This can be romantic or crazy does not matter. In Turkey they are generally related with love and they are generally sad. How about your country ?

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  1. We have a whole genre of music specivicaly for short songs we sing right before we dring a shot called “snapsvisor”.

    “Helan går” is an popular example of one and if you want to sing it so are a text you can follow bellow, it’s not the real lyrics but it sounds so identical to the swedish pronunchiation as it gets.

    “Hell and gore, Chung hop father Allan ley
    Hell and gore, Chung hop father Allan ley
    Oh handsome in the hell and tar
    and hell are in the half and four
    Hell and gore, Chung hop father Allan ley”

     

  3. The first song that comes to mind is [‘Bolje biti pijan nego star-Better to be Drunk Than Old’ by Plavi Orkestar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zraVg1KU_Ac). But actually, depending on the surroundings, it could be ‘Račke – chicken dance’ or [‘Djurdjevdan-St. George’s Day.’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5MxG6YFcSA) Especially in Slovenia, whether you’re drunk or sober, you can’t pass by [Avsenik’s ‘Golica- Trompeten-Echo’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJcevebMrqU)

  4. Every carnaval / après ski song falls in this category I feel. [Example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBjirDbInmQ).

    Besides that there are some Dutch songs that fall in the “meezinger” or “smartlap” category, comparable to German schlagers. For instance [Bloed, Zweet en Tranen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOUe5RZ_nCg) by Andre Hazes or [Brabant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaIzl1Tz-so) by Guus Meeuwis. They are sometimes regional so for instance in Friesland they will probably differ.

    This is all in bar or party setting though. If your question is about what people listen to when they are drunk and *alone*, I don’t think there is one specific genre.

  5. This can be interpreted in many different ways, but troll songs can be blasted regardless of sobriety levels. So the one that tends to attract way more people when drunk would be a genre that we call “bouzoukia”. Not because they use the instrument in them, they mostly don’t anymore, they range from pop/ballady/wtv to a bit more heavy ballady/trashy stuff. We call them bouzoukia because that type of programme used to be a singer accompanied by a folk band with a bouzouki.

    Anyway the thematology is usually heartbreak, infidelity, or occasionally how much in love someone is and they can’t believe their luck.

  6. I mean, culturally we have traditional music meant for singing in pubs, if you listen to The Chieftains you’ll find the sort of thing. But from experience in bars… it’s mostly Mr Brightside by The Killers

  7. Ballermann songs is what Germans tend to listen to when drunk. But, to be perfectly honest, you need to be really drunk to stomach that kind of music. I would post some examples, but that would be torture, and I don’t want to go to prison.

  8. Karaoke is a big thing in Finland so we usually sing everything horribly.

    One classic example would be Baarikärpänen by Eppu Normaali. Its a sad-ish song about a alcoholic who just wants to drink in peace. The chorus is a defiant “I want to drink all day and night” kind of deal and it fits very well to sing (=shout) in a group.

  9. A mix of sexism, more sexism, and the celebration of the consumption of alcohol.

    Sincerely, a German.

    Examples: “Geh mal Bier holen”, a song about a man telling a woman that she’s ugly, and, to alleviate that, she should go get him more beer to make her sight more bearable. Or “Nein heißt ja” (“No means yes”) which is a song about exactly how well the lyrical self is able to accept rejection to sexual advances, which is to say not at all.

  11. Either really bad Schlager or old bangers like [Griechischer Wein](https://youtu.be/QBkPARPm-Mc) or [Sauerland](https://youtu.be/pgm4VWJqSGo) . Griechischer Wein is genuinely a beautiful song about (greek) migrant workers hanging out in bars and dearly missing their home and trying to sing and drink the pain away. Guarantee you every german between 15-90 probably knows it.

  12. Everything made by Thomas Helmig, usually “Stupid Man” or “Det er mig der står herude og banker på”. We also sing that song from Mulan a lot. Otherwise it’s just one of two things: songs that were big on Boogielisten in the 00’s or what’s called dansktop, which are songs in danish, made in the 70’s-90’s after some sort of schlager mold.

  13. [Kinky Fætter](https://youtu.be/GfPB7of3QtQ) by Suspekt. Very vulgar lyrics with a girl moaning as a chorus. I know the whole text by heart, which many youths do the last 20 years. Doesn’t get old. Doesn’t sound old.

  16. Yölintu is a common.
    Mostly iskelmä music, which is like schlager but with more melancholy and maybe eastern/russian vibes.

    Wiki sums it like :The northern variant of schlager (notably in Finland) has taken elements from Finnic, Nordic, Slavic, and other East European folk songs, with lyrics tending towards melancholic and elegiac themes.

  18. Mökkitie. Tells a story of a child, the singer, enjoying a summer holiday at their family cottage, then later in the summer his parents divorce, cottage is sold off, grandpa ain’t telling no war stories anymore, singer’s not going to get to drive the “Mökkitie”* anymore. Singer’s singing out the nostalgia of old, begging dad to let him drive the Mökkitie again, and of better days, which really resonates with a lot of Finns, including me, with divorced parents and this cottage culture.

    *(the final piece of road leading to the cottage, usually a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, where it’s a sort of tradition to let a kid drive down the road to the cottage and let them have a try at the wheel.)

  19. Depends on their taste in music. But generally it’s country/folk/folk-vulgar you can sing/shout along to. Such as: Vysoký Jalovec, Slavíci z Madridu, Včelín, Co jste hasiči, Jede šrot, Jak nám dupou králíci and many more.

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