Eli5: do singers record movie soundtracks in a bunch of different languages? (Think phil collins with tarzan). Doesn’t this cost so much money?

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Basically what the title says. I’m watching Tarzan in Spanish and realized that Phil Collins is actually singing the songs in Spanish. Not only that, but he sings the songs in French, Latin american spanish, and like 20 other languages. His pronunciation, to my almost bilingual ear, is pretty great. How the hell does this work? Do they have to hire people to do accurate translations? Then Phil Collins sings them? But he has to have a language coach of some sort, right?

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Singing uses different nodes of the brain than talking. Many people can sing in foreign language without understanding the words. The Beatles were known to sing without accents that they spoke with. My german loved to sing and my american dad would teach her the words, not exactly correctly so she would belt out You there with the scars on your thighs….

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