For me i’d say vocaloid when i was younger. No clue about now, maybe some russian songs like igorek.
I like several songs by Stromae and don’t understand French.
The classic answer is La Bamba. Love the song, no idea what the lyrics are.
Baba Yetu, the Swahili opening to the game Civilization 4. Wikipedia says it’s the first song made for a video game to win a Grammy.
I non-ironically quite like the leek spin song (Ievan Polkka).
This is a significant fraction of my music collection.
99 luftballoons!that’s it, until I learned german
Mayeeaheeeeee mayeeeaaahhooooo mayeeeeaaaa ha ha!
Yes
Lots of Polish music:
Sexy Doll by Republika
Mówię Ci, że by Tilt
Fajki i Alkohol by Andy
Zima by Natalia Szroeder
Gdzie jest biały węgorz ? by CypisI gave up trying to learn Polish because of its immense difficulty. I only speak English fluently but I’ve taken up an interest in Esperanto.
Always liked the melody to this 王七七Wang QiQi song:
MONO NO AWARE - かむかもしかもにどもかも！
No clue on the lyrics but the melody along with the lyrics are excellent
Everything by Wardruna. Gregorian chant and medieval music, particularly by Hildegard von Bingen. Music by Enya in Gaelic.
The artist Lescop is great. I know some french but not enough to really 100% follow the lyrics
There’s this Norwegian metal band called Kvelertak and I absolutely love their sound, but have no idea what the lyrics are about as I don’t speak the language.
Leek spin https://youtu.be/GCO62VNm67k
Which is actually the Finnish song “Ievan polkka” and not just scatting/jibberish as I always naively used to think
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.
Except, it is mostly scat/jibberish! Just in Finnish! Most of the song is nonsense lyrics.
