What do you think about a rock (alternative,metal,indie, etc) band that doesnt write and sing in their native language ?
example :
Mew - Denmark
Zoe - Mexico
Sepultura - Brazil
2007-07-28 21:11:53 · 10 answers · asked by DREMONibd 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Yes I believe so !!!
2007-08-05 19:25:07 · answer #1 · answered by apreston60 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite is when American bands sing with inexplicable British accents and, for that matter, vice versa. Find me a band that sounds more American than the Rolling Stones. Can't do it.
Rock music is sort of essentially American. Other people do it well and, arguably better in some cases, in other parts of the world. But it developed in the US for some very particular reasons. It seems natural that some international bands would select American English to write and perform their songs: people are working within an existing idiom. No body says they have to, and there's no reason to get, from an American perspective, all nationalistic about it. No "you people ought respect American music by recording in English" or similar nonsense. But it's fine.
Also, I have a certain love for bands who write about, say, Texas without having ever been their. There's something so interesting about having your home treated as exotica, about seeing it through different eyes.
2007-08-05 16:52:39 · answer #2 · answered by July 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love Mew, and I am not sure what I would think of them in Danish... I also love WIthin Tempation and don't think I would connect so much with the music if they sang only in Dutch.
Music is great, but I want to understand the lyrics. I don't see a problem with a group writing in a language that reaches a much larger audience.
2007-07-28 21:16:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Scorpions couldn't speak English for years during the 80's. Didn't seem to hurt them none, but their MTV interviews sure were funny. Singing by phonetics. Go figure...
2007-07-28 21:29:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fallout Boy-US doesn't sing in English.
2007-07-28 21:27:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it just means they have fans all over the world, why let a language barrier stop them?
2007-08-05 19:42:35 · answer #6 · answered by Slacker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
? (thanx for the 2 points)
2007-08-05 13:31:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it worked well for Celine Dione
2007-08-05 11:58:53 · answer #8 · answered by cheri h 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bully for them!
2007-07-29 02:13:00 · answer #9 · answered by Doug S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
quite bad
2007-08-05 19:31:26 · answer #10 · answered by Green Tea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋