What Does Ai No Corrida Mean

Ai No Corrida is a 1981 song by Quincy Jones whose title is a phonetic play on the English phrase “Ain’t No.” Despite sounding like a combination of Japanese and Spanish or Portuguese words, the phrase has no literal translation in either language and is best understood as a stylized musical adaptation of Bill Withers’ 1971 song “Ain’t No Sunshine.”

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