• rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    LOL!

    My short story about foeeign music

    Wife and 6-year-old get back from dance class:

    6yo: I want to add that song we heard in the car to my playlist

    Wife: oh what was that song again

    Me: do you remember any words, we can search for it

    6yo: no Wife: no

    Me: what station was it on?

    Wife: satellite, TikTok radio

    Me: ohh ok, I guess we just need to wait or maybe if you find it on TikTok…

    Days go by

    Wife: It came on in the car but the title of the song was all weird characters

    Me: was it like little stick figures or big slashes or just weird drawn characters?

    Wife: just wierd

    Me: Google: Russian songs on tik Tok

    Moreart

    Ohh!

    I listen to it. It absolutely slaps

    Google then mentions controversy

    Then I translate the song’s name.

    LMAO. 'I will fuck"

    Then I go to look for lyric translations

    It’s so fucking cringe and not in a naughty or dirty way, it’s just lame cringe.

    The beat of the music still slap though.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
    121·
    6 hours ago

    I love some random foreign artists that I don’t speak the language of and can’t understand at all - Saian Supa Cru, Dengue Fever, Kent, Sigur Ros, Vicentico.

    On a side note, I saw BTS on UK TV once and thought it was some kind of comedy pastiche act. What I heard and saw was really terrible, yet the panel on the show were lauding them when it was over, and I just didn’t understand. K-pop is likely not for me, I figure.

    • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 hour ago

      I’m curious what you saw. Was it their Graham Norton show appearance? I didn’t like that performance either. Afaik they were at their worst.

      One of them couldn’t be there and another had a hurt foot, and they’ve said how self conscious the rest of them were to be missing those two.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    35·
    9 hours ago

    TBF English is an extremely common second language, so listening to English-language music as a German or French person doesn’t have quite the same impact as an American listening to German- or French-language music.

  • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    5 hours ago

    This is an excellent time to mention my best friend The Eurovision Song Contest! It’s the longest running international music contest show and it gets hundreds of millions of views.

    Here’s last year’s crop of music videos. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmWYEDTNOGULUJYEhh-EUa32rEcHuNXO7

    Croatia’s Rim Tim Tagi Dim is a real banger. It’s about the stress of moving to a richer country or city for work and losing your culture.

    Italy’s La Noia is amazing. Angelina Mango’s live performances are stellar, and if she’s not huge internationally in a few years I’ll be super disappointed. Her new song (not part of the contest) Melodrama is exceptional too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqF0MSpPcj8

    Switzerland sent Nemo, who became the first non-binary person to win the contest. It was said that if he could nail the vocals from the video in the live performance, there would be no stopping them. And they did! Amazing work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO8cQpGNplc

    I have so many recommendations, if anyone wants more!

    • Muad'dib@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      Eurovision got in trouble last year for allowing Israel to join. Israel is in the middle east of Asia, not in Europe. The only thing European about Israel is that white people are committing a genocide to steal land.

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Will Ferrell did a Eurovision movie I enjoyed. Probably not everybody’s cup of tea, but it was fun.

  • Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
    41·
    6 hours ago

    I dunno, I’m not a fan of this sentiment. Music tastes are personal, it’s okay to think, “nah, music of this country isn’t really for me,” because music of a given country will often have certain elements that won’t appeal to everyone. It’s not like you’re uncultured or being unfair for it. And you don’t necessarily have to give it a good try first because you’re probably exposed to it anyways. Any stranger on the street can probably think of an example (though not necessarily a whole song) if you bring up Spanish music, Indian music, K-pop, etc…

    The language bit I get, but some people prefer songs where they can understand the lyrics, and that’s also okay. I’m sort of one of those people, though in my case it’s more “I want to have a general idea what’s being said because if it’s a good song I’ll want to sing along and I don’t want to unknowingly say something obscene,” so it doesn’t stop me from listening to foreign songs as long as I can screen the lyrics.

    • Muad'dib@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      It’s very unlikely that you dislike ALL other countries’ music. One is fine. Five is understandable. But 200??

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 hours ago

    There is some really, really cool non-English music out there.

    Jaan Pehchan Ho - I imagine this is what it was like for non-English speakers discovering Elvis for the first time.

    https://youtu.be/XnBbjc5hmho

    Prisencolinensinainciusol - Artist wanted to make a song that sounds like English to people who don’t speak English. It doesn’t make sense in any language but still sounds amazing.

    https://youtu.be/RpFhFV58FEs

    Ievan Polkka - Finnish song from 1928. Used in the gag site “leekspin”.

    https://youtu.be/hqthspSKZV8

    The lyrics are unintentionally hilarious.

    https://genius.com/Eino-kettunen-ievan-polkka-english-translation-lyrics