What is a song you don't know the language of but like?

Oh, many though I could not name them all.

They include:

- Richard Strauss' [i]Four Last Songs[/i] - settings by him of poems by others, and indeed his last as they were published and premiered in 1950, after his death in 1949.

- Brunnhilde's finale often called the [i]Redemption Aria[/i], followed shortly by four words shouted by, I think, Alberich, then the lovely narrative-instrumental closing music, of [i]Gotterdammerung[/i]. This ends the fourth opera of Richard Wagner's "swords-and-sorcery" epic operatic tetralogy, [i]The Ring of the Niebelung[/i]. (A.k.a. [i]The Ring Cycle[/i], though only the gold itself follows a cyclic narrative. The rest of the story is linear.)

These are all in German.
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Also [i]Nessum Dorma,[/i] from Giacomo Puccini's opera [i]Turandot[/i] (Italian).

The phrase means "let no-one sleep". Wikipedia gives the lyrics in both Italian and English, and summarises the story at this point. Although a rather twee-seeming love song with a glorious melody very familiar thanks to FIFA World Cup association and considerable popularity in its own right in concert recitals, it is part of a story that is really not at all nice, as indeed its own words do show!

It is said a guest-house in Devon adopted the title for its own name, but given its translation I doubt it the best "marketing" tactic for a holiday hotel.

Wikipedia describes its melody as having a "sixteenth" and a "whole" note. I wish we could keep their lovely names like[i] crochet [/i] and [i]quaver[/i] (one beat and half-beat respectively, in any time-signature, if I recall correctly), but I don't know how they translate into the vulgar-fraction names I think used in the USA. I heard an even worse horror on the radio recently though, by a singer too, talking of [i]crescendo[/i] and [i][u]de[/u]crescendo. [/i]Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear....

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Mas Que Nada

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Ritchie Valens - La Bamba

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Gangnam style

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I have a playlist of not in English but most I know are French, Spanish or German. Some of the Eastern European / Scansinacian stuff I can't tell which country.

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To many to list. I have sung in 10 different languages and havevloved all of them.

Sukiyaki by Kyu Sakamoto circa 60s. He died too early.

This is my ode to democrats protecting their own kind,

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They have English captions. :)

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I got into the genre of J-Pop, not knowing or understanding the language at first, but with many repeated listenings, I gradually began to understand it more.

I don't remember her name but she did this song about elephants or something in Russian. And I think there was Hitler in the film clip and he was a pig.

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The HU - Yuve Yuve Yu

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Posted it last night...

It's in ancient Sumerian. Translation in the video.

https://similarworlds.com/paganism/eclectic/4544491-Sumerian-music-reenactment-Lyrics-from-5-000-years?sort=1

filipino song. i dont remember the title but its a sad love song

None. I don't listen to songs I can't understand.

I don’t know the name of it.

Anything sung by Stevie Nicks 😁

Chinese pop music.

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Gabby Moreno
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Portuguese
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