also be her.

  27. Asai84 says

    I feel like this is Miley Cyrus, she already copied him on the whole crying during her performance thing.
    Also, Justin doesn’t even know Spanish either. He won’t even song that song in his concerts because he doesn’t know how.

  30. Mindflayer says

    Well, it cannot be Selena and Ariana. Both had already sang in Spanish, so this would not be the first time that they are doing this. There are videos of them.

    Selena is already learning to speak Spanish much fluently.

    Ariana was in a Spanish commercial in 2015 AND had even Spanish classes at school back in Florida. She also wants to learn new languages.

  31. ChattyCat says

    Really?! I didn’t know that. Then again I only knew of Salina after seeing JennyFromTheBlock’s movie…years after Salina was killed.

  35. Renee2 says

    That’s correct. I studied opera performance in school and I can sing perfectly in Italian, French, German and Latin although I don’t speak any of those languages. We took classes in diction so we learned how to pronounce all of those languages correctly.

    Miley is a good choice. Definitely not TayTay. Everything she does is calculated way in advance. Right now she’s got a revenge album to promote.

  37. vodkabarbie says

    She would have been my first guess, too, because she’s not as successful as she used to be and could probably use a new world wide banger, but she’s over 30.

  38. aeebeecee says

    I’d peg Demi lovato. I remember her being called out for being latina but only speaking restaurant Spanish.

    Most professional singers learn the IPA (international phonetic alphabet)– it was part of my training. Any good singer will translate the song so they have an idea of what they’re saying, and can convey the meaning of the song accurately, but they generally don’t learn the language for any song they’ll sing or opera they’ll perform.

  44. amagod121 says

    IF she knows Italian, then she would also know a lot of Spanish words or be able to learn them quickly as many words in Italian and Spanish are the same or very similar.

  45. gossipzillaisback says

    @amagod. Indeed Italian and Spanish are very similar, but rarely the words are exactly the same. And if Italian is not your first language but you know it just a little, that means you know Spanish even less….

  50. NoseyNana2008 says

    Pretty sure he already admitted this on TV or in an interview. He was asked to sing the song and couldn’t do it. Why record a song you can’t sing in concert? Oh yeah, money.