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:
Any of you listen to music that isn't in English?
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
no because lyrics are the most important part of a song so not understanding them is foolish
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.
" @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.
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".)
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.
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.
Anime music.
@pwnasaurus said:
I just care about how good the song sounds. I don't know the lyrics to 90% of the songs I like." @Qorious: no because lyrics are the most important part of a song so not understanding them is foolish "
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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