Gangnam Style, obviously
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Definitely Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone
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What is the thread without Dragostea din tei.
Also 99 Luftballons
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In the 90s, before I learned Spanish, it was Macarena
Du Hast?
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Bella Ciao
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Pearl Jam - Ledbetter
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It's actually kinda in English. This was made by a Spanish/Italian guy so English speakers could "hear" what English sounds like to a non-speaker. Song still slaps tho
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Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha
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Over the last few years I've really been getting into Japanese rock and have fallen in love with a hard rock group called BAND-MAID. They do a cool blend of hard rock, metal aesthetics, and pop.
I find myself singing poorly to a lot of their music, but Manners is an especially fun one. A blues driven hard rock song with a lot of push and pull. Awesome vocal performance by the two main vocalists. The bassist MISA is always creative too.
I always get a laugh from Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano. But that's "sorta English" so a language I don't speak is probably J'en ai marre by Alizée.
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Too many to list, dating at least back to 99 Luftballons.
This is the most recent one: Pacifica - Soltame
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Not exactly yelling or dancing, but I cycle a lot and when Burning by Hitsujibungaku comes on I pedal way harder and will usually beat my personal best for the segment that I'm riding.
It's the outro to season 2 of Oshi no Ko which is a fantastic show by the way.
caramelldansen, the fast version
Engel, by Rammstein.
Erst, wenn die Wolken schlafen geh'n
Kann man uns am Himmel seh'n
Wir haben Angst und sind allein
Gott weiß, ich will kein Engel sein
No idea what any of that means!
French rock song 'jen perlerai au diable' by johnny hallyday.
You can feel it in your bones.
Edit: OK this isnt the kind of dance songs you're looking for.
Although if you want punjabi dance songs like tunak tunak tun, I can recommend a few (although its not a foreign language to me).
I have no idea how I originally found this, but it is one of the coolest things I have ever seen/heard: https://youtu.be/l_MyUGq7pgs
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Lumiere from Clair Obscur.
The Pillows entire catalogue.
99 Luftballons.
Rollin' Girls by Wowaka.
Carameldansen
Dragostea Din Tei
Really, tho, if it slaps, it transcends language 🤷♂️
a lot of songs from Caravan Palace
Ussewa
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bit of an odd one here: Space-Patrol (Raumpatrouille) - only german intro, but it's a fuckin banger
This song has been in heavy rotation for literally decades on both my "workout" playlist and my "thinking and programming" playlist. 100% true: I have gotten dates with attractive girls because they were intrigued by what I was listening to (this song).
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Boten Anna
Everybody sing along now!
MAMA KO
MAMA SA
MAKO MAKO SA
MAMA KO
MAMA SA
MAKO MAKO SA
HEY.... SOUL MAKOSSA!
(cue killer horn section)
Manu Dibango my man!
This one for sure! I have to turn it up every time it comes around in my playlists. It’s half in French, and I asked my Quebecois friend what he was singing and she wasn’t sure. Makes sense as I just discovered he’s Belgian when I went to get the YouTube link lol.
Turkish is my first language and a lot of English songs were exactly that. This feels interesting.
Btw "kemençe" is also the instrument's name if you want to find similar stuff.
Some of my favorites.
https://youtu.be/hUdWILxC8sY
https://youtu.be/WDtqZE8hUOs
And "Horon" is also the traditional dance associated with kemençe.
https://youtu.be/L0RaPN4d1iY
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There's a lot in the Balkan basket that would be on topic, but let's go with AALKO'OL!
Here's two Punjabi style songs that are very dance along able. Used as wedding dance songs here. If you like tunak tunak, you'll like these. Although these are more produced than tunak tunak
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Benny Lava is my jam
La Bamba, the OG.
Lol that music video is epic and the comments on it as well!
Indian Power Rangers kinda goes hard ngl
I’m gonna tell my kids this was Avatar, the Last Airbender
Emotional Prism by Mikazuki Bigwave, one of the top comments on the YouTube video sums it up perfectly with "I don't know the words but I can feel the funk"
Heilung - Hamrer Hippyer . IIRC, the language is Proto-Germanic.
Cairokee - Dinosaur
This is the censored version (for political reasons) but it has the beautiful music video.
Edit: also not thaaat much of dance music
Man there's a surprising amount of Finnish songs here. Torille
My favorite comment on it is "My balls dropped during this video. And my I'm a 35-year-old woman."
Besides all the Japanese anime and city pop songs I enjoy listening to, here are some international bangers I can't help but dance to:
I speak English and Duolingo German. And read some old Greek.
- Porter - Hombre Máquina
- Ana Tijoux - Shock
- Silbermond - intro (Die Mutigen)
These groups have tons of great songs, but these are the first that come to mind for me.
Willst Du - Robin Schulz and Alligatoah
感じている by Saury might be my favorite song of all time, I might have fucked it up by having it as my alarm sound for a while but it was just so good at getting me up and pumped!
Clearly Sahti Waari of Turisas
there's a couple Japanese songs that are bangers but the lyrics are incredibly sad just like Japanese people bopped to something like pumped up kids
Going with this one. I blame Ghost World for starting my obsession with Indian music of all kinds. Started with Bollywood, into traditional sitar music. My playlists now regularly includes music from everywhere that I don't understand a word of. 😅
can't pronounce the name of this song itself, but there's this Japanese band called glim spanky that has some absolutel bangers.
There's this heavy metal Japanese band named Aldious. Many of their songs are real bangers, like "Ground Angel" and "Yozakura", but there are two particular songs that, as you said, get me dancing and yelling, even if they're more "pop-ish" than the others: "Without You" and "Die for You". They put me in a good mood every time I listen to them 😆.
Lots of K-pop get people who don't understand Korean at all to vibe; there's also famous (infamous?) songs like the remixed Caramelldansen (which is Swedish), Tunak Tunak Tun as you mentioned is a good one too
Personally I... vibe to a lot of songs that don't have any lyrics at all
Or how about ones with fictional lyrics? Such as siromaru + cranky: conflict (OK this might be a bit too niche...)
anything that ado has sung for/covered tbh
Most songs from heilung. I love alfadirhaiti, anoana, and in maidjan krisgaldr is also amazing, othan. Live versions imo are waay better than recorded versions.
Another one from a different band, wardruna, helvegen with aurora is amazing.
It was sampled too, so you may recognize it. https://www.whosampled.com/Kourosh-Yaghmaei/Gol-e-Yakh/
Ma-ia-hii, Ma-ia-huu!
Ólavur Riddararós by Týr, or any of their other songs that aren't in English generally. The folk-ish group singing really gets me fired up.
El mariachi loco quiere bailar!
La Fuente or really anything else by Adiós Amores
I've been trying to learn French so maybe it doesn't quite count anymore, but I really enjoy Papaoutai -- both the original Stromae version and this Pentatonix cover that introduced me to it -- as well as various other songs by Stromae.
I really like the theme song for Dan-Da-Dan.
Naruto/Boruto had some good ones over their runs, too.
"Was hast du Gedacht" by GZUZ. I know there's a ton of german hip hop but there needs to be more and bigger.
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Sve bih dala da znam
Jan Pehechan Ho
I feel this is what it must have been like for non-English speakers discovering Elvis for the first time.
Manel — "Teresa Rampell" is in Catalan, which is far enough from my very Western Hemisphere Spanish to count.
Uska dara by Eartha Kitt.
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