Does it make me autistic to enjoy Israeli rock?

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What I mean by discovering music organically is that I wasn’t really specifically searching for it. Like on last.fm I just listened to music I was already into. They kept recommending Nordic bands and I enjoyed them. So I became a fan of Nordic music. Interesting that you found Hebrew music through Icelandic bands. I used to be heavily into Icelandic music as well. I sometimes still listen to my Icelandic favorites such as Ragnheiður Gröndal. I’m definitely familiar with the band múm. I even learnt a bit of Icelandic. Not enough resources and discipline for me to get super good, but I’m still able to read a lot of Scandinavian languages and sometimes Germanic type languages. When I listen to klezmer I can sometimes understand a bit of the Yiddish. I know it’s because of the Icelandic I studied. Maybe I’ll go back to studying it. Who knows? Did you ever study Icelandic? What Hispanic country is your family from?

I’m still wondering whether I just like listening to Hebrew like another poster said or if Hebrew goes well with rock. Some of these Israeli artists have really fun music.

mexico, all of my aunts, uncles, grandparents were both there as well as some far removed cousins. now we're american.

i never studied icelandic....i imagine there wouldn't be as many resources for it as there are for hebrew but i may be mistaken of course. i think it's interesting how patronymics are still used there.

how much icelandic do you know?

There’s Icelandic online. I understood enough to kind of understand some songs and simple kid’s shows. How much Hebrew do you know? I pretty much only know the word shalom right now. Maybe I’ll try to study Hebrew again. Now that I’m more exposed to it I think it should be easier. I think that’s why I found Finnish words easier to remember. The good thing about Icelandic is that it’s related to English.

Would people assume I’m an Israel supporter/Zionist based on my music taste? I do have some affection for Israel, but I honestly don’t know enough about politics there.

I just find it so weird that I didn’t care much for rock before, but I suddenly enjoy it when it’s in Hebrew. It also seems like my strong preference for female singers is gone for Israeli music. Now I seem to prefer male singers! WTF.

Israeli, and Palestinian, rappers, have combined forces to put on joint music festivals. Many young Israelis I have meet have rejected both "Israeli" and "Palestinian" as identity labels for themselves, and many young Arabs are fans of Israeli pop stars. There is even an Israeli Rupaul type cross gender singer (who goes by the name "Dana International") who has a (somewhat secret) following among Arab young folks in neighboring countries.

I feel like I have an affection for Israel that I just shouldn’t have. I’m generally a liberal person, but it seems like having affection for Israel doesn’t go together with the rest of my politics.

Something interesting I’ve noticed is that sometimes I can predict the next word someone will sing. Even though I only know a few Hebrew words. I’m getting somewhat familiar with Hebrew like I wanted to.

There are some great example of Israeli music I can link to you, about 95% of it is 70s to 90s. I don't listen to new stuff from this century cause it is not as good, the situation deteriorated quickly in the current decade. But it's a world wide phenomenon not just in Israel. Not sure what you would consider "Rock" tho. Some would say growling metal is rock, I wouldn't recognize a metal song in any language if I was ever presented with one.

Hebrew like German for instance do go well with rock... not sure why.

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Most of the music I listen to from Israel is 70s-90s as well. I don’t like modern music from there either. But I still enjoy modern music from other countries.

Sounds like its the language, more than the music, that you are resonating with. You like Israeli rock because you like the sound of the Hebrew language. Take a stab at learning Hebrew in earnest. See if you have an aptitude for it.

Maybe you should go into linguistics, and study Semitic languages, and become an expert in Hebrew and Arabic and Aramaic. And then either go to work for companies or govt. agencies involved in the Mideast. Or go into academia and study ancient dead semitic languages like Akkadian, and Assyrian, and translate cuniform texts.

Maybe it is the language. At least that’s the reason why I put effort into finding Israeli music to listen to. But I definitely have my likes and dislikes. I think Sacha Baron Cohen started this interest for me. I don’t really have much interest in other middle eastern languages.

If it’s the language more than the music, how come I never really went crazy over Nordic rock? I was also obsessed with Nordic languages and culture.

Maybe because you were already into Nordic languages before you ever heard Nordic rock, so it was already a thing in your mind as an interest. So you didn't need the music to introduce it to you.

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