I love how comments are immediately flooded with recommendations.
(I cannot connect with kpop at all, even after spending several years carpooling to work with avid fans who would play all kinds every morning and evening.)
I’ve grown partial to the musical stylings of Al-Namrood myself.
“Actually I was talking about Mongolian throat singing”.
I entirely unironically love mongolian throat singing.
… its fucking awesome.
I’ve been enjoying Ummet Ozcan’s stuff for a month or so. EDM with throat singing, tickles something happy in my brain.
Shoutout to The Hu
Love those guys
Techno, folk and metal, they all fckn slam
I’m quite partial to portuguese goth metal
I’m quite partial to J-rock. I’m not really even a weeb.
絶対的三分間 by そこに鳴る is one of my most favorite tracks of all time.
I left the title and artist in copypastable Japanese for easy finding.
Oh. Oh my.
J Rock is such a great genre and seems heavily inspired by grunge but more fun
Same, the youtube algorithm got me there now NEK! is my favourite band.
Who knew a Japanese girl group would perfecting american college rock 20 years after its prime?
NEK! is awesome and you have good taste.
Still a massive WANDS fan in my 40’s, idgaf
(X-japan goes without saying and yea i know, jmetal)
Yeah, I haven’t really delved into Japanese rock, but there’s plenty of banging tunes used as anime intros or outros. Dandadan, a bunch of the Naruto/Boruto ones, Hunter x Hunter, and Spy x Family to name a few.
Used to live them, but switched up into hanabie and paledusk
NANA-NANANANANA-NA-NA-NA, katamari damashii!
I’ve had the song “lonely rolling star” stuck in my head for the past few months a
Have you heard this?
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.
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!
OK but K-pop is trash
You just crossed the line
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
I’m saying it sucks. There is very little about it that is artistic. It’s mostly just corporate product (PSY is an obvious exception). The “bands” are overworked dancers who live in corporate-owned dormitories. They get mixed and matched endlessly until their controlling conglomerate decides that a combination is marketable. Then they “debut”, which just means they put out a track and appear on soju and chicken advertisements.
I don’t understand why it’s caught on with a certain segment of US people.
I understand the draw of the spectacle, but if everything is spectacle then nothing is, right?
This is probably why I can’t like K-Pop. I really think a lot of them are great singers and dancers but it’s such a creepy, hyper-capitalist, lookism-riddled medium. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk about the intricacy or the artistry in the messaging of their songs or music (do any of them even play instruments? not that that’s a requirement). They only ever mention general things like they sing well, they dance well, they speak so many languages, etc.
So true… Americans gotta get more exposed to foreign music…
Hell yeah
And then theres me who can’t understand the words of a song no matter the language.
“Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like a leopress above the Serengeti.” I spent most of my adult life thinking a leopress was a female leopard because of that fucking song.
The irony for me is that many people who would refuse to listen to music from other countries because they “can’t understand the words” don’t even know or understand the words for songs they like in their own language.
Like all those dumbfucks that got upset when they discovered RATM is political.
My kid: I heard a song today, it was REALLY GOOD, add it to my playlist.
me: ohh great, what was it?
kid: i don’t know
me: know any words?
kid: no
me: next time point it out to an adult, we’ll find it
(2 weeks later)
kid: I heard it again in the car with mom
me: mom?
mom: uhh yeah, didn’t get a chance to look at the name until it was gone.
me: know any words?
mom: no
me: O.o
(1 week later)
mom: MoreArt
me: ohh that catchy AF russian song full of filth, got it.
French New Disco is amazingly uplifting, also sometimes I came up what they’re saying so it turns even better.
French rap/hip-hop is surprisingly good.
Can you recommend any?
Oxmo Puccino seems to be popular in the playlist I listen to.
Merci!
MC Solaar
The French music scene has some strong contenders. Daft Punk came our of there :)
She’s right in the sense that a lot of countries, France for instance, listen to songs in English but understand nothing from the lyrics…
I would say that most people don’t care to understand the meaning of the lyrics even in their own language
Jokes on you, it’s actually J-Metal
Densetsu no kuro-kami wo
Karei ni midashi
Kurui zaku kono hanawa
Hakanaku kieruBabymetal is the only metal band I listen to haha
No one here has mentioned the band Boris? Japanese, they just took the name from a Melvins. I’ve heard they’re less popular in Japan because they’re less interested in costumes, theatrics, pandering to casual rock listeners, and they never settled on a single sound, doing everything from stoner rock and doom metal to shoegaze, even dream pop, and also collaborated a lot with noise artist Merzbow.
Fact: this is the best thing that either Japan or Germany has ever achieved.
Love that song haha the clip is awesome too
Ladybeard, thanks.
