Top 10 Songs with Parts in a Different Language

Examples:
1) the song is mostly in English but has at least some words in another language - French, Spanish, German, Korean, Finnish, Chinese,...
2) the song isn't in English but has English words in it.
3) the song is in German but has French, Spanish, or any non-German words.
All possible language combinations - from 1-2 words to whole choruses or verses.

I just copied the lyrics from the internet and spelling mistakes are possible.
The Top Ten
1 It's a Sin - Pet Shop Boys
2 Voulez-Vous - Abba
3 Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash

I never noticed this lol

4 Lady Marmalade - LaBelle
5 Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
6 My Last Sunrise - Demons & Wizards
7 Bad Romance - Lady Gaga

There are several lines in French.

8 Desert Rose - Sting and Cheb Mami
9 Michelle - The Beatles

English song with several lines in French.

10 Monster - Darkviktory & Paperblossom

The song is in German, but includes a few lines and words in English. This is because the song is supposed to resemble Japanese anime openings, and they usually contain a bit of English.

Here the few English lyrics:
"Müssen CLASHen, müssen FIGHTen" (that -en is the German counterpart to the English -ing)
"MIRROR nie gelogen"
"BROKEN GLASS CUT bin nackt"
"Ins BLACK HOLE eingesogen"
"SHUT - Ich hab doch gesagt..."
"Ich tat's SHUT MY EYES / FREEZE die Flammen toben"
"RUN AND TELL ich bin kein Held"
"SPREAD IT zeig ihnen allen..."
"...und vernichte was ich bin THE VILLAIN IN DISGUISE"
"BURN das letzte Rosenblatt / NO STOP werd's nicht erlauben"
"BACK TO THE PAST wo du und ich noch beste Freunde waren"

Darkviktory is a YouTuber and animation filmmaker who created the "#TubeClash" saga. This song serves as the theme song for the third installment.
Both darkviktory and DatAdam come from the same background, starting off as well known German ...more

The Contenders
11 Hold on Tight - Electric Light Orchestra
12 Hasta Manana - ABBA
13 Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
14 Started from the Bottom - Spongebozz

The song is almost entirely in German, but the line "Started From the Bottom, Now We Here" is repeated in the background. Maybe it was sampled from the Drake song of the same name, even though heavily distorted. SpongeBozz also repeats the title in the verses and the chorus.

There are also some street and hip hop slang terms used that are borrowed from other languages, but that doesn't really count because people really talk like this.

15 I Wish I Could Speak French - Alvin & the Chipmunks
16 You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry

It isn't a very long expression but counts:
"C'est la vie," say the old folks, "it goes to show you never can tell"

17 Thought I'd Ring You - Shirley Bassey & Alain Delon

The song is in English but Alain Delon speaks in French. So sexy.

18 Wooden Heart - Elvis

German words.

19 Rapture - Blondie
20 A Stückl Heile Welt - Silbermond

This very cynical German language song attacks consumerism and how people keep on buying whatever T.V. and magazines tells them to, and how they don't have an opinion of their own (e.g. one line translates to "When I'm going out, first I'm gonna buy a newspaper / with many colorful pictures because they form my opinion"). The song makes excessive use of pop culture refernces, familiar slogans from commercials, taglines, and more that rings a bell for most German people.
It also contains this line:
"Ich fühl mich FREE LIKE THE WIND, komm und TAKE ME TONIGHT / Weil der HEARTBEAT mich manchmal CRAZY DRIVEt" (that -t is a German ending).
It's Genglish again, so she used the English phrases interpolated into the German grammar. I am not entirely sure, but I guess those are titles of forgettable pop songs that were popular back then.

21 Moskau - Rammstein

The song is mostly in German, except for the (rather short) chorus, which is mainly sung in Russian by a female artist, and for the second verse and bridge, which have kind of a call and response structure and alter between Till's German and the guest singer's Russian.
PS: And there is also a brief spoken Russian language intro.

22 Harajuku Girls - Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani is in full fangirl mode for Japanese fashion on this song. Throughout the entire song you have Japanese girls talking, sometimes in their native language.

23 Ojos Así - Shakira

The song is mostly in Spanish, but there are chants in Arabic, and at one short point Shakira herself joins those chants.

There is also an English language version called "Eyes Like Yours", which replaces the Spanish with English, but both contain the Arabic chants.

24 Hungry for You (J'aurais Toujours Faim de Toi) - The Police
25 Berlin - Bushido

The notorious and unfortunately still indexed album "Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline" where this song is from has a recurring theme of Bushido getting spoken messages on his phone, and one of them is in French, and according to Genius, it is an unknown French rapper who gives props to Bushido and says he should keep doing this great and soon he'll have success.
That was fifteen years ago, on Bushido's debut solo album. Today he is a national icon, the most successful and richest German rapper by miles and most of his annually released album still top the charts.

That call can be heard at the very beginning of the song "Berlin", and overlaps with the beat, that starts in the middle of the call. The rest of the song is in German.

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