While I love music from all over the world and much of it I don't understand, I always feel a very awesome emotional response when I do understand something in a different language. For example, I've been listening to Spanish & Japanese music since high school, but lately if I revisit some old tracks, I pick up more than I did before due to experience, and it is very very very gratifying and adds layers of depth to the song that were not there before. I think understanding the lyrics is important to me. But that's not to say I can't love a song with vocals that don't mean anything to me.
Take Cirque du Soleil for example. A lot of their vocal songs on circus soundtracks are in "Cirquish" - a nonsense language that doesn't have meaning at all. Very beautiful stuff nonetheless.
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