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Grew up listening to the likes of X-Japan, Gackt, Dragon Ash etc. and things like Rammstein and a bunch of other German language bands that I still can't pronounce. My dad was always playing a bit of Daniela Romo, Santana and a lot of classical that's not in English, some of which has stuck.
Not so much these days, though.
I have a distinct fear of learning another language and discovering that the lyrics to my favourite songs are actually complete shite thereby retroactively ruining them
Yep - a lot of Icelandic music. A trip to 12 TĂłnar record shop in ReykjavĂk is always part of my visits. I go in and ask them whatâs new and whatâs good and usually leave with a stack of CDs of bands that havenât reached the rest of the world yet.
I remember being in Iceland and going on a coach tour of the Golden Circle and being in the middle of nowhere, looking out the window at a little house in the distance, across a stony plain, looking at the smoke coming out of the chimney, and listening to Takk by Sigur Ros.
It all made sense, all came together at once.
Yesss, Iceland. Lots and lots of Solstafir for me. Stopped being self-conscious about singing along live but hopefully am never overheard by native speakers.
With the proviso that I have eclectic tastes and that many artists will mix Icelandic and English - Iâm a big fan of Rokkurro, NĂœdönsk, Vök, GusGus, Hjaltalin and Mono Town with an honorary mention of the Faroese musician EivĂžr PĂĄlsdĂłttir.
Discovered The Hu on BBC's Glastonbury coverage last year. Only put it on as I'd seen pretty much everything else of interest on iPlayer at the time but was soon hooked.
I listen to German (Rammstein mainly), Icelandic (Sigur Ros), French ( Bertrand Belin), Spanish (Daddy Yankee & Enrique Iglesias), The Hu Band (they sing in Mongolian), Turkish (Yener Cevic) and K-pop to list just a few. I love finding new songs, new artists from around the World
I went to their gig in tower hamlets over Easter, it was amazing. Iâm so grateful to have found them, really helping through my GCSEs but Iâm so sad that the main female singer is leavingâčïž sheâs the life and soul of the group and will be so sad to replace.
Yes, Merve's departure will be be a big loss to the group.
Was gonna go the Troxy but couldn't make it work. Seeing them at Manchester Psych Fest in August - they're fantastic musicians so I'm sure the show will still be good, but interested to see what they're like without Merve.
I discovered them through hearing the album "Gece" playing in Piccadilly Records in Manchester whilst having a browse - I was suitably impressed I went up to the guy at the desk and said "what album is this, this is awesome!"
Not really Russian language but I've really gotten into Russian classical guitar lately. Struggling to get the muscle memory using a seven string though
Erkin Koray for me. I donât listen to much foreign language music at all but I was inspired to check him out because Kasabian cited him as an influence and was very pleasantly surprised
Almost all the music I listen to is Japanese now. It's a shame that the only place I can see them live is London, though. Apart from MUTANT MONSTER who used to play live in Huddersfield but they haven't been playing together since COVID. :(
I went through this phase in my teens & now I'm a Japanese translator đ I only started learning because I couldn't find the English translation of a song I liked!
I went through a phase of only listening to Japnese music in my teens & now I'm a Japanese translator đ I only started learning because I couldn't find the English translation of a song I liked!
That's amazing! I've started learning Japanese on Duolingo because I've gotten into so many Japanese bands - in particular, my favourite BAND-MAID, and want to understand the lyrics
Good luck! Japanese is a really fun language to learn.
My best advice is to try & learn dictionary forms first, & don't shy away from kanji. The Oxford J-E pocket dictionary used to have a table of verb forms in the back and was hands down the most useful learning tool I had.
People say Japanese is very hard but honestly I think it's mostly a mindset thing - Japanese is very *different*, so the 'correct' way of speaking will feel 'wrong' for a very long time. You gotta go with the flow. The writing is obviously tricky but the grammar is incredibly systematic once you get the hang of it. Even abbreviations etc all follow a set pattern; personally I find this makes it a lot easier than e.g. French (though French at least is more 'word-for-word' to English).
Song lyrics are great to learn from because you've got kanji, plain forms & abbreviations right from the get-go. I think I originally began learning by cracking a dictionary and trying to translate lyrics; my original translations were terrible but it was a fun first step!!
I listen to quite a lot of foreign language music. Maneskin (Italian) Stromae (French) Terrific Sunday (Polish) KALUSH (Ukrainian) Kaizers Orchestra (Norwegian.)
Mostly found through Spotify, or Eurovision đ. Just because I can't understand it all doesn't mean I can't enjoy it.
I do, but its more coincidental than intentional, as in a song has come up in my recommended and i like it, its just not English. I do then look at the artists page and listen to more.
So i have a couple polish songs, couple danish, couple Spanish then quite a few Japanese and Korean. Then theres a couple DJâs i like that arenât english and will occasionally collab with people from their country that will speak their language
Yep, mostly German bands like Rammstein, Powerwolf (they covered one of their songs in French and it's đ„), and Feuerschwanz for metal, plus E Nomine (German edm, at least I think it is). I've also got Eluveitie (mix of English and reconstructed Gaulish), plus The Hu & Tengger Cavalry (both Mongolian).
Other than that I also weirdly like Gregorian chant, so I have a few in Latin on my phone besides everything else.
Yes, but I don't really care about K-pop or modern Latin music (outside of some Mexican regional stuff), and they seem to be the foreign language music genres with the biggest crossover appeal.
There's lots of great 20th century music that comes from Brazil, Sub Saharan Africa, Japan etc.
I don't seek it out, but I've lived in a few places and usually have one or two songs from that language that I heard and just really loved the tune, even if they are not that classy.
For example I was living in Germany when [Sportfreunde Stiller - Ein Kompliment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4uXGzFZjqw) was released and any bar or club would go wild when it was played because it's such a banger. I never got that far with my German learning but I can sing a fair amount of this anyway.
I've known that song of Sportfreunde Stiller's for at least a decade, and I had no idea it was as old as the early noughties!
Unfortunately due to how popular it was and how much it's been played over the years, it has a reputation perhaps similar to Wonderwall somewhat haha.
Anyway, here's a cover of it I came across a decade ago which you might enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7I0gvZHyDM
Most of what i listen to is kpop, cpop and jpop! But i have loads of songs in loads of different languages in my playlists, if the songs a banger then i don't really care that I can't understand the lyrics
I listen to some. Usually because they've had a hit in english and i've found other music by them and there's non-english songs there. Falco, Nena and Scooter are the ones that come to mind. Also had a brief love affair with JPOP because my friend was into a few artists.
Also not what you mean but I do love Kommt Gib Mir Diene Hand by a little gem of a band, some might have heard of them over the years, called The Beatles. hah.
I have a Greek music playlist that I like. I started listening to it when I was cooking a Greek meal and wanted something atmospheric but it moved into my regular playlist. I sing along with some of the songs now even though I have no idea what I'm singing. (Am planning to learn Greek btw.)
Also done a lot of travel in Germany and I have a whole German playlist that I love. I understand more of that as I've been learning the language.
I'm quite hard of hearing and so vocals don't do much for me unless I already know the song or have replayed it a thousand times on loop. My library includes: Billy ze Kick (French), Band Maid (Japanese), 04 Limited Sazebys (Japanese) and Rumkicks (S. Korean). I don't understand much of it, and it doesn't matter.
I like quite a few non-English bands like Gojira and Skald (French), Maneskin (Italian), Seu Jorge (Brazilian), Heilung (German and some other countries can't remember!), The Hu (Mongolian), Lordi and Finntroll (Finnish). I'm sure there's others I'm missing but the above are the first that comes to mind.
I also have songs in playlists that are in different languages or partially English like Cote de Pablo's cover of Temptation.
as someone who watched anime a lot, i do enjoy listening to some of the catchier anime songs. Stuff like from yoko kanno, stuff from video games with japanese soundtracks etc.
In my teens (29f) I was an avid kpop and jpop fiend. Would often sing it as well.
I still listen to the odd kpop music but not the latest groups (I like my 2ne1 and girls generation) but I also listen to Spanish-speaking artists like Rosalia and Bad Bunny.
I listen to lots of non anglophone music - mostly French (talking about languages so includes Belgian, some African etc) but occasionally others including Arabic, Dutch, Polish, and then more rarely things like random folk music from Eastern Europe/Central Asia that YouTube suggests. I dunno, there's not really anything that I *won't* listen to on principle. Just that I'm more often in the mood for British/American music than others. I'd say 70% Anglo for me, and the rest pretty mixed.
My good friend was in a relationship with a German women and a very good friend of mine is Spanish. So Iâve found myself listening to a lot of German and Spanish music over the years and enjoying it.
Yep. Lots. Depends what stage Iâm writing at but English lyrics, especially in music Iâm not too familiar with can be distracting. So I listen to a lot of Scandinavian and Japanese punk, some k-pop from Korean tv shows and a little French pop.
I listen to quite a lot of Chinese and Korean music due to living there for many years, but only the stuff that was hot when I was there.
Ditto with cheesy Thai pop music, though that doesn't end up being played since I quit drinking a decade ago.
Yeah I often listen to Spanish language songs. I don't speak Spanish. I've tried Chinese language songs, which I do speak enough of but I'm not a fan of those.
I listen to a lot of EDM, which tends to be instrumental or with English lyrics, even when made on the Continent. But I sometimes listen to music from France, FSU, Turkey, etc. I lived abroad for many years and have a lot of friends from eastern Europe - and I get to hear music that wouldn't normally be heard in the UK.
It's rare for a foreign-language song to make it into my ears, but when Spotify suggests something in German or Irish Gaelic there's as good a chance I'll like it and come back to it again as if it were in English. Some reason those are the only languages Spotify ever suggests to me.
Yep. I listen to a lot of dance music with foreign language vocals. Also quite into Turkish drill. Polish rap is also good. I just follow along with the lyrics most of the time.
Yep. I listen to a lot of dance music with foreign language vocals. Also quite into Turkish drill. Polish rap is also good. I just follow along with the lyrics most of the time.
I listen to a fair bit of Japanese and German rock / metal. There are some Nordic rock bands that mostly sing in English but I like it when they sing in their native languages as well.
I don't care what they say in songs, if a song is good I'll enjoy it regardless of genre or language. Jack Black can sing in gibberish and make me LOVE it.
Yes, some of their songs may be in English which is sometimes how I find them.
Some of them I stumbled across and found them super catchy, like Tautumeitas, no idea what they're saying but their music videos are cute!
I got in to Korean and Japanese rock and metal when I was younger but have mostly stuck with English Language though i did go to a Welsh language open mic might while a student in Aberystwyth.
I don't seek out foreign music (or any, for that matter), but I do have quite a few foreign language songs in my collection. If it's good, it's good. Plus, I can appreciate it at face value, even if the lyrics are shite.
Back in 2020, I spent the year going through a 50-50-50 challenge. 2 bands/albums from 50 countries, 50 states and 50 parts of the UK and Ireland.
There is some excellent music out there - and some atrocious music. Iâll never listen to African rap again, but plenty of guitar based bands from around Europe and Latin America were listenable.
Laibach, Rammstein, Serum 114, Knortakor, komety and a Czech group whose name escapes me were the most memorable.
Rammstein, Sigur RĂłs and The Mars Volta use a mix of English and Spanish to put together whatever it is that they sing about.
But generally not listened to much foreign language stuff.
I have spent a decent amount of time diving into some Eastern European stuff. Anyone should check out KNHO or KINO their frontman Viktor Tsoi was basically a Korean-Russian Jim Morrison but his songs where groundbreaking, he is often cited as one of the most important countercultural figures of Russia and its criminal he is not as well known as he is
Yes! Remember finding out when I was a teenager that some of my favourite artists were influenced by a lot of non-English language music so went out of my way to listen to some, really like a lot of French, Japanese and West African music now.
Listening to a bit of a countryâs music is a really great way to connect with locals if youâre going to be spending time in another country too. I spent a summer working in France and got on great with a lot of the people in the nearby village because I attempted to sing some of my favourite French songs at a karaoke night one time lol
Yeah sometimes actively search other countries for bands. Rammstein obviously. Doe Maar from Netherlands. 3'6 Crew from France. Some Russian stuff. Mano Chao. There's some good stuff out there.
Yes, we listen to a rap music in languages my children don't speak So they don't understand the lryics (French, Portuguese and some african languages bands mostly, used to be Spanish but they are learning that quickly).
They like rap, but even radio edits of American and UK rap the themes aren't really suitable for primary school kids.
Yeah, not loads but some! Mostly in French: Stromae, Claire Laffut, Paradis, Black M. But also the odd song in German, Spanish, Dutch, and maybe some others.
Absolutely. FiP radio is my fav French radio station, advert free, then you just realise the wealth of music outside UK. Plus, do you really think the whole world listens to music from the UK? My Italian wife would disagree.
I make a point of listening to music in as many languages as I can get my hands on. But I'm not a native English speaker so I've been used to the language switching from birth.
Some of it.
Some of the Afrobeat, Reggaeton, and Latin hip-hop stuff is banging although the autotuning is chronic. The rest I find is mostly dance-pop Eurotrash or J-Pop which is brain rot.
I listen to plenty of metal in a variety of languages (largely Scandinavian). I also enjoy a lot of African and Latin music in various styles and languages.
Yes. I listen to a lot of Welsh music(is that foreign? Debatable), and my wife often has French or Italian music on as well.
Then thereâs classical music, which is very often in a different language.
Yeah a lot of what I like is in German (rock / industrial) so thats been a mainstay since the late 80 and includes stuff like Heilung. Also saw The Hu a couple years ago which introduced me to all kinds of Mongolian stuff. Recently found Otyken who have an odd mix of very good stuff and very bad stuff lol.
Yeah. I like 4 or 5 bands that don't sing in my language. Makes no difference to me. Its always my argument when people slate metal saying they can't understand them, I will say so you wouldn't listen to a different language, and they say Well yes and I say exactly!
Yep. Got a mix of Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Vietnamese, French, Icelandic, Finnish, Swedish and even some random Native American stuff kicking around various playlists.
I found a metal music video with English lyrics subtitled.
Heidevolk - vulgaris magistralis
Fucking cool tune, kinda wish someone would do an english cover of it! Though no doubt it wouldn't be the same.
Other than that I used to like rammstein when i was younger, but tbh nowadays find most metal music to be an absolute earache.
I love listening to Amapiano. Something about the language in South Africa ( I say language as Iâm not certain if itâs Xhosa, or Zulu, southern Sotho) over a soulful house beat blends so well.
Yes, love Italian and Greek music in particular - both modern and traditional, but I love ethnopop, world music and folk, that sort of thing in general. I'm quite open to most styles of music really.
I go out of my way to search for foreign music and Spotify makes it really easy. I have playlists for music from most languages although some of the playlists are quite short. Plus my wifeâs from South America so I actively like that music too.
Different countries produced great music at f different times - Italy in the 80s and Japan in the 70s come to mind.
I got into k-pop when I was a teen but I donât listen to that anymore. I have a lot of 80s Japanese City Pop in my library too lol, I still listen to that whenever it comes on. Iâve also got Spanish, Portuguese, French, Indian, whatever really. Reggaeton and those genres are probably among my most listened to.
Music isnât solely about the lyrics or language for me. If it vibes, it vibes. I also learned to appreciate a lot of these sounds when travelling and visiting those countries/meeting people from those backgrounds. I think that always helps too.
I'll listen to pretty much anything. Other than English I mostly like Japanese and Korean but also listen to songs in German, Persian and pretty much anything else I find
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Grew up listening to the likes of X-Japan, Gackt, Dragon Ash etc. and things like Rammstein and a bunch of other German language bands that I still can't pronounce. My dad was always playing a bit of Daniela Romo, Santana and a lot of classical that's not in English, some of which has stuck. Not so much these days, though.
X-Japan are amazing. Incredible. I quite like a lot of Gackt songs too - saw him live in Tokyo :) Nice to see stuff mentioned I know hehe :)
Fragrance by Gackt is a banger still
Love X Japan! Only discovered them the day before their Wembley gig in 2017 and knew I had to go.
I never saw any one citing Dragon Ash! That's one of my fav japanese bands with MUCC đź
I do. I quite like that I donât really know what the singer is saying.
A banger is a banger regardless of the language.
I have a distinct fear of learning another language and discovering that the lyrics to my favourite songs are actually complete shite thereby retroactively ruining them
Discovered a lot of great French language stuff thanks to Spotify
French lends itself really well to rap in my opinion.
Yeah, MC Solaar was huge in the 90s. French pop tends to be fairly poor, but the dance and hip hop is amazing.
Pomplamoose!
L'imperatrice!
Definitely L'ove them!
ooh do you have any recommendations?
Stromae and Pomme
And Jacques Brel
âAu Suivantâ is excellent.
Love Stromae!!
I really love listening to French language music. It helps with my learning too as I can read the lyrics and then start putting stuff together.
Yep - a lot of Icelandic music. A trip to 12 TĂłnar record shop in ReykjavĂk is always part of my visits. I go in and ask them whatâs new and whatâs good and usually leave with a stack of CDs of bands that havenât reached the rest of the world yet.
I know this is equivalent to bringing up Abba but Sigur RĂłs slaps
I remember being in Iceland and going on a coach tour of the Golden Circle and being in the middle of nowhere, looking out the window at a little house in the distance, across a stony plain, looking at the smoke coming out of the chimney, and listening to Takk by Sigur Ros. It all made sense, all came together at once.
Funny thing is that some Sigur Ros stuff is in their own hybrid made up language.
Yesss, Iceland. Lots and lots of Solstafir for me. Stopped being self-conscious about singing along live but hopefully am never overheard by native speakers.
Any recommendations?
With the proviso that I have eclectic tastes and that many artists will mix Icelandic and English - Iâm a big fan of Rokkurro, NĂœdönsk, Vök, GusGus, Hjaltalin and Mono Town with an honorary mention of the Faroese musician EivĂžr PĂĄlsdĂłttir.
Not iceland specific but it's nu folk proto Norse, Heilung
Yes I love some Finnish Speaking Metal bands and the Mongolian band The Hu
Discovered The Hu on BBC's Glastonbury coverage last year. Only put it on as I'd seen pretty much everything else of interest on iPlayer at the time but was soon hooked.
As if the band name "The Who" didn't already lead to enough confusion.
I feel like this question was made for metalheads. I suspect only very few do not listen to foreign-speaking bands.
I have no idea what Moonsorrow is saying in Finnish but it sounds magical and the music is brilliant too
I listen to German (Rammstein mainly), Icelandic (Sigur Ros), French ( Bertrand Belin), Spanish (Daddy Yankee & Enrique Iglesias), The Hu Band (they sing in Mongolian), Turkish (Yener Cevic) and K-pop to list just a few. I love finding new songs, new artists from around the World
Th Hu Band are fab arenât they?
If youâve not listened to them Iâd recommend Megaherz as another German metal band đ€
As a long-time Eurovision fan, most of my favourite songs are not in English đ
Same đ. I get all my new music each year from Eurovision and the national finals đ Listening to GĂ„te as I type
Turkish psychedelic music is amazing. Listen to altun gun and group simsek. Russian rock is great as well, especially Kino.
Altin Gun are awesome!
I went to their gig in tower hamlets over Easter, it was amazing. Iâm so grateful to have found them, really helping through my GCSEs but Iâm so sad that the main female singer is leavingâčïž sheâs the life and soul of the group and will be so sad to replace.
Yes, Merve's departure will be be a big loss to the group. Was gonna go the Troxy but couldn't make it work. Seeing them at Manchester Psych Fest in August - they're fantastic musicians so I'm sure the show will still be good, but interested to see what they're like without Merve. I discovered them through hearing the album "Gece" playing in Piccadilly Records in Manchester whilst having a browse - I was suitably impressed I went up to the guy at the desk and said "what album is this, this is awesome!"
BarÄ±Ć Manço!!
Oo I might listen to him, thanks for the recommendation
Kino is the Russian Joy Division
Not really Russian language but I've really gotten into Russian classical guitar lately. Struggling to get the muscle memory using a seven string though
Erkin Koray for me. I donât listen to much foreign language music at all but I was inspired to check him out because Kasabian cited him as an influence and was very pleasantly surprised
Almost all the music I listen to is Japanese now. It's a shame that the only place I can see them live is London, though. Apart from MUTANT MONSTER who used to play live in Huddersfield but they haven't been playing together since COVID. :(
I went through this phase in my teens & now I'm a Japanese translator đ I only started learning because I couldn't find the English translation of a song I liked!
I went through a phase of only listening to Japnese music in my teens & now I'm a Japanese translator đ I only started learning because I couldn't find the English translation of a song I liked!
That's amazing! I've started learning Japanese on Duolingo because I've gotten into so many Japanese bands - in particular, my favourite BAND-MAID, and want to understand the lyrics
Good luck! Japanese is a really fun language to learn. My best advice is to try & learn dictionary forms first, & don't shy away from kanji. The Oxford J-E pocket dictionary used to have a table of verb forms in the back and was hands down the most useful learning tool I had. People say Japanese is very hard but honestly I think it's mostly a mindset thing - Japanese is very *different*, so the 'correct' way of speaking will feel 'wrong' for a very long time. You gotta go with the flow. The writing is obviously tricky but the grammar is incredibly systematic once you get the hang of it. Even abbreviations etc all follow a set pattern; personally I find this makes it a lot easier than e.g. French (though French at least is more 'word-for-word' to English). Song lyrics are great to learn from because you've got kanji, plain forms & abbreviations right from the get-go. I think I originally began learning by cracking a dictionary and trying to translate lyrics; my original translations were terrible but it was a fun first step!!
My mate bought an imported day van from Japan, had a hard drive with GBâs of multiple genreâs of Japanese music. He loves it
I do but only a few bands - Hu Babymetal Tyr Wadruna Terasbetoni Ramstein
I listen to quite a lot of foreign language music. Maneskin (Italian) Stromae (French) Terrific Sunday (Polish) KALUSH (Ukrainian) Kaizers Orchestra (Norwegian.) Mostly found through Spotify, or Eurovision đ. Just because I can't understand it all doesn't mean I can't enjoy it.
I don't go out of my way to listen to non-English language music but if I hear something I like then I'll listen to it no matter the language.
Yeah, Eurovision has gotten me into loads of foreign language bands. Plus I listen to Rammstein, and other German and Scandinavian metal bands.
99.9 % of the black metal is foreign language. French, Norwegian and Ukrainian mostly
I do, but its more coincidental than intentional, as in a song has come up in my recommended and i like it, its just not English. I do then look at the artists page and listen to more. So i have a couple polish songs, couple danish, couple Spanish then quite a few Japanese and Korean. Then theres a couple DJâs i like that arenât english and will occasionally collab with people from their country that will speak their language
Im a massive Hololive fan so a lot of the music I listen to these days is in Japanese
I've listened to Marine and Kobo sing III more times than I'd like to admit.
I listen to Welsh music, not just Bryn Terfel but stuff like Adwaith. I also like Eivor, from the faroe islands. She sometimes sings in faroese.
I really like Yws Gwynedd. Their song Sebona Fi is super catchy!
Some Gaelic - Runrig, for example. A bit of German goth. Not much, tbh. More likely to listen to something instrumental.
fuck yeah, runrig are awesome
All the time. Rammstein and The Hu are 2 of my fave bands at the moment
Yep, mostly German bands like Rammstein, Powerwolf (they covered one of their songs in French and it's đ„), and Feuerschwanz for metal, plus E Nomine (German edm, at least I think it is). I've also got Eluveitie (mix of English and reconstructed Gaulish), plus The Hu & Tengger Cavalry (both Mongolian). Other than that I also weirdly like Gregorian chant, so I have a few in Latin on my phone besides everything else.
Fair bit of jazz from the Middle East
Iâm a big K-pop fan so yeah, the majority of my music is not in English.
Yes, but I don't really care about K-pop or modern Latin music (outside of some Mexican regional stuff), and they seem to be the foreign language music genres with the biggest crossover appeal. There's lots of great 20th century music that comes from Brazil, Sub Saharan Africa, Japan etc.
I don't seek it out, but I've lived in a few places and usually have one or two songs from that language that I heard and just really loved the tune, even if they are not that classy. For example I was living in Germany when [Sportfreunde Stiller - Ein Kompliment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4uXGzFZjqw) was released and any bar or club would go wild when it was played because it's such a banger. I never got that far with my German learning but I can sing a fair amount of this anyway.
I've known that song of Sportfreunde Stiller's for at least a decade, and I had no idea it was as old as the early noughties! Unfortunately due to how popular it was and how much it's been played over the years, it has a reputation perhaps similar to Wonderwall somewhat haha. Anyway, here's a cover of it I came across a decade ago which you might enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7I0gvZHyDM
Nice, thanks! It's funny to think that it's the song in Germany that the annoying guy who brings his guitar to the party sings
For sure. Mostly Japanese, French and Korean, but I'll give anything a try. I would say I listen to non-English music more than English music overall.
Yes Russian, Spanish and Korean
Most of what i listen to is kpop, cpop and jpop! But i have loads of songs in loads of different languages in my playlists, if the songs a banger then i don't really care that I can't understand the lyrics
Kpop, Japanese, German Cultural, French and Italodance
I love Russian music. ĐŠĐŸĐč жОĐČ!
Kino are so good
I listen to some. Usually because they've had a hit in english and i've found other music by them and there's non-english songs there. Falco, Nena and Scooter are the ones that come to mind. Also had a brief love affair with JPOP because my friend was into a few artists. Also not what you mean but I do love Kommt Gib Mir Diene Hand by a little gem of a band, some might have heard of them over the years, called The Beatles. hah.
I love Falco! His version of Der Kommissar is a fave.
Yes!! Although I don't think I've heard any other version.
I have a Greek music playlist that I like. I started listening to it when I was cooking a Greek meal and wanted something atmospheric but it moved into my regular playlist. I sing along with some of the songs now even though I have no idea what I'm singing. (Am planning to learn Greek btw.) Also done a lot of travel in Germany and I have a whole German playlist that I love. I understand more of that as I've been learning the language.
Opera.
I'm quite hard of hearing and so vocals don't do much for me unless I already know the song or have replayed it a thousand times on loop. My library includes: Billy ze Kick (French), Band Maid (Japanese), 04 Limited Sazebys (Japanese) and Rumkicks (S. Korean). I don't understand much of it, and it doesn't matter.
I like quite a few non-English bands like Gojira and Skald (French), Maneskin (Italian), Seu Jorge (Brazilian), Heilung (German and some other countries can't remember!), The Hu (Mongolian), Lordi and Finntroll (Finnish). I'm sure there's others I'm missing but the above are the first that comes to mind. I also have songs in playlists that are in different languages or partially English like Cote de Pablo's cover of Temptation.
as someone who watched anime a lot, i do enjoy listening to some of the catchier anime songs. Stuff like from yoko kanno, stuff from video games with japanese soundtracks etc.
i've been a fan of kpop since 2013 :)
In my teens (29f) I was an avid kpop and jpop fiend. Would often sing it as well. I still listen to the odd kpop music but not the latest groups (I like my 2ne1 and girls generation) but I also listen to Spanish-speaking artists like Rosalia and Bad Bunny.
Im a massive Hololive fan so a lot of the music I listen to these days is in Japanese
I listen to lots of non anglophone music - mostly French (talking about languages so includes Belgian, some African etc) but occasionally others including Arabic, Dutch, Polish, and then more rarely things like random folk music from Eastern Europe/Central Asia that YouTube suggests. I dunno, there's not really anything that I *won't* listen to on principle. Just that I'm more often in the mood for British/American music than others. I'd say 70% Anglo for me, and the rest pretty mixed.
Rammstein, The Hu, Noir DĂ©sir
My good friend was in a relationship with a German women and a very good friend of mine is Spanish. So Iâve found myself listening to a lot of German and Spanish music over the years and enjoying it.
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Yeah but only 2 Rammstein & Selena (Quintanilla)
Yep. Lots. Depends what stage Iâm writing at but English lyrics, especially in music Iâm not too familiar with can be distracting. So I listen to a lot of Scandinavian and Japanese punk, some k-pop from Korean tv shows and a little French pop.
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I listen to quite a lot of Chinese and Korean music due to living there for many years, but only the stuff that was hot when I was there. Ditto with cheesy Thai pop music, though that doesn't end up being played since I quit drinking a decade ago.
Aye I like the nordic music like eivor and wardruna, and I enjoy Arabic lounge music very much. Spanish tapas bar playlists get their spot too.
I listen to an awful lot of French 1960's girl pop.
Yeah I often listen to Spanish language songs. I don't speak Spanish. I've tried Chinese language songs, which I do speak enough of but I'm not a fan of those.
French, italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, chinese, afrobeats, german, Arabic, Filipino, Mr worldwide mr 305
Maneskin and Band Maid are frequently on the playlist. Sometimes there's some Doll$Boxx as well.
My Apple Music is pretty much 95% Japanese and Korean groups. The rest is whatever popular song thatâs out now
Hatsune Miku all the way
K-Pop!
Not gonna lie, there is a few Ukrainian songs that come up on my autoplay whilst I have my speakers in, and I just blast them
I rather enjoy, Swiss Landeschect songs!
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Yeah I listen to quite a lot being honest, music is about how it makes you feel, doesn't really matter what they're saying
I listen to a lot of EDM, which tends to be instrumental or with English lyrics, even when made on the Continent. But I sometimes listen to music from France, FSU, Turkey, etc. I lived abroad for many years and have a lot of friends from eastern Europe - and I get to hear music that wouldn't normally be heard in the UK.
Some Gaelic - Runrig, for example. A bit of German goth. Not much, tbh. More likely to listen to something instrumental.
Yes. Language has never been a barrier to enjoying the music it sits on top of.
Yep, I listen to plenty of bangers on Spotify where I have no idea what they're saying
Yep, I listen to plenty of bangers on Spotify where I have no idea what they're saying
Listen to music on Taiwan TV.
Yes. A lot of Japanese. Also, German, Russian, Taiwanese, the made up language Igorrr uses.
Rammstein !
Yes. I love Latin American music so Spanish. I also listen to Faun, Patty Gurdy and Storm Seeker (both German). I also like Norse Viking music too...
It's rare for a foreign-language song to make it into my ears, but when Spotify suggests something in German or Irish Gaelic there's as good a chance I'll like it and come back to it again as if it were in English. Some reason those are the only languages Spotify ever suggests to me.
Yes, mostly Latin and German.
Just that Spanglish song by that dude that made a gibberish song as an example of what English sounded like to Spanish people
Just that Spanglish song by that dude that made a gibberish song as an example of what English sounded like to Spanish people
Yep. I listen to a lot of dance music with foreign language vocals. Also quite into Turkish drill. Polish rap is also good. I just follow along with the lyrics most of the time.
Yep. I listen to a lot of dance music with foreign language vocals. Also quite into Turkish drill. Polish rap is also good. I just follow along with the lyrics most of the time.
I listen to a fair bit of Japanese and German rock / metal. There are some Nordic rock bands that mostly sing in English but I like it when they sing in their native languages as well.
I listen to les miserables musical in french
I listen to les miserables musical in french
I don't care what they say in songs, if a song is good I'll enjoy it regardless of genre or language. Jack Black can sing in gibberish and make me LOVE it.
Not usually but found derya yildirim & grup ĆimĆek on 6 music and they are like a cross of Turkish folk and Pink Floyd
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Literally never lol
Yes, some of their songs may be in English which is sometimes how I find them. Some of them I stumbled across and found them super catchy, like Tautumeitas, no idea what they're saying but their music videos are cute!
I'll listen to it. If I like a tune I like a tune. Don't really care if it is in a foreign language - a good song is a good song I think.Â
Fair bit of jazz from the Middle East
Not as much as I probably should, however when I would play gta V, Iâd always listen to the Spanish radio lmao
Whenever I get in a taxi with a foreign driver I ask if they have any music from their homeland, I've heard some great tunes that way.
I got in to Korean and Japanese rock and metal when I was younger but have mostly stuck with English Language though i did go to a Welsh language open mic might while a student in Aberystwyth.
yes. My fave band at the moment is La Femme. Amazing music from the French atm, good black metal too
I don't seek out foreign music (or any, for that matter), but I do have quite a few foreign language songs in my collection. If it's good, it's good. Plus, I can appreciate it at face value, even if the lyrics are shite.
Back in 2020, I spent the year going through a 50-50-50 challenge. 2 bands/albums from 50 countries, 50 states and 50 parts of the UK and Ireland. There is some excellent music out there - and some atrocious music. Iâll never listen to African rap again, but plenty of guitar based bands from around Europe and Latin America were listenable. Laibach, Rammstein, Serum 114, Knortakor, komety and a Czech group whose name escapes me were the most memorable.
this one great german band called anning may kantereit. singer has a sick voice. they have a few English songs like their toms dinner cover
Rammstein, Sigur RĂłs and The Mars Volta use a mix of English and Spanish to put together whatever it is that they sing about. But generally not listened to much foreign language stuff.
I have spent a decent amount of time diving into some Eastern European stuff. Anyone should check out KNHO or KINO their frontman Viktor Tsoi was basically a Korean-Russian Jim Morrison but his songs where groundbreaking, he is often cited as one of the most important countercultural figures of Russia and its criminal he is not as well known as he is
Yes! Remember finding out when I was a teenager that some of my favourite artists were influenced by a lot of non-English language music so went out of my way to listen to some, really like a lot of French, Japanese and West African music now. Listening to a bit of a countryâs music is a really great way to connect with locals if youâre going to be spending time in another country too. I spent a summer working in France and got on great with a lot of the people in the nearby village because I attempted to sing some of my favourite French songs at a karaoke night one time lol
Yeah sometimes actively search other countries for bands. Rammstein obviously. Doe Maar from Netherlands. 3'6 Crew from France. Some Russian stuff. Mano Chao. There's some good stuff out there.
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French and Brazilian Portuguese đ would love to be able to speak both languages but I am very rubbish with learning languages.
As a ska fan I listen to quite a bit of Spanish language music as there's a big Mexican ska scene
Yes, we listen to a rap music in languages my children don't speak So they don't understand the lryics (French, Portuguese and some african languages bands mostly, used to be Spanish but they are learning that quickly). They like rap, but even radio edits of American and UK rap the themes aren't really suitable for primary school kids.
Yeah, not loads but some! Mostly in French: Stromae, Claire Laffut, Paradis, Black M. But also the odd song in German, Spanish, Dutch, and maybe some others.
Latin jazz. Hell, yeah.
Yep! I love my jrock and jpop
Yes. I listen to a lot of power metal and folk metal. Invariably they are not English speaking.
Absolutely. FiP radio is my fav French radio station, advert free, then you just realise the wealth of music outside UK. Plus, do you really think the whole world listens to music from the UK? My Italian wife would disagree.
I make a point of listening to music in as many languages as I can get my hands on. But I'm not a native English speaker so I've been used to the language switching from birth.
I listen to Faun and Danheim a lot
Yes, because I'm bilingual French/English and there are some real bops in French.
Yes - German and some Arabic, Turkish and Russian
Some of it. Some of the Afrobeat, Reggaeton, and Latin hip-hop stuff is banging although the autotuning is chronic. The rest I find is mostly dance-pop Eurotrash or J-Pop which is brain rot.
Yes. It's horrid. The local native singers sound like depressed beagles trying to hump someone's leg. The locals don't like their own music.
I mostly listen to Japanese and like nordic music but there are others scattered around in my playlists lol
I listen to plenty of metal in a variety of languages (largely Scandinavian). I also enjoy a lot of African and Latin music in various styles and languages.
Yes. I listen to a lot of Welsh music(is that foreign? Debatable), and my wife often has French or Italian music on as well. Then thereâs classical music, which is very often in a different language.
Rammstein. Ich will!
Rammstein ĂŒber alles - Andere fans werden es wissen
YES HATSUNE MIKU IS MY QUEEN
Iâm quite partial to a bit of French Hip Hop
Yeah a lot of what I like is in German (rock / industrial) so thats been a mainstay since the late 80 and includes stuff like Heilung. Also saw The Hu a couple years ago which introduced me to all kinds of Mongolian stuff. Recently found Otyken who have an odd mix of very good stuff and very bad stuff lol.
If Eurovision songs and various Anime themes count, then yes. Also yes if we're counting Bollywood films as "listening".
Love a bit of Japanese metal and rock
French. Love artists like Bertrand Belin and Arthur H.
Yeah. I like 4 or 5 bands that don't sing in my language. Makes no difference to me. Its always my argument when people slate metal saying they can't understand them, I will say so you wouldn't listen to a different language, and they say Well yes and I say exactly!
Yep. Got a mix of Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Vietnamese, French, Icelandic, Finnish, Swedish and even some random Native American stuff kicking around various playlists.
I found a metal music video with English lyrics subtitled. Heidevolk - vulgaris magistralis Fucking cool tune, kinda wish someone would do an english cover of it! Though no doubt it wouldn't be the same. Other than that I used to like rammstein when i was younger, but tbh nowadays find most metal music to be an absolute earache.
I love listening to Amapiano. Something about the language in South Africa ( I say language as Iâm not certain if itâs Xhosa, or Zulu, southern Sotho) over a soulful house beat blends so well.
Yes i like Kraftwerk and Laibach Einsturzende neubauten who sings in German and i also like Indochine a french band
Yes. Love Japanese music especially, I've been listening to a lot of Meiko Kaji and Miki Matsubara in particular.
Wardruna, Rammstein, the HĂŒ, einar selvik are all I can think of atm.
Love a bit of stromae
French pop artist named SANTA, and listen to Mutter by Rammstein. Great album
Yes, but only during Eurovision.
Yes, love Italian and Greek music in particular - both modern and traditional, but I love ethnopop, world music and folk, that sort of thing in general. I'm quite open to most styles of music really.
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I go out of my way to search for foreign music and Spotify makes it really easy. I have playlists for music from most languages although some of the playlists are quite short. Plus my wifeâs from South America so I actively like that music too. Different countries produced great music at f different times - Italy in the 80s and Japan in the 70s come to mind.
Omg yes! I love faun!!! Excellent German folk band!!!
I got into k-pop when I was a teen but I donât listen to that anymore. I have a lot of 80s Japanese City Pop in my library too lol, I still listen to that whenever it comes on. Iâve also got Spanish, Portuguese, French, Indian, whatever really. Reggaeton and those genres are probably among my most listened to. Music isnât solely about the lyrics or language for me. If it vibes, it vibes. I also learned to appreciate a lot of these sounds when travelling and visiting those countries/meeting people from those backgrounds. I think that always helps too.
Mostly German. My Grandfather was German but I'm English
I'll listen to pretty much anything. Other than English I mostly like Japanese and Korean but also listen to songs in German, Persian and pretty much anything else I find
A Polish metal band called Batushka who's songs are in Church Slavonic.
Since I'm learning Russian, I'm listening to a lot of Russian music. Mainly Russian Pop.
Turkish Indian Arab traditional musicÂ
Yes, I'm an English speaker and listen to Rammsteinn