King Kong & D. Jungle Girls
Encyclopedia
King Kong & D. Jungle Girls is a three-person Italian
eurobeat
group featuring Andrea (King Kong), Alexandra and Roberta (D. Jungle Girls). Several incarnations of their song Boom Boom Dollar have been featured in the Dance Dance Revolution
video games and Dancemania
compilation series and its sub-series including Speed
. The English language lyrics to these songs, which bear a striking similarity to Engrish
, are often misheard and largely incomprehensible to native speakers, a trait it shares with current Eurobeat music.
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
eurobeat
Eurobeat
Eurobeat is a form of italo-disco/hi-NRG music that developed in the late 1980s.In the United States, Eurobeat was sometimes marketed as Hi-NRG and for a short while shared this term with the very early freestyle music hits....
group featuring Andrea (King Kong), Alexandra and Roberta (D. Jungle Girls). Several incarnations of their song Boom Boom Dollar have been featured in the Dance Dance Revolution
Dance Dance Revolution
Dance Dance Revolution, abbreviated DDR, and previously known as Dancing Stage in Europe and Australasia, is a music video game series produced by Konami. Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the...
video games and Dancemania
Dancemania
Dancemania is a series of remix compilation albums by i-DANCE. The series deals primarily with dance music, especially eurodance. Despite its tracks have been made by various musicians from all over the world mainly from the European continent, the albums have been released exclusively in Japan.The...
compilation series and its sub-series including Speed
Dancemania Speed
Dancemania Speed is a sub-series of Toshiba EMI's Dancemania compilation series. This series features faster, further remixed versions of recordings from previously released Dancemania albums or faster remixed covers of various famous songs...
. The English language lyrics to these songs, which bear a striking similarity to Engrish
Engrish
refers to unusual forms of English language usage by native speakers of some East Asian languages. The term itself relates to Japanese speakers' tendency to inadvertently substitute the English phonemes "R" and "L" for one another, because the Japanese language has one alveolar consonant in place...
, are often misheard and largely incomprehensible to native speakers, a trait it shares with current Eurobeat music.
Singles (incomplete)
- Lies
- It's So Funny
- Boom Boom Dollar
- Walkie Talkie
- Love & American Dollars
- Turn the Sound Up Higher
- King Kong