Hi everybody,
So my girlfriend is obsessed with that Kyary Pamyu Pamyu song 「つけまつける」(
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1. So first lyric: 「つけまつけまつけまつける」. Now, I know つけまつげ means "false eyelashes", and つける is the verb "to put on" - and the first lyric is translated as "Putting, putting, putting on my falsies". I figured what's going on is some wordplay between the words つけまつげ and つける, I figure that since the end of つけまつげ and the beginning of つける are so similar that she is making a play on words and combining them into one word. Like if one were to say in English "super strong strong-arm" (I am not suggesting that one would ever say this, I just can't think of a better example), where "super strong" would be an adjective and "strong-arm" would be a verb (to coerce) - that one might contract those two to form "super strong arm". Is that kind of what is happening here? Such that つけま
つげ +
つける = つけま
つける.
2. A little later, the lyric: 「いいないいなそれいいな」. Is that 良い? If so, why the な? 良い is an な-adjective. I don't understand.
Several options, either I am clueless, I am missing something because I am clueless, or this 19 year-old uses terrible grammar - or, more realistically, a combination of all three. Also, what's up with the lack of particles? Perhaps they are omitted to make the song "flow" better.
Any help is great!
Thanks, as always!