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🍿 Music, TV & Films in Your Favourite Languages

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Get ready for spring and summer with our big pop culture episode featuring recommendations for music, TV and films to enjoy in over 22 languages. Lindsay introduces a helpful framework for getting the most out of pop culture in another language:

Discover
Consume
Create

We hope you enjoy our recommendations!

Timestamps

Lindsay’s faves

MUSIC

Rosalia - MOTOMAMI (Spanish with some Catalan and English and Japanese influence)
Stromae - Multitude (French)
Daddy Yankee - Legendaddy (Spanish)
Tierra Adentro - Aguije (Spanish and Guarani)
Dead Blonde - Propaganda (Russian)
Monetochka - Raskpaski dla Vzrosluh (Russian)
Toot Ard - Migrant Birds (Arabic)
Waiata Reo Maori: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX9Ca1SohktgM
Raices Indigenas: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX1aLJoYoaZnK
Mosaic: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXd9vfK9DV3I6
Organica: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX2pprEpa9URZ
Borderless: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWZJmo7mlltU6
Global X: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWUxHPh2rEiHr
Folk Fabrique: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX62XscWX9t6h
The Sounds of Spotify/Every Noise

FILMS

La Famille Belier - CODA remade from this concept (French)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi - he really really really likes sushi (Japanese)
The Skin I Live In - phew! Banderas is on fire! (Spanish)
Downstream to Kinshasa - moving. Loved seeing a different place. (Lingala, Swahili)
Bad Lucky Goat - take me here too please sunshine (islander Creole English)
Cairo Station - it’s OG Manic Pixie Dream Girl (Arabic)
Song Without a Name - heartbreaking, real, honest, tonne of bricks (Spanish with Quechua)
5 Broken Cameras - life in Palestine looks tough as (Arabic, Hebrew)
The Prince of Nothingwood - wanna watch all his films please (English and Arabic)
Sweat - never connected to this lead before (Polish)
TV: El Casa del Papel (Money Heist), How to Sell Drugs Online Fast

Kerstin’s faves

MUSIC
Indie, alternative, punk, rock music:

Tocotronic, Kraftklub, Die Ärzte 🇩🇪
Candelas, Swnami 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Dancehall, caribbean feel, afrobeat type of music:

Mandi Classic 🇨🇩 (Swahili), Jamaican artists like Sean Paul and Spice, and Seeed 🇩🇪

BOOKS AND TV
Mysteries & Thrillers
Books: Arnaldur Indri∂asson’s Erlendur series 🇮🇸

On TV: The Bridge 🇩🇰🇸🇪 , Salamander 🇧🇪, The Killing 🇩🇰, Trapped 🇮🇸, Craith/Hidden 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Dark 🇩🇪

FILM

Patagonia (Welsh, Spanish, English)

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