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Somewhat saddening to see countries as diverse as Ireland, the UK, Netherlands, South Africa and Australia all promoting American rap over the output of their o
by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
Somewhat saddening to see countries as diverse as Ireland, the UK, Netherlands, South Africa and Australia all promoting American rap over the output of their own people.
On the flip side, it's fantastic to see so many countries not doing so.
- bzb3 6y agoCome to Spain and you'll listen to sweaty Latino rubbish all day long.
- tonywastaken 6y agoWhat's wrong with Latino music? Spaniards seem to like the music from their former colonies.
- bzb3 6y agoMusic from the former colonies is okay; I love Cuban music for instance. This is some bullcrap from Puerto Rico that thugs with sagging pants and gang tattoos listen to.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> countries as diverse as Ireland, the UK, Netherlands, South Africa and Australia These countries are in a common cultural and linguistic sphere.
- fireattack 6y agoYeah. He/she probably has a point if Japan or India has the same song as Top 1. Funny enough, I used to be saddened by the fact most of my country's people basically only listen to local music instead of "good stuff" from the world (to be fair, the language/culture barrier is higher in my case).
- Synaesthesia 6y agoSouth Africa does have it's own music scene, particular house music which is HUGE here, and Gqom which is becoming big globally.
- tonywastaken 6y agoWhy is that saddening? I'm glad to see that American hip hop is as popular as it is in those countries. Makes me even happier when it's an African American hip hop artist.
- IMTDb 6y agoIt's sad because we would expect/hope that the diversity of human cultures would be lead to very different songs being popular in different parts of the world. It's also sad because the three most common word of the song in question ( Dababy - Rockstar ) are: "Yeah" (21 occurences), "Woo" (15 occurences) and "nigga" (13 occurences). The next one in line are "cop", "pull" and "glock" (6 each). This is probably not the culture the US hopes to export.
- tonywastaken 6y agoJust because at the moment there is an American song leading the charts doesn't mean that is always the case. You look at those lyrics on their own and they are just words that don't may not make sense. But if you look at the song as a whole, it's an artist's expression. And it seems to resonate with a lot of people around the world. Criticizing the song contradicts your value for "diversity of human cultures".
- IMTDb 6y agoNevertheless, my answer explains why some people find a bit sad that today, people in most countries all seem to resonate with the exact same artistic expression. And that this expression which resonates with so many people involve lyrics like : "My daughter a G, she saw me kill a nigga in front of her before the age of two" Which to me don't really sound so happy. So if that is really what moves most of the world today, yeah I am a bit sad.
- yakshaving_jgt 6y agoIt doesn’t move the rest of the world. Most people don’t have taste. People listen to music like that for the same reason people watch The Big Bang Theory: because everyone else does.
- caf 6y agoIf you look beyond position 1 though, in the current global 25 most streamed you have 24 unique artists, of which 15 are from the US, 4 Canadian, 2 English, 1 Scottish, 1 Australian and 1 New Zealander.