SHANGHAI - Written partly by a renowned US composer and sung by two foreigners, the Shanghai Expo's English theme song still embraced local flavor.
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But when they sung "Ala nong," two key words in the lyric, they made Shanghai locals smile and others confused -- the two words are "me and you" in Shanghai dialect.
The song was composed jointly by renowned U.S. composer Quincy Delight Jones and Academy Award-winning Chinese conductor Tan Dun.
