Vast majority of the music I listen to is in some foreign language. Mostly English though.
Vast majority of the music I listen to is in some foreign language. So not English.
What got me started was this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJKS-A5YMpE
I was flipping through channels and it grabbed me as I passed MTV Tr3s. Spent the next two days with it on PiP waiting for the song to come up again so I could catch the artist.
What caught me was the difference from American pop. It's like American pop is too jaded and defensive to unabashedly express a segment of the emotional spectrum, so they retreat to shallow, indulgent hooks. While there ain't much to El Amor No Fallara, it's certainly expressive.
After that, I moved up to Thalía and Paulina Rubio, then got into a lot of the latin top 20.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2E-M9Kes_U
Picked up albums by Bebe and La Quinta Estación because they were Latin Grammy winners, and I wasn't disappointed. Bebe's
Pafuera Telarañas is a must-have.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBu5l8W8SCk&ob=av2e
Picked up another Latin Grammy winner, Laura Pausini. Apparently Italian and Spanish are very similar, so a lot of Italian artists also release in Spanish. So that bridged me over to Europe. Did some Italian and
Spanish, then moved on to France because...
Alizée. Daaamn.
And you will thank me for this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64XdUxhlaf8&fmt=22
Natasha St. Pier because... that voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB_UBqMRvKk
múm (Iceland)
Got on a German kick for a while. Like
Juli and
Wir Sind Helden
Then:
Damn you 4chan and your daily dose!
Now:
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