What's a song in a language you don't speak that still gets you dancing and yelling along hyped?
You know something like Tunak Tunak Tun where you got videos like this
For me, it would be Karadeniz Horon Kemençe
What is the thread without Dragostea din tei.
Also 99 Luftballons
100%. My jam is 90s grunge, but anyone who doesn't think Dragostea din tie is an absolute banger doesn't really have a soul.
Definitely Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone
Came here to second this. Can not hear it without doing the arm pumps
Haha yes absolutely! For those that don't get the reference, here's an absolute gem of a video from the early internet days.
I wanted to thank you. I was laying in bed depressed as fuck and I saw your comment and remembered how much I used to love that song. I discovered it on YouTube back when I was a kid. I listened to it probably a hundred times back then. I listened twice after seeing your comment. Thanks for reminding me of an actually happy memory. Truly a timeless and beautiful song. The English version isn't bad either.
I'm glad I could bring back a happy memory for you.
I'm sorry to hear that you've been struggling with depression, I know it's different for everyone but I can relate and wouldn't wish that torture on my worst enemy. I hope you're able to find the support that you need, and can break out of that horrible situation.
Please feel free to message me if you need someone to talk to.
In the 90s, before I learned Spanish, it was Macarena
Du Hast?
Ja
Bella Ciao
First that came to my mind
Pearl Jam - Ledbetter
*Yellow Ledbetter
Legend has it the only person to ever truly understand the lyrics to this song was David Hasselhoff, but he forgot them halfway through eating that cheeseburger.
Everybody talks about the yellow led better but nobody wants to talk about the skin coloured bed wetter.
It's actually kinda in English. This was made by a Spanish/Italian guy so English speakers could "hear" what English sounds like to a non-speaker. Song still slaps tho
This was the first song that came to my mind too 😂 Scrolled down to the comments and you made my day. A minute of it anyway.
Over the last few years I've really been getting into Japanese rock and have fallen in love with a hard rock group called BAND-MAID. They do a cool blend of hard rock, metal aesthetics, and pop.
I find myself singing poorly to a lot of their music, but Manners is an especially fun one. A blues driven hard rock song with a lot of push and pull. Awesome vocal performance by the two main vocalists. The bassist MISA is always creative too.
I always get a laugh from Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano. But that's "sorta English" so a language I don't speak is probably J'en ai marre by Alizée.
Scrolled to find P’ol by Adriano Celetano. Love this song.
This song has been in heavy rotation for literally decades on both my "workout" playlist and my "thinking and programming" playlist. 100% true: I have gotten dates with attractive girls because they were intrigued by what I was listening to (this song).
Yessss Kula Shaker! I'm so upset I had the chance to see them live exactly once, and I was so drunk (stupidly because of a girl) that I don't remember any of it. Big big life regret. :(
Would not be the stupidest thing I personally did over a girl!
Too many to list, dating at least back to 99 Luftballons.
This is the most recent one: Pacifica - Soltame
Pacifica is great and have a lot of English language music too.
Not exactly yelling or dancing, but I cycle a lot and when Burning by Hitsujibungaku comes on I pedal way harder and will usually beat my personal best for the segment that I'm riding.
It's the outro to season 2 of Oshi no Ko which is a fantastic show by the way.
caramelldansen, the fast version
French rock song 'jen perlerai au diable' by johnny hallyday.
You can feel it in your bones.
Edit: OK this isnt the kind of dance songs you're looking for.
Although if you want punjabi dance songs like tunak tunak tun, I can recommend a few (although its not a foreign language to me).
Engel, by Rammstein.
Erst, wenn die Wolken schlafen geh'n
Kann man uns am Himmel seh'n
Wir haben Angst und sind allein
Gott weiß, ich will kein Engel sein
No idea what any of that means!
I have no idea how I originally found this, but it is one of the coolest things I have ever seen/heard: https://youtu.be/l_MyUGq7pgs
This is one of the scenes i saw used a few years back to be mixed with EDM for a different feel. It was pretty good.
Ussewa
Based
Lumiere from Clair Obscur.
The Pillows entire catalogue.
99 Luftballons.
Rollin' Girls by Wowaka.
Carameldansen
Dragostea Din Tei
Really, tho, if it slaps, it transcends language 🤷♂️
bit of an odd one here: Space-Patrol (Raumpatrouille) - only german intro, but it's a fuckin banger
a lot of songs from Caravan Palace
Doesn't get me singing, but it def gets me moving Somoku by Hakushi Hasegawa
Legend by Otyken is also way up there for me
Edit: listening to the album for the upteenthjillion time and couldn't help myself but to share another gem
The drums go hard enough to shatter bones and it is literally a perfect song
checking out somoku, this is so good! the vocal melody and lyrics are oddly familiar but I can't place it, definitely would have remembered this schizoid instrumentation (not an insult I love this shit!) if I had heard this before
listening to the whole album now, great recommendation!
Love to hear it, dude. My favorite description of their music was simply put as "music 2.0" lol. Hakushi deserves way more recognition than they're getting!
Everybody sing along now!
MAMA KO
MAMA SA
MAKO MAKO SA
MAMA KO
MAMA SA
MAKO MAKO SA
HEY.... SOUL MAKOSSA!
(cue killer horn section)
Manu Dibango my man!
Turkish is my first language and a lot of English songs were exactly that. This feels interesting.
Btw "kemençe" is also the instrument's name if you want to find similar stuff.
Some of my favorites.
https://youtu.be/hUdWILxC8sY
https://youtu.be/WDtqZE8hUOs
And "Horon" is also the traditional dance associated with kemençe.
https://youtu.be/L0RaPN4d1iY
That's really interesting. Thanks for the links!
I first heard the Turkish song I mentioned when I one day found myself in a concert on a trip to turkey. We weren't allowed to take pictures or video but I recorded the audio and the music was so bumping so I audio searched the song.
Oye Como Va by Tito Puente
Boten Anna
This one for sure! I have to turn it up every time it comes around in my playlists. It’s half in French, and I asked my Quebecois friend what he was singing and she wasn’t sure. Makes sense as I just discovered he’s Belgian when I went to get the YouTube link lol.
Benny Lava is my jam
Willst Du - Robin Schulz and Alligatoah
there's a couple Japanese songs that are bangers but the lyrics are incredibly sad just like Japanese people bopped to something like pumped up kids
Lots of K-pop get people who don't understand Korean at all to vibe; there's also famous (infamous?) songs like the remixed Caramelldansen (which is Swedish), Tunak Tunak Tun as you mentioned is a good one too
Personally I... vibe to a lot of songs that don't have any lyrics at all
Or how about ones with fictional lyrics? Such as siromaru + cranky: conflict (OK this might be a bit too niche...)
There's a lot in the Balkan basket that would be on topic, but let's go with AALKO'OL!
Here's two Punjabi style songs that are very dance along able. Used as wedding dance songs here. If you like tunak tunak, you'll like these. Although these are more produced than tunak tunak
can't pronounce the name of this song itself, but there's this Japanese band called glim spanky that has some absolutel bangers.
Going with this one. I blame Ghost World for starting my obsession with Indian music of all kinds. Started with Bollywood, into traditional sitar music. My playlists now regularly includes music from everywhere that I don't understand a word of. 😅
Cairokee - Dinosaur
This is the censored version (for political reasons) but it has the beautiful music video.
Edit: also not thaaat much of dance music
Clearly Sahti Waari of Turisas
Lol that music video is epic and the comments on it as well!
Indian Power Rangers kinda goes hard ngl
I’m gonna tell my kids this was Avatar, the Last Airbender
There's this heavy metal Japanese band named Aldious. Many of their songs are real bangers, like "Ground Angel" and "Yozakura", but there are two particular songs that, as you said, get me dancing and yelling, even if they're more "pop-ish" than the others: "Without You" and "Die for You". They put me in a good mood every time I listen to them 😆.
Emotional Prism by Mikazuki Bigwave, one of the top comments on the YouTube video sums it up perfectly with "I don't know the words but I can feel the funk"
Heilung - Hamrer Hippyer . IIRC, the language is Proto-Germanic.
感じている by Saury might be my favorite song of all time, I might have fucked it up by having it as my alarm sound for a while but it was just so good at getting me up and pumped!
I speak English and Duolingo German. And read some old Greek.
These groups have tons of great songs, but these are the first that come to mind for me.
Besides all the Japanese anime and city pop songs I enjoy listening to, here are some international bangers I can't help but dance to:
Man there's a surprising amount of Finnish songs here. Torille
My favorite comment on it is "My balls dropped during this video. And my I'm a 35-year-old woman."
La Bamba, the OG.
anything that ado has sung for/covered tbh
Most songs from heilung. I love alfadirhaiti, anoana, and in maidjan krisgaldr is also amazing, othan. Live versions imo are waay better than recorded versions.
Another one from a different band, wardruna, helvegen with aurora is amazing.
Well, not the yelling along part, but my most recent one:
Ma-ia-hii, Ma-ia-huu!
It was sampled too, so you may recognize it. https://www.whosampled.com/Kourosh-Yaghmaei/Gol-e-Yakh/
Ólavur Riddararós by Týr, or any of their other songs that aren't in English generally. The folk-ish group singing really gets me fired up.
Here's a few - looking forward to discovering more from this thread!
Mory Kanté's Yeke Yeke, especially the Hardfloor and Afro Acid remixes.
Gaspar Nali's A Bale Ndikuwuzeni
Afro-Cuban Allstars - Amor Verdadero
Lexicon Avenue - Here I Am (Rutabaga mix)
Leftfield - Afro Left
Eugène Mona - Lizo (Kiko Navarro Afroterraneo Mix)
Weird.
The original: https://youtu.be/FjBDbTwIFs0
Seen the movie yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chorus_(2004_film) The original song will maybe not make you dance as much as the remix but it is still a nice movie.
Seen the movie yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chorus_(2004_film) The original song will maybe not make you dance as much as the remix but it is still a nice movie.
Uska dara by Eartha Kitt.
Idk about singing or dancing, but I have been listening to some artists whose songs I can't understand, such as MODELKI, Nina Chuba, and Annalisa, to name a few
Ana Aho by Hassan el Asmar
Ana Ho!
Wenta Ho!
Manel — "Teresa Rampell" is in Catalan, which is far enough from my very Western Hemisphere Spanish to count.
Rennblautur
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Allur rennvotur
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Engin gúmmístígvél
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Hlaupandi í okkur ?
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Vill springa út úr skel
Check it up, funk it up, minna damatte ore ni tsuite koi, yeah
Check it up, funk it up, minna hisshi de ore ni tsuite koi, come on
I wouldn't say yelling, or hyped. BUT I liked this Mongolian music a while ago. Still don't know the translated lyrics tough. (That is on purpose)😆
I've been trying to learn French so maybe it doesn't quite count anymore, but I really enjoy Papaoutai -- both the original Stromae version and this Pentatonix cover that introduced me to it -- as well as various other songs by Stromae.
Barobax - Baba to ki hasti
Scott & Zelda by Bibi
El mariachi loco quiere bailar!
"Was hast du Gedacht" by GZUZ. I know there's a ton of german hip hop but there needs to be more and bigger.
Interesting. Looks like I can't view it from Germany
Huh, that's pretty funny
La cocuracha (or however it is spelled)
Sve bih dala da znam
Jan Pehechan Ho
I feel this is what it must have been like for non-English speakers discovering Elvis for the first time.
Any (shounen) anime opening/ending songs- One piece, Naruto, Fairy Tail, Angel Beats, Noragami. Yu-Gi-Oh (dub) doesn't have any lyrics, but it still goes hard AF even after 15+ years.
Anime OP dont usually get me- I kind of see them as their own genre. However Nostalgic Rainfall by Chic0 with Honeyworks is something I listen to every little while.
Also for the young me, growing up in an Modern Orthodox enclave, but completely immersed in NuMetal, Synergia's Khum Uli August had my number. My friend brought back three whole albums from his birthright trip. I still listen to them when I work out. I miss that guy sometimes, too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xiWuTYaPtdI
Cariñito - Los Hijos del Sol
Although I do know un poco español...
To be honest, there are a lot of songs that i mightsing along to that i have no clue what the real lyrics are. I was just jamming to some old skool Nevermind earlier today!
Baba Yetu by Stellenbosch Choir (or anyone actually)
La Fuente or really anything else by Adiós Amores
It definitely isn't Despacito! Totally hate that song... 👀
Yokozuna by the Garlicboys
Kuschel Song by Schnuffel, it honestly just makes me think about a simpler time in my life when I didn't realize just how much I had laid out before me.
Chaile chaile
Oh, and
MUSST MUSST
Gangnam Style, obviously
[Korean lyrics]
"Heeeeeyyyyyyy sexy lady!"
[Korean lyrics]
Fuck yeah!
Psy's music video for "Gentleman" is also really good.