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Everything by MADKID and Chihara Minori is great

I'm enjoying No Comment by Kneecap recently

YouSeeBIGGIRL/T:T

Mahlalela by Letta Mbulu from South Africa

I don't really know what language that is. If somebody could provide a transcription of the lyrics, I would be very happy to finally be able to translate and understand it.

I speak/understand Spanish, Icelandic, Dutch, Arabic and German but I ended up listening to Estonian music for a bit and they have some bangers there.

🇪🇪 Alüspukse by 5MIINUST

🇪🇪 push it by nublu

🇪🇪 kanuu by säm

Also, fun note, for a country og 400k Iceland has 3 entries here.

Tuvan Internationale and Kongurei by Huun Huur Tu.

I love good lyrics so am not wild about listening to music in a language I don't understand but its kinda common to have songs with english and another language so the stuff I don't understand is just kinda dispersed. Also since I watch animes Im used to having songs that are in a lnguage I don't know. Don't really have a favorite though. All my favorite songs are in english.

"Buka" by Kwiat Jabłoni

Songs in Russian minorities languages:

• In Bashkir language Homay by Ay Yola
• In Tatar language Piala by Aigel
• In Chulym language Legend by Otyken

Froukje — Groter Dan Ik

if anyone here likes goth music, i highly recommend:

• she past away, most of their discography tbh (turkish)
• lebanon hanover (german, some of it)
• στο σκοτάδι (sto skotadi) by selofan (greek)
• nasha by aurat (urdu)
• reflejos by vacíos cuerpos (spanish)
• fantasmas by twin tribes (spanish)
• à contrecœur by hante. (french)

Nao Force - Joutro Mundo https://youtu.be/A2I6dEdQqOY

Tongo Barra - Vieux Farke Touré, Khruangbin https://youtu.be/bVDRTYeGw6Q

Un Simple Histoire - Thievery Corporation https://youtu.be/sCoeuDvwUFk

The French Open - Foals https://youtu.be/MuRODr6vygw

Anything by Maximum the Hormone and Band-Maid to be honest, but I like "F" and "Different" most :D

Dragostea din tei (română) from O-Zone Heard it a lot when I was junger.

Basically anything by Ado. This one's probably my favorite.

As a younger millenial I can't help it – Gangnam Style was and still is great

"Baba Yetu" - we learned it for the choir. Luckily, i found a translation, so we now know that we are not ordering fridges or something. Look for "baba yetu stellenbosch" for a nice version.

Sexy Doll by Republika
Sola by Amplifiki
Hudey Hudey by Asu Maralman
Viszlát Nyár by AWS
Matando Sueños by Euroshima
Kufi by Duman
Mówię Ci, że by Tilt
Ich zieh nur noch einmal um by Das Auge Gottes

Just to name a few

Music from Sigor Ros comes to mind.

Hjerteknuser by Kaizers Orchestra but it's a lil' cheat since I understand a little Norwegian.

Hoppípolla by Sigur Rós this one sounds so so beautiful.

Jumalan terve by Markus Krunegård when he expanded to Finnish music I was a bit surprised to learn he speaks Finnish natively. So when he then released this album I was very excited. It's Swedish styled pop but in Finnish.

Not individual songs, but Kraftwerk and Rammstein come to mind.

Alien weaponry have a track called Kai Tengata that includes Maori vocals

Although I listen to quite a lot of music from countries where English is not the native language, most bands just sing in English anyway

Good news everyone!

https://youtu.be/FM3aJQzqV90

And if you don't speak English, let me know what you think:

https://youtu.be/O3gz3nnYv68

Wolf Totem by The Hu

I'm a basic bitch, so some of the first that came to mind have already been mentioned by others:

• Papoutai - Stromae (along with some other of his songs)
• Baba Yetu - Christopher Tin
• Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone

To those, I'll add some other meme songs / songs that have been used in English-speaking media:

• Tunak Tunak Tun - Daler Mehndi
• Je survivrai - Michele Richard

Also the ultra-popular ones everybody already knows and I won't bother to link, such as Bad Apple, Gangnam Style, the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack, etc.

Seu Jorge's full album of Bowie covers is so epic. Love it, and really adds to the Life Aquatic

Anda inn by Ouse Idk what it means but by god is it catchy

Cafe Tacvba - Hola Adiós

I got this one. Just fun vibes. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3-zq0s5kw&desc_update=1

Otherwise some Anri songs like

Remember Summer Days

And similar City Pop (i think that's the genre)

Dude! I love mundian to bach ke!

But most of my "foreign" language music pleasures are less identifiable.

Like, there's a lot of zydeco that's in French that I love, but it's hard to find recordings of any kind, much less digital options.

And I can essentially endlessly listen to what's called throat singing, but have no idea what titles would be to recommend. Almost all that I have is Mongolian or tuvan, and didn't come from a CD.

Судно (Борис Рыжий) - by Molchat Doma

Carina Burina O Fortuna

Dragostea De Inchiriat

Iselilja

Tein kai lottorivini väärin

NAIMONONEDARI (not sure how much this counts. I took Japanese in high school but can't maintain a conversation to save my life.)

Sommernacht

Mikrofonkåt

Hit Sale

Сама-сама

Песенка (also grey area for me, I took Russian in uni but I'm far from conversational with it.)

Skyscrapers

LALALILALA

Dime Que Me Quieres

edit: forgot to include Spanish

I don't speak any Irish, but I am obsessed with Kneecap at the moment. Some of their lyrics include English of course, some tracks are fully in Irish. Either way, they are great!

Wardruna - Helvegen (and the Kalandra cover) Bendik - Stille (all of the old albums before the style pivot are amazing)

Those are immediately on my mind and needed to share them in case someone else might enjoy! There is a lot more, those just popped right up without even thinking

Edit: Ekkolodd - Perler too, Asgeir - Heimförin!

These four songs are a solid intro to the bands if anyone’s interested!

Edit2: Well fuck me, I did mention Kalandra, but the absolute best from them in my opinion happens to be in Norwegian (I think?): Kalandra - Virkelighetens Etterklang!

Tldr:

Wardruna - Helvegen

Kalandra - Helvegen (cover of above)

Bendik - Stille

Ekkolodd - Perler

Asgeir - Heimförin

Kalandra - Virkelighetens Etterklang

Several Japanese songs, such as Summer of Goodbye, Message in Rouge and Contrails

Garland of a Hundred Flowers - My neighbours' national anthem can't be this cute! (Nepali)

Halls of Hueyteotl and Baba Yetu (both Swahili, both from video games)

I believe the appropriate response is Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam. No but seriously. Band Maid, Die Antwoord, The Hu, all great bands that sing on different languages. Oh also The Warning.

Luna - Diljit Dosanjh

New World, by L'Arc~en~Ciel