[SOLVED] Mess on the OST pages

I don't understand what you mean with that list. Do you think the OST should be one page, while the other versions should be other pages linked to that page?

Why? Adapted versions are not translations, they are almost always different from the original because they have to fit into the original meter, they have to rhyme and they have to be lip-synced. A literal translation doesn't do any of that (at least most of the time). Some people like to see how a specific song has been adapted into other languages, so a translation back into the original language makes sense.
I have already discussed this with you under the Frozen 2 (OST) page a year ago (or at least with your previous profile).

Right. So how do you not see the point of back-translation?

That isn't true at all. And even in that case, one could want to see how bad something has been adapted.

No, because the translation of the adaptation is not going to be another adaptation, it's going to be a literal translation. That is an example of what would make no sense to be retranslated.

You literally just said that nothing is better than the original. That means that everything is equal to the original or worse. If what you said were actually true, someone might want to see where the adaptation would fit in their scale of Original to Garbage (hence "how bad it is" or alternatively "how good it is", which would mean the same in this context).

An equirhythmic translation of an adaptation is also an equirhythmic translation of the original, though. And it could indeed be published as a song on this site. The artist "Non/Disney Fandubs" is exactly for that.

We are not here to judge how good or bad a foreign adaptation of a soundtrack is though. What's the point of it anyway?

Foreign versions of a soundtrack are official songs and as such I see no reason why they can't be translated. I really struggle to understand your point. It seems like you think that only the original should be taken in consideration which makes no sense.

It's not clear what the adapted lyrics mean if you don't understand that language.

If you give a specific example perhaps I can provide an answer, but for “Aladdin” the “Country: United States” should answer your question or its “Official site: https://movies.disney.com/aladdin-2019” or “Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(2019_f....”

I thought that your question was to establish the language of the original OST!
The country for Aladdin is United States so the original language is English.
Using the song “Arabian Nights” as an example, in the Italian version of the OST it became “Notti d'Oriente” (Oriental Nights). That is not a translation, it is now a new original and as such it deserves to be translated in any other language including in English. If you want to compare the differences between the two open these two browser pages and place them side by side, you’ll see that they’re the same but different:
https://lyricstranslate.com/ru/aladdin-ost-2019-arabian-nights-lyrics.html
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/notti-doriente-arabian-nights-oriental-ni...

If you have a song and want to know whether it is the original, look at the title. The original version has a simple title (like “Arabian Nights”). The adapted versions either have a title like “Notti d'Oriente [Arabian Nights]” or “Arabian Nights (Italian)”.

No, it wasn't a joke. It's just another way to know it among the others you have been told about.
Also, you're completely missing the fact that guests mostly enter this site through a search engine. In that case they entered a song name and they already know what the original language is.

Have you ever heard of an expression “you get more bees with honey than vinegar?”
You went past vinegar to acid, Andrew...

I know that Icey just closed the topic but since the comments are still activated I'll leave my opinion

I know that a few people i saw in the site that this is a huge mess on the OST pages but the staff already said that this was never done in the site

In some OST pages there are songs that are in different languages and people are saying that we should separate them in separate pages of it
Like *Film Name* (OST) (Original version), *Film Name* (OST) (French version), Film Name* (OST) (German version), Film Name* (OST) (Spanish version), Film Name* (OST) (Italian version) and the list goes on.........

But not all the songs are soundtracks, for example the Frozen 2 OST has 49 dubbings in total and Disney only released the soundtrack for 24 of the official dubbings while the rest is just Movie Versions so it wouldn't be an OST Page

My point here is that there's no mess, no problem in adding all songs in all their languages in just a sole page because it can look like is a *Film Name* (OST) (The Complete Set) with all languages that everyone here can find in their languages, and of course if is a problem to find your song in your language just use the search button - > Type the song name and Boom you found your song!

Have a wonderful night everyone 💙