What's a song in a language you don't speak that still gets you dancing and yelling along hyped?

You know something like Tunak Tunak Tun where you got videos like this

For me, it would be Karadeniz Horon Kemençe

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Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 314d (2 replies)

Gangnam Style, obviously

snooggums@piefed.world · 28 pts · 314d (1 reply)

[Korean lyrics]

"Heeeeeyyyyyyy sexy lady!"

[Korean lyrics]

Fuck yeah!

yakko@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 314d

Psy's music video for "Gentleman" is also really good.

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 56 pts · 314d (1 reply)

What is the thread without Dragostea din tei.

Also 99 Luftballons

YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 314d

100%. My jam is 90s grunge, but anyone who doesn't think Dragostea din tie is an absolute banger doesn't really have a soul.

aMockTie@piefed.world · 34 pts · 314d (5 replies)
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 314d (1 reply)

Came here to second this. Can not hear it without doing the arm pumps

aMockTie@piefed.world · 4 pts · 314d

Haha yes absolutely! For those that don't get the reference, here's an absolute gem of a video from the early internet days.

daggermoon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 313d (2 replies)

I wanted to thank you. I was laying in bed depressed as fuck and I saw your comment and remembered how much I used to love that song. I discovered it on YouTube back when I was a kid. I listened to it probably a hundred times back then. I listened twice after seeing your comment. Thanks for reminding me of an actually happy memory. Truly a timeless and beautiful song. The English version isn't bad either.

aMockTie@piefed.world · 3 pts · 313d (1 reply)

I'm glad I could bring back a happy memory for you.

I'm sorry to hear that you've been struggling with depression, I know it's different for everyone but I can relate and wouldn't wish that torture on my worst enemy. I hope you're able to find the support that you need, and can break out of that horrible situation.

Please feel free to message me if you need someone to talk to.

daggermoon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 312d

Thank you, I appreciate it.

IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 24 pts · 314d

In the 90s, before I learned Spanish, it was Macarena

poor_choices@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 314d (2 replies)

Du Hast?

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 313d

You. You have. You have me.
You. You hate. You hate me.

The song is a German pun, a delightful example of German humour.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 314d

Ja

AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 314d (1 reply)

Bella Ciao

rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 314d

First that came to my mind

Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 314d (2 replies)

Pearl Jam - Ledbetter

dmention7@midwest.social · 5 pts · 314d (1 reply)

*Yellow Ledbetter

Legend has it the only person to ever truly understand the lyrics to this song was David Hasselhoff, but he forgot them halfway through eating that cheeseburger.

DrDystopia@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 313d

Everybody talks about the yellow led better but nobody wants to talk about the skin coloured bed wetter.

four@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 314d
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 314d (1 reply)

https://youtu.be/RObuKTeHoxo

It's actually kinda in English. This was made by a Spanish/Italian guy so English speakers could "hear" what English sounds like to a non-speaker. Song still slaps tho

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d

This was the first song that came to my mind too 😂 Scrolled down to the comments and you made my day. A minute of it anyway.

HerrVorragend@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 314d (6 replies)

Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha

clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 314d (5 replies)

Hell yeah! That song is awesome.

A Eurovision fan?

HerrVorragend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d (1 reply)

Fan would be an overstatement. I like to watch it to discover new songs I wouldn’t normally come across.

clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 314d

That's a good strategy! I've found lots of great stuff there.

Strider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d (2 replies)

Eurovision!

Made in Switzerland 🎶

clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 314d (1 reply)

like the internet or LSD

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 314d

Internet? Made in Switzerland?

I thought DARPA was American.

Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social · 8 pts · 314d

Over the last few years I've really been getting into Japanese rock and have fallen in love with a hard rock group called BAND-MAID. They do a cool blend of hard rock, metal aesthetics, and pop.

I find myself singing poorly to a lot of their music, but Manners is an especially fun one. A blues driven hard rock song with a lot of push and pull. Awesome vocal performance by the two main vocalists. The bassist MISA is always creative too.

IHeartBadCode@fedia.io · 7 pts · 314d (1 reply)

I always get a laugh from Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano. But that's "sorta English" so a language I don't speak is probably J'en ai marre by Alizée.

6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 313d

Scrolled to find P’ol by Adriano Celetano. Love this song.

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 7 pts · 314d (2 replies)

This song has been in heavy rotation for literally decades on both my "workout" playlist and my "thinking and programming" playlist. 100% true: I have gotten dates with attractive girls because they were intrigued by what I was listening to (this song).

Govinda, Jaya Jaya

THB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d (1 reply)

Yessss Kula Shaker! I'm so upset I had the chance to see them live exactly once, and I was so drunk (stupidly because of a girl) that I don't remember any of it. Big big life regret. :(

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 1 pts · 314d

Would not be the stupidest thing I personally did over a girl!

RaoulDuke@leminal.space · 6 pts · 314d
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 314d

caramelldansen, the fast version

Tai@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 314d

Not exactly yelling or dancing, but I cycle a lot and when Burning by Hitsujibungaku comes on I pedal way harder and will usually beat my personal best for the segment that I'm riding.

It's the outro to season 2 of Oshi no Ko which is a fantastic show by the way.

WatDabney@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 314d (1 reply)

Too many to list, dating at least back to 99 Luftballons.

This is the most recent one: Pacifica - Soltame

deacon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d

Pacifica is great and have a lot of English language music too.

spittingimage@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 314d

Engel, by Rammstein.

Erst, wenn die Wolken schlafen geh'n

Kann man uns am Himmel seh'n

Wir haben Angst und sind allein

Gott weiß, ich will kein Engel sein

No idea what any of that means!

SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 314d

French rock song 'jen perlerai au diable' by johnny hallyday.

You can feel it in your bones.

https://youtu.be/CobeBZNlR8E

Edit: OK this isnt the kind of dance songs you're looking for.

Although if you want punjabi dance songs like tunak tunak tun, I can recommend a few (although its not a foreign language to me).

smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 4 pts · 314d (1 reply)

Ussewa

pipe01@programming.dev · 2 pts · 314d

Based

mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d

bit of an odd one here: Space-Patrol (Raumpatrouille) - only german intro, but it's a fuckin banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXF29tCeh0c

jonathan7luke@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 314d (1 reply)

I have no idea how I originally found this, but it is one of the coolest things I have ever seen/heard: https://youtu.be/l_MyUGq7pgs

Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 314d

This is one of the scenes i saw used a few years back to be mixed with EDM for a different feel. It was pretty good.

WraithGear@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d

a lot of songs from Caravan Palace

dwemthy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 314d
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 314d

Lumiere from Clair Obscur.

The Pillows entire catalogue.

99 Luftballons.

Rollin' Girls by Wowaka.

Carameldansen

Dragostea Din Tei

Really, tho, if it slaps, it transcends language 🤷‍♂️

niktemadur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 312d

Everybody sing along now!

MAMA KO
MAMA SA
MAKO MAKO SA
MAMA KO
MAMA SA
MAKO MAKO SA
HEY.... SOUL MAKOSSA!

(cue killer horn section)

Manu Dibango my man!

tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 314d

Goran Bregovic: Yeremia

There's a lot in the Balkan basket that would be on topic, but let's go with AALKO'OL!

zlatiah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 314d

Lots of K-pop get people who don't understand Korean at all to vibe; there's also famous (infamous?) songs like the remixed Caramelldansen (which is Swedish), Tunak Tunak Tun as you mentioned is a good one too

Personally I... vibe to a lot of songs that don't have any lyrics at all

Or how about ones with fictional lyrics? Such as siromaru + cranky: conflict (OK this might be a bit too niche...)

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 313d

Boten Anna

kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 314d (2 replies)
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nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 314d (1 reply)

checking out somoku, this is so good! the vocal melody and lyrics are oddly familiar but I can't place it, definitely would have remembered this schizoid instrumentation (not an insult I love this shit!) if I had heard this before

listening to the whole album now, great recommendation!

kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d
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ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 314d

This one for sure! I have to turn it up every time it comes around in my playlists. It’s half in French, and I asked my Quebecois friend what he was singing and she wasn’t sure. Makes sense as I just discovered he’s Belgian when I went to get the YouTube link lol.

SAULE - Dusty Men (feat. Charlie Winston)

yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 313d

Benny Lava is my jam

https://youtu.be/sdyC1BrQd6g

d00ery@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 314d

Willst Du - Robin Schulz and Alligatoah

https://youtu.be/mNNfZuIA1GQ

Octavio@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 313d
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Gonzako@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 313d

there's a couple Japanese songs that are bangers but the lyrics are incredibly sad just like Japanese people bopped to something like pumped up kids

Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 313d (1 reply)

Turkish is my first language and a lot of English songs were exactly that. This feels interesting.

Btw "kemençe" is also the instrument's name if you want to find similar stuff.

Some of my favorites. https://youtu.be/hUdWILxC8sY
https://youtu.be/WDtqZE8hUOs

And "Horon" is also the traditional dance associated with kemençe.
https://youtu.be/L0RaPN4d1iY

droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 313d

That's really interesting. Thanks for the links!

I first heard the Turkish song I mentioned when I one day found myself in a concert on a trip to turkey. We weren't allowed to take pictures or video but I recorded the audio and the music was so bumping so I audio searched the song.

SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 314d

https://youtu.be/udra3Mfw2oo

https://youtu.be/MS55Ke6AQTc

Here's two Punjabi style songs that are very dance along able. Used as wedding dance songs here. If you like tunak tunak, you'll like these. Although these are more produced than tunak tunak

ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d

Besides all the Japanese anime and city pop songs I enjoy listening to, here are some international bangers I can't help but dance to:

adhd_traco@piefed.social · 2 pts · 314d

Cairokee - Dinosaur
This is the censored version (for political reasons) but it has the beautiful music video.

Edit: also not thaaat much of dance music

Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 314d

anything that ado has sung for/covered tbh

Whitebrow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 313d
ReiRose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 313d

gol e yakh

It was sampled too, so you may recognize it. https://www.whosampled.com/Kourosh-Yaghmaei/Gol-e-Yakh/

TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 314d

Emotional Prism by Mikazuki Bigwave, one of the top comments on the YouTube video sums it up perfectly with "I don't know the words but I can feel the funk"

Kissaki@feddit.org · 2 pts · 313d

Well, not the yelling along part, but my most recent one:

HALCALI / Otsukare SUMMER (おつかれSUMMER)

Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 314d
Tujio@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d

https://youtu.be/PJwo6bMKBaw

My favorite comment on it is "My balls dropped during this video. And my I'm a 35-year-old woman."

AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 314d

can't pronounce the name of this song itself, but there's this Japanese band called glim spanky that has some absolutel bangers.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wCf7xEDuh30

bazzett@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d

There's this heavy metal Japanese band named Aldious. Many of their songs are real bangers, like "Ground Angel" and "Yozakura", but there are two particular songs that, as you said, get me dancing and yelling, even if they're more "pop-ish" than the others: "Without You" and "Die for You". They put me in a good mood every time I listen to them 😆.

burgermeister@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 313d

Ma-ia-hii, Ma-ia-huu!

shadshack@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 313d
Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 2 pts · 314d
nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 314d

感じている by Saury might be my favorite song of all time, I might have fucked it up by having it as my alarm sound for a while but it was just so good at getting me up and pumped!

kubok@fedia.io · 2 pts · 314d

Heilung - Hamrer Hippyer . IIRC, the language is Proto-Germanic.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 314d

La Bamba, the OG.

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 314d

Lol that music video is epic and the comments on it as well!

Indian Power Rangers kinda goes hard ngl

I’m gonna tell my kids this was Avatar, the Last Airbender

THB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d

Jaan Pehechaan Ho

Going with this one. I blame Ghost World for starting my obsession with Indian music of all kinds. Started with Bollywood, into traditional sitar music. My playlists now regularly includes music from everywhere that I don't understand a word of. 😅

BismuthYellow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 313d

Most songs from heilung. I love alfadirhaiti, anoana, and in maidjan krisgaldr is also amazing, othan. Live versions imo are waay better than recorded versions.

Another one from a different band, wardruna, helvegen with aurora is amazing.

deacon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 314d

I speak English and Duolingo German. And read some old Greek.

These groups have tons of great songs, but these are the first that come to mind for me.

RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 314d

Man there's a surprising amount of Finnish songs here. Torille

rosco385@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 312d

HollowV@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d

Any (shounen) anime opening/ending songs- One piece, Naruto, Fairy Tail, Angel Beats, Noragami. Yu-Gi-Oh (dub) doesn't have any lyrics, but it still goes hard AF even after 15+ years.

Jumi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d
lemmy_see_your@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 314d
Brutticus@midwest.social · 1 pts · 312d

Anime OP dont usually get me- I kind of see them as their own genre. However Nostalgic Rainfall by Chic0 with Honeyworks is something I listen to every little while.

Also for the young me, growing up in an Modern Orthodox enclave, but completely immersed in NuMetal, Synergia's Khum Uli August had my number. My friend brought back three whole albums from his birthright trip. I still listen to them when I work out. I miss that guy sometimes, too.

daggermoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d
lemmyknow@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 313d

Idk about singing or dancing, but I have been listening to some artists whose songs I can't understand, such as MODELKI, Nina Chuba, and Annalisa, to name a few

chunes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d
RBWells@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d

Ana Aho by Hassan el Asmar

Ana Ho!

Wenta Ho!

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d

Here's a few - looking forward to discovering more from this thread!

Mory Kanté's Yeke Yeke, especially the Hardfloor and Afro Acid remixes.

Gaspar Nali's A Bale Ndikuwuzeni

Afro-Cuban Allstars - Amor Verdadero

Lexicon Avenue - Here I Am (Rutabaga mix)

Leftfield - Afro Left

Eugène Mona - Lizo (Kiko Navarro Afroterraneo Mix)

HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d

Sve bih dala da znam

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 314d
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d

Jan Pehechan Ho

I feel this is what it must have been like for non-English speakers discovering Elvis for the first time.

https://youtu.be/nOAsaehfPrk

wieson@feddit.org · 1 pts · 314d

Baba Yetu by Stellenbosch Choir (or anyone actually)

slopsmash@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d (3 replies)
ShouldIHaveFun@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 313d

Seen the movie yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chorus_(2004_film) The original song will maybe not make you dance as much as the remix but it is still a nice movie.

ShouldIHaveFun@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 313d

Seen the movie yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chorus_(2004_film) The original song will maybe not make you dance as much as the remix but it is still a nice movie.

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d

Weird.

The original: https://youtu.be/FjBDbTwIFs0

slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 312d

Yokozuna by the Garlicboys

Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 314d
elevenbones@piefed.social · 1 pts · 314d

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xiWuTYaPtdI
Cariñito - Los Hijos del Sol
Although I do know un poco español...

Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 312d

El mariachi loco quiere bailar!

https://youtu.be/OFUG4J0HX0Y

Sprawl@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d

To be honest, there are a lot of songs that i mightsing along to that i have no clue what the real lyrics are. I was just jamming to some old skool Nevermind earlier today!

isyasad@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d

La Fuente or really anything else by Adiós Amores

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d

I really like the theme song for Dan-Da-Dan.

Naruto/Boruto had some good ones over their runs, too.

jaxxed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d

Chaile chaile

Oh, and

MUSST MUSST

Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 313d

Uska dara by Eartha Kitt.

Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d

La cocuracha (or however it is spelled)

YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 313d
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grue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d

I've been trying to learn French so maybe it doesn't quite count anymore, but I really enjoy Papaoutai -- both the original Stromae version and this Pentatonix cover that introduced me to it -- as well as various other songs by Stromae.

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 314d

Manel — "Teresa Rampell" is in Catalan, which is far enough from my very Western Hemisphere Spanish to count.

Triumph@fedia.io · 1 pts · 314d
x666m@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 312d (2 replies)

"Was hast du Gedacht" by GZUZ. I know there's a ton of german hip hop but there needs to be more and bigger.

droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 312d (1 reply)

Interesting. Looks like I can't view it from Germany

x666m@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 312d

Huh, that's pretty funny

raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d

Barobax - Baba to ki hasti

cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 312d

Scott & Zelda by Bibi

1nC3ptUm@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 314d
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ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d

It definitely isn't Despacito! Totally hate that song... 👀

psoul@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d
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samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 314d

Check it up, funk it up, minna damatte ore ni tsuite koi, yeah

Check it up, funk it up, minna hisshi de ore ni tsuite koi, come on

Scuzzm0nkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 313d

Ólavur Riddararós by Týr, or any of their other songs that aren't in English generally. The folk-ish group singing really gets me fired up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T02PaiYepw

thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev · 1 pts · 313d

Kuschel Song by Schnuffel, it honestly just makes me think about a simpler time in my life when I didn't realize just how much I had laid out before me.