Capitalization Dutch / English and error correction

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Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding a song title. It’s a song by Normaal called ‘’Ik mos pissen / Hawai tattoo’’

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‘’Ik mos pissen’’ is a Dutch song title but ‘’Hawai tattoo’’ is a cover of an English song and thus an English title. Do I capitalize the title like this then: ‘’Ik mos pissen / Hawai Tattoo’’?

Also the original song is called ‘’Hawaii Tattoo’’ with two i’s, and on other releases from Normaal (the artists of the song) it’s also spelled with two i’s.

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So can I assume that it’s a typo and it needs to be fixed to ‘’Ik mos pissen / Hawaii Tattoo’’?

So my guesses are:

  • ‘’Ik mos pissen / Hawai Tatoo’’
  • ‘’Ik mos pissen / Hawaii Tattoo’’

Or just keep it all in the Dutch capitalization rules like”:

  • ‘’Ik mos pissen / Hawai tatoo’’
  • ‘’Ik mos pissen / Hawaii tattoo’’

Hope someone can help me out with this one!

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This seems like the correct choice to me. If these were separate tracks, we would definitely apply the language-specific capitalization for each too.

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