cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/940487
For me i’d say vocaloid when i was younger. No clue about now, maybe some russian songs like igorek.
Entire Kpop. If I understood any of it I’d probably hate it.
… oppa gangnam style!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS_UdOJsuo0
Pizza Hey! Pizza Hey!
yeah. a whole lot. the one i wish i understood the most was mc solaar. he has amazing flow but i have no idea what hes saying
Kpop, kr&b, jpop, jrock, rammstein, panzerballett.
Almost ny whole music library.
Anything that isn’t my native language or in english I don’t understand and that’s literally about 50% of library of songs that I listen to
Iirc Ramstein and E Nomine were basically my gateway drug that led me to symphonic metal.
Shit still slaps. No fucking clue what they’re saying, and no desire to change that: with no meaning in the lyrics, they just melt into the rest of the song as one of the ‘instruments’.
A Million Possibilities by Christine Welch.
Also, a hell of a lot of Rammstein.
Mdou Moctar’s discography
I don’t know the lyrics to any of my foreign songs lol. Mostly listen to kneecap, molchat doma, and kino
My entire jpop playlist.
This song by Slot. I know nothing about the band except that they’re Russian so I’ve always been a tiny bit worried I was actually listening to some anthem singing the glories of the Putin regime.
Not wholly accurate to say I don’t know the lyrics, as I’ve since gone through and found a translation, but it’s not at the fore of my mind while listening. Lo Vi by Amanda Miguel (particularly this live performance) is a stunner of a song.
I mostly enjoy viking metal, and while I understand Norwegian and Swedish on a conversational level, Finnish is completely beyond me. Still love their music.
In recent history: Moola Prayer by Sudha & Maneesh De Moor, it’s Hindi I believe, and playing in my yoga studio during meditation sessions.
And speaking of Hindi, there’s Bloodywood, a great metal band from India, that has a few songs entirely in Hindi, and some bilingual ones (English/Hindi). Ajj is one of my favorites, the video is also epic.
Mine was “mundian to bach ke” by Punjabi MC which I think is also Hindi? Not sure tbh
Train Train by Blue Hearts
Fishmaster.
I just check the translation these days, that’s how I know when something in German is a masterpiece.
edit: Igorrr is a kind of outlier pertinent to this discussion, most songs are in an invented nonsense language, the human voice is literally just a musical instrument, here. And I discovered I enjoy it immensely, even approximating the syllables in the shower like a demented Pavarotti.
