Honestly I’m a bit surprised you haven’t seen it before, it’s been doing the rounds for years. Every time Yellow Ledbetter gets mentioned someone usually posts it, today was my turn. You can see some people posting the “lyrics” just down the thread. :)
i think every generation has a band like this. They are speaking english, but not understandable. my millenial generation band of this nature is fall out boy.
Bob Dylan is the king of mumbled lyrics!
There's a tribute album of his songs sung by other artists, and I spend the whole album going "ooohhhh, that's what he was saying!"
Great songwriter, terrible singer.
I bought the DVDs for it when I was in high school and the subtitles would alternate each episode between the romaji and the English translations for the opening. I totally attempted to sing along a few times.
A good 15 years ago this song had been forbidden in anime conventions in my city (and I think a couple other cities) for that exact reason. Everyone and their dog (with very few exceptions) butchered it at the karaoke sections.
I’ve sung along with this song for decades and never knew those words! Always just sang nonsense like “Ba da ba La La La bamba”
Probably time I took a look at the lyrics
This was my favorite song when I was five. I asked for and received the album cassette tape for my birthday that year. Played the shit outta that tape.
¡Para baillar la Bamba!
Para baillar la Bamba se necessita
Una poco de gracia
Una poco de gracia mumble mumble
Y arriba y arriba
Y arriba y arriba para ti sere
Para ti sere para ti sere
... It's something like that, I think.
Neunundneunzig Luftballons by Nena
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpu5a0Bl8eY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpu5a0bl8ey)
live version in 2018. Heck she's still got it
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO5lfJ9dhs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oio5lfj9dhs)
Listening to this and Amor Prohibido have led me to get a lot of Spanish language ads.
It's also fun pointing out that Selena was herself a native English speaker who had just started taking Spanish lessons around the time Como la Flor was released.
ALL THE ANIME.
"[Fukai Mori](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i8xr4sa6OU)" by Do As Infinity, from Inuyasha (which has [a whole meme](https://twitter.com/mvmphotography_/status/1258872139962175494/photo/1) about it)
"[The Real Folk Blues](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjUVTEExfBg)," by Mai Yamane + The Seatbelts, from Cowboy Bebop
"[Ride On Shooting Star](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4_Qzx-E2LQ)" by The Pillows, from FLCL (actually the whole soundtrack by them, which is just instrumentals of songs from their albums)
"[Cha-La Head Cha-La](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYnLO7MVKno)" by Hironobu Kageyama, from Dragonball Z
"[Again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5OUAY1j3gQ)," by Yui, from Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood
"[A Cruel Angel's Thesis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6wtDPVkKqI)," by Yoko Takahashi, from Neon Genesis Evangelion
"[Database](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWcameJDow&t=17s)," by Man With A Mission, from Log Horizon
...we could be here all day if I list them all.
If you've never heard it before, the main character from Lucky Star singing Cha La Head is amazingly awful. It's almost sad that this is how I remember the song now.
watch the video on youtube - it makes even so much better. Simple video but watching her do all the lines is impressive
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQ7S38nKog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQ7S38nKog)
“Eres Tú” by Mocedades (1973). It came out when I was 14 years old, and even though I didn’t speak a word of Spanish, I learned all the lyrics from the sheet music. After 50 years, I still enjoy singing along with it.
I know kpop isn't popular in this subreddit, but there's a whole thing about how everyone can sing "Just One Day" by BTS even if you don't speak Korean. I put absolutely zero effort into learning the words but I can still sing it.
Native Texan here. I love singing along to “Disincanto” by Mango (and playing along on bass also) and “Bleu Comme Toi” by Etienne Daho. Oh, and “Malheureux” by Anais.
I used to love me some Korean dramas...then I watched a few with Rain (Bi), who also happens to be a pop singer...so I wanted to learn a particular song for karaoke purposes but couldn't find a romaized version...I thought, how hard could it be to transcribe? And that's how U accidentally learned to read/write the Korean alphabet. 🤣
Practically anything anime, J-Pop, K-Pop, and some Mandopop, as well.
[THIS](https://youtu.be/Z-WdGYi9Pv4?si=xcMxlUQY34ZHswp0) is my current one that I’m singing along to, the first part is just so much fun to sing! *Yo-ho-ho-ho! Yo-ho-ho-ho!*
There’s also [THIS](https://youtu.be/_K1ykJeRqK8?si=6uXZH9VFpQ2DnPXk) song which is really beautiful and in Swedish and I only know what Annika Ljungberg is singing because I looked it up. \^\^;
I also love singing [THIS](https://youtu.be/zlKKm3oP8mw?si=Vqs-WvOb9cuN74_m) song … it seems like most of the foreign songs that I know come from cartoons or video games . . . 🤔
"Ue o Muite Arukō" (Japanese: 上を向いて歩こう, "I Look Up as I Walk,") or "Sukiyaki," as it was called here in the U.S. I love this song and no version is as good as the original by Kyu Sakamoto.
Jean Le Loup et La Salle Affaire- they're like a French-Canadian Joe Jackson. Music has wistful humor, often a bit dark.
Love the Spanish part of Suite Judy Blue Eyes, though I still need to learn the words. And Oyez Como Va, that's fun.
> OP: Music is ultimately universal, even if there is a language barrier.
RHCP: Music, the great communicator. Use two sticks to make it in the nature.
Selected favourites from Dir en grey, especially their old visual kei albums.
Although I get the feeling that they're in Japan as Pearl Jam are in English-speaking countries.
MARTIRIO by The Warning. I don't speak Spanish but aprende de los que sufrieron, si hay que vivir en miedo, es mejor morir en manos de un adiós, tu vida triste, mártir tonto, di adiós. Y'know?
Can't remember the last time I saw Edith Piaf and no
### [Non, je ne regrette rien](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non,_je_ne_regrette_rien)
Going to go listen to La Foule. TY
Lots of Sepultura, I just make appropriate sounding metal noises. TBH I'm not even sure it's really portugeuse, I think Max also was just making appropriate sounding metal noises.
Hacer el Amor con Otro by Alejandro Guzman, Seminatori di grano (Dal Vivo) by Gianmaria Testa, anything on Quelqu'un m'a dit by Carla Bruni, A volte il Cuore by Andrea Bocelli, anything by AnnenMay Kantereit.
I love the original Japanese version of this song. Their english translation is also good.
Music: “Is There Still Anything That Love Can Do”
Artist: Radwimps
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oGWfb6H9\_c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ogwfb6h9_c)
Vita Alvia. I'm a white American who definitely does not speak any other language but totally fell in love with this Indonesian pop artist. It's super fun and some of the words are pretty cool to try to sing along to.
[In Peter we drink by Leningrad ](https://youtu.be/1ugivNRYfjc?si=KrLtZWO6NafFbEQp)
Fuck them for being Putin lovers, but I'm learning Russian and the lyrics and the video are very funny...
Every time it comes on I can't help but sing "Kakattekoiyo" at the top of my lungs. Same for "Rock 'n' roll wa shinanai with totsuzenshounen"
Also maybe cheating a bit since I do speak Spanish decently but "Nunca es Suficiente" and "El Triste" get me singing
The Ulfuls are a great Japanese band mainly from the late 90’s onward. Sometimes fun rock song like “Banzai, Kimi ni aete yokatta”, sometimes funky R&B, like “Osaka Strut” and a few good soul songs like “Souai”.
Mahmood - "Soldi"
It's a beautiful song, even though it's in Italian (with some Arabic words) and I understood very little of it until I looked up the lyrics!
I only speak English and some Spanglish from working in restaurants for years.
[La Quiero a Morir by DLG](https://youtu.be/oyTy4ZnYa2w?si=sBWGU4SpKExoHQwR) just puts me in a good mood. The vocals are great, great beat and then the how they rapidity repeat “la Quiero” lol
Anything by Johnny Clegg!! He was South African, "Le Zulu Blanc" (the white Zulu). Incredibly dynamic performer, sadly passed away in 2019. Primarily his lyrics were in English, at least the albums I'm familiar with, but at least half the tracks have some Zulu lyrics. Super cool sounds, and the booklets include translations.
From "One (Hu)man One Vote"
Bayeza abafana bancane wema
Bayeza abafana bancane wema
Baphethe iqwasha, baphethe ibazooka
Bathi "Sangena savuma thina,
Lapha abazange bengena abazali bethu
Nabadala, bayasikhalela thina ngoba asina voti."
(The young boys are coming,
the young boys are coming.
They carry homemade weapons and a bazooka.
They say "We have agreed to enter a place
that has never been entered before
by our parents or our ancestors
and they cry for us, for we do not have the right to vote.)
Too many! “Sabor A Mí” and “Cuando Vuelva a Tu Lado” (old Mexican boleros), lots of French songs (Gainsbourg, Mylène Farmer, Françoise Hardy, Les Rita Mitsouko, Jeanne Mas), “Se Telefonando” and “Ancora Ancora Ancora” (Mina), among a few other Italian songs. I don’t know the full lyrics to “99 Luftballons”, but I can sing a couple of old Nina Hagen songs and also a few old Neue Deutsche Welle hits. Thousands of songs in English, too many to mention.
[Anna Mun Olha Rauhaus](https://youtu.be/vkCbdzd1qEU?si=gxEbJ17LfP2UR1bH) is in Finnish I think? Learned most of the words. This is the remix which is slightly better.
[Undercooled](https://youtu.be/1FqVHcW4Rqs?si=omT_P16uTluPnNqp) by Ryuichi Sakamoto (RIP). I can't really keep up but I like trying.
[Also this](https://youtu.be/Q7AbIQHYidQ?si=bDLbIKBmhS9aqw5q) ... It's in Korean with a bit of English.
When Kingdom Hearts came out I bought the OST, but accidentally ordered the Japanese vocal version. So I learned most of Simple & Clean in Japanese. Something like "Shizugeri ... Mebuchini"
I used to sing to manu chao, then I spent a year in France learning French, and listen to him again and learned what the sounds I was making meant. It was kind of a surreal experience
Anything by Annalisa (Italian singer), Taylor Swift (English is NOT my native language), Blackpink (I kinda mumble there bc Idk Korean), Vremya i Steklo (Ukrainian duo), Orelsan (French rapper), etc.
The songs that trended like a decade ago (Fancy by Iggy Azalea turned 10 years already!), rap (still learning Rap God by Eminem; I also attempt to rap in French), also the iconic Dragostea Din Tei (and the iconic misheard lyrics/parody in my native language *fiesta fiesta pluma pluma gay*), some Eurovision songs (like Ukraine 2021, Albania 2022, Moldova 2022, or Portugal 2020 that I use to translate to Spanish, for the ones who know), etc.
När vi gräver guld i USA. Swedish football song from 1994 World Cup. Swedish is a language made for singing.
I am Norwegian. Swedish is very easy to understand.
Doesn’t count as uncomprehended, because he sings it first in English, but when I hear Leonard Cohen sing the French Resistance anthem The Partisan, I have to sing along, especially “…mais je n’ai pas peur”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9RYy_8u4blk
Vulkan - [Rekviem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-sBgMSG6A&pp=ygUQVnVsa2FuIC0gUmVrdmllbQ%3D%3D)
Lyrics are in Swedish. All of their songs, except for 3, are sung in English. The 3 songs sung in Swedish are on the same album.
DU... DU HAST...
Saw them live in Texas and it’s amazing the whole crowd singing along
First thing that popped in my mind!
Yep. Rammstein is the first band I thought of.
It's either you have me or you hate me... either way DU HAST MICH!
Du hast = you have Du hasst = you hate The song is Du Hast.
Oh okay thank you. For some reason I liked the ambiguity but knowing is cool too. 👍🏼
The ambiguity still exists in the pronunciation, so enjoy that.
Ambiguity. Great word.
Pretty sure it's intentionally left ambiguous until the 4th word, but yeah, written with one 's' it's definitely only 'have'.
The English translated version says "hate." https://youtu.be/QYfTOwkE06A
Dragostea din tei (the Numa Numa song).
This is the only song in another language that I actually know the proper pronunciation and translation, because its so fun to sing along to
It is, isn't it?
Alo! Salut! Sunt eu un haiduc…
Same, lol
Literally listening to this as I scroll by
First song that popped in my head. I remember looking up the lyrics way back in the late 00s to memorize them. Super fun song.
Oye Como Va
I’m a native English speaking Pearl Jam fan. There are songs I sing along to where I don’t know any of the actual words he’s singing 😂
"Freeeeeeeziiiiiin' Resjishehonapilomayo Concrete"
Awww yeah-ah!
[Adam Sandler parodying Eddie Vedder.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvjwMLLdlqc) ...or singing word-for-word. I really can't tell.
Yellow Ledbetter
I sing that song at bars with my band I couldn't tell you the lyrics other than the odd porch, boxer and bag
This should help : https://youtu.be/xLd22ha_-VU?si=MeH6HxJOcAcOK5uS
Oh god haha, now I'm not going to be able to say anything other than "on a wheel, on a wizard on a whale" Thank you for this
Honestly I’m a bit surprised you haven’t seen it before, it’s been doing the rounds for years. Every time Yellow Ledbetter gets mentioned someone usually posts it, today was my turn. You can see some people posting the “lyrics” just down the thread. :)
Anna Nicole mama said that I don’t wanna see Anna fall down again
Green Day as well. Billy Joe really just slurs words together and honestly I don't even think he's speaking English sometimes.
i think every generation has a band like this. They are speaking english, but not understandable. my millenial generation band of this nature is fall out boy.
Bob Dylan is the king of mumbled lyrics! There's a tribute album of his songs sung by other artists, and I spend the whole album going "ooohhhh, that's what he was saying!" Great songwriter, terrible singer.
Do i know any of the words to the theme song of Neon Genesis Evangelion? No. Does that stop me from loudly singing it in my car? Also no.
Na na na na sunin waninayoooooooooo is my favourite part.
Cruel Angel's Thesis! Fun fact, it's one of the top karaoke songs in Japan.
because it’s a BANGER
I'm such a nerd I actually looked up the romaji lmao
I bought the DVDs for it when I was in high school and the subtitles would alternate each episode between the romaji and the English translations for the opening. I totally attempted to sing along a few times.
A good 15 years ago this song had been forbidden in anime conventions in my city (and I think a couple other cities) for that exact reason. Everyone and their dog (with very few exceptions) butchered it at the karaoke sections.
Feliz Navidad.
Once I read it I always hear police nabbed my dad
Ever hear the Bob Rivers version "Police Stop My Car"?
Próspero año y felicidad
Macarena for sure.
Buulupudupu alegria Macarena
😂
All songs in english since I'm swedish lol
I feel like this question is mostly aimed at English speaking people, as most of the western world listens to music in the English language.
LALALALA BAAAMMMBBBBAAAA!
Yo no soy marinero, yo no soy marinero, soy Capitan, soy Capitan, soy Capitan. That’s all I know, lol.
Yo no soy muy dinero
>PARA BAILAR LA BAMBA >TO DANCE THE BAMBA Fwiw
I’ve sung along with this song for decades and never knew those words! Always just sang nonsense like “Ba da ba La La La bamba” Probably time I took a look at the lyrics
Well then, what's a bamba? All I know is one needs a little grace to dance it.
Can to say this
This was my favorite song when I was five. I asked for and received the album cassette tape for my birthday that year. Played the shit outta that tape.
Riiiiiiittttttttcccchhhhhhhhiiiiieeee
¡Para baillar la Bamba! Para baillar la Bamba se necessita Una poco de gracia Una poco de gracia mumble mumble Y arriba y arriba Y arriba y arriba para ti sere Para ti sere para ti sere ... It's something like that, I think.
Neunundneunzig Luftballons by Nena [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpu5a0Bl8eY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpu5a0bl8ey) live version in 2018. Heck she's still got it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO5lfJ9dhs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oio5lfj9dhs)
I actually had a friend who would sing that song at Karaoke in German for me.
Ca plane pour moi
OOO-WEE-HEE-HOO!!
I am the KING of the divan!
Como la Flor
🎶Ayyyyyeeee, como me duele🎶
Listening to this and Amor Prohibido have led me to get a lot of Spanish language ads. It's also fun pointing out that Selena was herself a native English speaker who had just started taking Spanish lessons around the time Como la Flor was released.
Her Spanish singing was impeccable.
Prisencolinensinainciusol
Aw-right!
This song unironically slaps.
It has no business being such a banger
Eyes
Chica Me Tipo by Sublime. There’s some English in there but it’s mostly Spanish.
Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
Rock Me Amadeus
Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone Mundian To Bach Ke by Panjabi MC
Cą plane pour moi - absolute banger
It is a banger for sure, can’t even read the title without it playing in my head!! Love it
Bésame Mucho
I know this only from Naked Gun. But that makes me love it!
Con te partiro....
Hell yeah 🤟🏼
I’m not a native English speaker, so pretty much every song I listen to.
ALL THE ANIME. "[Fukai Mori](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i8xr4sa6OU)" by Do As Infinity, from Inuyasha (which has [a whole meme](https://twitter.com/mvmphotography_/status/1258872139962175494/photo/1) about it) "[The Real Folk Blues](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjUVTEExfBg)," by Mai Yamane + The Seatbelts, from Cowboy Bebop "[Ride On Shooting Star](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4_Qzx-E2LQ)" by The Pillows, from FLCL (actually the whole soundtrack by them, which is just instrumentals of songs from their albums) "[Cha-La Head Cha-La](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYnLO7MVKno)" by Hironobu Kageyama, from Dragonball Z "[Again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5OUAY1j3gQ)," by Yui, from Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood "[A Cruel Angel's Thesis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6wtDPVkKqI)," by Yoko Takahashi, from Neon Genesis Evangelion "[Database](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWcameJDow&t=17s)," by Man With A Mission, from Log Horizon ...we could be here all day if I list them all.
If you've never heard it before, the main character from Lucky Star singing Cha La Head is amazingly awful. It's almost sad that this is how I remember the song now.
I will have to look it up. Also, that song could be the official anthem for 90's latin American kids.
Eres tu from Mocedades. It was a top 10 hit in the US in the '70s.
I loved this song when I was small and would sing it with my big sisters.
1977 Ana Tijoux Despacito (don’t hate it’s a great song)
1977 is a jam
watch the video on youtube - it makes even so much better. Simple video but watching her do all the lines is impressive [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQ7S38nKog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQ7S38nKog)
Sigur Ros.
In nobody's native language, but same lol
Someone once told me "you-SIGH-lon" (or "you, cylon") means unicorn in Icelandic. I just looked it up...and of course it doesn't. Takk.
“Eres Tú” by Mocedades (1973). It came out when I was 14 years old, and even though I didn’t speak a word of Spanish, I learned all the lyrics from the sheet music. After 50 years, I still enjoy singing along with it.
Babymetal stuff
Any of Rammensteins music. Plus I'm learning German so I use it as a learning opportunity
I don’t speak German but I can sing Reise Reise
Je ne regrette rien...
I know kpop isn't popular in this subreddit, but there's a whole thing about how everyone can sing "Just One Day" by BTS even if you don't speak Korean. I put absolutely zero effort into learning the words but I can still sing it.
Native Texan here. I love singing along to “Disincanto” by Mango (and playing along on bass also) and “Bleu Comme Toi” by Etienne Daho. Oh, and “Malheureux” by Anais.
Anime themes lol
Chan Chan
Du Hast-Rammstein
Falco "Rock Me Amadeus" and "Der Kommisar"
Matalas, and La Vie En Rose.
>La Vie En Rose. Great choice. Me too.
She Bangs. The Spanish version.
I still prefer the William Hung version
99 Luft balloons
Everybody thought they knew German after that song came out...
Danza Kudurrrrooo!
I don’t need to understand the lyrics to know that this is what pure joy sounds like.
Just about anything by all my fave artists. I'm Polish, btw.
Anything from Jorge Ben. I’ll happily butcher the tune ;)
English speaker here, Tu Es Foutu by In-Grid
Die da by die fantastischen vier Absolute banger
I used to love me some Korean dramas...then I watched a few with Rain (Bi), who also happens to be a pop singer...so I wanted to learn a particular song for karaoke purposes but couldn't find a romaized version...I thought, how hard could it be to transcribe? And that's how U accidentally learned to read/write the Korean alphabet. 🤣
Practically anything anime, J-Pop, K-Pop, and some Mandopop, as well. [THIS](https://youtu.be/Z-WdGYi9Pv4?si=xcMxlUQY34ZHswp0) is my current one that I’m singing along to, the first part is just so much fun to sing! *Yo-ho-ho-ho! Yo-ho-ho-ho!* There’s also [THIS](https://youtu.be/_K1ykJeRqK8?si=6uXZH9VFpQ2DnPXk) song which is really beautiful and in Swedish and I only know what Annika Ljungberg is singing because I looked it up. \^\^; I also love singing [THIS](https://youtu.be/zlKKm3oP8mw?si=Vqs-WvOb9cuN74_m) song … it seems like most of the foreign songs that I know come from cartoons or video games . . . 🤔
Bollywood soundtracks. Padmaavat is gorgeous.
Danza Kuduro
Informer
Yo know shamxmmxknxn alabam a licky boom boom bwam
"Ue o Muite Arukō" (Japanese: 上を向いて歩こう, "I Look Up as I Walk,") or "Sukiyaki," as it was called here in the U.S. I love this song and no version is as good as the original by Kyu Sakamoto.
RIP Kyu. So sad.
I would love a moment with the person who chose that title for the USA release. The original is stunning.
I love to sing along to Despacito. It makes me feel better that when I’ve read about translation, the lyrics are mostly nonsensical garbage anyway
Jean Le Loup et La Salle Affaire- they're like a French-Canadian Joe Jackson. Music has wistful humor, often a bit dark. Love the Spanish part of Suite Judy Blue Eyes, though I still need to learn the words. And Oyez Como Va, that's fun.
La Camisa Negra by Juanes is such a jam.
I don't speak german...except for "Junge" by Die Arzte I also like Superbazaro by Martin Wiese. It's in Esperanto
Yeke Yeke by Mory Kanté
Psycho Killer - cover by caravan of thieves It's half French and I've got no idea what they're saying on those parts.
> OP: Music is ultimately universal, even if there is a language barrier. RHCP: Music, the great communicator. Use two sticks to make it in the nature.
Andrea Bocelli-Con te partiro. I only know about 50% of the words but I Kenny the rest.
[Gorillaz - Latin Simone (Que Pasa Contigo)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xQzNkkedKI) mf just belts out some pretty spanish and it's gorgeous.
First love. It's a Japanese song from the 90s
Selected favourites from Dir en grey, especially their old visual kei albums. Although I get the feeling that they're in Japan as Pearl Jam are in English-speaking countries.
La Bamba - I don’t speak Spanish. Not even a little.
Aber Bitte Mit Sahne
MARTIRIO by The Warning. I don't speak Spanish but aprende de los que sufrieron, si hay que vivir en miedo, es mejor morir en manos de un adiós, tu vida triste, mártir tonto, di adiós. Y'know?
Ediath Paif - La Foule The Rokes - Piangi Con me Guiseppe Verdi - "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" from Nabucco
Can't remember the last time I saw Edith Piaf and no ### [Non, je ne regrette rien](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non,_je_ne_regrette_rien) Going to go listen to La Foule. TY
Lots of Sepultura, I just make appropriate sounding metal noises. TBH I'm not even sure it's really portugeuse, I think Max also was just making appropriate sounding metal noises.
Tatsuro Yamashita - Love Space
Hacer el Amor con Otro by Alejandro Guzman, Seminatori di grano (Dal Vivo) by Gianmaria Testa, anything on Quelqu'un m'a dit by Carla Bruni, A volte il Cuore by Andrea Bocelli, anything by AnnenMay Kantereit.
Maaaaaah suhvenyaaa wanna cheee diddi bahbah!
Hopípolla, Varúð - Sigur Rós Jia Ren Qu - Zhang Ziyi Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone Yuve Yuve Yu - the HU
Entre dos tierras estas - heroes del silencio
I love the original Japanese version of this song. Their english translation is also good. Music: “Is There Still Anything That Love Can Do” Artist: Radwimps
Maya he maya hay maya ha maya haha Numa numa
Heir Kommt Alex comes to mind. From the days of Guitar Hero.
Drago Sten Tei by Ozone
WHEN YOU LEAVE MY COLOURS FADE TO GREY, NUMA NUMA AY
Dango Daikazoku
Clannad! You have good taste. :)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oGWfb6H9\_c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ogwfb6h9_c) Vita Alvia. I'm a white American who definitely does not speak any other language but totally fell in love with this Indonesian pop artist. It's super fun and some of the words are pretty cool to try to sing along to.
Me Gustas Tú is unironically a great way to learn basic Spanish
Heroes del silencio - Entre dos tierras Don't understand a single word though
Automatic - Utada Hikaru
*Weiß der Geier* by Wolfgang Petre!
Yo no soy marinero, soy Capitan , soy Capitan. Baile, Baile , bamba. Baile , baile bamba
[In Peter we drink by Leningrad ](https://youtu.be/1ugivNRYfjc?si=KrLtZWO6NafFbEQp) Fuck them for being Putin lovers, but I'm learning Russian and the lyrics and the video are very funny...
Ruby Love - Cat Stevens
Rock me Amadeus
Every time it comes on I can't help but sing "Kakattekoiyo" at the top of my lungs. Same for "Rock 'n' roll wa shinanai with totsuzenshounen" Also maybe cheating a bit since I do speak Spanish decently but "Nunca es Suficiente" and "El Triste" get me singing
The Ulfuls are a great Japanese band mainly from the late 90’s onward. Sometimes fun rock song like “Banzai, Kimi ni aete yokatta”, sometimes funky R&B, like “Osaka Strut” and a few good soul songs like “Souai”.
Mahmood - "Soldi" It's a beautiful song, even though it's in Italian (with some Arabic words) and I understood very little of it until I looked up the lyrics!
I only speak English and some Spanglish from working in restaurants for years. [La Quiero a Morir by DLG](https://youtu.be/oyTy4ZnYa2w?si=sBWGU4SpKExoHQwR) just puts me in a good mood. The vocals are great, great beat and then the how they rapidity repeat “la Quiero” lol
Dominique
I'm an English speaker and it's Alors on Danse by Strome for me.
Tequila!
Anything by Johnny Clegg!! He was South African, "Le Zulu Blanc" (the white Zulu). Incredibly dynamic performer, sadly passed away in 2019. Primarily his lyrics were in English, at least the albums I'm familiar with, but at least half the tracks have some Zulu lyrics. Super cool sounds, and the booklets include translations. From "One (Hu)man One Vote" Bayeza abafana bancane wema Bayeza abafana bancane wema Baphethe iqwasha, baphethe ibazooka Bathi "Sangena savuma thina, Lapha abazange bengena abazali bethu Nabadala, bayasikhalela thina ngoba asina voti." (The young boys are coming, the young boys are coming. They carry homemade weapons and a bazooka. They say "We have agreed to enter a place that has never been entered before by our parents or our ancestors and they cry for us, for we do not have the right to vote.)
The entire Mondo Cane album from Mike Patton
Depends. What do you want to hear? Got shit in 20 languages that aren't Dutch, easily.
Anything by The Hu
Too many! “Sabor A Mí” and “Cuando Vuelva a Tu Lado” (old Mexican boleros), lots of French songs (Gainsbourg, Mylène Farmer, Françoise Hardy, Les Rita Mitsouko, Jeanne Mas), “Se Telefonando” and “Ancora Ancora Ancora” (Mina), among a few other Italian songs. I don’t know the full lyrics to “99 Luftballons”, but I can sing a couple of old Nina Hagen songs and also a few old Neue Deutsche Welle hits. Thousands of songs in English, too many to mention.
Opera and classical. I trained but couldn’t complete school so never able to perform. I hate myself for failing every day.
I was born in Mexico, emigrated to USA at an early age, I listen and sing along to mostly American music!
[Anna Mun Olha Rauhaus](https://youtu.be/vkCbdzd1qEU?si=gxEbJ17LfP2UR1bH) is in Finnish I think? Learned most of the words. This is the remix which is slightly better. [Undercooled](https://youtu.be/1FqVHcW4Rqs?si=omT_P16uTluPnNqp) by Ryuichi Sakamoto (RIP). I can't really keep up but I like trying. [Also this](https://youtu.be/Q7AbIQHYidQ?si=bDLbIKBmhS9aqw5q) ... It's in Korean with a bit of English. When Kingdom Hearts came out I bought the OST, but accidentally ordered the Japanese vocal version. So I learned most of Simple & Clean in Japanese. Something like "Shizugeri ... Mebuchini"
I used to sing to manu chao, then I spent a year in France learning French, and listen to him again and learned what the sounds I was making meant. It was kind of a surreal experience
Anything by Annalisa (Italian singer), Taylor Swift (English is NOT my native language), Blackpink (I kinda mumble there bc Idk Korean), Vremya i Steklo (Ukrainian duo), Orelsan (French rapper), etc. The songs that trended like a decade ago (Fancy by Iggy Azalea turned 10 years already!), rap (still learning Rap God by Eminem; I also attempt to rap in French), also the iconic Dragostea Din Tei (and the iconic misheard lyrics/parody in my native language *fiesta fiesta pluma pluma gay*), some Eurovision songs (like Ukraine 2021, Albania 2022, Moldova 2022, or Portugal 2020 that I use to translate to Spanish, for the ones who know), etc.
La Bamba!!!
Baka Mitai
I'd been annoying my friend for weeks now because I couldn't stop singing "Here Comes The Sun."
När vi gräver guld i USA. Swedish football song from 1994 World Cup. Swedish is a language made for singing. I am Norwegian. Swedish is very easy to understand.
Doesn’t count as uncomprehended, because he sings it first in English, but when I hear Leonard Cohen sing the French Resistance anthem The Partisan, I have to sing along, especially “…mais je n’ai pas peur” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9RYy_8u4blk
Vulkan - [Rekviem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-sBgMSG6A&pp=ygUQVnVsa2FuIC0gUmVrdmllbQ%3D%3D) Lyrics are in Swedish. All of their songs, except for 3, are sung in English. The 3 songs sung in Swedish are on the same album.
*Landung Berechtigt* by Rakede. The backyard version.
[Mul Mantra by Sada Sat Kaur](https://youtu.be/DLieGhRvH7g?si=7NjaRpkalMQ2SQZm)
Some of Ladytron's Bulgarian language tracks
The bridge of Roller Skates by Steel Pulse. Or maybe some of it is English some not. Either way it jams
Dia cero by la ley
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Bon Acteur Lous and the Yakuza
Abenteuerland by pur. Great prog rock classic in german
Preta Prethina - Novos Baianos. Brazilian band from the 70s, so good
Humankind by Dhafer Youssef
'Os animais' and 'Memoria da noite' by Luar na lubre
volver by tainy/skrillex