Talk:Smile Song/International versions/@comment-4531340-20140128052514

For an explanation, see my comment on At the Gala international versions.

Good: Bad: Ugly: Removed videos:
 * Danish (the singing is great, but the lack of the backing vocals tends to annoy)
 * German (I dunno what it is, but Pinkie sounds like an unbelievable airhead here, especially in the beginning ; the singing and production are both good, though)
 * Italian (actually, I think this one might take number 3 on my list of top 3 favorite non-English versions, or it might be tied with Danish, but still; a little weirdness with the backing vocals, but oh well)
 * Latin American Spanish (the absence of the choir is unfortunate, as this version would be so much better with it, but still my second favorite version [it'd be a whole lot closer to the Japanese version for my favorite if it had the choir, in other words])
 * Polish (high energy, and just like on Becoming Popular, the backing vocals seem to overpower the main ones at points, which annoys me; doesn't try to push it too much, which is always nice)
 * Russian (respectable rendition; I like it)
 * Japanese (there is not one thing about this rendition that's done incorrectly, as far as Pinkie's singing; the choir is a little treble for my tastes, but I had the same complaint with this language's version of At the Gala, and still loved that one)
 * Dutch (it gets better, but ouch, that beginning is terrible)
 * Norwegian (the singing is fine, but some things in it just don't seem to mix well)
 * French (same as the Dutch; also, I really don't like how the backing vocals overpower the main ones [I'm pretty sure I remember that being a problem in this dub in Becoming Popular, too]; kinda defeats the purpose of them being "backing" vocals, huh?)
 * Brazilian Portuguese (the audio seems a bit low quality, as there is distortion at points, but overall, it's not bad, although I don't particularly care for what they did for the backing vocals, except for one point)
 * European Spanish (the singing's good, but far too casual for my liking)
 * Finnish (a little forced, but nothing too bad)
 * Romanian (once again, it seems like she's trying to sing to a different rhythm than the original, and that's quite hilarious, as usual)
 * Czech (unsurprisingly, this dub manages to once again take everything that made the original great and chuck it all out the window, replacing it with some godawful singing; I'm honestly surprised this dub still exists, because if it's this painful and unwatchable to me, I can't even imagine what it sounds like to a native Czech speaker)
 * Ukrainian (alright, voiceover again ; it's so weird to hear the original in the background, higher than I'm used to)
 * Hungarian (almost as bad as the Czech dub, but not quite as soul-crushingly painful)
 * None (that's always nice)