Anyone like foreign pop music??

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French is awesome. I like listening to it, but I also understand parts of it or else I wouldn't like it very much I think.

The Japanese also really got it with instrumental pieces and piano use in pop songs which makes up for not understanding any of it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9rJLtz64Hg[/youtube]

I mean songs that are in a different language than my first language.

I certainly like songs that are in a foreign language, but I don't go actively seeking them. I just get songs that I've heard somewhere, like E Nomine (German, I believe), ORANGE RANGE, and Hyadain. My "Foreign Languages" playlist currently has 41 songs on it, mostly Japanese because I watch anime, but some German, Spanish, and a couple of languages I've never bothered identifying are in there as well.

My sister, an NT (by the standard that there is nothing actually wrong with her brain by society's standards), absolutely adores foreign music, especially Romanian and Iraq...ian(?), as well as Japanese, German, and Chinese. So it's not just something we like.

It's a Romanian song that started this obsession, actually! "Dragostea din Tei" by O-Zone. The band are from Moldova (east of Romania), and Moldova is another of my interests.

I have more Italian songs, though, because Italy is my main interest. I have translations for "Il Mio Amore Unico" by Dolcenera, and "La Forza Mia" by Marco Carta. I was going to find a translation for "Sincerita" by Arisa tonight, but then my iPod wasn't working so I spent my evening trying to fix it, LOL, so there's no time now.

The other night I got a translation for "Skazhi, Ne Molchi" by Serebro (Russian). I'm going to try and memorise it, it's the most difficult one I have - it was hard enough to find the lyrics with the Latin characters, because the Russians use the Cyrillic alphabet.

Most of the translations I have are kind of rubbish because they're machine translations, but I get the basic point of the lyrics. The best translation I have is for "Dragostea din Tei" because that was a really successful song in the UK too, so someone actually translated it properly so all the words make sense.

Yes. J-Pop especially

Okay, Enya singing in Gaelic would be foreign then, though she is still in the UK.

I cant get the html to work for some reason, so here are the links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3piahLeGlI
Perfume - Computer City

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHiiWQ1CBGQ
Prabhu Deva - Kalluri Vaanil

Yes, I actually listen to this stuff. Not that popular pop-rap crap.

i love songs in hungarian ;D

like those:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dotD-NjcAXA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E1H8MDMqWE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_W_Xgt7QDw

When I lived in Beijing I sometimes watched and listened to Channel V (a kind of Asian MTV).

I ended up buying a few J-pop CDs by Kinki Kids, a Japanese boy band, because the tunes kind of grew on me.

And I also liked a song by Jin Haixin, a Chinese singer, which was in the charts and played everywhere at the time, but I don't know the name of the track.

I like asian rock- I think it's because I can't understand american singers and that bothers me... But I don't feel as pressured to understand asian languages... Since I am not fluent.

I am most hypnotized by her singing in Latin. Could listen to Tempus Vernum for hours on end. (and have)

Self confessed anime fan here. For awhile I liked J-Pop, then I realised that I only liked a few songs, namely from evangelion and gundam seed/00, with an occasional other song thrown in.

Now aside from said songs, I can't stand the stuff.

I like JROCK

i do not really like foreign music. i define "foreign music" as music that is "foreign" to my thoughts. i do not really like music in pentatonic scales (middle eastern and asian).

i like octaves to be divided into twelve, and i can understand well music that follows that frequency structure.
but other scales leave me dry of appreciation.
didgeridoos are the most unmusical musical instrument i have ever heard. they make me laugh.

that nature of arabic music (which reminds me of belly dancers) is not enjoyable to me.

and the "twang twong twang" sound of asian music is also not enjoyable to me.

i guess it is in the "theory of mind" that people identify with "mood" kind of music.

i just identify with mathematically surprising and accurate note systems.
i think that the "twang twong twang" songs are supposed to invoke a peaceful mood like drifting in a boat on mirror smoothe water in a misty morning gorge in japan.

it may be very good music, but i can not be affected by emotional tendencies in music. i just am impressed by the structural composition, and that never happens with eastern music.

i do not have a broad mind, and i focus narrowly, but i just post my opinion.

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Yay! amazing that you picked that one out of all entries! One of your favourites? Ukraine have the best songs to me. Cant help beeing fond of thisVerka Serduchka song: "Tanziemo Maidaaaaaan!"