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Just the steamroller of American mass-market pop culture crushing any diversity where it can find a footing. It's the cultural equivalent of a species making i
by Bayart 6y ago
Just the steamroller of American mass-market pop culture crushing any diversity where it can find a footing.
It's the cultural equivalent of a species making it into a new biome and wiping every species with the same niche.
Americans find it flattering and even positive (because how couldn't be positive it the rest of the world becomes more like yourself ?) but it's really quite dramatic.
- yellowapple 6y agoI mean, I guess it's cool that a large swath of the world seems to like listening to my country's music, but I was really hoping for something distinctly Australian or Irish or English or Icelandic or South African or what have you, and yet in all those cases it was the exact same song. I do wonder if expanding the site to show, say, the top 5 instead of just the absolute top song would be a better indicator; as it stands, it feels like Rammstein was right: "We're all living in Amerika".
- rsynnott 6y agoThe anglophone charts are pretty global; if the chart-topper is American this week in the US it will probably be the same in other anglophone countries. If it's English, ditto (including in the US).