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Better yet, learn another language. I’m sad for all the people that won’t ever be able to experience some of the french-canadian culture. So many great books, songs, movies that people who don’t speak french will never know.
Of all languages, French? German’s where it’s at.
French
I know french, the amount of great books is about the same as every other language.
But I learned french so I can refuse to use it, instead of not understanding it.
I’ve grown partial to the musical stylings of Al-Namrood myself.
“Actually I was talking about Mongolian throat singing”.
I entirely unironically love mongolian throat singing.
… its fucking awesome.
I’ve been enjoying Ummet Ozcan’s stuff for a month or so. EDM with throat singing, tickles something happy in my brain.
Shoutout to The Hu
Love those guys
Jokes on you, it’s actually J-Metal
Babymetal is the only metal band I listen to haha
Fact: this is the best thing that either Japan or Germany has ever achieved.
Love that song haha the clip is awesome too
Ladybeard, thanks.
Densetsu no kuro-kami wo
Karei ni midashi
Kurui zaku kono hanawa
Hakanaku kieru
Ok, everyone share the best song from your country.
I’ll start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&list=RDdQw4w9WgXcQ
I have to admit a song is popular when I recognize the v= code. It certainly does get a ton of listens, year after year.
Peak musical creativity:
Game on — how about some Québ-Metal:
False; Together Forever is the superior Rick Astley song. I say this as someone who unironically likes both songs and has since they were new, long before that one was a meme.
(Everyone knows what dQw4 means these days. You ain’t foolin’ anybody.)
I really like his cover of Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
It’s the XcQ that tips me off, personally (and, well, in this case, the thumbnail).
on the regular lemmy web frontend you don’t get the thumbnail. but yeah, that URL is probably burnt into most lemmy users’ minds
I really like “It’s a beautiful life”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPUVstUH22k
XcQ, link stays blue…
But on topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7-60tyLQhASo sad yet so beautiful.
Mozart did not write English music.
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 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).
I’m quite partial to portuguese goth metal
Every kpop song
French New Disco is amazingly uplifting, also sometimes I came up what they’re saying so it turns even better.
The takeaways here are:
- Listen to music from any/every country. If you’ve only listened to music from your own country (or only commercial broadcast radio), oboy… have I got world to show you.
- You don’t need to understand the lyrics. Good music is good music. It’s not “Satanic” or whatever your bogeyman is, trust me. (Unless it is, in which case… 🤷♂️)
Denying yourself the breadth of world music is like believing your country is and has the best of everything while never having travelled abroad once. Objectively laughable.
I didn’t understand much of the bad bunny show, but whole Lee shit was it entertaining AF! I only heard his music for the first time day before cause a kid showed me, and I didn’t like it all that much. But the spectacle was out of this world!
OK but K-pop is trash
Well yeah it’s just black American music repackaged and made generic. Listen to the originals not the copies.
yeah just look at the early kpop from the 90s and 2000s they stole the whole aesthetic
not saying it sucks tho
I’m saying it sucks. There is very little about it that is artistic. It’s mostly just corporate product (PSY is an obvious exception). The “bands” are overworked dancers who live in corporate-owned dormitories. They get mixed and matched endlessly until their controlling conglomerate decides that a combination is marketable. Then they “debut”, which just means they put out a track and appear on soju and chicken advertisements.
I don’t understand why it’s caught on with a certain segment of US people.
I understand the draw of the spectacle, but if everything is spectacle then nothing is, right?
This is probably why I can’t like K-Pop. I really think a lot of them are great singers and dancers but it’s such a creepy, hyper-capitalist, lookism-riddled medium. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk about the intricacy or the artistry in the messaging of their songs or music (do any of them even play instruments? not that that’s a requirement). They only ever mention general things like they sing well, they dance well, they speak so many languages, etc.
You just crossed the line
K-Pop?
I guess I’m a bit more old school, but, with a twist.
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Lot of good anime music, I really like Those Snow White Notes.
And then theres me who can’t understand the words of a song no matter the language.
“Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like a leopress above the Serengeti.” I spent most of my adult life thinking a leopress was a female leopard because of that fucking song.
NANA-NANANANANA-NA-NA-NA, katamari damashii!
I’ve had the song “lonely rolling star” stuck in my head for the past few months a
