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Get into metal and you'll soon know a band from almost every country

Growing up a weeb ripped that bandaid off pretty early. If I like it, I like it. 👍🏾

Artist is biased against k-pop.

I listen to Japanese music but I'm also learning Japanese

But music shouldn't be relied upon for learning Japanese because the pitch accent can be changed and wording is not standard in music because it can be changed to fit with the song

It can also be hard to hear words clearly unless you know them

Id personally consider foreign music you don't understand to be instrumental only music like the voice was an musical instrument which it can technically be considered a musical instrument

Kpop girls are usually hot though. So great MVs at least.

Some non-English music I enjoy, though not at the same time:

Lisa Ekdahl - Vem Vet (Swedish) Nice catchy Swedish tune, maybe jazz?

Samain et Shuait - Les Nomades (French and Anishinaabe) First Nations hip-hop

Gwenno - Chwyldro (Kernewek) Folky dreamscapes in a functionally extinct language (they're bringing it back, though).

Moonchild Sanelly - Gwara Gwara (English and Xitsonga) Pop-funk-dance mixing international and indigenous traditions.

Majid Soula - Win Terram (Tamazight) Electronic beats from a Berber.

Jacques Dutronc - On nous Cache Tout, on nous Tout de Rein (French) A classic of French rock and roll.

Manu Negra - Mala Vida (Spanish) Punk styled music by folks who like their anarchist forebears.

San Salvador - Quau te Mena(Occitan) Occitanian folk traditions given new life.

TUDI-VOICE - 囡仔你甘知 (Hokkien) - Socially active Taiwanese band in Chinese folk tradition with a modern spin.

Beyond - Glorious Years (Hong Kong Cantonese) Cantopop legends.

Sorry for the YouTube links.

I never got on the K-Pop train, but I do genuinely like a few vibey tracks by Neon Bunny, K-Soul artist.

But I love when native languages are mixed with English, especially in metal, as in the case of this tremendous anthem to the joys of food

Recently I watched the Kneecap. A biopic of a north Irish hip hop / rap band, performing in Irish and English. Now they have entered my playlist.

WFMU (a radio station in New Jersey) has a weekly show on one of its web streams. It's called Continental Subway, presented by an American called David Dichelle, who lives in Germany.

He plays all kinds of music in many different languages, as well as different versions of folk songs in English - he's working through the Roud Folksong Index and has reached Roud 350, The Topman and the Afterguard / The Sailor and the Soldier. However, most of what he plays isn't in English and as well as music from many different countries each week he will play 8 or 10 songs from a particular country chosen at random. This week it was Chad.

Very highly recommended, not least because all the shows back to 2017 are archived, so you can listen again when you want, and it's listener supported so there are no adverts. Links to all the shows and playlists here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/CW

The German version was #1 in America. The English version was #1 in Germany.

Guess the song?