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Suzy · 22 April 2019

Peach said:
Wow, I didn't know! This is really cool. :pepecheer:

And I've been trying to get into Turkish music because my boyfriend of almost one year is Turkish! I'm also trying really hard to learn Turkish because I have plans of moving next year but so far I like Bengü's music a lot and Edis, I really need to check out others as well. But a lot of the songs aren't really my taste, I definitely am more pickier when it comes to Turkish music.

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Oh wow. Why are you moving to Turkey? Sorry if that's a personal question, you don't have to answer it.

Yeh I think it takes some time getting into it. I personally like Turkish rock and ballads over the pop/dance music whereas usually I would prefer pop over any other genre. I think the Turkish love songs are the cutest though and I hate love songs lol. I'm personally not into Bengu or Edis's music but I do enjoy Edis's songs when I'm in the mood to dance sometimes.
My 2 favorite Turkish artists are Cem Adrian and Mabel Matiz and my favorite rock singers are Can Bonomo, Kalben & Model.

If you would like any music recommendations or even any help with the language at all, I'd be more than happy to help. :)

Peach · 22 April 2019

JungkooksWife said:
Oh wow. Why are you moving to Turkey? Sorry if that's a personal question, you don't have to answer it.

Yeh I think it takes some time getting into it. I personally like Turkish rock and ballads over the pop/dance music whereas usually I would prefer pop over any other genre. I think the Turkish love songs are the cutest though and I hate love songs lol. I'm personally not into Bengu or Edis's music but I do enjoy Edis's songs when I'm in the mood to dance sometimes.
My 2 favorite Turkish artists are Cem Adrian and Mabel Matiz and my favorite rock singers are Can Bonomo, Kalben & Model.

If you would like any music recommendations or even any help with the language at all, I'd be more than happy to help. :)

No problem! Because it's almost impossible for him to come to the EU as a Turkish citizen. One of us has to move for us to be together. And I realised that it's a lot easier for me to do so + my parents/grandma would have no problem visiting me because they can stay 180 days in Turkey visa free while as Turkish person has to go through so much just to get visa for visiting. It's unfair but what can one do. I know a lot of people are like why would you go there when you're from a country that's a lot better off but it's not like I am happy here either. I've been going to Turkey since 2007 so it's almost like a second home to me. I'm going again on July 1st and then in September but I'm going to a hotel for now.. so after this I'm planning to save up as much as money as I can to get a short-term residence permit and to stay with him. He lives in Antalya and has his own apartment so I don't have to worry about a place to live. I already stayed there for 12 days in December. His mother lives in Gaziantep so we're planning to go meet her in July as well. I think I've got really lucky because he can speak English and he's an atheist just like me. And his mother is really open-minded. I'm trying to learn as much as Turkish as I can so I can help him with English because obviously he doesn't speak it as well as me and to have all the other opportunities such as getting work, even if it's in tourism for now.

And I haven't had time to explore them! I know about Can Bonomo from Eurovision. :o I also know Ceza because of boyfriend. I mean Bengü and Edis are quite basic pop but I listened to some other artists on the channels their music is uploaded to and I didn't like them as much. But I should check out the artists you mentioned! And thank you! :')

Suzy · 23 April 2019

Peach said:
No problem! Because it's almost impossible for him to come to the EU as a Turkish citizen. One of us has to move for us to be together. And I realised that it's a lot easier for me to do so + my parents/grandma would have no problem visiting me because they can stay 180 days in Turkey visa free while as Turkish person has to go through so much just to get visa for visiting. It's unfair but what can one do. I know a lot of people are like why would you go there when you're from a country that's a lot better off but it's not like I am happy here either. I've been going to Turkey since 2007 so it's almost like a second home to me. I'm going again on July 1st and then in September but I'm going to a hotel for now.. so after this I'm planning to save up as much as money as I can to get a short-term residence permit and to stay with him. He lives in Antalya and has his own apartment so I don't have to worry about a place to live. I already stayed there for 12 days in December. His mother lives in Gaziantep so we're planning to go meet her in July as well. I think I've got really lucky because he can speak English and he's an atheist just like me. And his mother is really open-minded. I'm trying to learn as much as Turkish as I can so I can help him with English because obviously he doesn't speak it as well as me and to have all the other opportunities such as getting work, even if it's in tourism for now.

And I haven't had time to explore them! I know about Can Bonomo from Eurovision. :o I also know Ceza because of boyfriend. I mean Bengü and Edis are quite basic pop but I listened to some other artists on the channels their music is uploaded to and I didn't like them as much. But I should check out the artists you mentioned! And thank you! :')

Wow good luck in Turkey! I hope everything works out for you.

And honestly Turkish music really is a hit or a miss for me too. I usually end up liking the songs more for their lyrics than their beats most of the time. Of course there's the good old pop songs that are easy to dance along to (Tarkan never fails to make me dance) but most of the time, it's the lyrics and meaning. Like the main reason I like Turkish rap even though I hate rap in general is because the rappers (that I listen to) talk about real issues that I can relate to. Ceza is amazing in that aspect which is why I listen to him. 😍

taemkitten · 24 April 2019

i see you there listening to lovebug...taste!!!!

Peach · 24 April 2019

JungkooksWife said:
Wow good luck in Turkey! I hope everything works out for you.

And honestly Turkish music really is a hit or a miss for me too. I usually end up liking the songs more for their lyrics than their beats most of the time. Of course there's the good old pop songs that are easy to dance along to (Tarkan never fails to make me dance) but most of the time, it's the lyrics and meaning. Like the main reason I like Turkish rap even though I hate rap in general is because the rappers (that I listen to) talk about real issues that I can relate to. Ceza is amazing in that aspect which is why I listen to him. 😍

Sorry for the late reply and thank you!

I don't understand the lyrics, yet, so it's hard for me to judge based on them so for now I care more about the beat/background music in Turkish pop music. I like Tarkan's Yolla! Boyfriend showed me his M/V from 1992 and I was like wow because it sounded nothing like Turkish music, haha.

Talking about hit or miss, there are some quite awful songs I've come across too and I was surprised that they have millions of views (even hundreds).. one that comes to my mind is Banu Parlak's Narin Yarim and then I remember that one boy group whose song title had Döner in it, I cringed so much! I think K-pop definitely has ruined it for me because now I'm a lot more critical towards other music. ;;

Turkish sounds really nice while rapped, imo. It's almost impossible for me to understand what Ceza raps though but he's great nevertheless.