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Originally Posted by misspoptart
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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When listening to romance, germanic or slavic languages I'm also always happy to pick up a word or sentence I understand here and there.
But are you are really able to pick up japanese words just by being an attentive listener? Or did you study the language a little? I'm always completely lost when listening to japanese.
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Originally Posted by E5I5O
The speaking and singing of languages I don't know actually sound like music to me in and of themselves - they're an added feature to the music I love listening to.
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Totally agree with you. Some languages sound awesome and create a unique atmosphere.
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Accents don't bother me at all really, I'd just rather hear someone use their native language.
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I've heard some german and russian bands (don't remember the names) trying to sing english where it was just horrible. I'm not that sensitive to accents, but it made me die a little inside. On the other hand the rest of the music wasn't particularly good either.