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hashi wrote:Woh woh calm down there tiger
there are a number of fantastic singers from Scandinavia that do sing in their mother tongue. Only downside is you have to hunt a little harder since they're not generally as well known outside Scandinavia
Woods wrote:Janjan, have a look at the Germans - they don't take the argument against their language, and for some reason Rammstein is the most well-known contemporary German band around the world (as far as my metalhead knows
Yasna wrote:It's largely about local market size. If you produce a hit in the Swedish market, you are probably not going to make a whole lot of money off of it. If you produce a hit in the German market, you have made it. So I can understand why an ambitious Swedish band would want to take aim for a bigger market.
Woods wrote:Janjan, have a look at the Germans - they don't take the argument against their language, and for some reason Rammstein is the most well-known contemporary German band around the world (as far as my metalhead knows
Woods wrote:They don't care the world understands English better, and - okay, maybe that makes them number four instead of number three in terms of revenues, but it also takes me closer to Germany in the long term, which is in their benefit as well!
linguoboy wrote:Yasna wrote:It's largely about local market size. If you produce a hit in the Swedish market, you are probably not going to make a whole lot of money off of it. If you produce a hit in the German market, you have made it. So I can understand why an ambitious Swedish band would want to take aim for a bigger market.
Yeah, most European countries I visited had minimum local language content laws to prevent the airwaves from being swamped with English-language pop. But I don't think Spain bothered. Spanish-language bands had not only Spain (and Portugal, and the Spanish diaspora within Europe) for an audience, but all of Spanish America as well. That tips the scales.
Woods wrote:Janjan & Jurgen, can you help spread the word – we don’t want English, we want Swedish!!!
Chekhov wrote:I don't know about naive worldviews, but Jurgen Wullenwhatever pisses me off to no end because of his extreme pessimism and cynicism. You'd think the world was going to end imminently when talking to that guy.
Jurgen Wullenwever wrote:My personal opinion is that every other language that I have heard in music sounds more powerful than English
linguoboy wrote:Sounds like you have an irrational animus against English.
Chekhov wrote:I don't know about naive worldviews, but Jurgen Wullenwhatever pisses me off to no end because of his extreme pessimism and cynicism. You'd think the world was going to end imminently when talking to that guy.
Jurgen Wullenwever wrote:Some pop songs in Swedish have been remade into rather anonymous and bland English versions by the same artists.
Chekhov wrote:I don't know about naive worldviews, but Jurgen Wullenwhatever pisses me off to no end because of his extreme pessimism and cynicism. You'd think the world was going to end imminently when talking to that guy.
Jurgen Wullenwever wrote:But that was only an example, and not a good one. Do you not feel that English and French sound less harsh or less sharp in their pronunciation than a number of other European languages?
Johanna wrote:There are some that make music in both languages, but often what comes out is pretty different, and many even use a different name depending on the language
SayItInSwedish wrote: With that said, I am not against Swedes singing in English, but I think some just don't dare to sing in Swedish because it feels too personal. As a songwriter myself, it's hard to get confident enough to write in your mother tongue.
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