Do you listen to music in other languages?
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Because I live in France now I listen to a lot of French and Belgian music: Stromae, Grand Corps Malade, Angele, Christophe Willem, Florent Pagny, Nolwen Leroy, Clara Luciani, Pomme, Indila, Juliet Armamet and more.
But I've enjoyed the odd band that I managed to hear of before that: Autour de Lucie, Coralie Clément, Charlotte Gainsbourg and her father Serge (of course), Cats on Trees.
There was also an excellent Turkish band in the 2008 Eurovision, called Mor Ve Ötesi who did the most excellent indie rock.
And of course in 2022 the fantastic Italian band Måneskin won.
There's a Polish singer called Kasia Stankiewicz who's pretty decent too.
I also like Ute Lemper, whatever language she's singing in, even German.
And I love Opera, which should always be sung in the language it is written in (not being snobbish, it's just that if you are the ENO putting on Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, and you insist on singing everything in English to make opera "accessible", you still can't understand or make out the words, but if your star tenor and his understudy are both ill then nobody else has rehearsed the opera and you have to get some prick in a dinner jacket to sing the libretto out of a book next to the stage while a hapless chorus member swans about on stage silently)
But I've enjoyed the odd band that I managed to hear of before that: Autour de Lucie, Coralie Clément, Charlotte Gainsbourg and her father Serge (of course), Cats on Trees.
There was also an excellent Turkish band in the 2008 Eurovision, called Mor Ve Ötesi who did the most excellent indie rock.
And of course in 2022 the fantastic Italian band Måneskin won.
There's a Polish singer called Kasia Stankiewicz who's pretty decent too.
I also like Ute Lemper, whatever language she's singing in, even German.
And I love Opera, which should always be sung in the language it is written in (not being snobbish, it's just that if you are the ENO putting on Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, and you insist on singing everything in English to make opera "accessible", you still can't understand or make out the words, but if your star tenor and his understudy are both ill then nobody else has rehearsed the opera and you have to get some prick in a dinner jacket to sing the libretto out of a book next to the stage while a hapless chorus member swans about on stage silently)
Yes. Saw Landmvrks in Brixton on Thursday night - French (Marseille) metalcore band, mostly sing in English but there's a couple of tracks in French.
Also listen to a few Hispanic punk & hardcore bands who often sing in Spanish.
There's a few decent new Euro hardcore bands, but they generally sing in English.
Also plenty of decent '80's Euro tracks already mentioned (99 Red Balloons, Major Tom etc).
Also listen to a few Hispanic punk & hardcore bands who often sing in Spanish.
There's a few decent new Euro hardcore bands, but they generally sing in English.
Also plenty of decent '80's Euro tracks already mentioned (99 Red Balloons, Major Tom etc).
I really like Winter Dust's "Unisono", though I've no idea what any of it's about.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BZZTzr1gUYM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BZZTzr1gUYM
Sebastian Tombs said:
Because I live in France now I listen to a lot of French and Belgian music: Stromae, Grand Corps Malade, Angele, Christophe Willem, Florent Pagny, Nolwen Leroy, Clara Luciani, Pomme, Indila, Juliet Armamet and more.
But I've enjoyed the odd band that I managed to hear of before that: Autour de Lucie, Coralie Clément, Charlotte Gainsbourg and her father Serge (of course), Cats on Trees.
There was also an excellent Turkish band in the 2008 Eurovision, called Mor Ve Ötesi who did the most excellent indie rock.
And of course in 2022 the fantastic Italian band Måneskin won.
There's a Polish singer called Kasia Stankiewicz who's pretty decent too.
I also like Ute Lemper, whatever language she's singing in, even German.
And I love Opera, which should always be sung in the language it is written in (not being snobbish, it's just that if you are the ENO putting on Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, and you insist on singing everything in English to make opera "accessible", you still can't understand or make out the words, but if your star tenor and his understudy are both ill then nobody else has rehearsed the opera and you have to get some prick in a dinner jacket to sing the libretto out of a book next to the stage while a hapless chorus member swans about on stage silently)
As yes Måneskin. My daughter introduced me to this song about six months ago and I’ve been listening to quite a lot of their stuff since:But I've enjoyed the odd band that I managed to hear of before that: Autour de Lucie, Coralie Clément, Charlotte Gainsbourg and her father Serge (of course), Cats on Trees.
There was also an excellent Turkish band in the 2008 Eurovision, called Mor Ve Ötesi who did the most excellent indie rock.
And of course in 2022 the fantastic Italian band Måneskin won.
There's a Polish singer called Kasia Stankiewicz who's pretty decent too.
I also like Ute Lemper, whatever language she's singing in, even German.
And I love Opera, which should always be sung in the language it is written in (not being snobbish, it's just that if you are the ENO putting on Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, and you insist on singing everything in English to make opera "accessible", you still can't understand or make out the words, but if your star tenor and his understudy are both ill then nobody else has rehearsed the opera and you have to get some prick in a dinner jacket to sing the libretto out of a book next to the stage while a hapless chorus member swans about on stage silently)
https://youtu.be/yRnxYhttJwA?si=ltBSvWyhsT6sZk8U
Love the song and the lyrics.
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