So true… Americans gotta get more exposed to foreign music…
Huevos con aceite ¡No!, mejor con aceite. Huevos con aceite y limooooooooon
(We’re gonna make it)
I commend people who can genuinely like music they don’t understand the words to. Lyrics are such an important part of my enjoying of music because it evokes much more emotion than just the melody. So as someone who grew up speaking Japanese and English, US, UK, CA, JA songs are my favourites. I can’t enjoy French or German songs because I only understand at a surface level. I do enjoy orchestral music if it’s attached to some experience I’ve had like movies, anime, or videogame (I listen to the PSO: BB OST all the time because I spent thousands of hours playing that game in high school).
The irony for me is that many people who would refuse to listen to music from other countries because they “can’t understand the words” don’t even know or understand the words for songs they like in their own language.
Like all those dumbfucks that got upset when they discovered RATM is political.
My kid: I heard a song today, it was REALLY GOOD, add it to my playlist.
me: ohh great, what was it?
kid: i don’t know
me: know any words?
kid: no
me: next time point it out to an adult, we’ll find it
(2 weeks later)
kid: I heard it again in the car with mom
me: mom?
mom: uhh yeah, didn’t get a chance to look at the name until it was gone.
me: know any words?
mom: no
me: O.o
(1 week later)
mom: MoreArt
me: ohh that catchy AF russian song full of filth, got it.
French rap/hip-hop is surprisingly good.
Can you recommend any?
Oxmo Puccino seems to be popular in the playlist I listen to.
Merci!
The French music scene has some strong contenders. Daft Punk came our of there :)
MC Solaar
Mozart did not write English music.
There’s some good Japanese punk rock. And not that it’s a big reach for Americans, but Australia has some great hip hop.
The Japanese rock scene is great. I love Toe’s For Long Tomorrow
I often listen to jrock (high and mighty color, one ok rock, back on, b’z), Chinese/Taiwan hits (五月天），afrobeats and amapiano , and songs from across Latin America and Europe. Seems insane to me to just stop at the border.
Damn, I haven’t heard of High and Mighty Color in such a long time. They did an anime OP right? Can’t remember for what though… The singer is my cousin’s cousin. Not to sound like a creep, but she was incredibly pretty and charismatic when I had the chance to meet her.
I heard B’z’s Friction through Burnout Paradise. What a choon
Shout-out for C-pop (Faye Wong has a sweet spot for me) and indie J-pop, Shibuya-kei - ever listened to Pizzicato Five and the Fishmans?
Disclosure: I’m Eastern European and, although I grew up with mostly Anglo-American music, I listen nowadays to music from literally almost everywhere in the world (though most often I focus on African and Asian music). Funnily, I don’t listen to much music from my own country, guess I’m oikophobic. If I were born in the US, I might have nearly “stopped at the border” though, because the US certainly had many musicians doing almost everything you can imagine.
Best version of this is the album Back Tuva Future… Go check it out
Tuva. Isn’t that the Mongolian metal band that does that dual tone throat thing? That shit’s grindy as fuck. 🤘
Korean traditional music (gugak) is pretty fascinating, from their fairly well-preserved ancient pieces (in contrast to China), to their intense, almost free-jazz-like mystical shaman music, to a whole semi-classical chamber folk tradition called sanjo, which features a solo instrument improvising melodies to rhythms that gradually get faster, juxtaposed with a drummer who grunts now and then as a form of ad-lib, while the drumming itself is nothing like 4/4 or everything else simple that you mighy expect.
Many Koreans themselves are less interested in raw gugak, so some gugak musicians achieve commercial success by doing on the side fusion gugak, which employs pop and other Western elements, partly on the traditional instruments… A lot of it sounds really watered down compared to the real stuff.
I only listen to japanese video game soundtracks (and mitski) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcaDXt3pRo8
Too late mfr, you’ve seen the K-pop demon hunters movie and you’re obsessed.
They need to listen to some Korpiklaani
Can I interest you in some J-Metalcore?
Maybe some Canton Rap?
Might I also interest you in the French Clair Obsur soundtrack that has no right to be as good as it is.
Babymetal goes way harder than it should
Yeah, and also, as a older metal head, bands like Babymetal, Hanabie, Mellows, rock hard but also remind me that yeah, metal can be fun and silly.
Electric callboy is my ‘shit can be equally heavy and silly’ band
I love it. Tried the first 2 videos YouTube* gave me.
Usually I have fun trying to hear the lyrics. Now I get to have fun deciphering if its in English or Japanese
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Even though Im counting down the days till I close my gmail/YouTube account, Google made a huge difference for providing 1 site to search for almost any topic.
“Actually I was talking about Mongolian throat singing”.
I entirely unironically love mongolian throat singing.
… its fucking awesome.
Shoutout to The Hu
Love those guys
I’ve been enjoying Ummet Ozcan’s stuff for a month or so. EDM with throat singing, tickles something happy in my brain.
Techno, folk and metal, they all fckn slam
