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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
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Densetsu no kuro-kami wo
Karei ni midashi
Kurui zaku kono hanawa
Hakanaku kieru
"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.
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I'm quite partial to J-rock. I'm not really even a weeb.
Same, the youtube algorithm got me there now NEK! is my favourite band.
Who knew a Japanese girl group would perfecting american college rock 20 years after its prime?
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This is the perfect time to introduce my friends The Eurovision Song Contest !eurovision@lemmy.world and the Lemmy version !Lemmyvision@feddit.org !
Every year I hear a bunch of songs from other countries than my own, many in different languages. It's pretty awesome.
I'm boycotting the finals of the ESC this year for political reasons, but that's my decision. There are 60+ years of entries to watch or listen to!
Lemmy know if you want recommendations.
This is the perfect time to introduce my friends The Eurovision Song Contest
Actually it's one of the worst times ever, what with them refusing to ban the fascist apartheid regime and several countries boycotting it in response.
Even IF you don't care enough to boycott it yourself, you're bound to get a diminished show with 5 countries missing and the rest walking on egg shells not to get thrown out for angering the apartheid delegation.
The national finals and national selections will still be good fun, and if you vote in those, your money only goes to that national broadcaster and not to the corrupt EBU. I did recommend the many decades of previous contests, and I'm not going to tell other people to boycott the big show with me. It's up to them.
I don't know that there will be more eggshell walking than usual. The rules against politics have always been up for interpretation. There are always artists and delegations getting in trouble for flying e.g. Palestinian flags or anti-russian statements (at least until Russia was excluded from the contest). If we cancelled every international event in which a shitty country participates, we couldn't have any at all.
I made my choice for this year, but I still enjoy the music.
The most interesting thing is who different countries vote for. There are whole university departments dedicated to studying this. The music itself is very meh. It's specific type of music that doesn't really reflect any differences between the countries. Interesting entries happen but most of it just sounds the same.
I disagree entirely my friend, though there are trends just like in popular music in general.
You might enjoy skipping the ballads and the "pop girlies", and focus on the Ethobops. They have more obvious roots in the country's musical traditions, and they're all interesting, and often quite good.
Here's the Eurovangelists' (Eurovision podcast) ethnobops playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XgmR5xfepPxChKq6H5xYL
From that playlist, I recommend in particular:
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Spain - Blanca Paloma - EAEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGnEoSypBhE
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Moldova - Zdob si Zdob - Treneltul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9RJQPZsj8E
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Ukraine - Kalush Orchestra - Stefania https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiEGVYOruLk
I still disagree. If you skip pop girlies you're skipping most of it. Yes, the rest can sometimes be interesting but it's still bland version of what each country has to offer. Blanca Paloma is ok but check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrDdxs48wQ&list=PL0VTLQWtqr3_4bYYgDK7cii6ixuzJVGNy&index=1 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtFRcJpzEwA&list=RDOtFRcJpzEwA&start_radio=1
From Ukraine for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsNKSbTNd5I&list=RDhsNKSbTNd5I&start_radio=1 is so much more interesting. I think it was different 20-30 years ago but countries no longer send their best to Eurovision.
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Lemmyvision song contest? Then that means it's time to link Feddit UK's original submission, the Northern Boys with the phenomenal Sexy Train:
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KPop Demon Hunters converted a lot of people, but I was listening to BTS and Blackpink before, and K/DA before them (an earlier cartoon K-pop group, associated with Riot Games, makers of League of Legends, though I've never played League, just enjoyed the music, and the anime series Arcane), and before that, Psy with Gangnam Style.
A lot of K-pop has English lyrics. Some more than others. It's a joy to listen to regardless.
I listen to a bunch of Japanese rock and I love the sounds of the words. If you think about rap, the hardest thing is finding words to rhyme. But, Japanese is a syllable-based language and most of their syllables are "open" (end in a vowel), so this makes Japanese rap really interesting. At the forefront of it, IMO, is Creepy Nuts, whose DJ played the Olympics when they were in Tokyo, and their MC won a bunch of rap battles. (With AirPods and the Android equivalent talking about real-time translation, I'd love to see this guy battle Eminem.) The fun doesn't stop there. Their song Yofukashino Uta inspired a manga, which got adapted into an anime, which featured a couple guys hitting on and being rejected by the main girl. These guys were based on, and in the Japanese dub, voiced by the Creepy Nuts guys. The song itself is absolutely wild, and if you look it up on YouTube and turn on the captions, you can see what they're saying, as it has an official translation. Song title translates to "Stayin' Up Lullaby" and the anime/manga is called "Call of the Night" internationally (both kinda mean the same thing).
Creepy Nuts is awesome. Perfect music for driving around in the summer time with the windows down
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Better yet, learn another language. I'm sad for all the people that won't ever be able to experience some of the french-canadian culture. So many great books, songs, movies that people who don't speak french will never know.
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Ok, everyone share the best song from your country.
I'll start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&list=RDdQw4w9WgXcQ
False; Together Forever is the superior Rick Astley song. I say this as someone who unironically likes both songs and has since they were new, long before that one was a meme.
(Everyone knows what dQw4 means these days. You ain't foolin' anybody.)
It's the XcQ that tips me off, personally (and, well, in this case, the thumbnail).
on the regular lemmy web frontend you don't get the thumbnail. but yeah, that URL is probably burnt into most lemmy users' minds
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I have to admit a song is popular when I recognize the v= code. It certainly does get a ton of listens, year after year.
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Yellow Magic Orchestra and anyone associated with that group are of high quality, check them out for Japanese electronica
Riot In Lagos is still an incredible piece of electronic music by Ryichi Sakamoto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPuBOYsl--M (apologies for the yt link)
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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.
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!
And then theres me who can't understand the words of a song no matter the language.
"Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like a leopress above the Serengeti." I spent most of my adult life thinking a leopress was a female leopard because of that fucking song.
I got quite into foreign rap for a while. I love the sound but have grown up enough to see what pricks actual rappers are. They're either full criminal scum who need to be locked away, or they're man-children desperately trying to act hard.
Foreign rappers though? They could be singing about nipping off to the shops to buy a pint of milk for their nan, I have no idea.
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French New Disco is amazingly uplifting, also sometimes I came up what they're saying so it turns even better.
If anyone is looking for a recommendation Fela Kuti's song Water No Get Enemy is a certified banger.
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They need to listen to some Korpiklaani
Mozart did not write English music.
if anybody wants to try something without an introduction
Try Dar disku self-titled album it's been on repeat for me for a while
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She's right in the sense that a lot of countries, France for instance, listen to songs in English but understand nothing from the lyrics...
I would say that most people don’t care to understand the meaning of the lyrics even in their own language
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