Languages in Music

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Re: Languages in Music

Postby Æxylis » 2008-12-22, 5:39

here we go for my list... this is just an approximate percentage for now (1% is less than or equal to 1%)

English - 45%
Korean - 25%
Japanese - 12%
German - 8%
Finnish - 1%
Spanish - 2% (rata blanca, mägo de oz, the mars volta)
Swedish - 1% (Vintersorg)
Icelandic - 1% (Sigur rós)
Faroese - 1% (Týr)
Danish - 1% (Under byen)
Norwegian - 1% (Lumsk)
Russian - 1% (Arija, epidemija)
Portuguese - 1%
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Re: Languages in Music

Postby Anesthesia » 2008-12-22, 15:32

English, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian music :aww: ).. hmm and I have one song in Japanese.

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Re: Languages in Music

Postby TheKickInside » 2008-12-22, 22:08

The vast majority of my music is in English, of course, but I have a few French records (Serge Gainsbourg and Francoise Hardy), an Asha Bhosle hits collection (Hindi), a Ladysmith Black Mambazo album (Zulu) and an AcaDec CD (Chinese).
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Re: Languages in Music

Postby Kasuya » 2008-12-23, 3:46

Estimate:

Japanese 35%
English 30%
German 30%
miscellaneous 5%

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Re: Languages in Music

Postby hashi » 2008-12-23, 4:19

Alejo wrote:
Ilayde wrote:I used to be a crazy fan of Japanese music when I was in junior high. I really liked the sound of the Japanese language back then, and memorized lots of lyrics that I didn't understand at all... Now it's all gone, and Japanese irritates me a bit, actually.

I understand completely.


Ditto haha.

probably...

English: 40% (Obvious reasons)
Russian: 40% (I love dance and electronic music which russia does best)
Japanese: 10-15% (It's lost it's appeal)
Swedish: 5-10% (quite a few)
German: 1-5% (10 songs max)
Uzbek: ~1% (only two songs)

And I think I have a Chinese song hidden somewhere too :?

PLUS, a couple of Yuki Kajiura's (梶浦由記) songs which I have no idea what language they are sung in. Namely, the song "mezame" and "song of storm and fire".

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Re: Languages in Music

Postby Kasuya » 2008-12-23, 5:19

mrhashimoto wrote:PLUS, a couple of Yuki Kajiura's (梶浦由記) songs which I have no idea what language they are sung in. Namely, the song "mezame" and "song of storm and fire".


Probably 梶浦語 8-)

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Re: Languages in Music

Postby hashi » 2008-12-23, 20:03

lichtrausch wrote:
mrhashimoto wrote:PLUS, a couple of Yuki Kajiura's (梶浦由記) songs which I have no idea what language they are sung in. Namely, the song "mezame" and "song of storm and fire".


Probably 梶浦語 8-)


I researched wikipedia and she apparently writes songs in Italian, German or Spanish sometimes. I can tell it's not German, but the other two are a possibility :?
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Re: Languages in Music

Postby yabba » 2008-12-24, 10:37

there is a blog about this ;-)
http://itsaboutdiversity.blogspot.com/

also, if you use last.fm, theres this great tool here which lets you visualize where your music comes from.
heres my results
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Re: Languages in Music

Postby kibo » 2008-12-24, 11:15

yabba wrote:also, if you use last.fm, theres this great tool here which lets you visualize where your music comes from.
heres my results
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http://lastfm.net76.net/


Wow, cool, but this tells you more about the countries than in what languages the songs are in. ;)

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Re: Languages in Music

Postby kibo » 2008-12-24, 11:19

As for Xhosa music Miriam Makeba is famous for that. Her songs are a nice way to explain what clicks are. ;)

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Re: Languages in Music

Postby hashi » 2008-12-24, 11:23

This is mine...

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BUT

I think it's based on number of plays more than number of songs. I have MUCH more russian than swedish, but have been mostly listening to swedish since I started my last.fm account :?

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Re: Languages in Music

Postby Smitty » 2008-12-24, 11:46

I don't have 50 artists yet so I can't give you my image. :(

My music collection is not many artists with a lot of their material - as opposed to lots of artists with a couple of singles each.

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Re: Languages in Music

Postby loqu » 2008-12-24, 11:55

The purpose of the website is cool, but the results are not accurate. It marks Shakira as being Spanish, when she's Colombian, for example. Tess is marked as Swedish, because there is a Swedish girl named Tess who sings I think, but the band I listen to is Spanish. Melon Diesel appear as Spanish when they're really British (from Gibraltar).

Anyway my image is here:

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Re: Languages in Music

Postby Mikael » 2008-12-26, 6:09

That post just screamed, "I'm obnoxious! Go Italian!!11!1" Or maybe it's just me.

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