[Editorial] Why I Prefer Listening To Musicians Sing In Their
Native Tongue  I’m one of those guys who pops in a foreign
horror movie into my DVD player (I still haven’t upgraded to
Blu-Ray. Shove off.) and makes sure that it’s set to English
subtitles and the original language as my audio. I’d rather read
the text at the bottom of the screen than see mouths move
without the words matching. That throws me off more than
anything else.  But the main reason I do this is because I love
hearing the languages of the world. I want to hear the
difference between Spanish and Portuguese. I want to hear how
Serbian is different from Russian (True story: Since I know a
bit of Russian, I was actually able to understand several words
and phrases in A Serbian Film). It’s so exciting to hear the
flow and intonations of other languages and it makes the world a
much richer place for me.  The same thing applies to my love of
music. I love hearing people sing in different languages because
it makes it that much more of an advent