The Times reports:
Hundreds of translated pop lyrics are in a new book by Sarah Rowley, an Oxford classics graduate who runs the Twitter page @LatinRocksOn devoted to the subject.
...To be pedantic, the Sloop Sloop song was first recorded by Betty Everett in 1964.
Ms Rowley worked with leading classicists to make the modern lyrics as accurate as possible, although punctuation was inserted into the Latin as a translation guide. The book has pop lyrics spanning five decades, from Nat King Cole to Rihanna, grouped into 11 categories, including the 80s, nice noughties and hip-hop. Lyrics include Dancing Queen by Abba: “tu es saltans regina” (You are the dancing queen). And Shoop Shoop Song by Cher: “estne in eius oculis? eheu! Tu falleris!” (Is it in his eyes? Oh no! You’ll be deceived).
Semper anticus.
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