Do you like listening to music that's in a language you don't speak?

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I sure do, I've enjoyed songs in German, Arabic, Korean, Japanese, and Persian. I usually look up the lyrics at some point. In the case of Arabic songs, I can sometimes understand some small portions of the lyrics without looking them up.
 
This is not modern-day Japanese; but a (very speculatively reconstructed) prehistoric language of Japan called Jomon. Synthist Himekami (Yoshiaki Hoshi) was fascinated by this language in his last years and used it in many of his songs.

 
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Sigur Rós is an Icelandic band that uses lyrics in a made up language that doesn't actually mean anything.


Their songs are generally very slow in tempo and I suppose post-rock, as much as I don't really like that term.
 
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WhoopieDoo said:
Christian Vander of invented his own language for his music: "Kobaïan".


There's also a Japanese band, Ruins, which uses the same language.
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I love stuff like that! Susumu Hirasawa had a similar method for the opening of the recent Berserk OVAs, even though I don't think he came up with new words as much as used gibberish that sounded good:

I have no idea what language this is (maybe Swedish?) or what this song is about, but I sure as hell love listening to it:
 
Savina Yannatou is an amazing Greek vocalist who sings in at least a dozen languages. This song, "Dunie-au" is from Kazakhstan.

 
I had a phase of listening to foreign music, indeed. Especially with a strong beat.
 
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I like listening to music in other languages a lot. I don't get too caught up in trying to figure out what it means, and sometimes, the languages themselves sound really nice. Especially songs in Chinese or French. I don't know why, the way they sound is soothing to me. I dabble in a little kpop too.

If you want recommended music, I really like the Tempters and the Golden Cups. They're rock bands from the late 60's, so it's going to sound a little dated, but I like it. They do English covers too, of course, which are also pretty decent, but their original songs are in Japanese.


A small snippet from a video for Legend of Emerald (The Tempters).
 
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Stupeflip is one of my favorites despite not being the most fluent in French.
 
I've got one by Daniel Koren on my playlist (it's Hebrew).


I have a few Japanese songs in my playlist as well...



I also have this Chinese song by the Chopstick Brothers:


AND I'm a fan of Lenich and Kirya, who are Russian:


 
I just remembered that I occasionally listen to the Polish music station when I'm driving.
 
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