Foreign Music

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<p>hey guys!</p>

<p>What are your favorite foreign songs or artists? I know a lot of people tend to like European music or even Japanese artists, but in reality, besides Lady GaGa or U2, is there a flavor of foreign music you like?</p>

<p>well I'm Korean and this isn't really foreign to me but in case, I'm REALLY addicted to this song. It's called "Tell Me Your Wish" and it's a song by a group called So Nyuh Shi Dae ("Girls' Generation" in English). They're a group of 9 girls whose concept is to represent today's generation of girls (9 girls is A LOT? Well this other boy group named Super Junior has 13 members and this Japanese group Morning Musume has like 20 members who rotate each album, haha)</p>

<p>Oh and I think someone on this forum has the name "so nyuh shi dae" hahaha. I should find out who he/she is. hmm...</p>

<p>In any case, LISTEN to this song. It's soo catchy and good! Tell me what you think! It English subs too.</p>

<p>YouTube</a> - SNSD - Tell Me Your Wish (Genie) MV (english subbed)</p>

<p>DJ~ put it back on!
kuraeyo nah noel saranghae
unjenah miduh~</p>

<p>If you're going to participate in this thread, you HAVE to listen to the foreign songs in its entirety. It's only fair!</p>

<p>Share, share, share! I want new songs on my iPod anyway =D. OH and I wanna hear what people have to say about each others favorite foreign songs too! So don't forget that!</p>

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<p>Lady GaGa is from New York… how is she foreign?</p>

<p>I personally love modern Indian music. My friend from India burns a bunch of CDs for me so I couldn’t tell you who they are or what songs, but they’re good. </p>

<p>I also really like this political band from Central or South America… but their name is escaping me right now.</p>

<p>Can’t listen to the song right now though.</p>

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<p>asian sensation: lol you made the exact same thread about a year ago: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/531130-foreign-songs.html?highlight=Foreign+Songs[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/531130-foreign-songs.html?highlight=Foreign+Songs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I still want to know why Lady GaGa is considered foreign…</p>

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<p>^ she’s not, idk why the op thinks she is…</p>

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<p>I love K-Pop, J-Pop & C-Pop!</p>

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<p>YELLE! (France)
Bjork (Iceland)
Royksopp (Norway)
M83 (France)
Digitalism (Germany)
Mum (Iceland)
Oren Lavie (Israel)</p>

<p>I think out of that list, Yelle is the only artist who actually sings in that language :/</p>

<p>And then there’s a ton of random French electronic I like :)</p>

<p>Would British artists be considred “foreign?” Like Keane and Coldplay?</p>

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<p>oh my god…stonecutter, hahahaha. wow i totally forgott! thanks! :smiley: wow, hahah, i feel so weird. reminiscing about last year on CC brings back memories!</p>

<p>sorry guys, i guess i wasn’t clear. what i meant to say was that besides listening to american artists like lady gaga, is there anything out of the country that you like? is that clearer? O.o</p>

<p>a lot of my friends like byork (including my cousins from korea o.O). i haven’t listened to her but i know she makes really interesting and different (like mystical?) music.</p>

<p>and PRISM. isn’t k pop sooo addicting?! EVERYONE MUST LISTEN TO “TELL ME YOUR WISH” now!</p>

<p>guys, guys, share your artists! i’m gonna look up all the artists runningwriter just listed now XD</p>

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<p>Almost all the ones I listed are electronic fyi. M83 is by far my favorite artist (foreign or not foreign). Check out the songs We Own the Sky, Graveyard Girl, Kim & Jessie, Teen Angst, and Don’t Save Us From the Flames in particular.</p>

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<p>I love Royskopp, Yelle (great taste in music, running writer!), Sigur Ros, Glen Haansard and Marketa Irglova (Ireland and Czech Republic, I believe?), Jesse y Joy (Mexico, beautiful pop songs), and Elodie (also from France). Most of the music I listen to is foreign, pretty much. American music doesn’t suit me much these days.</p>

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<p>^Nice! I’m going to look up some of the artists you posted that I’m not familiar with. It sounds like we have a similar taste in music! </p>

<p>And I agree, American music seems to be lacking. The worst thing though, is trying to find a concert in the U.S. by these foreign artists. I know Yelle played last year and M83 played last January (with The Killers), but other than that, it’s really hard to find those concerts. I would love to go to a Yelle concert :)</p>

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<p>Nightwish-finnish metal</p>

<p>one thing i find lacking in all types of American music is dynamics. everything is loud all the time, no piano or forte at all</p>

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<p>AmbiEloq, Sigur Ros is really good! I just looked him up :)</p>

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<p>Other people like M83?! Fantastic. Graveyard Girl and We Own the Sky are definitely some of my favorite songs.</p>

<p>M83, Sigur Ros, and Pink Martini come to mind though I’m sure there are others I’m forgetting. I’m a pretty big indie music fan so a lot of my stuff comes from all over the place.</p>

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<p>@runningwriter: I’m glad I’ve provided a new artist for your listening pleasure! I only wish I could speak Icelandic (though there are translations provided throughout the net)!</p>

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<p>Lol spookyjeff, when I say M83 is my favorite artist, people give me this confused look as if I have 3 heads. It’s such good music though! Saturdays = Youth is amazing!</p>

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<p>Man</p>

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<p>Rammstein (German)
El Canto Del Loco (Spanish)
O-zone (Romanian)</p>

<p>And, I listen to ALOT of classic british rock: The Clash, Oasis, The Jam, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, and more recent, Arctic Monkeys.</p>

<p>Actually, the only non-foreign music I like is Weezer, RATM and The Strokes.</p>

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<p>I love all of those artists! I just watched Once last week after looking for it for a while.</p>

<p>I don’t really know, since I don’t categorize my artists by nationality and scanning through my iTunes now it’s hard to pick them out, but here are a few:
Damien Rice
Within Temptation - I listened to one of their songs 60 times in a row
Flight of the Conchords
Shostakovitch (and a lot of other classical stuff)
Yann Tiersen
This one Thai instrumental song by สุนทรี เวชานนท์ if that shows up
Benoit Jutras
Paolo Nutini
Dima Bilan
Marija Serifovic</p>

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<p>French Screamo is okay… haha not too bad</p>

<p>I hate american rap, but i LOVE german rap haha. Fler, Sido, B-tight, Bushido!!!
Same thing with russian rap.
german metal is aweseome too…</p>

<p>lol im azn though and don’t really like asian music</p>