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Fairness in conversation...I listen to English music all the time and I don't understand it. But yes, I will listen to music in a foreign language if it is awesome. This one is my all-time favorite. It's the Lord's Prayer in Swahili...gives me goose bumps every time.
[video=youtube;SDn6b3gWFag]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDn6b3gWFag[/video]
"KICK OUT THE JAMS, KICK UP THE SOUL, POUR ANOTHER GLASS OF THAT ROCK AND ROLL, TURN UP THE BAND, FIRE IN THE HOLE, GONNA LOSE CONTROL TONIGHT...WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME, I'M NOT AMERICAS SWEET HEART, BUT YOU LOVE ME ANYWAY!" -
Elle King "America's Sweetheart"
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I assume you mean not understanding the colloquialisms by English artists?
If so, I understand you completely...thats why some artists are huge in some countries and not others.
Its also why country music never really caught on in the UK or early rap like the real gangster rappers never took off outside the US.
Surf music never really caught on bigtime in the UK in the 1960s
Paul Weller,Billy Bragg,Ian Dury,Madness,Specials,The Beat etc never caught on in the US because their lyrics were 'english' dealing with English subject matter....
Americans don't understand British humour in comedy neither and likewise US humour didn't take off in the UK neither until Seinfeld...because lets face it, Seinfeld was generic humour,it was different from what came previously from the US
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If I am not going to know what is being said during the entire song, then forget it.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
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Gregorian chants in Latin are so fun.
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
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I like to consider the human voice as an instrument so not understanding the lyrics isn't a problem for me. Perhaps the best example of this is Lisa Gerrard, no one could understand her lyrics because she sings in a language she made up
[video=youtube;JGmvXGBBfjs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGmvXGBBfjs[/video]
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One hasn't got to go to Wogga-wogga Land to find an utterly foreign language--Welsh resembles no other language yet is (forcedly) part of the UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgC16vdkBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnJg8nHjrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4Ha8rQN--M
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
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Every Welshman I know is happy to be part of the UK as are everyone I know from Scotland and Ireland....
Its only the minority Nationalists who scream out to recede from England...
Anyone with any brains knows that those small-fry countries will lose more than they will gain with Independence.
I'm sure there's millions of Americans on the South who still believe they were forcibly coerced into joining The Union.....
Also on a doco I saw a few months ago about Alaska, the people there don't want any part of being a State of the USA, so much so that they partitioned Washington a while ago, strange things then began to happen to the leaders in the :free alaska' movement....
Their houses were burned,several disappeared, others had their brakelines cut....
Stinks of an FBI,CIA conspiracy to me.
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
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I listen to French music quite a bit! There are three FM French radio stations in Canada which is an official bilingual country. I have a working knowledge of Francais and I can carry on a simple conversation in French. Overall any language doesn't hinder me from discovering new sounds and emotions!
The ultimate connection is between a performer and its' audience!
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The best sounding language in the world. Would have loved to have learnt French.
'The purpose of life is a life of purpose' - Athena Orchard.
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I learnt French and German at school in the UK back in the day....
I don't speak them now though and understand even less of those languages...
the most I can do is count to a thousand in German(not that that will do me any good!) and count to one hundred in French...
Dani's mum comes from Seychelles so she obviously speaks fluent French
have you ever been to The Seychelles(or even Reunion/Madagaskar) on your travels Jerome???
....and Reunion comes up right at the time they've possibly found debris from Flight MH 370 over there.
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
