Cartoon Network seems to be branching out lately in terms of its international branches, at least when it comes to Latin America. In addition to publishing a wonderful Adventure Time album featuring Marceline singing songs from the series in Spanish and Portuguese , they've added a Spanish audio track to the Steven Universe movie on streaming services , and even released the film's soundtrack in Spanish and Portuguese ! I'm pretty passionate about foreign dubs, so when I found out about this soundtrack release, I was overjoyed; blinded by excitement, I shelled out the $20 for the MP3s without so much as bothering to check out the complete albums on Spotify or YouTube first. Only to become incredibly disappointed minutes later when I discovered how utterly disastrous it was.To start out with, while the song titles are mostly fine in Portuguese, in line with how each song was adapted in the dub, the Spanish song titles are completely out of whack. They're much more literal translations of the English songs, not taking into account what's actually sung in the Spanish version, and accent marks are missing in a bunch of places. For example, "Let Us Adore You" is adapted in the dub as "Serás Nuestra Adoración," or "You Shall Be Our Adoration," but the soundtrack title is "Dejanos Adorarte," which is a very literal translation of "Let Us Adore You" that misspells "Déjanos" as "Dejanos." And beyond all of that, in both versions, "Finale" is just called either language's respective translation for "Happily Ever After." And system/BOOT.PearlFinal(3).info is called "system/BOOT.PearlFinal(3).info (Pearl's Song)," without bothering to translate the actual song name. How lazy can you get?!But, okay, let's take a step back for a moment. Song titles being wrong? I mean, who cares, you can still listen to the songs and be fine, right?Well, as it turns out, you cannot.A bunch of the songs have the vocals out of sync with the instrumental! As discovered by @DingoTech on Twitter, it's not even just your basic "one track is out of sync with the other," either. The different parts of the vocals were pasted all over the place with barely any regard for how they sounded in relation to the instrumental. This plagues Happily Ever After, Isn't It Love?, No Matter What, and Drift Away in the Spanish edition, and in Portuguese, it's a problem in all of those songsIndependent Together! It affects some of these more than others, but in all of the songs mentioned it's enough to be noticeable, and I'm sure there are more songs where there's a delay small enough that I didn't catch it when I listened. While this doesn't ruinof them, that's still a significant amount of songs suddenly made nigh-unlistenable.To further compound the idea that you can't listen to the songs as they were in the movie, the lyrics of Happily Ever After in Spanish are actually different between the movie and the soundtrack! Here's a comparison video ; the relevant lyrics of each version are as follows:English:Spanish (Movie):Spanish (Soundtrack):The soundtrack version sounds noticeably more off-beat than the English version, and sounds awkward in places, whereas the movie version conserves about the same rhythm as the English one without using quite as much strange wording or breaking up the sentence in odd ways. The movie lyrics are almost an objective improvement; it's almost as if whoever patched together this soundtrack received an earlier version of the vocals. Beyond that, for some reason, in the movie version, Marilyn Viloria sings the line "este es el futuro," replacing Garnet's regular voice actor, Rocío Mallo, who sings the rest of Garnet's part in the song. In the soundtrack version, Rocío Mallo sings the whole way through. No matter your opinion on this change, it'sthan the movie version, and the lyric changes in the soundtrack are definitely for the worse.And if that weren't bad enough, there's several mixing errors beyond just the sync. In the Spanish version of Isn't It Love?, the background chorus singing and Garnet's "la-da-da-da-da" are missing entirely, and in both versions, Disobedient's instrumental is noticeably loud. Other Friends has the entire opening piece of dialogue cut out, in line with the English " Radio Edit ," as well. Beyond the mistakes in Isn't It Love?, none of these are dealbreakers, but I think they just serve to further highlight the incompetence of this release.In conclusion, while I'm really happy CN is making more of an effort to bring its content to Spanish and Portuguese speakers... it should probably show that that change in effort is more substantial than this. This just feels like a slapdash release that ranges from average to somewhat offputting to straight-up unlistenable at times. It's a shame, too; as I mentioned at the start of this post, their recent Adventure Time album was fantastically put together, lack of accent marks in song titles aside. If they could only retain that level of quality for the rest of their releases, I can guarantee I'd be willing to shell out the cash. As it stands, though, it's looking like I'll be sticking with YouTube uploads for the forseeable future.