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I always get a kick out of it when they do that kind of stuff.
Nice examples and write-up! But those examples also made me realize that I don't think there's been any diegetic music sung in Basic (English) outside of the Holiday Special.
It's quite odd to hear a cover of Peter Schilling's "Major Tom." It's a crossover on multiple levels: real world universe to Star Wars universe and alternate-reality "Space Oddity" universe to Star Wars universe, just to name two distinct levels. And I see from Wikipedia that this is the "Huttese version."
Not that this is a bad thing. Not at all. However, dispelling the "Amblin vibe," as it were, this distinctly and absolutely does not.
I suppose that depends if one counts the "power of many" chant in 'The Acolyte'.
But yeah, thus far all the diegetic music has either been purely instrumental, or the lyrics has been non-English; either a made up language, or something at least based on a real non-English. For example; the chorus in 'Duel of Fates' are actually singing a loose translation of an old Welsh poem in Sanskrit.
Logically from an in-universe perspective there probably ought to be Star Wars music in Basic; but from a meta-textual perspective it would seem a little odd and undercut the whole point of diegetic in Star Wars, which is to make the audience feel that this world is at once both familiar and exotic. Indeed; this brings us back to the "power of many" chant and the reason it felt (to me, at least) a little odd. Had they been chanting in Sanskrit, Huttese, or a butchered form of Nahuatl, I probably wouldn't have thought twice about it. Such things rather loose their mystique once you actually know what they're saying.
