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Moved by music that sounds like gibberish?

Taylor Baker

Taylor Baker

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Hello.

Has anyone ever been moved by music that lyrically sounds like total gibberish? That is not meant to be an insult in the slightest. For me, when I like to stim by imagining a head-banging song, the lyrics are of its own unique language. I suppose it has more to do with tone and melody than language.

A song that I had in mind that almost made me emotional in spite of this, before I discovered it was in Russian, would be "Inner Universe," the first intro song to the anime Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Anyone else feel like this?
 
Hmmm, sort of.

Most of the things I'd listen to outright lack lyrics as usually I dont like that, but if the "lyrics" are just random nonsense syllables, then it works for me regardless.

I dont know if that quite counts though.
 
Quite a lot of genres out there that people would call noise or gibberish. Heck there's even a genre called Noise and it "does what it says on the tin". As for vocals that sound like gibberish - there's a a lot of Grindcore genres that would fit that bill.

I'll PM you a song as the band name isn't PG-13.

Ed
 
Yeah lyrics doesn't mean much as long as the sound is good. I listen to the sound, not the meaning of the words. So a language I don't understand can sound great.
 
Oh yeah....ROTFLMAO. Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs....


Oh so nostalgic....but those lyrics....:confused:

And the official winner of the most nonsensical lyrics? Donna Summer or Richard Harris...take your pick:


Someone left the cake out in the rain ? Really ? :rolleyes: But the music remains kinda catchy. Go figure. :oops:
 
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Take that tune Gangnam Style for example. To this day, I have no idea what that guy is singing about. No clue, he could be singing the phonebook for all I know. But it sounds good, he makes the right sounds.
 
Forest Cat said:
he could be singing the phonebook for all I know.
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Honestly at this point, the phonebook as lyrics would be drastically more interesting than what modern music lyrics seem to be.

I swear, if I have to hear just one more bloody song about love or how great some guy's girlfriend is, I'll stab a moose with a weathervane.

And that's a sentence that came out of nowhere.
 
Forest Cat said:
Take that tune Gangnam Style for example. To this day, I have no idea what that guy is singing about. No clue, he could be singing the phonebook for all I know. But it sounds good, he makes the right sounds.
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Loved the video so much I had the same question. Seems Gangnam is a hip district in Seoul.


Everything that North Korea ain't. :cool:
 
I had some foreign records growing up--lot of opera and stuff, and then some popular ones. Polish songs ended up sticking in my head.
 
Maybe a bad example because I don’t particularly like it, but this is the song my mind always goes to when I think of gibberish lyrics.
To me it always sounded like she was saying “Rufus really wacking out, fork is up his nose.”




I love non-English-language music. @Gerontius Particularly Polish music for me too since my closest friend is from there (which you obviously already know lol), and I’ve been exposed to a lot of music in Polish and Ukrainian, specifically. I also seem to have accumulated a large collection of Romanian, Norwegian, and Danish music for some reason.

Since I listen to a lot of EDM, a large portion of my music doesn’t have lyrics.
 
Lyrical meaning is certainly not required to enjoy music. It's like instrumental music with the voice as one of the instruments, as it always is. Many people enjoy music from foreign languages.
 
Fino said:
Lyrical meaning is certainly not required to enjoy music. It's like instrumental music with the voice as one of the instruments, as it always is. Many people enjoy music from foreign languages.
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Most classical musicians would agree!
 
I like Celtic music. Even though I can't understand the lyrics.
Other than that though, both the music and the lyrics are important to me.
I like to know what story is being told, but, the performer must fit the song.

@Misery
I know what you mean about those love songs.
In my teens, I liked them. But, I was interested in romance.
Then reality hit when I found what a mess relationships always turned into.
We have two radio stations here that are popular for romantics and those who aren't.
The Dove...you can guess what they play, and The Eagle. Opposites.
I have a saying, "What becomes of the broken hearted?"
"They go to the Eagle."

I've seen it happen with others than myself.
I like to drive out in the evening to the beach and blast out with the Eagle. ;)

 
Yes, if the music in the Lord of the Ring soundtrack, sung in the made up Elvish or Mordor languages counts.
 
I love Origa as well. Also J.A. Saezar songs which are utterly mystic sounding gibberish.


No idea what any of that means but it speaks to me haha.
 
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Here is a test, this is 5 fine ladies from Norway :cool: So it will sound like gibberish to most. But even if I didn't understand it, I would think it sounded good. They make the right sounds.

 
These two are on my playlist,...
Technologic, Daft Punk (2005)
Mah Na Mah Na, Piero Umiliani (1968)

And one not on my playlist,...
The Look, Roxette (1988)
 
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