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For me i’d say vocaloid when i was younger. No clue about now, maybe some russian songs like igorek.

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[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

All of Francoise Hardy's album Soleil. Absolutely lovely singing voice.

[–] flabbergast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

J'en parlerai au diable • Johnny Hallyday

A lot of classical music

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

If I like a song, I make a deliberate effort to learn the lyrics and what they mean. People wrote those lyrics for a reason.

Or do you just want to dance?

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Always liked the melody to this 王七七Wang QiQi song:

https://youtu.be/8VzNV0YDhuA

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

That Russian song that sounds like Joy Division on MDMA. I'm told the lyrics are very depressing but it's absolute fucking fire.

[–] FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] ThunderChunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago
[–] buycurious@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's a solid "The entire Caramba" album.

You might've heard (of) Habba Habba Zoot Zoot; well, they made an entire album of "plausible sounding" songs in German, Japanese, Finish, American, Russian, etc. It's really quite hilarious.

Here's a Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/artist/57BijyLUDfabkaaSwZsxsS

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Brutal 6 - Todo en mis Manos.

Olivia Lufkin - Stars Shining Out.

Anna Tsuchya - Kuroi Namida

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sometimes you get helpful subtitles such as Benny Lava. (Indian.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyC1BrQd6g

A jetpack operation?

Also Yatta (Chinese)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZJIpTIPnRs

[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Locutorio - Sara Socas (España)

[–] smeg@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

flying duck by cherryfilter. I know only enough Korean to pick out a few words here and there, but have never bothered to look it up.

[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Songs from Negura Bunget, First Fragment, and newer stuff from Vildhjarta

[–] shundi82@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A lot of songs come to mind, actually.

But if I had to pick just one, it would be MC Solaar's Carpe Diem.

My French is shaky at best, so back when I stumbled upon MC Solaar (maybe it was via Bearshare), I could barely understand the gist of what was said - and even with a much better understanding, many of the "retro" references in this song specifically would have made no sense to me.

But it evoked a weird sense of nostalgia in me - a longing for a time/things, that I had no connection to (so I shouldn't even feel any nostalgia):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6-YCancrrBI

PS: If I had to pick something more popular, it would be Plastic Love by Mariya Takeuchi (got recommended by YouTube back when it made its first comeback wave in 2011, I think).

[–] crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

MONO NO AWARE - かむかもしかもにどもかも!

No clue on the lyrics but the melody along with the lyrics are excellent

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lots of Polish music:

Sexy Doll by Republika
Mówię Ci, że by Tilt
Fajki i Alkohol by Andy
Zima by Natalia Szroeder
Gdzie jest biały węgorz ? by Cypis

I gave up trying to learn Polish because of its immense difficulty. I only speak English fluently but I've taken up an interest in Esperanto.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The artist Lescop is great. I know some french but not enough to really 100% follow the lyrics

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I like several songs by Stromae and don't understand French.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Any song that's on my playlist and not german or english ;)

Though specifically Akatsuki Records (JP), CrazyBeats (JP), several Vocaloid produces I can't remember.

[–] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Everything in Drakenier's Chaos Language.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I always thought Regin Smidur by Týr captured exactly the kind of vibes I'd expect from Viking metal. But I've never known what the lyrics are about, and probably don't want to.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago
[–] proper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[–] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah!
I've had "V blbym veku" from Xindl X in a playlist for 10 years.
I don't understand a single work, but it just speaks to me for some weird reason.

[–] hitstun@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago
[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Blueprint Supreme

SKAI ISYOURGOD & AR LIU Fuyang

I have no idea what they're saying, but I know it slaps.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=yWT-UopFlAs

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

I don't speak Spanish, but when I heard Colores by Ska-P ("Por la libertad es fundamental la diversidad") I was instantly in love. The music is great and the lyrics seemed straight up fire.

Then I translated their songs and now they are my second favourite band, after RATM.

A Chitón - On repression and censorship in the name of security

El Vals del Obrero - The Workers Waltz, on unity of the working class

[–] sparcipx@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

“Fighting in Built-up Areas” by Ladytron. Sung in Mira Aroyo’s native Bulgarian.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'm surprised that people can answer with only one or a few songs. I don't "discriminate" music by language at all, I listen to a ton of music from all over the world in more languages than I can say. One very good place to find good international music is the YouTube channel My Analog Journal: https://youtube.com/@myanalogjournal

I like vocaloid music, but many of the songs are in Japanese which I don’t speak

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

This song in some Cyrillic language: https://open.audio/library/tracks/102128

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I caught some Icelandic rap the other night on that global radio website and now I need to find it. I caught some Algerian rap - rap again, even though it's usually not my thing - a few months back, too, and it was awesome.

[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Are you talking about radio.garden?

[–] pan0wski@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago
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