something that consistently ruins foreign language music for me

[Amit]

when there are english lyrics along with the native language in a song

bollywood and indian pop/dance music is sooooo guilty of this

and it sounds so cheesy (to add on to all the cheese already!) >:[

[Spoonful]

What the!? You don't like The Macarena?

[PECOAE]

I hate Bollywood/Indian Pop.

And I'm Indian.

Indian classical's awesome though.

No Indian rock yet.

I hate when they try to act American (all the time).

[masada]

racist1!@1!

[Amit]

i love only a tiny handful bollywood and indian pop composers/artists but the ones i do love i LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE

[here comes the bird flu]

Countries constantly make fun/hate America, but then they copy us in everything they do.

:/

[Alive]

Please see Immortal Technique - No Me Importa and reconsider your opinion (or at least, admit that the use of two languages in that song is genius).

[Amit]

immortal technique isn't bollywood or indo pop though i should have specified that in the title

i love it when m.i.a. does it

[PECOAE]

racist1!@1!

Am I?

I am Indian - didn't get through to you the first time?

[here comes the bird flu]

Am I?

I am Indian - didn't get through to you the first time?
[hint, hint]This is the internets..[/hint, hint]

[Reaganista]

Am I?
Yes.

[superpeer]

Isn't English native for a lot of Indians, though? Not historically, I mean, just currently.

But I know what you mean. Like the Belgian song on Eurovision, French and English, with horrid lyrics in both languages.

[masada]

Am I?

I am Indian - didn't get through to you the first time? uh oh someone doesn't recognize a bad joke

[2muchket!]

This is why I respect Sigur Ros

[Chrizzle fo' Shizzle]

This was something I didn't understand when I was watching some Bollywood movie on public television. They would say all this stuff in Hindi, then, out of the blue, there'd be a line or two in English

It was a pretty sweet movie from what I could tell. Some woman in a hospital was pouring gasoline on a little girl, and was about to set her on fire when she got tackled Terry Tate-style by two dudes

[Robert Crumb]

That does sound like a pretty good movie.

Can't speak for Indian Bollywood dance pop, but for some of the stuff I've listened to, it's true. What's worse is when a band makes an "English album" of old songs (see: Os Mutantes' Tecnicolor). Takes so much of the romance out of it, especially when the translations play corny. But one artist who does really well with using English and his native language is Caetano Veloso (see: Transa).

[bleep_bloop]

Gogol Bordello does it but I don't mind.

[Dave de Sylvia]

I tend to find non-English speaking bands that write in English annoying, whether it's all in English or in two languages, though there are exceptions.

[cobert]

Its like when you hear a pop or rap song in all english and then they use some beginner-level spanish word and suddenly theyre a 'latin' artist.

[Rams]

So kind of like what fans of the English and Spanish languages think about reggaton?

[bleep_bloop]

I'm pretty sure reggaeton is mostly in spanish.

[avaranger]

I knew only one song.... Rednex - Spirit of the hawk.