I'd estimate over three quarters of the music I listen to comes from outside the US. Most of what I listen to is metal, and American metal is almost always terrible. Most foreign bands still sing in English, but as for music that's in a foreign language, I get a lot of Swedish. Besides that I regularly listen to Italian, Finnish, Norwegian, Japanese, Hebrew... basically whatever the band wants to sing in, lol. I've never been one to let not knowing a language limit the music I listen to; the great thing about musicians is their music speaks every language. Aside from the language the other thing I like about foreign music is the instruments. I always think it's cool to hear something in folk instruments because they're practically nonexistent in America. Tin whistles, bagpipes, sitars, and whatever a hammered dulcimer is, if I haven't heard it before, it's automatically cool.
There's actually already a thread over at the media section about this. Just to say. I recently posted this: [video=youtube;nYnLVWXmRm8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYnLVWXmRm8[/video]
More than 3/4 of my (many many) musics is Scandinavian. Mostly Norwegian. Because Black Metal. And then Finnish Doom.
Yes actually, a vast majority of my music comes from outside the USA. The lyrics may be in another language but melody, harmony, and rhythm are universal. [video=youtube_share;PaT_2Gvblq8]http://youtu.be/PaT_2Gvblq8[/video] That's even in a fictional language and is still awesome to listen to.
