Do you tend to listen.. (1 Viewer)

[blueberries]

.. music from just certain place/places or are your tastes more international?

For me it quite never made sense why people expect you to just listen music from your own country and English speaking world, and only in your own language and English. Even English was unknown and foreign language for me at one point, while I listened lot of songs in the English as kid I could just understand word or two- same as Kpop right now. And ofc I listened other music in other languages as well so I never found it odd.

I listen music from;

• Korea (duh)
• Japan
• Finland
• UK
• USA
• Germany
• Australia
• Russia
• Thailand
• Probably in lot of other European countries, but I don't always know where the music is from.. and sometimes all the creators can be from different countries like with Studio Killers it's mix of European countries.

 

[yeji]

I listen to whatever I like. My parents never really liked how passionate I was about Korean Music, but what can I do if I just enjoy it. I also have been listening to Russian music from time to time again. I also love this song:

 

[Abeamus]

I'm open to listening to any kind of music and I didn't even realise people thought it was weird listening to music you couldn't understand honestly as when I was younger I knew people who listened to Rammstein and they didn't know German.

 

[bulletproof]

I like music from different countries, I don’t even need to understand the lyrics if the sound is good and the voice is nice. Sometimes it's better to not understand anyway

 

[LoveYooShaSha]

In my country, when I was smol, people listened to songs in English, (which I understand), local languages Malay, Chinese(Cantonese{HK} or Mandarin{Taiwan or later China}-which I hardly understood then n only little better now) n Indian(not sure if Hindi or Tamil), as its multi-cultural country here. But I only listened to English songs for a long time. Sometimes I listened to Malay songs for a while but only this specific Malay female singer (u could say she's an idol in my country/but I dint buy her albums n couldn't re-listen as Internet/Spotify wasn't around then[circa mid-late '90s{don't remember year I liked this singer/or just a few songs maybe}.
Forgot I listened/liked this Chinese/HK singer in the 80s n Faye Wong in 90s also without buying albums but just singing in my head after hearing a few times. Then J-pop on tv but not memorizing just watching shows on tv then.
Then in 2000s I first heard kpop ard 2009 ig, but only in mid-2018 I started intensively listening even without understanding n making a Hangul/romanization/English translation of certain songs so I could sing along/understand the lyrics.
So for me it's an evolution/progression. The feelings it evokes in me is most important; started with English songs, along the way heard some other language (common/widespread in my country but not my 1st language) songs, then slowly over the last 20+ years heard outside my comfort zone n finally I love kpop for the feels I get from listening to my ults n biases n other casual/serious likes(artistes or girl groups-BP/Gfriend/Chungha/Somi or others). If I found other country/languages music that affect me the same way, I'd try them.

 

[lostinwvnderland]

I usually listen to Korean and Japanese songs the majority of the time. Since I got into K-POP & J-POP, I mostly listen to them. I just got back into listening to English songs until recently. I grew up listening to Japanese, Chinese and English songs. During middle and high school I did listen to Thai music. I also listen to a bit of Spanish songs if it from my fav artists.

 

[potato]

I grew up only listening to Tamil and English music. But kpop gave me exposure to music from a different country and I began discovering artists and songs from other countries as well. My horizons have definitely been broadened since listening to kpop and I'm thankful for that.

 

[raymondchouku]

I think we all, especially those who listen to modern pop and every classic rock, tend to have a bias towards England or Europe, as a lot of modern and older artists are from there (i.e. One Direction, Jessie J, Led Zeppelin, etc.). Given that, I would say my most listened to Genre are K-Pop and EDM... Since a lot of EDM comes from Nordic Countries (i.e. Sweden, Denmark, Norway) I would say: Korea, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Britain... United States.