Do you listen to music in languages you don't know? Why or why not?
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Para ser o no ser
Listening to Julieta Venegas today, mostly because I'm taking a Spanish class. But it could just as easily be said that I'm taking a Spanish class because I love Julieta Venegas (and Jorge Drexler, and Liquits, and Juanes, and Juana Molina, and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, and Zurdok, and just about any band that plays salsa). I think a lot of people resist listening to music in languages they don't know because it makes them uncomfortable to not know what the singer is saying. But I don't put much weight in lyrics - I never have. So it never occurred to me that listening to music in Spanish was much different than listening to anything else.
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I have never had a problem with foreign music as long as I could interpret the emotion in the vocals. For that reason even though I don't speak a lick of it I love french music. For years I have been listening to Noir Desir & Louise Attaque (& their sister band Tarmac). After becoming acquainted with Serge Gainsbourg's music a few years I recently started delving deep into the french pop scene of the 60s & 70s. Lately I have been totally in love with France Gall's catalogue as well as some of the cheesier hits of those decades like Joe Dassin's hit "Champs Elysses".
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