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So true… Americans gotta get more exposed to foreign music…
French rap/hip-hop is surprisingly good.
Can you recommend any?
Oxmo Puccino seems to be popular in the playlist I listen to.
Merci!
MC Solaar
Mozart did not write English music.
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).
There’s some good Japanese punk rock. And not that it’s a big reach for Americans, but Australia has some great hip hop.
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.
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
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. 🤘
No not metal at all. The artist is Kongar-ol Ondar.
I only listen to japanese video game soundtracks (and mitski) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcaDXt3pRo8
“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.
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.
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.
Hère, have some. https://youtu.be/DeuPOT5cItc. One serving of French Canadian sexy love song.
This vietnamese one is hilarious https://youtu.be/rDhx4ejrPPA
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
Densetsu no kuro-kami wo
Karei ni midashi
Kurui zaku kono hanawa
Hakanaku kieru
I’m quite partial to portuguese goth metal
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.
OK but K-pop is trash
You just crossed the line
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.
I’m quite partial to J-rock. I’m not really even a weeb.
Oh. Oh my.
J Rock is such a great genre and seems heavily inspired by grunge but more fun
Yeah, I haven’t really delved into Japanese rock, but there’s plenty of banging tunes used as anime intros or outros. Dandadan, a bunch of the Naruto/Boruto ones, Hunter x Hunter, and Spy x Family to name a few.
絶対的三分間 by そこに鳴る is one of my most favorite tracks of all time.
I left the title and artist in copypastable Japanese for easy finding.
