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Do you listen to music in a different language?

Music in foreign languages?

  • Often.

    Votes: 12 57.1%

  • Sometimes.

    Votes: 7 33.3%

  • Rarely.

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • Never.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Everything I listen to is instrumental.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    21
Metalhead

Metalhead

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I listen to some J-pop, and I also listen to some opera. I don't understand most of what they are saying, but I listen to it anyway if I like the sound of the vocals.

Do you listen to music sung in foreign languages you do not understand, or does that bother you too much?
 
I adore listening to old Slavic or Byzantine chants. They are so slow, reverberating, deep. No accompanying instruments. Beautiful, mature lyrics, exploring the vulnerability of the human condition and the majesty and mercy of God. The power of the male voice at worship, whether low or surprisingly high and angelic, chills me to core and puts me in a very tranquil, meditative state.
 
I have Ritchie Valens' La Bamba (1958) on my playlist.
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I like a lot of songs that have occassional phrases in foreign languages. La Isla Bonita (Madonna), Mi Vida Loca (Pam Tillis), Water (Martika), Ti Amo (Laura Branigan), La Luna (Belinda Carlisle)... I prefer the bulk of the song to be in something I can understand.
 
Half the time I can't really follow the English lyrics, and I'm fine with instrumentals, so a foreign language is no problem, just a bit lacking in story values. I also remember a movie by English-speaking Jamaicans that had English subtitles. . .
What English music sounds like to non-English speakers:
 
I enjoy some songs in Spanish and the Byzantine chants.
What I really find comforting is Celtic. Enya is beautiful even though I don't understand the words when she doesn't sing in English.
 
Surprised there are other byzantine listeners!

One of my all-time favorite genres is bossa nova, so outside of english, portuguese might be my most listened to language.

Some other languages i've enjoyed in music include japanese and korean, romanian, ukrainian, african rock (some of which is in arabic, and others are a regional language i wouldn't be able to pin), french, italian, spanish and plenty of greek (i'm a chanter at my church, so i also get plenty of byzantine hymns)

I enjoy the smorgasbord of music afforded to us through the internet!
 
One of my favorite groups is Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. Here is their Vasos Vacios (empty glasses). I like the imagery at the close . . . Dancing like the water from the river mixing with the sea.

Then their powerful song, Fighter (the beat sounds like Cumbia to me)
 
I'm impressed by these statistics. I listen to japanese. Also, japanese game bgm's feature other languages sometimes, usually european.

This comes to mind.

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