Brazil’s song could be translated as “Get fucked in the ass with a huge slap”. As a Brazilian, I don’t know what I was expecting.
As a human, I can’t say I’m surprised.
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#22I think if I look at this any longer I might slip, fall down and break a hip! Embarrassing how old I am when pretty much ALL of these songs sound like absolute trash to me. Repetitive auto-tuned, formulaic, mysoginistic, materialistic, mundane, simple-minded steam pile of fermenting dog poo.
that's probably what your parents were saying about the music you listened to when you were young, too.
And they were for the most part correct. The 90's and early 2ks were filled with trash music. The only nice thing compared to the pop lists today is that those bands still actually played instruments.
I look back at what I listened to then and maybe a handful of those groups were actually anything good. The rest was appealing to an unrefined 13 year old, which really says a lot about how shitty that music is.
I listen to a lot of stuff from the late 60's and early 70's now, as well as newer stuff full of band names that would never end up in the top 500 lists.
My parents generation of music was undoubtedly more wholesome and serious than my own, and its not even a comparison to now.
If music is supposed to be a reflection of society, it's no wonder as society is such trash now.
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#23Clicked on four countries in Western Europe and then the United States and they were all the same pop song... not sure what I was expecting I guess
Rockstar is a top song on Tiktok — maybe that's the reason?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why 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.
It'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…
Just 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".
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
that's probably what your parents were saying about the music you listened to when you were young, too.
And they were for the most part correct. The 90's and early 2ks were filled with trash music. The only nice thing compared to the pop lists today is that those bands still actually played instruments. I look back at what I listened to then and maybe a handful of those groups were actually anything good. The rest was appealing to an unrefined 13 year old, which really says a lot about how shitty that music is. I liste…
Extremely serious and wholesome hit from 1960: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yw0bLHTOb0
Edit: by the way, you realise that your grandparents were probably moaning about the music your parents listened to? And their parents ditto, and so on. Nothing new about it.
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#26Spotify is one of those services that it never occurred to me wasn't already truly-global (i.e. penetration into all markets.) But so many of the countries on this map are dark. (And aren't available in the raw chart data, either.) Is there some other more-popular music-streaming service in these other markets, that's keeping Spotify out? What do they use in China? In Russia? Or is music-streaming as a whole, just no…
Yeah, I visit South Korea often, a lot of koreans use Youtube music surprisingly. It makes sense since they also watch a lot of clips of shows.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
And they were for the most part correct. The 90's and early 2ks were filled with trash music. The only nice thing compared to the pop lists today is that those bands still actually played instruments. I look back at what I listened to then and maybe a handful of those groups were actually anything good. The rest was appealing to an unrefined 13 year old, which really says a lot about how shitty that music is. I liste…
Extremely serious and wholesome hit from 1960: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yw0bLHTOb0 Edit: by the way, you realise that your grandparents were probably moaning about the music your parents listened to? And their parents ditto, and so on. Nothing new about it.
Compared to an autotuned stripper mumbling into a microphone, yes, it is.
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#28It's sort of political game but Sporify is blocked by Spotify itself in many countries.
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#29It's sort of political game but Sporify is blocked by Spotify itself in many countries.
Probably a distribution rights / local laws thing. International media distribution is complicated and a lot of authoritarian regimes control it tightly.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
It'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…
Just 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".
Nevertheless, 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.