Any of you listen to music that isn't in English?

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#1  Edited By Qorious

I do! I find American music to be very gratuitous these days with superfluous lyrics and expletives. I find myself listening a lot to Korean and Japanese songs nowadays and even though I can't understand it, the English subs make up for it. Here's a sample of what I listen to: 
 
  

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#2  Edited By conker
@Qorious: 
I listen to Arabic music almost exclusively 
EDIT: I understand it too :P
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#3  Edited By Termite

I constantly listen to Japanese music. I'm not sure I quite count though, since I can understand a good deal of what's being said most of the time. 
 
But, I do like listening to Spanish music sometimes too, and my Spanish is very poor.

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#4  Edited By gunslingerNZ

The french and germans produce some pretty awesome electro so I get exposed to some foreign lyrics through those. Other than that not really, most music worth listening to has english vocals even if the artist isn't a native speaker.
 
Edit: also lol at the Korean R&B!

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japanese metalcore

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I listen to a lot of Rammstein, which is in German. You can't literally understand it, but it still sounds great. I don't think I'll ever fully understand their lyrics, because of the obvious fact that they're in German, and also because they're so loaded with symbolism and such that even translating them won't help.  
 
Like this one, for instance. It's a badass song that turns out to be about being Gay!  
 
  

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#8  Edited By Clinkz

I used to when I was a weeaboo. 
 Then I realized anime is for jerks. (I still watch it occasionally I'm kidding.)
 
 
Not any more though--classic rock, metal, trance all the fucking way. I can't believe I thought that shit was good at some time.

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#9  Edited By spursfan20

I listen to Arabic music occasionally.
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#10  Edited By Black_Raven

I've got music in french, German, Norwegen, Russian and a few other languages and I don't even speak them. 99% of the bands I listen to come from non english speaking contries, but most of the lyrics are in english.

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#11  Edited By RedEyesBlueBunny

i mainly listen to Korean music. i think i have a gay crush on Taeyang. T-Ara is great too.

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#12  Edited By FireBurger

I listen to some opera, if that counts. It's Italian.

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#13  Edited By ToxicFruit
@lovecreep: BRENDU Í HELVíTI SIGUR RÓS !
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#14  Edited By jonnyboy

Yeah, rap.

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#15  Edited By AgentJ

All sorts. My Ipod, last I checked, had Russian, Chech, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, and UK English, which, as we all know, is complete jibberish to other English speaking countries. I like to think of the vocal chord as an instrument so other languages don't bother me.

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#16  Edited By bonbolapti

I've been listening to a lot of music that isn't north american.
Lost Fingers, Loane, One-two, Soko, yelle, and Yael naim mostly. some of those artists have a fair amount of enlgish songs, but it still sounds their own.

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#17  Edited By SumDeus

Sigur Ros, Rammstein, Mad Capsule Markets, KMFDM...

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#18  Edited By simpledespot

I like a good Serge Gainsbourg every now and then.

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#19  Edited By sodiumCyclops

I consider the vocals from Crystal Castles to basically be another language.
 
Also, Ladytron.

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#20  Edited By pwnasaurus
@Qorious:
no because lyrics are the most important part of a song so not understanding them is foolish
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#21  Edited By Hot_Karl

I listen to reggaeton quite a bit, as well as the occasional Rammstein song.

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#22  Edited By DocHaus

A little Japanese rock (yes, from some animu), a little Jewish Klezmer music, some Spanish rock (I can even understand some of the words!) and whatever genre you would use for Balkan Beat Box or Gogol Bordello.

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#23  Edited By WizardShazam

Spanish, Russian, German, and Japanese on occasion and I can only understand the Spanish and Russian.  Lyrical content is always the least important part of a song to me so it's nice to just listen to a song and how everything fits together without having to worry about translating or caring what is being said.  Like AgentJ posted, the human voice is an instrument all its own.

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  Some Opera

   

 

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#25  Edited By iam3green

i listen to ramstien sometimes but that is the only foreign music that i have listened to. i listened to duhaustme on the radio.

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#26  Edited By Symphony
@pwnasaurus said:
" @Qorious: no because lyrics are the most important part of a song so not understanding them is foolish "
I'd have to disagree as not understanding the lyrics can make a potentially terrible song good due to not realizing the lyrics are atrocious. On top of this, the vocals just become another instrument that blends in with the rest of the song instead of standing out. Not that vocals standing out is bad and I enjoy plenty of songs with lyrics I can understand, but I find it nice to have some vocal songs that essentially become instrumentals due to the lack of discernible lyrics. 
 
Anyways, I listen to Celtic, Japanese, German, Russian, Korean, Arabic, French, Chinese (no idea if its Cantonese or Mandarin), Spanish, and whatever crazy languages groups like Enigma, Delerium, Enya (okay so she's not a group, whatever), or pretty much any trance/ambient/chillout DJs, decide to throw into their songs. 
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#27  Edited By zanzibarbreeze
 Better than you.
 Better than you.
Kiss One More Time by Midnight Brown.
 
Other than that, I only listen to American - the only country/language worth listening to. (I am a believer in the movement which says that American English should be referred to as "American".)

 
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#28  Edited By Bones8677

I listen to Japanese and Spanish songs. That's about it.

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#29  Edited By Yummylee

Yeah, I listen to abit of German Industrial metal, besides Rammstein I mean. 
 
I've also got abit of russian punk rock aswell, most of it found thanks to GTA4's soundtrack. =P
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#30  Edited By Geno

Jpop can be good in small quantities (like botulism) but it's mostly French and Spanish music for me in terms of non-English music. 

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#31  Edited By JJWeatherman

French rap yo.
 
Half kidding. I actually have a few French rap songs but mainly for laughs. Although they can be strangely catchy at times.

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#32  Edited By DCFGS3

Rammstein a lot, but also a few songs from the Ukrainian radio channel in GTAIV. I don't know, I guess I don't really care where the music comes from, as long as it's good. Every country produces trash, not just America.

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#33  Edited By Jrad

jpop 100% of the time, sung by my favorite seiyuu.
 
Chihara Minorin <3

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#34  Edited By REDRUN
@Qorious:  Does Engrish count? If so then yes.
 
 
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#35  Edited By randiolo

 
this is the sort of music i grew up listening too, besides american music,  
 
         

   
classic...  
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#36  Edited By birchman

No, not really. The best music comes from the great old Britain!

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#37  Edited By TheHT

Music from America aren't the only ones to employ the use of the English language btw. Most of my non-English stuff is Japanese stuff from games or anime, though there's some Russian, Icelandic, Hopelandic, French, Arabic, Hindi and German. Still, mostly English and second would be Jap.

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#38  Edited By asurastrike

L'Arc En Ciel
Mucc
D'espairsray
Alizee
Rammstein

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#39  Edited By lovecreep
@Headlines:
I need to hear some japanese metal core anyone you can suggest i check out  and would be avalibe to me in the us?
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#40  Edited By natetodamax

Anime music. 
 
@pwnasaurus said:

" @Qorious: no because lyrics are the most important part of a song so not understanding them is foolish "

I just care about how good the song sounds. I don't know the lyrics to 90% of the songs I like.
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#41  Edited By MrKlorox

I listen to a lot of death metal. Oh that's mostly in English you say? Doesn't matter if you can't make out the lyrics to begin with.
 
@pwnasaurus said:

" lyrics are the most important part of a rap song so not understanding them is foolish "


Fixed.
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#42  Edited By conker
@ZanzibarBreeze:
Calm down Bobby.
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#43  Edited By obcdexter

English, Japanese, Spanish, German and of course a lot of music void of lyrics - mainly of Joe Hisaishi and Shiro Sagisu greatness.

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#44  Edited By Romination

yeah, but only if you've never heard of them. I erase them from my library if you have.
I also wear a scarf and have an ironic beard.
 
Actually, I like Rammstein

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#45  Edited By HellBrendy

I mostly listen to norwegian metal.  
 
  

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#46  Edited By hinderk

I listen to Italian music sometimes.

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#47  Edited By CornontheCobbe

I listen to some French Rap. Even though i have no clue what they are saying, i can't help but listen to T.L.F. and Rohff.
 
 

 
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#48  Edited By singular
@pwnasaurus said:
"@Qorious: no because lyrics are the most important part of a song so not understanding them is foolish "

but since I'm bilingual I also listen to music with German lyrics.
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#49  Edited By arkasai
@Qorious: lol Bigbang, my girlfriend listens to them.  But yeah I like a lot of foreign music, Japanese, German, French, Spanish....doesn't matter as long as the musicianship is there.
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#50  Edited By KowalskiManDown

I listen to Sigur Ros all the time.