In the music department at my university the vocalists had to take two different foreign language classes for this reason, and they were _supposed_ to learn the

In the music department at my university the vocalists had to take two different foreign language classes for this reason, and they were _supposed_ to learn the meaning of everything they sang so they could capture the feeling of the song. Bullshitting your way through those kinds of inflections is the voice undergrad's version of slapping a paper together the night before a deadline.