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Shinji-Sama β Love Music Stamp
Published: 2009-11-30 00:03:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 14914; Favourites: 2094; Downloads: 121
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I was on DA, listening to music, and while searching for a new song, I took note to just how many artists in different languages I had [which for me, would mean any not in English]....Basshunter, Oomph!, O-Zone, Daler Mehndi, Rammstein, Prabhu Deva [crazy Indian dance on YouTube], t.A.T.u., and the list of Japanese/Korean/Asian artists alone is huge... Akira Yamaoka, Asian Kung-fu Generation, Aural Vampire, BoA, Dir en Grey, Gackt, Utada Hikaru, Nami Tamaki, Zone... just to name a few...
Don't love music for a certain language. Love music for music.
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I was listening to Spanish-speaking music during my Senior year in High school and I said that I love Spanish. But, some stupid bitch asked a question like "Do you understand it?" and I replied "Well, I'm learning Spanish, so I only understand a little bit of it.". I know that English is the only language I understand, but I listen to songs with other languages just because it sounds beautiful, catchy, etc.
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Thank you! Finally, there's a stamp like this.
Music is created to feel, not to solely understand the lyrics. You don't have to understand the language of a song to listen to it. Just because it's in a language you don't speak doesn't mean you have no right to listen to it. So many people can't understand this.
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Exactly! What I also like is that, just like learning a new language, when I have music that have titles in different languages, I take the time to learn how to say the title(Google Translate is actually correctly useful for once XD).
People who are reluctant towards listening to music in different languages don't realise there'll be something they like if they give it a chance. I would have NEVER found the exact kind of music I love to listen to if I didn't have an open mind.
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I've been listening to music from my own country lately, Vietnamese pop. And it's slowly becoming more known in the West thanks to a Vietnamese song about the Coronavirus. It's more popular or known in neighboring countries like China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, and the Philippines.
Plus lots of people forget that not all music is vocal. There's instrumental music.
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Well, that's pretty cool!
Yeah, but, you know, some people understandably can prefer one, or the other, or both. I remember a time where I would only listen to instrumental music(it was pretty much a phase)and now I listen to both, but I much prefer vocal music.
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I like both vocal and instrumental music. Some music actually sounds better instrumental like the Princess Mononoke theme song.
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I mainly like songs for the beat, I don't mind if I can't understand the language.
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I even like songs in languages I don't understand better. It's always interesting to listen to something I don't understand
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I love European songs. My most favorite European songs are Caramelldansen (Not the speedycake remix, the original Swedish version.) And All Around The World (La La La), which is a Russian song covered by a German Eurodance group.
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I listen to Serbian rap, even if I don't understand a single word of it!
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Tatu Actually has english versions of most of if not all of there songs ^^
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Yeah, exept for the Mexican carvival music..... That crap annoys me for some reason
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Since off my favorite songs are in other languages.....mostly German and Japanese though lol
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I love Russian love songs, German party songs, Chinese pop, Korean pop, and all types of Japanese music.
I have been told it is weird to listen to a song in another language, but I think different. Why restrict your music to one language? Besides, listening to foreign music has taught me to listen to the words less and the emotions more. Listening to songs in languages I do not understand has helped me learn to feel music more.
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Absolutely true if you ignore the words you can feel the emitting behind it and that transcends different languages and its what makes music universal
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Yes! The perfect example of that was one time when I was listening to some Japanese music, I found a song by s group I liked that I had never heard before.
Listening to it just made my heart swell and tears form in my eyes.
When I looked up the translation of the lyrics, it was a song about a boy whose girlfriend was dying.
This is actually part of the reason I hate most (but not all) popular songs and artists today. People like Rihannah and Kanye West are not making music to convey emotion anymore, they are doing it for money. So a lot of popular music today that I hear, I only hear greed and laziness behind, not powerful emotion.
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Exactly I absolutely agree, but there's a difference even in popular music. If you compare early Britney Spears, like Lucky, to more recent ones there's a difference there. Oh and sorry for the typo "emitting" was supposed to be "emotion" as I'm sure you've guessed. Like in literature the best stuff is usually older.
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I love English, French, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Arabic (any dialect), Bambara (Mali) Amharic , Tigrinya (Ethiopia and Eritrea), Oromo, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, the list goes on. Ethiopian music is exceptionally the best.
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You forgot these Bands: T.M.Revolution, Abingdon Boys School, Luis Mary, Ayumi Hamasaki and w-inds.
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Me too! Β I've got loads of Spanish, German, and Italian songs on my iPod--I'm learning those three languages and listening to the music really helps me pick up new words. Β I've also got Japanese and French songs on there and I like them, even though I can't understand a single word.
I love Rammstein too! Β
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hey i make music lyrics on Β my page! Would you like to give me Β a song and i will write it down for you!Β Β
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I listen to Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and English songs. I enjoy to them!
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I listen English, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, and Spanish songs. I love all of them.
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Nice work, check this out soundcloud.com/epic-music2080
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Yep. I totally agree when I was humming a Japanese song my former friends thought I was weird and crazy and they bully just cause I like songs with a diffrent Language
So I don't care what they do anymore Im not their friends anyways besides I am proud of liking what I like! Tagalog, Japanese,Chinese,etc. songs I love'em! I love this stamp it explains
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Yes! ;D
But i mostly listen to Korean musix because i love the language. I don't know,but idk //slaped to dead
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Exactly
Just because you can't understand the lyrics doesn't mean you can't enjoy the music. Sometimes it actually BETTER that way, because now you can focus on the music itself, instead of paying attention to what the singer is singing.
Also, even if it's a foreign language that you don't know, you can tell what the song is about my listening to the music and the tone of voice. Music is a universal language, you just have to learn to listen
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That is so true! I listen to Japanese and Spanish music and my family sometimes wonder why.
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I'm not alone! My parents are wondering why I listen to Japanese music and I keep telling them that it sounds good, has a nice beat, etc. They try to tell me that they might be talking about us, but I'm pretty sure they're not and they are too busy with their own thing to worry about America.
Strange how they question me on that, but not my D&B track list...
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Vocaloid 4 life XDD O-Zone, Psy, and so many others that aren't even super famous in other countries
~Rose
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I like to listen to foreign-language music when I'm studying, then I don't get distracted by the lyrics. Gackt is amazing and my German teacher let us listen to Rammstein in class. 
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I completely agree. I LOVE music in foreign languages. Especially Russia, Korea and Japan. (I see you like t.A.T.u, me too they are awesome)
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i cant believe no one made a gangnam style comment yet
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yessssss! especially any of them that make me giggle like an idiot (hiny hint straftanz hint hint)
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I LOVE the Norwegian band Gnom, because I love the sound of the Germanic languages
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Don't forget 99 Luftballons by Nena.
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