Where it seems to have survived a lot longer than in germany… German is my mother tongue (allegedly… it’s complicated if you’re swiss), but I’ve never heard of that term… 
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We have a problem in defining the source, since we’ve been speaking a form of German for 1700 years, ever since we got invaded by the Angles and the Saxons. Add to that our German Royal Family, and, you know, it gets difficult to tell where the language came from.
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This and the annoying orange… Prophetic… Who knew. I enjoyed the song the first time you posted it, I didn’t pay attention to lyrics. 
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Let’s let AI tell us;
In standard German, the word Stein is no longer used to refer to a beverage container. Instead, the words Krug, Humpen, or Seidel are used.
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And this is the song they ripped off:
Omega - Gyöngyhajú lány - YouTube
Sry, sencond link went missing:
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I think “ripped off” is perhaps a bit harsh. Both songs are slow tempo power ballads, in a verse/chorus/verse /chorus format, but there the likeness ends. The melodies are not even similar, and the arrangement is very different. The Omega song has obvious melodic references to Eastern folk music, which are absent in the Scorpions track.
Yes, they’re both slow power ballads - but I can think of a hundred other power ballads that are just as comparable.
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Yeah, for some reason the second link did make it. Pilot error probably. XD
I should add, alot of these cross east/west bands of the 80’s and early 90’s had a habit of stealing work from purely eastern european artists, since there wasn’t anything the eastern euro bands can do about it., even today.
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It was practiced the other way around as well, and still is today… 
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Ah. From your original post, it looked like you were saying the Scorpions “Winds of Change” was a rip-off of Omega’s Gyöngyhajú lány.
Lots of people covered Gyöngyhajú lány - the Scorpions were just one band of many. And the Scorpions version was a cover, with the original writers given full credit (and presumably the right to royalties). The person who did rip off Gyöngyhajú lány, and got sued as a result, was Kanye West.
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@toddumptious are you our Irish expert?
Me and a friend were wondering about this AI generated “Traditional” song. The spelled out lyrics are phonetically English (and semantically of no use). English songs on this site are generally grammatically correct (I won’t judge their poetic ability). So is this parodying Irish, or is it actual Irish, or some other language?
PS:
huh? Did they steal an existing song? Or existing lyrics? Siúil a Rúin - Wikipedia
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With lyrics and translation.
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Thanks, interesting! The tune sounds different though. So someone copied the original text, but completely misspelled, into an AI composer, and had it generate a new tune and voice?
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I doubt whether a machine could turn speech into real written Irish, because Irish spelling is so bizarre. The letters, and the order of letters, bear very little resemblance to how the word is actually pronounced, and the pronunciation varies widely depending where you are in Ireland.
It looks to me like someone took a recording of a real human singing the song, then had an AI analyse the Irish portions into a series of phonetic blocks a machine could pronounce. Then they had an AI produce similar music, whilst an artificial voice sang the phonetic words - which is what the second part of the song represents.
I suppose it’s an example that generative AI doesn’t need to understand something in order to do it.
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The next model collapse is expected to be caused when the next generation of AI is trained on new webpages - which are 90% AI generated ad traps …
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Good memories of when my parents had a huge Chrysler with an 8 track player and I would jam to this album while cleaning the car as one of my weekly chores
and this one when we lived across the road from a dance studio and I wanted to take classes so much…
and I was fully present for this
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Super Stretchy - Rupert Cole
Came across a few of these game soundtracks by Rupert Cole on Bandcamp a while ago and now noticed the playlist released on YouTube. Just bought the game at a discount on Steam, including the OST. Not yet tried the game, but the music got to me already, and the few Steam reviews were not too bad. Will post to Games and Game-Related old and new, once I get to playing it.
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As if playing Surviving Mars all…day…long didn’t burn the soundtrack into my brain already, when I found myself staring at the quit screen waiting for a song to end I decided that was silly and pulled it up on Spotify so I could check my e-mail and stuff…
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