The Song Remains the Same

Basically, when an imported work is translated, theme songs and other songs are left in the original language. There's a really good reason for this; due to differing language structures, perfectly respectable foreign-language lyrics are nonsensical in English. Songs (like all poetry) are much, much harder to translate than regular dialogue. Hence, rather than overhaul the lyrics in the song as is normally done with spoken dialogue, the song is played in the original language to avoid dialogue failure of Zero Wing proportions. This is an aversion of Alternative Foreign Theme Song, where the theme of a foreign TV show, game or film is changed to a completely different one when aired in another country. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Not to be confused with the band's concert movie titled The Song Remains the Same. Should not be confused with the Revolution episode "The Song Remains The Same" and the Supernatural episode "The Song Remains The Same". Loosely related to Translated Cover Version.

Western Animation

 * Except for the French dub (due to XMUSIC being French himself), the theme song of All New! The Sweet Treets was left in English or French in all dubs of the show that use the US localisation (from 2002) rather than the original Jetanie/British version.