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

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Do you mean a language I don't completely understand or know at least some of? In both cases yes. I like Chinese and Korean music. Japanese rap. Russian rap, dance, and industrial. Northern Europe has some catchy beats though some of their lyrics don't make any sense when you translate it. I'm sure it makes more sense to them. I still listen to several types of genres in German though mainly like industrial and hip hop/ rap. Can't find any rock to really get behind. I've only ever found one band in India that was good and I don't think it was ever in a movie for a dance number. Only music I've ever listened to from Africa was all in English. I haven't found anything from France I really like but there's a few people from Quebec that are good. I think every Spanish rapper I've ever listened to came from the USA..

 

[TingoFranDingo]

 

[03crep]

Absolutely, and I've found myself listening more to french artists. I don't really know why because they're mostly slow and ethereal love songs, but something about the language and the way their words blend into each other is pleasing on the ears. Before, I would listen to death metal from germans or russians, but that makes sense because with so much growling and screaming, the experience of it has less to do with the words anyway and more with the rhythm.

 

[Krupnik]

I sure do! If I really really like a song, I'll look up the translation.

 

[Positron]

I first heard of the Japanese version of the Irish song "The Mountains of Pomeroy" when The Chieftains toured with a Japanese folk singer. I'm not sure if this is that exact song.

 

[Annafanti]

doesn't even need to be a real language. if it sounds cool, it sounds cool.

 

[VanyaMotorbike]

I listen to lots of death metal and so often have no idea what they're saying

But I don't mind listening to music in foreign languages. Japanese is probably my fav. I picked up on the whole city pop thing from listening to Vaporwave, and now I often go looking for more music for my Japan playlist

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

Most of my music collection is non-English and my tastes are all over. I listen to a lot of Disco Polo, City Pop, North Korean music (not sure what genre it's called), Moroccan and Algerian Rai, and Russian pop. Some of my favorite artists are Rollercoaster (South Korean pop before "K-Pop" became a thing), Autour de Lucie, Cui Jian, Douzi, and Potap i Nastya.
Not all of it is totally "foreign" since I grew up with Polish spoken around me quite a bit and have studied a few of these languages. With Arabic though, listening to the music makes me wish I had started with a dialect rather than the classical written language.

 

[pork and beans]

I love it when Yung lean sings in swedish

Before, I would listen to death metal from germans or russian

This sounds amazing. What are your favorites? I would love to check them out.


The only german and russian music i listen to is kraftwerk and russian post hardcore and 2000s rap respectively lol

 

[Positron]

"Anak" ("Child") is without a doubt the world's most famous song in Tagalog. On the surface this song is about a prodigal son who, yearning for independence, has succumbed to vice and breaks his parent's heart.

After the singer and writer of the song died in May, I read an essay that describes the social-political background of the song. The Philippines has been under the iron-fisted rule of Ferdinand Marcos since the mid-1960s. Lots of young people volunteered to join the Communist opposition and got into guerilla warfare. This song is about the feeling of the parent whose son has prepared to sacrifice his life for radical politics.

 

[Lovely Kin]

Lots of my listened songs are in other languages I enjoy them quite a lot even if I don't understand some of them.

 

[The bearer of arms]

I listen to a lot of Latin or byzantine music, like belisariuse or media vita.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

I enjoy listening to Band-Maid. They're excellent musicians.

I like a lot of Snoop Dogg's early work, too.

 

[Postmodernist Disaster]

Italian prog rock is quite the treasure cove considering how overshadowed it is by the english side of the genre. Also, although technically I don't speak italian, given that both my first language and it are romance languages, I can understand like 80-90% of the words on it.