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[โ€“] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago

Growing up a weeb ripped that bandaid off pretty early. If I like it, I like it. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ

[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours ago

Artist is biased against k-pop.

[โ€“] x4740N@lemm.ee 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I listen to Japanese music but I'm also learning Japanese

But music shouldn't be relied upon for learning Japanese because the pitch accent can be changed and wording is not standard in music because it can be changed to fit with the song

It can also be hard to hear words clearly unless you know them

Id personally consider foreign music you don't understand to be instrumental only music like the voice was an musical instrument which it can technically be considered a musical instrument

[โ€“] bunkyprewster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm also trying to learn Japanese. I've been enjoying Atarashii Gakko. Any other musical recommendations?

[โ€“] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Kpop girls are usually hot though. So great MVs at least.

[โ€“] GladiusB@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

I listen to music for sounds. I don't listen to music to look.

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[โ€“] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

I never got on the K-Pop train, but I do genuinely like a few vibey tracks by Neon Bunny, K-Soul artist.

But I love when native languages are mixed with English, especially in metal, as in the case of this tremendous anthem to the joys of food

[โ€“] RamenDame@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Recently I watched the Kneecap. A biopic of a north Irish hip hop / rap band, performing in Irish and English. Now they have entered my playlist.

[โ€“] BillTongg@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

WFMU (a radio station in New Jersey) has a weekly show on one of its web streams. It's called Continental Subway, presented by an American called David Dichelle, who lives in Germany.

He plays all kinds of music in many different languages, as well as different versions of folk songs in English - he's working through the Roud Folksong Index and has reached Roud 350, The Topman and the Afterguard / The Sailor and the Soldier. However, most of what he plays isn't in English and as well as music from many different countries each week he will play 8 or 10 songs from a particular country chosen at random. This week it was Chad.

Very highly recommended, not least because all the shows back to 2017 are archived, so you can listen again when you want, and it's listener supported so there are no adverts. Links to all the shows and playlists here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/CW

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

WFMU is a great radio station, anyone can listen to online, for free, without ads. There are so many great shows, something for everyone.

Their schedule:

https://www.wfmu.org/table

[โ€“] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Hey thanks for this rec, I love 7 second delay and HTRG already (and The Blues x3 when I can catch it but there's no RSS feed I can find), WFMU rules I'll def check this out.

[โ€“] BillTongg@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Excellent, you already know about WFMU! I need to listen to more shows - mostly I just stick to This is the Modern World and sometimes Clay Pigeon on the main broadcast channel, plus Irene Trudel and Continental Subway on the Drummer stream, but there's so much more on there it makes my head spin.

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I hope you get the help we need. :)

[โ€“] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Go to hell! :D

[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 24 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The German version was #1 in America. The English version was #1 in Germany.

Guess the song?

[โ€“] limelight79@lemm.ee 14 points 17 hours ago

99 Luftballoons?

checks link Yes!

[โ€“] roguetrick@lemmy.world 85 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 23 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

God, I can hear this gif so well. One of my favorite songs/music videos.

[โ€“] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

For those of us less culturally educated, could you share the artist and title?

[โ€“] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, my moment! This song has some nice lore, here's the Wikipedia article.

The song was released in 1998 and was a big hit in India, reaching the West in the 2000s where it quickly became one of the OG memes.

Even back then, at least by the time the song reached the West, the CG graphics were already considered awful, and still the song was so catchy that it didn't matter.

It turns out that this was the whole point. Mehndi was already a big name in India, but was criticized for always using "an overabundance" of beautiful dancing women in his videos, and that this was the only reason he was popular.

He then recorded this video, featuring only himself, and grabbed another Indian #1 hit...

[โ€“] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

Thanks! Just saw the music video, and I can't really say I get the hype, but the backstory makes this pretty amazing.

[โ€“] rumba@lemmy.zip 12 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

LOL!

My short story about foeeign music

Wife and 6-year-old get back from dance class:

6yo: I want to add that song we heard in the car to my playlist

Wife: oh what was that song again

Me: do you remember any words, we can search for it

6yo: no Wife: no

Me: what station was it on?

Wife: satellite, TikTok radio

Me: ohh ok, I guess we just need to wait or maybe if you find it on TikTok...

Days go by

Wife: It came on in the car but the title of the song was all weird characters

Me: was it like little stick figures or big slashes or just weird drawn characters?

Wife: just wierd

Me: Google: Russian songs on tik Tok

Moreart

Ohh!

I listen to it. It absolutely slaps

Google then mentions controversy

Then I translate the song's name.

LMAO. 'I will fuck"

Then I go to look for lyric translations

It's so fucking cringe and not in a naughty or dirty way, it's just lame cringe.

The beat of the music still slap though.

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