For me i’d say vocaloid when i was younger. No clue about now, maybe some russian songs like igorek.

  • Enkrod@feddit.org
    1·
    13 hours ago

    I don’t speak Spanish, but when I heard Colores by Ska-P (“Por la libertad es fundamental la diversidad”) I was instantly in love. The music is great and the lyrics seemed straight up fire.

    Then I translated their songs and now they are my second favourite band, after RATM.

    A Chitón - On repression and censorship in the name of security

    El Vals del Obrero - The Workers Waltz, on unity of the working class

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    17 hours ago

    I caught some Icelandic rap the other night on that global radio website and now I need to find it. I caught some Algerian rap - rap again, even though it’s usually not my thing - a few months back, too, and it was awesome.

        • froh42@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          https://youtu.be/yx5xhlwUxxA

          There were A LOT of songs about nuclear war in 80s music. German youth in the 80s was very aware that in nuclear war Germany (being a huge part of the east west border) would just be ground zero to be vaporized in WW3.

          Thinking about Germany people associate the Autobahn, what some don’t know - there were pre-built detonation chambers so key sections and bridges could be mined with atomic demolition munitions in order to stop the east bloc tank armies from advancing.

          ChatGpt translation of the song lyrics:

          When in the Canale Grande submarines drop anchor
          And on St. Peter’s Square in Rome missile launch pads stand
          When a carpet of bombs floats over the bazaar of Ankara
          And from the hills of Olympus a Pershing II rises

          Then everything is long too late
          Then, when nothing works anymore
          Visit Europe
          As long as it still stands

          In front of the old Cologne Cathedral a mushroom cloud rises into the air
          And the sky is filled with the scent of neutron waffles
          When in Paris the Eiffel Tower bows westward in a final salute
          And near Big Ben a gentle Alpine glow appears

          Then everything is long too late
          Then, when nothing works anymore
          Visit Europe
          As long as it still stands

          When haute cuisine turns into a witch’s cauldron
          Where the cook from overseas flambés his old world
          There’s laughter and applause, even the waiter gets a kick
          What’s left to us but culture — we wish you bon appétit

          Then everything is long too late
          Then, when nothing works anymore
          Visit Europe
          As long as it still stands
          Yes, then everything is long too late
          Then, when nothing works anymore
          Visit Europe
          As long as it still stands
          As long as it still stands, as long as it still stands
          As long as it still stands, as long as it still stands

  • stinerman@midwest.social
    28·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been a fan of Rammstein for many years. I know the gist of what each song means and know a few words of German. But I can’t translate word for word.

  • klu9@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    中西 圭三 - Woman
    Nakanishi Keizō - Woman
    (Japanese; my Japanese only good enough to catch a few snippets)
    One I came to love because the guy in the room next to me when I lived in Japan kept playing it over and over until I did. Also featured in my first (and last!) attempt at doing karaoke in front of Japanese people.
    https://youtu.be/xYe0d9QFLIA

    Время и Стекло - Тролль
    Vremya i Steklo - Troll
    (Russian)
    The Ukrainian crunk equivalent of “No Scrubs”? (IIRC read an article explaining how the song is about terrible men hitting on her)
    https://youtu.be/q--5Ht49vNY

    Anders Nelsson - 鬼新娘
    Anders Nelsson - Ghost Bride Song
    (Cantonese)
    From the soundtrack of 殭屍先生 (Mr Vampire, 1985), Hong Kong horror-comedy about the hopping dead.
    https://youtu.be/q9DHRNREzlk

    Tabou Combo - Konpa Mania
    (Haitian Creole & English; I only know a few words in Creole)
    A konpa track I think sampled by Wyclef Jean. https://youtu.be/McUmXoB_9yw

    • Sorrowl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      1 day ago

      Except it is just scatting. The leekspin version and the Miku version of the song is just the scatting parts of the Loituma arrangement. The full Loituma version, Korpiklaani version or one of the many recorded versions from Finnish folk singers have the actual lyrics. They do actually include a scatted part, usually after every verse, but Loituma atleast extended it for a full verse of scatting, which the Miku version made into a full song.

      For the record, the lyrics are about the main character of the song dancing polka with the girl he loves (Ieva), whose “proper” and religious parents don’t approve of the mc or dancing in general. So after they dance and go home, the mom of Ieva catches them and makes Ieva cry, the mc threatens the mom to leave them alone and professes his love for Ieva. Then they go on to dance more polka. It’s great.