“…The studies of popular song lyrics in European countries reveal different forms of appropriation and localization of global musical genres (Hess, 2010; Simeziane, 2010) and focus on the meaning‐making potential of the globally prestigious English language in contact with national and regional, immigrant or minor languages, such as German, Turkish, and Greek in Germany (Androutsopoulos, 2010), Norwegian, Arabic, Kurdish, and Berber in Norway (Brunstad, Røyneland, & Opsahl, 2010), or French, Arabic, and Verlan in France (Hassa, 2010). Spanu (2019, p. 203) focuses, among other things, on how language choice in music is connected with such categories as social order and authenticity and shows that some artists try to make the French language sound English to accommodate the specificities of French to contemporary pop sounds generally sung in English.…”