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Can you enjoy a song in a foreign language?

JMapleton

JMapleton

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I've found a few songs in foreign languages that I seem to like. Not my typical style of music, but even though I cannot understand what is being said, I found the music and flow of the lyrics of be enjoyable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voSkHmHgYIA (French)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZydzTPZCUPQ (Italian)

Both of these songs were apparently big hits back in the day.

Post a song in a language you do not speak that you enjoy listening to.

Do it now!!!!
 
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Vast majority of the music I listen to is in some foreign language. Mostly English though.
 
Listening to foreign music is no different than English music to me. I generally don't listen to the lyrics in music anyway. To me the lyrics are just another instrument, another sound, not words.
 
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I enjoy a lot of spanish music even though I don't speak it. Infected mushroom is a good example. Also, juanes is great.
 
A lot of the music I listen to is in German, but I do understand some of it so I guess it's not totally foreign. I can get the general theme of the lyrics even if there are many words I don't understand.

I'm also enjoying "Silica Gel" who sing in Spanish, and Deine Lakaien who sing in German, French as well as English. The lead singer also sings in Macedonian in his side project, and the songwriter uses High German, old English, Portuguese etc. in another side project.

Blag Zhivot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2WIppqBN1M

Si No Vuelves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBuzn9OD0ik

So klingt Liebe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-zo0JW3yp8

Der Sheriff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UA-0ZKFh0g&feature=related

Die Krupps sing some songs in German, but mostly for effect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSkHdhDErdA&feature=related
(the band was formed 14 years before Rammstein, as was Laibach)
 
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mk said:
Vast majority of the music I listen to is in some foreign language. Mostly English though.
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Vast majority of the music I listen to is in some foreign language. So not English.

What got me started was this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJKS-A5YMpE
I was flipping through channels and it grabbed me as I passed MTV Tr3s. Spent the next two days with it on PiP waiting for the song to come up again so I could catch the artist.

What caught me was the difference from American pop. It's like American pop is too jaded and defensive to unabashedly express a segment of the emotional spectrum, so they retreat to shallow, indulgent hooks. While there ain't much to El Amor No Fallara, it's certainly expressive.

After that, I moved up to Thalía and Paulina Rubio, then got into a lot of the latin top 20. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2E-M9Kes_U
Picked up albums by Bebe and La Quinta Estación because they were Latin Grammy winners, and I wasn't disappointed. Bebe's Pafuera Telarañas is a must-have. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBu5l8W8SCk&ob=av2e
Picked up another Latin Grammy winner, Laura Pausini. Apparently Italian and Spanish are very similar, so a lot of Italian artists also release in Spanish. So that bridged me over to Europe. Did some Italian and Spanish, then moved on to France because... Alizée. Daaamn.
And you will thank me for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64XdUxhlaf8&fmt=22

Natasha St. Pier because... that voice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB_UBqMRvKk

múm (Iceland)

Got on a German kick for a while. Like Juli and Wir Sind Helden

Then:
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Damn you 4chan and your daily dose!

Now:
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^_^^_^^_^^_^^_^^_^^_^^_^
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj8-_QKN31o

I did study French for 4 years in high school though.
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Damn... the 60's happened in other places too?

AznAnarchy99 said:
and then there's always this =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq4mmO9yyRM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYc4NBMfbwY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgX2Ta9sSE4
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Whoa, first time I've heard Vietnamese. I've never heard vocalizations like that before and I don't think it's something I could get used to. It's just... weird. And I can listen to this.
 
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