• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    12·
    2 天前

    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.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 天前

      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.

  • k0e3@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 天前

    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).

  • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 天前

    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.

    • k0e3@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 天前

      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.

      • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 天前

        There were two singers, one during their heyday and another briefly before they split I believe. I was actually at their final show. The song you’re thinking of is Ichirin no Hana from bleach. Amazing is one of the best examples of their music: https://youtu.be/fKOREz_XMus

    • YazmeenDessertRose@lemmy.zip
      1·
      2 天前

      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.

  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    3 天前

    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.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      3 天前

      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!

  • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    4 天前

    I love how comments are immediately flooded with recommendations.

    (I cannot connect with kpop at all, even after spending several years carpooling to work with avid fans who would play all kinds every morning and evening.)

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    201·
    4 天前

    KPop Demon Hunters converted a lot of people, but I was listening to BTS and Blackpink before, and K/DA before them (an earlier cartoon K-pop group, associated with Riot Games, makers of League of Legends, though I’ve never played League, just enjoyed the music, and the anime series Arcane), and before that, Psy with Gangnam Style.

    A lot of K-pop has English lyrics. Some more than others. It’s a joy to listen to regardless.

    I listen to a bunch of Japanese rock and I love the sounds of the words. If you think about rap, the hardest thing is finding words to rhyme. But, Japanese is a syllable-based language and most of their syllables are “open” (end in a vowel), so this makes Japanese rap really interesting. At the forefront of it, IMO, is Creepy Nuts, whose DJ played the Olympics when they were in Tokyo, and their MC won a bunch of rap battles. (With AirPods and the Android equivalent talking about real-time translation, I’d love to see this guy battle Eminem.) The fun doesn’t stop there. Their song Yofukashino Uta inspired a manga, which got adapted into an anime, which featured a couple guys hitting on and being rejected by the main girl. These guys were based on, and in the Japanese dub, voiced by the Creepy Nuts guys. The song itself is absolutely wild, and if you look it up on YouTube and turn on the captions, you can see what they’re saying, as it has an official translation. Song title translates to “Stayin’ Up Lullaby” and the anime/manga is called “Call of the Night” internationally (both kinda mean the same thing).

    • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 天前

      Creepy nuts had such an insane 2025, curious to see what happens with them this year

      Kpop however I find the opposite and is largely inauthentic soulless imitation of better music from black America

    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      3 天前

      A lot of K-pop has English lyrics. Some more than others.

      Not just K-pop. Take a look at the songs at Eurovision for example, it’s mostly English lyrics. Having English lyrics is very popular with a lot of european musicians to the point that you can’t even find certain genres in other languages. Someone recommend me some French or Korean shoegaze please.