Frank Kogan

This is very good. And indeed, the shimmer that decorates her verses sounds similar to the flourish in "Tu Es Foutu," though the main beat here keeps the "Tu Es Foutu"–like squiggle from dominating enough to genuinely put this on my Austral-Romanian continuum.

Is still hard to come up with an explanation for why I think some squiggles get you on the continuum and others don't: I'd say for now it's that "Tu Es Foutu" and "We No Speak Americano" build themselves around the squiggle, whereas in "Goodbye My Love" the squiggle is more decorative than defining.

There's a similar example from the Romanian side, "Tu" by Oanu Radu & Dr. Mako featuring Eli. Radu's skitter-scat is wonderful and would get us on the continuum except that the arrangement goes reggae rather than clip-cloppity, so loses the particular feel. (Also makes the track vastly more mundane than if the skitter-scat had had a clip-cloppity to dance with à la Delia's "D-D-Down," which by the way I'm about to embed questioningly on my bohemia-from-nowhere-near-bohemia thread.)

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(Meanwhile in actual Australia, Yolanda Be Cool seem to be going out of their way to no longer resemble "We No Speak Americano," e.g., their very housey "Cause I Like It," though their Mayra Veronica mashup goes the other direction, pushing the "No Speak Americano" freneticism to ever more frantic levels, almost feeling punk.)