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Has Russia had a singer-songwriter who is known for writing contemplative, melancholy songs?

I'd like to listen to some Italian bands with a similar sound to Rammstein, but don't know of any to look up. List some you may know of.

I saw this post.

The comparison to films is particularly interesting but I think it's pretty understandable given the mediums. You can watch a film in a language you don't speak with subtitles and get an experience somewhat close to what someone who does speak the language would get. However there really isn't that equivalent with music. Since music is, for the most part, an entirely auditory medium, there isn't room for anything like subtitles to even exist. You can look up translations of lyrics, sure, but that's much more separated from the experience of the artwork than say, reading an english translation of a Japanese novel.

So in addition to the obvious answer that English dominates the world as international, language I gotta ask if the nature of music not being able to be translated without completely redoing the whole thing from scratch is a factor in why foreign music doesn't sell well internationally? I mean I was surprised to learn for example that Japan has the second largest music industry in the world for over a 2 decade snow, surpassing the UK who we traditionally assume is the music superpower and dominant market after America. But then again the UK exports its music far more than Japan and is the home of the English language so I guess this perceptionis not unjustified

But I really do have to ask if the lack of immediate translation without recreating the whole production from scratch and the non-visual nature of music is a gigantic factor, if the easily the hands down no question runner up reason to why music in foreign langauges can't really sell well globally (after obviously English being the most learned second language in the world)?

This was inspired because I started listening to Herbert Grönemeyer and Celine Dion's early Quebecian stuff before she rose to a top singer in Englsih speaking countries after Titanic. I could not enjoy either because the songs sound gibberish and trying to read lyrics translated into English as I lsitened to their albums felt so unintuitive. I couldn't enjoy their stuff otuside of the instrumentals used for the songs.

But as I advance in my learning of German and French because of a trip I already had reserved in Europe for this Christmas, I went back to listening to their bestsellers again. I still haven't progresed enough to immediately translate the whole lyrics as they're sung, but now I could easily get the gist of the songs without having to translate online lyrics on a first listen and after several hearings in a row (without searching up translations or even reading hthe original foreign language lyrics), I pretty much could hear in my head what large parts of the lyrics would sound like if someone spoke them in English. I still can't translate them ont he spot as I hear them like in a fluent conversation with foreignors but now I could actually enjoy their music because I get whats being sung as my phone plays their singles on Youtube.

So I'm really wondering if this is why foreign music thats not English struggles to sell well internationally without a strong visual component (like K Pop's heavy use of dancing and other flash onstage by Korea's bands)? That unlike books which has to have translations to start with to enjoy and movies where even without subs its easy to get the gists of many sceenes by the events and non-verbal expressions and communication of the actors and even comics which still could be enjoyed by the cool artwork and flash of events in many comic panels (esp fight scenes) , music will simply struggle as an export product because of how' the medium's nature of being meant to be experienced without seeing stuff? That musicians can't really succeed overseas without using the current lingua franca or tie in producs like a popular animated TV show (as so common with Japanese bands and popular anime) or creating genres that rely on cool stage performances particularly heavy dancing along with stylistic music videos as seen in KPop?

https://soundcloud.com/notmixedrealities/a1f0d6825cf76a49d8673aeda0cf5568c9af6ddd-redakcja-ambatublow

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0pHTemrN5AIerBSSP83RUB?si=51bf44a0b8394d6f

As someone who fell in love with her recently and created r/IsabelleAdjani a week ago, I discovered the recent weekend that she also stint on Singing during the 80s.

I enjoyed what I heard from her so far but I don't know French and obviously as a fan of her I alread have huge biases.

So I am wondering what do you epople who actuall know French rate her as a singer? How would people who ose first language is French think of her voice? Would it be considered a nice voice in singing within the criteria of French music?

Here is one of ehr songs which is m personal fav so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smih_i3b9JM

How does it go within France's music industry? Is it just a generic French lad's singing? andm personal take is eschewed by me not knowing French along with being a fan of her? Or is her voice legitimatel pleasant sounding to people whose first language is French?