#befour

[mothergoddessofmadripoor]

Befour - Zayn

Wasabi - Little Mix

[daletraesp]

Ver la letra de la canción “BeFoUr” de ZAYN

[poprocklyrics]

Heart beats the pump of my blood No strings for you to pull on

BeFoUr, Zayn

[takethatandparty]

I decided to quit my job and I feel like Zayn in BeFour and Truth

[cytobi]

Lyrics, Languages & Luck

October 31, 2023

The Search

So a couple days ago I came across a nightcore song called How Do You Do. It might have been on tumblr, simply through my Spotify feed or maybe on TikTok, i don’t remember. Anyways, I listened to it on Spotify and the specific version on there is by Nightcore Fanatics. It’s different from most other versions that show up on Google & YouTube in one major way: it has a non-english part somewhere in the middle, sort of like a second chorus. The original song (well sort of, we’ll get into that) doesn’t have a part in another language. So i started looking for the lyrics.

First the obvious, the lyrics button in Spotify itself. Turns out the lyrics aren’t synced to the song and a major part, the part that I’m looking for, is missing and just represented with an ellipsis (…). Similar to how it still is here (as of October 31, 2023 ).

To Google we go, where I made a couple discoveries: - there’s a ton of different versions, both nightcore and not - it’s hard to find stuff because How Do You Do! - Roxette also exists - the two major non-nightcore versions are by Boom! and BeFour - neither has the non-english section - there’s lots of websites claiming to have the correct lyrics but they either have the standard english-only lyrics or the spotify-version with the ellipsis

The Surrender

At this point a was feeling like just leaving it be even though I had the song on repeat and really wanted to know what it says, but I decided to look a bit more. In the Wikipedia article about the BeFour song it said that the actual original song is a Russian song called Kanikuly by Bum, so I thought maybe it’s from that song. But no, it sounds completely different.

On Spotify it credits Kim Peter Göran Johansson Karlsson as the songwriter, which is an extremely Swedish name. Additionally it also sounded kind of Scandinavian to me (that’s probably just my bias due to the languages I’ve been exposed too and Caramelldansen) which led me to believe I was on the right track. However, my limited Swedish skills in conjunction with various translation and automatic speech recognition tools as well as conversations with multiple LLMs didn’t get me anywhere.

The credited record label is 1702219 Records DK which I thought might be Danish but it turns out DK just stands for DistroKid, a music distribution service. So no luck there.

I also found this version on SoundCloud which said it was Russian but I assumed that was wrong and probably just due to the original song mentioned earlier. It did not sound like Russian to me at all, probably because I’d never heard Russian in that high pitched nightcore voice.

So then I gave up.

The Resolution

Just today, three days after first looking into this I told a friend (who coincidentally knows a little Russian) about my search over lunch. He went on Spotify to listen to the song a few hours later and then sent me a text á la “Hey, it’s Russian, the lyrics are right here on Spotify”. At first I didn’t believe that because Spotify was obviously the first place I’d looked but it turns out they updated the lyrics very recently and they in fact now have the full (russian) lyrics. So know I present:

The Russian Lyrics to How Do You Do - Nightcore Fanatics

Превед медвед, Мы не виделись сто лет, Я везде тебя найду, How do you do you do

For those who can’t read Cyrillic:

Preved medved, My ne videlis' sto let, Ya vezde tebya naydu, How do you do you do

And in English:

Hello bear, We haven’t seen each other for a hundred years, I’ll find you everywhere, How do you do you do

The Backstory

The lyrics being updated exactly now sounds like a massive coincidence and a ton of luck for me of course but I’m not sure it is. I obviously somehow got to this song exactly now for some reason and i think that reason is an algorithm, maybe the Spotify recommendation system, maybe TikTok, maybe tumblr, maybe even YouTube, maybe multiple of them together. I’m pretty sure that song is going a bit viral somewhere right now and I’m just part of that wave which is why Spotify was getting much more traffic on that song and decided to prioritize the lyrics. Another example for how marvelous the internet really is.

I also found a reddit thread about exactly this today where the guy transcribing the lyrics asks for help which is kind of funny.

Finally, what does Hello bear actually mean? Well, it stems from a big Russian meme about a peculiar picture. In this slang words are purposefully misspelled (”Preved” instead of “Privet”) which then leads to the according to the “cringe af” lyrics. This is a good starting point if you want to read more.

[sapphic-storm69]

If I could bring one fictional character to life it would be Arthur Morgan for the sole purpose of setting him loose in a convention.

[apileofmoss]

worst night to not be able to sleep well

[visoesdesaturnos]

[lorenlily]

🅱️.

give me a letter and i'll tell you my 5 favourite songs starting with that letter

[sodasss]

me and my cousin seeing each other on genshin this late at night is kinda hilarious

cuz i’m running off an hour and a half of sleep and trying to do my literal pile of homework and took a short break to do my dailies

and my cousin lives in a different time zone so it’s like 2 hours later there

and i just subconsciously join their world, do dailies, leave, and log off and get back to work

[naffeclipse]

Harpy!Penguine YN CONTENT-

Penguins befour having children use broken eggs as practice dummies!

So I imagineed Harpy YN being worried they arn't a good mama, so they search for broken eggs to practice on.

Or they just refuse to be with the kids until they learn how to take care of them.

No way?! That's so cute!

Harpy!Y/N is so nervous sitting on the babies to keep them warm as they never had the chance to pratice before! Of course, Eclipse would reassure them that they're doing wonderfully, no pratice required. Though the harpy frets, Eclipse watches how carefully they tuck Sun and Moon under their legs and how close they cuddle them in their feathers. He just smiles because wow. He's so happy to see how beautiful of a parent they are ❤️

[infectedhome]

How many of the neightbosr get infected?

How do ths neightbors get infected?

Is they a way how to infection yourself befour it get to late or after you filled remember

And do you remember anyone or anything were infected

luckily, the parasite was eradicated before it could claim another victim.

... he will be missed, though.

as for how: think of how ones wound gets infected. it penetrates whatever opening it can find and starts rotting your insides, feeding off of them until you've ceased to be. it hursts, it hurts so much; but once it starts, it cannot be stopped.

[askthelordsinblack]

Have any of you ever been trapped in Tinky’s box? Or even Tinky himself?

I’ve been inmy box befour!!1! But nevr traped.

[Nibbly seems embarrassed to admit,]

Once…

ITS A LONG STORY.

[sourcreammachine]

…think befour you type… you might never know, but the person on the other end of the screen might have an absolutely fat pair

[mrsdallohway]

That's the thing ? interested or not .?.make a effort ? be present ???off on a tangent.sometime i so i have a lots of prattle abouts.. why not! do it

beFour my eyes scramble Scrambles.....

.good night snacks...!..

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