| I listen to a lot of instrumental music, but when it comes to music with lyrics then I don't really care whether I can understand the lyrics or not. All I want is for the lyrics to sound good, and not being able to understand the lyrics brings an advantage in that department too; even if the lyrics are super pretentious/cringe-worthy it won't bother me xD For this reason I never ever listen to music with dutch lyrics. Even if the music itself isn't bad, I just can't stand the sound of dutch in music or any other form of medium outside of stand up comedy for all that matters. |
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kndtachibana said: Can you post some of the instrumental music you like? Sure, I can name some, but this thread isn't about instrumental music so I'd have to go off topic for that. |
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| English or French, my native language is Dutch, but i find Dutch songs so cringy. |
| Depends. I listen to a wide range of music from different parts of the world, and my favourites so far might be: - English - Norwegian - Swedish - French - Spanish - German - Greek - Russian (meh when spoken, very beautiful when sung imo) |
| Not in my native language that's for sure. Nowadays, every song, music and lyric they produce are just utter garbage, so much that I have had tendency to ignore and keep away every time I hear them. I prefer English, despite still struggling to learn to master it, or just without any lyric at all. |
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| I don't really care about the language as long as the music is good and the singing doesn't make me want to stick a screwdriver into my ears. For a while now post-rock has been my favorite genre, and most post-rock songs barely even have any lyrics, if at all. |
| any is fine; i don't really care. but i thought i wouldn't like korean songs but after listening to g-dragon i realized just how easier it is listening to it. i mean it hasn't even been a month i've listened to him and i am already rhyming along with some lines. this hasn't even happened with japanese music. i find korean to roll of the tongue much easier than japanese, even though i can read it and speak some. |
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| korean honestly :,) i follow kpop very closely (especially girl groups) so,, u know. i like that i cant understand the cheesy lyrics so i dont have any secondhand embarrassment. |
| Haha i can speak/read/listen Chinese pretty fluently (ok maybe not write) but whenever i listen to Chinese music... i just can't decipher it. So yeah, English. |
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| No words, only music. In case there is, I like it when I can't understand the lyrics. As for my favorites, - japanese - but I don't listen j-pop, just anime and game soundtracks. - portuguese - since I really like how the language sound. - estonian, swedish - almost same as above. - it's always nice to listen to a unknown language. therefore i'm ok with almost any language (there exist 3 languages, and one musical genre which I cannot see as anything other but torture, nope english is one of them.) As for english, there are so many songs in english, they could be heard anywhere; so for a long time now it cause only a feeling of monotonous boredom. Which doesn't mean I don't have favorite songs in english, or I dislike the language lol |
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| english for sure. i like harsh vocals in death metal, so i need it to be in english to understand |
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| japanese bc seiyuu are life |
| actually i'm in love with this song as well. i guess i just take to asian languages well. |
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| I say english but then I started listening to alexander rybak in his original language and I really think its pretty, so no preference really... |
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| English. I'd rather listen to music I can actually understand and enjoy. I tried listening to Korean/Japanese music but I only did it for its sake and ended up not listening to those songs more than once. So yeah, short answer is I only listen to English songs. |
| It depends on the genre of music. I enjoy some stuff with japanese vocals and other stuff with english. sometimes i prefer when there are no vocals and only sothing ambient sounds. |
| I listen to mainly English and Japanese but I enjoy all kinds of languages. I mainly listen to the sound so understanding the lyrics aren't important for me. |
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| I usually listen to instrumental. but I prefer the languages i understand. |
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| I prefer English but I'll listen to anything if it sounds good. |
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| English for me. Sometimes, I like no lyrics too, depending on how I feel. |
| English for most of the time. In some cases I like some specific non-English things like German deathcore such as Shemales from Outta Space of Death and We Butter The Bread with Butter. Besides that, I love instrumentals as well. |
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| Most of the music I listen to is in English or Japanese but ultimately I don't care. |
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| I like to hear Japanese, English and Korean music ღ◕‿◕｡ |
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| English. Although my mother tongue is spanish I find music in spanish to be....boring. There are some exceptions to this though, as the couple seen below: Both of those songs narrate short stories. The first one about a teacher just trying to do his job in that magical period of history known as Francoist Spain and how that eventually led to his execution. The second one is a song about a gypsy wishing to the moon for a kid which resulted in a white kid from two non-white parents and of course the husband of the woman that made the wish believing his wife betrayed him. This is something that I think spanish excells at and yet is barely exploited in music; narrative. There are so many bullshit gramatical rules that you have to follow to write a good story, about as twice as much as English, and people just don't bother with them. |
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| In no language actually. Instrumental is the right and only path to follow. |
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| English and sometimes french |
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| Japanese ^^ Only listen to anisongs anyway |
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| I hate the music that I understand, so I am trying to find bands that sing in a language that I don’t speak. For me, it’s mostly Japanese, Swedish, and Icelandic. |
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| I have all the songs in my library tagged with their language, so this was nice and easy to calculate. Excluding instrumental pieces, the division is: Italian: 26.78% French: 24.31% German: 22.54% Japanese: 8.67% English: 8.06% Latin: 4.46% Russian: 2.7% Czech: 1.76% Greek: 0.64% Sindarin: 0.05% Quenya: 0.02% Oh God. I have more Japanese songs in my library than ones in my mother tongue. I think I'm a weeb. |
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| I like my Japanese songs. But Vietnamese music is great because I can understand most of it. Though the most important part of a song isn't the lyrics in my opinion. It's the melody. That's why I like my Japanese music I can't understand. |
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| I have enough trouble understanding English music, and that's the language I speak. So yeah...English. |
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| Well it always sounds like gibberish to me anyway so I don't really care. Really, I must have a problem with listening comprehension or something because I can very rarely understand the lyrics for ~95% of music that is in English. |
| 90% of my music library has been consisted of Korean songs for the past few years, with the occasional Japanese, Latin, and instrumentals. |
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| Mainly english, but I listen to Japanese songs as well. |
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| Considering Japanese and asians in general are more into what I like as composition, I will say Japanese music would be my predilection. I don't usualy like what North American pop sounds like or whatever plays at the radio. Although, more than half the music I listen to is instrumental, I still like lyrics, when they are not the usual ''fuck bitch get yo ass here'' I hear all the god damn time at the radio. My iPod has like 15 different languages on it, mostly Japanese (again, because I love their composition), some English and French (very littel tbh, even if it's my native language), and stuff like Latin, Russian, German, Italian, Chinese... hell, I even some Hungarian and Finnish songs... so why not? I also have something called Djurdjevdjan from an old DDR like game called Stepmania I had, I could find the song on internet, but I never figured out what language this is. |
| I actually like Japanese music not really because of the language (though that is a factor) but due to the actual composition of music. I read somewhere that a lot of music is either happy or sad, but apparently Japanese music often has a melancholic feel. I like that in music, and if you can show me songs in other languages with a sort of melancholic sad or nostalgic feel, I will probably enjoy it. Personally, I have not found too many. |
| I prefer my music in english or german. I am dutch by the way x) |
Sweet said: ...I don't even care as long as the song sounds nice. SAME. I listen to English, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, Arabic and Farsi. I have listened to more songs in my mother tongue too which I don't mind only if it plays in the background lol. Guys, recommend me songs in other languages that I haven't mentioned. |
| Asian languages mainly Korean, Japanese and Mandarin. although i have a thing for Spanish and gibberish I hate the songs in my language (Dutch) so much, if i hear it anywhere i feel the need to rip off my ears and throw them out the window |
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| I havr classical, and Asian songs here in my playlist but as long as the music is good regardless the language, then it's alright. |
| 98% of music I listen to is Japanese :3 Other than that some English, sometimes Polish. That's about it. |
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