So, yeah, I caught up with the latest interest towards this song and I watched
the music video on the official channel. I am currently working through the
lyrics (some of the words used are totally new to me), but I have already
encountered a part where the English translation seems off.

[The video is here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCp2iXA1uLE), and the
first time it appears in the lyrics is ~1:00

This line of the original...

> 踊ってない夜がない夜なんて

...is translated in the English captions as...

> If there is no night we have no dancing night

however, when I was listening to it, I thought that this actually meant

> (A) no-dancing night is (a) no-night or something

Meaning that a night when there is no dancing is as good as no night / nothing
at all. (Well, the dismissive なんて can have a lot of translations, but it's not
the point for me here.)

What do you think? Possibly, the subject and predicate are just reversed to
fit the rhythm?

P.S. The fact that there is no comma after "If there is no night" makes me
especially suspicious of the overall quality here
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About the official (?) English translation of 'Odd Loop' by Frederic
I think to answer this question, we would need to look at the following set of
lyrics as well:

> 踊ってない夜がない夜なんて + とってもとっても退屈です

Usually one may consider なんて literally as "such (a thing)" and in this context
when it is preceded by a negative subject it emphasizes that there could be a
lack of something. i.e. "such a thing (isn't)" or "(no) such thing". In this
case it could likely be fully translated as

> There is no such thing as a danceless night that **isn't** very very boring.
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