pakistaniheaux:
electraposts:
pakistaniheaux:
sriti:
electraposts:
pakistaniheaux:
u know when ur listening to a song in your language and it’s so emotional and the harmonies are perfect and the vocals are strong and it finishes and an english song starts it goes 100-0 real quick!!! english songs rlly dont have that same level of emotion
Wow this is stupid. Like. It really and truly is a stupid and gross thing to say.
given that this post is neither “
rude or offensive” nor “
not sensible or logical” i am forced to deduce that your anglocentric self is not capable of learning another language. and for that i am sorry
this post was speaking from personal experience so just bc u can’t relate to it doesn’t mean it’s gross and stupid so you need to calm down thanks @electraposts
Well that was a lot of assumptions to make a straw man argument. Much like the assumption that songs in any one language are somehow less capable of expressing emotion than songs in any other language. Languages all do the same damn thing and capture the same range of human emotion and experience. It’s kinda funny to see the opinion on your blog about how I’m expressing a white person perspective full of The Sads that something is not about me, but, uh, actually? Claiming that another language is less complex or capable or utilized less for complicated emotional or intellectual expression is actually the historically gross colonialist perspective. So if we’re going to make stupid generalizations about stupid anglocentric lazy thought, which appears to be du joir, I’m not the one moaning.
I’m perfectly calm, the original statement was just ignorant and gross as hell. Like. And you don’t know the first thing about me or my language abilities- I admit I understand a lot less and get a lot less emotional experience from listening to songs in Japanese or Spanish than I do listening to songs in English, but I’m not pretending it’s for any reason that implies Japanese or Spanish songs are somehow lacking. It’s because I’m not fluent in them, or I lack cultural context.
You’re free to make all the gross generalizations you want, I guess, but I’m also pretty free to go “that’s dumb”. And if the best rebuttal is “you’re probably so dumb you can’t learn another language otherwise you’d agree with me,” then… It’s not a very good argument.
damn you’re really pulling the #AllSongsMatter argument AND u threw colonialism in there somewhere….okay
1)“Languages all do the same damn thing and capture the same range of human emotion and experience.” wrong. different languages are capable of describing different levels of emotion bc not every word has an equivalent in every language. english definitely does not have the same emotional capability as a song would in another language would bc English does not have the appropriate words to describe something that another language may have bc English sucks.
2)“It’s because I’m not fluent in them, or I lack cultural context.” okay, this is what I’m literally saying lol. that’s why I said “in ur language” (aka one’s mother tongue) in the original post. you don’t have a place to argue that all songs have the same emotional depth when you aren’t even fluent in more than one language? this post is coming from a person who is fluent in more than one language and can deduce that songs in other languages have more emotion than English.
3) regarding your tags – no, I’m not a teenager and neither is my friend. even if we were teenagers, what does that have to do with anything? how does that make our argument any less valid? I know plenty of teens on here that have well thought out opinions and are way more mature than you and I, so let’s not assume that just because someone is younger than you, they don’t know what they’re talking about.
speaking a language and growing up in said culture means that there will be a cultural significance to a song, making it more meaningful to the listener. so before you call my opinion (an opinion many poc agreed to before you commented) “gross and stupid”, perhaps think about how your perspective on this issue is that of a native english speaker and you may not understand the language, cultural content and significance of a song that is not in English instead of jumping the gun and telling two people who both understand more than one language fluently that they don’t know what they’re talking about.