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Here's a song for English-speaking people to get the experience of listening to American pop music without understanding the words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E77HpMMbDYc#t=83

I'd have thought that was pretty common for native English speakers who listen to opera or other classical music. Or indeed most people from the UK who like Rammstein....

Not really relevant to anything, but I could never get why so few of the Finnish bands got so little international traction compared to Swedish bands. There are lots of good musicians, even without importing from St Petersburg, not only in hard rock and metal.

(I remember walking into a Finnish pub the first time and checking the jukebox. Half of the selection were good hard rock and metal; do the same in Sweden and it will be mostly slimy pop produced as a business.)