[identity profile] mippy.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] poptimists
Sir Terence of Wogan, on the radio just now:

'Pop music's an anglophone thing. In French or Finnish, it's just not right...'

O RLY? Can you judge Eurovision for anything here? Does all English music sound like Canal Street hi-NRG then? Or is it because the only European music 'we' - 'we' being yr Radio 2, maybe Radio 1 audience - hear is in English, save dancehall shows which I guess are already targeted at a patois-speaking audience, radio-wise. But like I said earlier, I'm musically rusty, and probably don't listen to enough non-English pop save 'Initial BB' and Jacques Dutronc.

Date: 2007-05-08 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lockedintheatti.livejournal.com
German group Tocotronic have a song called 'über sex kann man nur auf englisch singen' (You can only sing about sex in English) which I believe is making the point that Germans are so used to hearing (even German bands) sing in English that it's weird, as a German, to hear songs about sex in their own language.

Date: 2007-05-09 10:03 am (UTC)

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