French rap/hip-hop is surprisingly good.
There’s some good Japanese punk rock. And not that it’s a big reach for Americans, but Australia has some great hip hop.
I only listen to japanese video game soundtracks (and mitski) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcaDXt3pRo8
Best version of this is the album Back Tuva Future… Go check it out
I often listen to jrock (high and mighty color, one ok rock, back on, b’z), Chinese/Taiwan hits (五月天），afrobeats and amapiano , and songs from across Latin America and Europe. Seems insane to me to just stop at the border.
Too late mfr, you’ve seen the K-pop demon hunters movie and you’re obsessed.
Hère, have some. https://youtu.be/DeuPOT5cItc. One serving of French Canadian sexy love song.
This vietnamese one is hilarious https://youtu.be/rDhx4ejrPPA
Can I interest you in some J-Metalcore?
Maybe some Canton Rap?
Might I also interest you in the French Clair Obsur soundtrack that has no right to be as good as it is.
I love it. Tried the first 2 videos YouTube* gave me.
Usually I have fun trying to hear the lyrics. Now I get to have fun deciphering if its in English or Japanese
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Even though Im counting down the days till I close my gmail/YouTube account, Google made a huge difference for providing 1 site to search for almost any topic.
Babymetal goes way harder than it should
Yeah, and also, as a older metal head, bands like Babymetal, Hanabie, Mellows, rock hard but also remind me that yeah, metal can be fun and silly.
They need to listen to some Korpiklaani
I’ve grown partial to the musical stylings of Al-Namrood myself.
I’m quite partial to portuguese goth metal
Every kpop song
That was great
I’ve got some little experience from music via BeatSaber that I don’t usually listen elsewhere (Chinese, Japanese, K-Pop, computer music…)
Some can be good, but they are a minority for me.
“Actually I was talking about Mongolian throat singing”.
I entirely unironically love mongolian throat singing.
… its fucking awesome.
Shoutout to The Hu
Love those guys
Techno, folk and metal, they all fckn slam
I’ve been enjoying Ummet Ozcan’s stuff for a month or so. EDM with throat singing, tickles something happy in my brain.
The takeaways here are:
- Listen to music from any/every country. If you’ve only listened to music from your own country (or only commercial broadcast radio), oboy… have I got world to show you.
- You don’t need to understand the lyrics. Good music is good music. It’s not “Satanic” or whatever your bogeyman is, trust me. (Unless it is, in which case… 🤷♂️)
Denying yourself the breadth of world music is like believing your country is and has the best of everything while never having travelled abroad once. Objectively laughable.
OK but K-pop is trash
Well yeah it’s just black American music repackaged and made generic. Listen to the originals not the copies.
yeah just look at the early kpop from the 90s and 2000s they stole the whole aesthetic
not saying it sucks tho
You just crossed the line
I didn’t understand much of the bad bunny show, but whole Lee shit was it entertaining AF! I only heard his music for the first time day before cause a kid showed me, and I didn’t like it all that much. But the spectacle was out of this world!
