We No Speak Americano

"We No Speak Americano"
Single by Yolanda Be Cool and DCUP
Released	27 February 2010
Genre	Electro swing[1][2] house[3]
Length	4:30 (original version) 2:58 (radio edit) 2:11 (UK radio edit)
Label	Sweat It Out! (Australia) All Around The World (UK)
Songwriter(s)	Johnson Peterson Sylvester Martinez Duncan Maclennan Renato Carosone Nicola Salerno
Producer(s)	Yolanda Be Cool DCUP
Yolanda Be Cool singles chronology
"Holy Cow" (2009) "We No Speak Americano" (2010) "Le Bump" (2011)

"We No Speak Americano" is a song by Australian band Yolanda Be Cool and producer DCUP. It was released on the independent Australian label Sweat It Out on 27 February 2010. The song samples the 1956 Italian song "Tu Vuò Fà L'Americano" in the Neapolitan language by Renato Carosone, written by Carosone and Nicola Salerno. "We No Speak Americano" became a hit in Europe, Australia, and South America (where the song is also known as Pa-Panamericano)^[4] as well as a top 40 hit in the U.S. and Canada.^[5][6] It also won the 2010 ARIA award for "Best Dance Release." The song had sold over 1 million digital copies in the United States as of 10 April 2011.^[update][7]

The song was featured on the soundtrack of the 2011 films The Inbetweeners Movie and Hop, the 2012 film Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, the 2013 film The Great Beauty and the 2018 film Peter Rabbit. It also featured in Episode 2 of the 2011 Korean drama adaptation City Hunter and on the video games DanceStar Party (only in European editions) Zumba Fitness 2 and Just Dance 4.^[8] "We No Speak Americano" was later sampled by Cuban American rapper Pitbull for his Spanish-language tune "Bon, Bon", crediting Yolanda Be Cool and DCUP as producers of his song. American gymnast Gabby Douglas used the song in her gold medal-winning final floor routine at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.