Do you listen to foreign music?

[The Void]

Do you listen to songs in languages other than your own? Why or why not?

 

[maccrash]

I listen to foreign music simply because a lot of it sounds good; it has nothing to do with me trying to learn the language or anything, it's just because some foreign language stuff has been canonized (i.e. Sigur Ros) or just in a genre that I like (i.e. Envy) so I'll check them out because of that.

 

[Banz]

Yes. I listen to English music. And some Hindi.

Also what's with the assumption that people cannot learn foreign languages?

 

[Sorbet]

Mainly English and Korean with some of my Korean faves releasing Japanese music too.

Other than that I also have some Spanish albums on my iTunes and some Finnish and French songs on a Spotify playlist.

(I'm Dutch)

 

[Kodokuna Kishi]

I listen to foreign music all of the time, purely because I think it sounds that much better than music from English speaking countries (not quite sure why). And to be honest, 47 of the 92 songs on my phone are from Korea and Japan alone, but I have some German music in what's left.

(Listening to ナノ right now)

 

[Harmonious Fusion]

I listen to a lot of weeaboo Japanese music. It's not necessarily that I like the music specifically because it's Japanese. More that Japanese media in general is popular around the websites I frequent, so a disproportionate amount of music recommendations I receive tend to be in that language.

A lot of other languages are represented in my music collection, including Italian, Russian, Norwegian, and German. Interestingly, a lot of these languages are used by non-native speakers, and a lot of the English-language music I own is likewise sung by people for whom English isn't their first language.

 

[Polar Spectrum]

I listen to foreign as in from another country, not too much from another language though. I'm in the US and love European folk rock, and some other similar stuff. Enter the Haggis has to be one of my favorite bands, and individual artists, I have to say Natalie MacMaster.

Also Swedish / German Techno in Scooter and BassHunter. Only old basshunter though. He got really cliche when he got big.

 

[Firox]

Yes, all the time - mostly because the music and the language the song is in just sounds awesome together.

I speak both English and Spanish, I listen a lot to music in the Baltic Languages (Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Latgalu, and Lithuanian) - bands such as Korpiklaani (Finnish), Metsatoll (Estonian), Obtest (Lithuanian), Skyforger (Latvian & Latgalu)

 

[Ivysaur]

Yeah, I have quite a lot of discs from English-speaking bands, there is a Greek group that I really enjoy (even if I can't understand anything at all), and I enjoy listening to a few Japanese songs here and there. I'd probably enjoy a song made out of random gibberish if the music were good enough.

 

[Alfieri]

I used to listen to Spanish music but I hate it now. I only have 1 Japanese song in my library, and everything else is in English.

I listen to some songs in other languages but only because it's funny and only on Youtube.

 

[Cosmo's Factory]

I listen to a lot of European music, so hearing a song in another language doesn't really phase me. If I really like it, I might learn some of the lyrics, but it's not something I usually do. I'm more partial to German but there are a couple of Spanish bands I really dig.

 

[Mawa]

For the biggest part of my life (more than 10 years) I listen to japanese music (and still do sometime), I don't care to not understand what they said, I just like the way it sound. When you can feel the emotions... (I know some lyrics because I found them online).

I'm not listening to japanese music as much as I used to, I'm more into electro stuff for the last 2 years, and I still love music with no lyrics or with lyrics you can't understand (like really mixed up, I'm talking about electro - glitch - dub - chill - aaaalll the steps!)

I listen a singer who was arabic too.

 

[pompayyy]

I listen to tons of German Kraut rock, in addition to some anime OSTs.

 

[Dreg]

I've been listening to a lot of Finnish Rock/Metal music. Imo it's one thing that is actually keeping music alive for me. Some of their songs are in English as well. A lot of Scandinavian rock/metal is really, really good.

 

[Satoshi Ookami]

Yep, because I'm not Japanese (unfortunately...)

 

[Selly Jr]

the art of music isnt dictated by just individual parts alone, its the joining together of these parts and what the combined result is about. Guitars, bass, drums, vocals, keyboards, brass.

I listen to English, German, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Russian/Ukranian, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Greek, Italian and Polish bands, even a few bands who do their vocals in Latin, who use their own languages as well as english. Lyrical content alone does not make a piece of music a piece of music.

 

[Kanzler]

No because that's encouraging illegal immigration which is bad.

Yes.

Actually I don't listen to songs with words in them anymore so I don't know.

 

[Kenchiin]

My native language is Spanish, and the actual question would be if I ever listen to music in Spanish lol

 

[starseed galaxy auticorn]

I listen to anime music. I also listen to LM.C and HITT as well, but that's about it as far as foreign goes. I used to be really obsessed with j-rock, though I got in a huge mess with some fakers claiming to be j-rockers on Facebook. Eventually, it ruined my love for a lot of my favorite japanese bands. D:

 

[Ultramarine]

I have three Polish songs that I listened to a lot before I grew tired of them. I'm Polish, and over the summer I went to Poland for the first time in ten years, so I guess I was curious about Polish music. Found a couple of good bands, and out of all of them, T.Love was my favourite.