Gangnam Style, obviously
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[Korean lyrics]
"Heeeeeyyyyyyy sexy lady!"
[Korean lyrics]
Fuck yeah!
Psy's music video for "Gentleman" is also really good.
What is the thread without Dragostea din tei.
Also 99 Luftballons
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.
Definitely Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone
Came here to second this. Can not hear it without doing the arm pumps
Haha yes absolutely! For those that don't get the reference, here's an absolute gem of a video from the early internet days.
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.
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Du Hast?
You. You have. You have me.
You. You hate. You hate me.
The song is a German pun, a delightful example of German humour.
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Bella Ciao
First that came to my mind
Pearl Jam - Ledbetter
*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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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caramelldansen, the fast version
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).
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. :(
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Too many to list, dating at least back to 99 Luftballons.
This is the most recent one: Pacifica - Soltame
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French rock song 'jen perlerai au diable' by johnny hallyday.
You can feel it in your bones.
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).
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!
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.
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 🤷♂️
bit of an odd one here: Space-Patrol (Raumpatrouille) - only german intro, but it's a fuckin banger
a lot of songs from Caravan Palace
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
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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!
There's a lot in the Balkan basket that would be on topic, but let's go with AALKO'OL!
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
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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
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...)
Doesn't get me singing, but it def gets me moving Somoku by Hakushi Hasegawa
Legend by Otyken is also way up there for me
Edit: listening to the album for the upteenthjillion time and couldn't help myself but to share another gem
The drums go hard enough to shatter bones and it is literally a perfect song
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Boten Anna
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
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. 😅
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!
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