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I understand that rock started in the USA, and then in the 60s UK also became like the birthplace of all pop music but I wonder how has it come to a point that even spanish pop bands sing in english (sexy sadie, dover, melon diesel...) and not only that, any north european band sings in english too despite of their nationality, even in idm world. bjork sings in english right now names dont come to my head, but you know what I mean. its obvious that english sends your work to lots more people, but anyway its incredible how english has become the only language of popular music |
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so more people understand it |
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well.. not every north-european band sings in english.. there are lots of bands here in norway that sing in norweigan, but the thing is that they don't get known outside of their own countries if they don't sing in english, 'cause people don't understand. |
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to earn more money |
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To make life easier for me. |
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you don't have to use english to be successful. ofcourse it's safer to do so, that's the easy road a band might take to be more 'universal' acceptable. but, if you choose to sing in your native language, you will sound more unique and sincere, and that can be something people will notice and appriciate. i take for example Rammstein and Sigur Rós. both very succesful and unique, mainly because they choose their own language to express themselves. |
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Well music is a good means of cultural invasion. Globalisation etc etc. |
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in the past decades only france (chanson) and italy really exported pop music in their own language I understand the economical point of view but though english is a great and beautiful language, I think its important that the rest of the countries fight for getting a proper pop scene in their own language bands will export if the product is really good now its easier with inernet |
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I like the old kraftwerk songs much more in german than in english, Trans-Europa-Express for example... |
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I think japanese voices are the most pretty, but %90 of j-pop sucks :( |
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Bodenständig2000 rocked the states several times with german lyrics :) |
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songs in my own native language (dutch) sound far too straightforward. dutch songs have a typical metaphorical/poetic value of zero (with some exceptions of course). with respect to the dutch language english is a far more associative language. |
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judge for yourselves: norwegian hip-hop act Side Brok: |
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I like the 5,6,7,8's |
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that song in kill bill is the most unoriginal piece of shit i've heard. it has that familiar 'dundundundun dundundun dun' bassline that features in about trillions of other unoriginal songs. and also it's a rip-off of the familar ren&stimpy theme. i actually thought it was a r&s theme cover when i first heard the song. but yeah, it's fun though. wh00 h00 wh00h00 h00 = which is the only "original" thing in the song |
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because everyone think britains and americans are superior. |
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no, americans are fat pigs and britains have bad teeth! |
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££££$$$$$$$$$££££££££ and why doesnt the american keyboard have a pound sign on it? The english one has a dollar sign. Fascists |
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you and i know that, but everyone else doesn't. |
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whehey! the happy few |
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Its the legacy of British and American imperialism I'm afraid. Not many non-English speaking bands dent our charts but the Super Furry Animals managed to get in the top ten with their Welsh language album Mwng. |
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you should really quit watmm, and stay here. it will only do you good. |
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whats a welsh? |
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another thing that comes to mind, is that english is pretty simple, so you don't have to think much to put together something that sounds good. |
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well, it currently seems to be the case that watmm has quit itself ...temporarily of course and as usual :s |
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hopefully that will change soon |
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i always wondered why this messageboard is in english. |
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que? donda esta pollo? |
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ball? shirt? |
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you mean there's other languages? what'll they think of next? |
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Black people. |
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Aside from China, English is the language most spoken in the greatest trade powers, as well as there being a lot of people who speak it in other affluent countries (like a lot of Swiss, Swedish and German people speak it reasonably well) you want to sell more copies or, at least the same number of copies but for more money, it has to be in English. |
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English is spoken in the US... the US is probably the biggest commercial centre in the world... as far as materialism and shit... so, probably more people buy music there, so English would have a higher value I guess... |
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i am not fat. i am skinny and i play with skinny girls |
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Very true nacmat |
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skinny american girls? no way! they must be exchange students of some kind |
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