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Mara
Does anyone in osu! actually listen schlager? It's hard to explain it, so I'll let Wikipedia do the explaining job and of course - some examples.

Schlager music (German: Schlager, loosely translated as "a hit") is a style of popular music prevalent in Central and Northern Europe and the Balkans (in particular Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Flanders, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Switzerland, Scandinavia and the Baltic States) and also (to a lesser extent) in France and Poland. In Portugal, it was adapted and became pimba music. Typical schlager tracks are either sweet, highly sentimental ballads with a simple, catchy melody or light pop tunes. Lyrics typically center on love, relationships and feelings. The northern variant of schlager (notably in Finland) has taken elements from Nordic and Slavic folk songs, with lyrics tending towards melancholic and elegiac themes. Musically, schlager bears similarities to styles such as easy listening music.

The word schlager is also a loanword in some languages (Hungarian, Russian, Hebrew, Romanian, and Slovenian, for example), where it retained its meaning of a "(musical) hit". The style has been frequently represented at the Eurovision Song Contest and has been popular since it originated in 1956, although it is gradually being replaced by other pop music styles.




Here's some of my own personal favorites (+ those two in videos);

  • Paula Koivuniemi
    Matti ja Teppo
    Kaija Koo
    Olavi Virta
    Katri Helena
    Janne Hurme
I'd like to hear some german schlager, to be honest.

Don't kill me, please.

Also, take this with you. Doesn't play 100% schlager, though.
Talvilapsi
It depends on the situation... Old Finnsih schlagers are usually really awesome, because there's often some humour too :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30VP9l7X2Tw
Mianki

Talvilapsi wrote:

Fixed that
(You take the part in bold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30VP9l7X2Tw and put that inbetween [youtube]/youtube])
Valentiino


My all time favourite
UnderminE
I like listening to iskelmä radio while sleeping. So relaxing.
Topic Starter
Mara
Oh right, funny things.

Birdy
Topic Starter
Mara
Jesus, that's a really catchy song. Respect.
GensokyoAkuma
lol

Xgor

Best Schalger song ever :D (Although this one will be completely lost if you have no knowlege of Swedish and Melodifestivalen AKA Schlagerfestivalen)

Anyways this is pretty much the Swedish Schalger is. It's been pretty huge (At least in Melodifestivalen) but it's died down in the latest years.
MrsNana
oh god ..
Birdy
more schlager, less "oh god" please
Birdy


I'm not sure if this counts, I hope it does. Bumpin' anyway.
theowest
oh god, now is the time for eurovision..
Birdy
F yeah. I've missed them for the whole year.
Birdy
Hanyuu
Uhm there are quite a few in austria but i dont know if that qualifies as schlager, there are schlager here but those are for old people and really cheesy, and then there is austropop which some songs are cool :?
Topic Starter
Mara
Oh shit, this thread is still alive.

I made a schlager map.
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