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Oh, it's swampy

French translation: c'est bayouesque

10:02 May 26, 2014
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Social Sciences - Music / Events, entertainment, shows
English term or phrase: Oh, it's swampy
Working with Grammy-award winning producer XXX (The Rolling Stones, Elton John, B.B.King), ZZZ released an album that had his fans purchasing it in droves. "Oh, it's swampy," he said. "It's ZZZ leaving his hat on. This is me. It's the way I've always been since I was a teenager, wearing hats and singing the music that I love to sing."

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Marion Delarue
France
Local time: 10:30
French translation:c'est bayouesque
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Alain Boulé
Local time: 10:30
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Summary of answers provided
2 +4c'est bayouesque
Alain Boulé
2ça sent les marécages
Claire Nolan
Summary of reference entries provided
context
writeaway
Swamp pop/rock
Claire Nolan

  

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oh, it's swampy
ça sent les marécages


Explanation:
Gators, c'est du Swamp Rock qui sent bon les marécages !

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=348368875278032&st...

Claire Nolan
Local time: 04:30
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +4
oh, it's swampy
c'est bayouesque


Explanation:
Autre proposition.

Alain Boulé
Local time: 10:30
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 15
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  CJ.Ecoffet: L'avantage d'une telle proposition, c'est qu'elle est aussi indéfinie que l'expression à traduire, et moins longue que "C'est typique des Bayous", par exemple. Son inconvénient est que l'on en trouve la trace surtout dans la prose anglophone.
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agree  GILLES MEUNIER
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agree  Gayle Wallimann
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agree  Monique Hamon
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Reference: context

Reference information:
http://michaelgrimmmusic.com/about/biography/

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Reference: Swamp pop/rock

Reference information:
Swamp pop is a musical genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas. Created in the 1950s and early 1960s by teenaged Cajuns and black Creoles, it combines New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and traditional French Louisiana musical influences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_pop

Question. A lot of people classify your music as "swamp rock." What does that mean exactly?

A. That's a good question. I have no idea what it means. I'm from the swamp, and I could never put my finger on something and say why it's swampy. I don't know if what I do is swampy. That's somebody else's take. If you listen to a reggae tune, it sounds like the island. Maybe if you listen to a type of music it can remind you of a place. I'm definitely from the swamp, and I've been influenced by people who have been called "swamp rock," so maybe that's where it comes from.

Read more here: http://www.islandpacket.com/2013/12/18/2855107/jj-grey-of-jj...

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Gators, c'est du Swamp Rock qui sent bon les marécages !

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=348368875278032&st...

Claire Nolan
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  CJ.Ecoffet: Une page Wikipedia existe également en français, mais est plus concise.
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