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As someone who lives in a city, shitting on country music is not something that has ever crossed my mind
I've seen it. I've also seen people talk down classical, disco and a few other genres at various points in my life. It seems there's always an uncool genre of the day. Which is a shame as people are simply limiting themselves.
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I think 'adapt' might be a better word, but absolutely they do. I agree it's not as easy to find, I have a Thai country CD from the early Naughts in storage somewhere, I bet if you went with the right searches on your streaming source of choice you'd turn it up.
That's awesome. Again, I wasn't trying to be a dick (I drew a downvote at one point, for some reason, so I guess I was somehow?) it just seems that every time I've listened to a popular foreign radio station from Africa or the Pacific or Asia, the non-English stuff I've heard has either been plainly in some kind of "pop" category, or, even more often, hip-hop, never country, so I found it surprising that an overwhelm…
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Or shooting a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
Everyone always brings this song up. It's very clear that Cash is playing a character of a foolish and almost-repentant criminal in the song; traditional American music records were half morality plays on rogues and half religious pleas for virtue. It is an unfair comparison to modern hip-hop, which is primarily warrior bragodoccio. Go to WorldStar if you want to see.
Here's where it ends up, that's the story and that's the song. There's some bragodoccio in it, both Cash and Gang Starr.
Just to get a Rep is a morality play.
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Do they imitate it in their own music? When I go looking for American influence in foreign pop music, most of what I find is usually hip-hop. Almost never country.
Check out Cambodian rock music. It came about during the Vietnam war from people listening to American radio broadcasts.
A lot of people don't really know it, but American country music is the most commercially successful music genre worldwide and is popular in places such as southeast Asia, Mongolia, sub Saharan Africa, even India and Latin america. Europeans and city dwelling Americans love to shit on it but the world loves it, probably because it's easy to relate to lyrically and uses pleasant melodies and simple to follow rhythms.…
> American country music is the most commercially successful music genre worldwide [citation needed] > even India Yeah, no. Unless you are using a very liberal definition of popular . American music is a niche in India and country music is a niche within a niche. Rock, pop and hip-hop are far more popular.
American songs play on everybody’s instagram stories. Not super niche.
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I've seen it. I've also seen people talk down classical, disco and a few other genres at various points in my life. It seems there's always an uncool genre of the day. Which is a shame as people are simply limiting themselves.
disco, nu metal probably the two most hated genres
I think we're finally brushing off the excessive dismissal of the form, probably in no small part to the rock-worshipping generations being drowned out by the newer generations that have no such allegiances.
Off-topic: I never understood why native English speakers use Sahara and desert and think they are different things. Sometimes they even say "Sahara desert".
Near me, there's the Sonoran desert and the Great Basin desert. If I lived in eastern Asia I might think of the Gobi desert. There's many deserts. So while I take your point that 'Sahara', in a non-English language, denotes what I call in English 'desert', I would say that the phrase 'Sahara desert' could be interpreted to signify "the place on this planet, that could be characterized as having a desert ecosystem, that is described by the people who live nearby as 'Sahara'". For the people who do not know that 'Sahara' is used by some other people to denote what they think of when they say the word 'desert', the word 'desert' is not extraneous. But for you, who does, it is.
A lot of people don't really know it, but American country music is the most commercially successful music genre worldwide and is popular in places such as southeast Asia, Mongolia, sub Saharan Africa, even India and Latin america. Europeans and city dwelling Americans love to shit on it but the world loves it, probably because it's easy to relate to lyrically and uses pleasant melodies and simple to follow rhythms.…
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> American country music is the most commercially successful music genre worldwide [citation needed] > even India Yeah, no. Unless you are using a very liberal definition of popular . American music is a niche in India and country music is a niche within a niche. Rock, pop and hip-hop are far more popular.
I sat in a Pizza Hut in CP Delhi loudly playing country music. American songs play on everybody’s instagram stories. Not super niche.
local music (bollywood number, south indian film industry etc) is expectedly far more widespread and american music pales in comparison in terms of popularity
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> American country music is the most commercially successful music genre worldwide [citation needed] > even India Yeah, no. Unless you are using a very liberal definition of popular . American music is a niche in India and country music is a niche within a niche. Rock, pop and hip-hop are far more popular.
"Popular" just means that a lot of people like it. That's a pretty run of the mill use of the term. It doesn't mean it's a major cultural trend in a country. I just said it's pretty popular worldwide.