• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    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
      3·
      2 days ago

      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 days ago

    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·
    2 days ago

    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 days ago

      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·
        1 day ago

        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 days ago

      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
    111·
    3 days ago

    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.

      • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
        21·
        2 days ago

        Well yeah it’s just black American music repackaged and made generic. Listen to the originals not the copies.

        • sakuraba@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 days ago

          yeah just look at the early kpop from the 90s and 2000s they stole the whole aesthetic

          not saying it sucks tho

          • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml
            2·
            2 days ago

            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?

            • k0e3@lemmy.ca
              2·
              2 days ago

              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.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      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
    19·
    3 days ago

    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.)