Listening to music foreign languages?

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How do people generally see this? Does it depend on the language? I feel like listening to music in Spanish, Korean and Japanese is seen as somewhat normal. Listening to Asian languages tends to make you seem geeky or into anime. It seems like listening to nordic or other European languages is just seen as super random. According to some dumb online polls I did listening to music in Hebrew is seen as very weird compared to other languages. Even compared to Turkish or Arabic. Why does Hebrew have this stigma?

I'm thinking, perhaps, that some people don't like Israel. That's the only thing I can think of when it comes to a "stigma" attached to listening to music in Hebrew.

Just ignore those idiots.

I prefer listening to music in other languages specifically I like Finnish, Russian the most but also like Gaulish, Norse, German and Turkish.

I like listening to foreign language music too, mostly stuff in a prog-rock kind of vein. I enjoy the sound of the human voice as a "musical instrument", but I find that being able to understand the lyrics can real spoil the enjoyment of the music for some reason, even if I can appreciate the poetry of the lyrics when they're written down (if they strike me as vacuous, trite, cliches even more so!) I enjoy bands that use invented languages or deliberately nonsense "lyrics" for the same reason (e.g. French band Magma or the Japanese band Ruins.)

Whether that's just a matter of taste, or an Aspie language/sound processing thing, I'm not really sure - I grew up listening mostly to instrumental music (Tangerine Dream, J-M Jarre, Vangelis etc.) and wasn't much interested in chart music, so maybe it's just that.

Unfortunately for Israel haters, hating on Israel just made me more interested. It’s my way of being edgy, lol. I’m not cool or edgy enough to be truly edgy, so I just listen to music in Hebrew despite a lot of my peers hating on Israel. What I mean by peers is people who are my age and share a lot of my politics and possibly lifestyle. I think most people who casually meet me and the Israel haters would lump us into the same sort of category or vibe. I honestly don’t have well formed opinions on that topic. Just some possibly unearned affection for Israel. I also briefly got into the rapper Azealia Banks because a bunch of whiny white guys were complaining she was racist against white people! I guess I like artists that have some controversy.



I enjoy Finnish music as well.

What Finnish music do you like? I like Indica, Haloo Helsinki and Korpiklandi.

Gaulish?

The language of Gaulish has been dead for two thousand years.

Where do you go to find music sung in Gaulish?

Kasey Kasem's Billboard Top 10 of 500 BC ?

Lol!

A swiss band called Eluveitie sing a lot of songs in Gaulish.

didn't realize that they knew enough about ancient Gaulish to even construct song lyrics. Interesting.

Folks think that opera fans are crazy to listen to Opera because most classical opera is in Italian, with some being in German. Either way English speakers don't understand it. But like folks above have said its hearing the human voice being used as an instrument. And not being distracted by the meanings of the words.

Mom told me I "ought to go to a Catholic mass sometime". Was surprised to hear nonreligious Protestant say that. She said it's "an experience". But that it was better in the old days when they did it in Latin, instead of in the vernacular, because "it was more mysterious".

I love folk music from there, but occasionally some pop or metal. Some example of folk music I enjoy from there is the band Niekku. I discovered that band because I really got into the accordion player Maria Kalaniemi. Her music is mainly instrumental. In terms of style it mixes Finnish folk music with classical, tango and jazz. I also like some solo stuff from Sari Kaasinen. I ocassionally enjoy folk metal like Korpilkaani or Finntroll, but I tend to prefer “pure” folk music over folk metal. Not because I’m a folk snob. A lot of the Finnish folk music I’m into is pretty much cheesy pop music or basically eurotrash, lol. Some other artists I’ve gotten into are Pariisin Kevät, Nightwish and PMMP.

I also like alot of other Nordic folk music like Gaate or Lumsk. I also like cheesy Russian pop Music.

Julio Iglesias and Jacques Brel.

that dates me, pretty much.

^ La Valse a Mille Temps reduces me to giggling fits every time I hear it! Not my usual taste, but Brel's delivery combined with that big brassy musical sound on his upbeat numbers does make my ears prick up.

I had a period just after high school when I was listening to Runrig (Scottish Gaelic) a lot. I don't understand any of the words and I don't want to, either. I agree that when the meaning of the words doesn't take prime position in the song, the incredible range of modulation the human voice is capable of can come forth, instead.

What’s your favorite cheesy Russian pop? I’m listening to a Russian punk playlist right now.

Fabrika or Serebro probably.