Music Banter - View Single Post - Would you listen to music in a language you didn't understand?

almonds · 01-24-2010, 01:38 AM

I went through a period of listening to French Rap. There are a few other types of music as well. I listen to a couple of instrumental bands such as 12 Girls Band. Normally the type of world music I get a hold of is when I'm thinking, "Hey, I wonder what their music sounds like." I google for a few and find a lot. I remember I wanted to hear some yodeling like what was stereotypically done in Switzerland. All I could find was country-yodeling.

There's just so much music out there and it's hard to even just limit yourself in one genre of another country's music. It would be awesome to know every song ever sun and ever piece ever played, but it's obviously difficult. Even knowing that there are plenty of bands in the U.S. who become popular in the underground/indie scene rather than pop radio and such shows the difficulty of mastering such a feat as you wanted.

But it's still nice to listen to something different.

01-24-2010, 01:38 AM	#68 (permalink)
almonds Groupie Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Middle of Somewhere Posts: 38	I went through a period of listening to French Rap. There are a few other types of music as well. I listen to a couple of instrumental bands such as 12 Girls Band. Normally the type of world music I get a hold of is when I'm thinking, "Hey, I wonder what their music sounds like." I google for a few and find a lot. I remember I wanted to hear some yodeling like what was stereotypically done in Switzerland. All I could find was country-yodeling. There's just so much music out there and it's hard to even just limit yourself in one genre of another country's music. It would be awesome to know every song ever sun and ever piece ever played, but it's obviously difficult. Even knowing that there are plenty of bands in the U.S. who become popular in the underground/indie scene rather than pop radio and such shows the difficulty of mastering such a feat as you wanted. But it's still nice to listen to something different.