Do you listen to music in other languages?
 

Do you listen to music in languages that you don't normally speak?
The majority of the music I listen to is in English obviously but I listen to music in Croatian and Japanese too. Just wondering if anyone else does. :spin:

I don't know any music I own that isn't in English. I do have a Spanish version of Love Ain't Here Anymore by Take That but I never listen to it.

Spanish, Arabic and African

:joker: Okay.

No.

I had a french song by Nelly Furtado but I deleted it. :laugh:

Epic film too

No, I hate not being able to understand any of the lyrics to a song.

:love:
I love Spanish.

Should watch the film Jess :D

:joker: What's it called?

El Mariachi

Yeah, in English. :D

:shocked: That actually looks really good, I'mma try find somewhere to download it.

I don't watch bad films Jess :bored:

:hugesmile:

Whats your first language?

Spanish - Santana, Buena Vista Social Club (although they don't speak I don't think), Shakira
German - Kettcar, Oomph!, Boney M
French - some of the first Arcade Fire album, Air, "Enfant Terrible" by Sonny J, Amadou & Miriam, Frehel, Placebo, Edith Piaf
Dutch - Sieneke (some eurovision song rofl)
Italian - David Bowie's "Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola" (a version of Space Oddity), Maria Callas
Portuguese - Nelly Furtado
Icelandic - Bjork, Sigur Ros
Swedish - Robyn, Jens Lekman

not a lot really.

:shocked: I forgot about all of the Eurovision songs I like.

Artists who have songs in a foreign language that I listen to:

French - Stromae, Yelle
German - Jennifer Rostock, Polarkreis 18, Silbermond, Xavier Naidoo
Hindi - Goldspot
Japanese - Tigarah
Korean - 2NE1
Spanish - Shakira
Tagalog - Black Eyed Peas

Serbian. And I don't even like many artists from here.

No, because I wouldn't understand what they were saying.

from time to time spanish, korean/japanese

Yes I love music in different languages. For example I love Danish band Hej Matematik who have done some brillant songs!



Also I love Turkish singer Kenan Doğulu (Turkey's 2007 Eurovision Entry) and he is one of my fave male singers :).



I also like Turkish singer Yalın and a few other people as well.

I obviously love Céline Dion who is one of my fave female artists of all time who doesn't need and explanation.

I have one half german song. Imma say that counts, so yes

I quite like Chingon. I like a lot of European artists like Mew, Robyn, Oh Land, Lykke Li and so on but they sing in english mostly so I don't count them.

apart from scheibe, no.

Of course.
We Speak No Americano and Lady Marmelade

Croatian, German and Finnish.

Oh wait I have a German song called 'Drei Tage Wach' = '3 Days Awake'

When I was on German exchange it was the big thing, its pretty groovy. :laugh:

I listen to Heaven Shall Burn who have some songs with German lyrics.

:joker:

Oomph!, Rammstein, Die Krupps, Einsturzende Neubauten and about a dozen other German industrial bands I bone.

:love:

... and I'm not the only one to bone them, either!

Opera is my favourite genre of music and most of what I listen to is either Italian, French or German. French being my favourite and German being my least favourite (too leaden and concrete). It normally doesn't phase me as long as I have the libretto in English handy (nearly always included in the liner notes and always available if you go to see a production in an English-speaking country). Weirdly, I find English as a language is very pleasing to the ear in classical singing despite its international association with pop music and was hugely underused before the 20th century, especially when you consider how many foreign language operas are based on English literature such as Verdi's Macbeth and Othello, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

Latin would be another language of singing I listen to a lot. I'm not a churchgoer nor am I too big a fan of organised religion, but a lot of music set to Catholic liturgical settings in Latin is some of the greatest ever created in my opinion. This would include Palestrina's Pope Marcellus Mass, Charpentier's Te Deum, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Bach's Mass in B Minor (although Bach himself was a German protestant), Mozart's 'Great' Mass in C Minor and of course the Requiem.

No.

i love these replies

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