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pastro243 on 14 December 2017

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KiigelHeart on 14 December 2017

Helloween has couple of pretty good albums.



ithis on 14 December 2017
Farsala said:

And ironically lose to tiny countries like Moldavia, where talent should be surely lacking.

WTF? You mean because of the smaller selection pool, right, not in the "big western Europeans be superior to small eastern Europeans" kind of way you make it sound, right?



Birimbau on 14 December 2017

I've listened to some pop musics in german and it sounds awful. The language seems to be made for rock and maybe rap.



Flilix on 14 December 2017
Birimbau said:
I've listened to some pop musics in german and it sounds awful. The language seems to be made for rock and maybe rap.

German pop music is the best music in the entire world!

https://youtu.be/haECT-SerHk



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Birimbau on 14 December 2017
Flilix said:
Birimbau said:
I've listened to some pop musics in german and it sounds awful. The language seems to be made for rock and maybe rap.

German pop music is the best music in the entire world!

https://youtu.be/haECT-SerHk

Kpop wins for me. This is not bad I just don't feel the song at all.

 

 

 



Flilix on 14 December 2017
Birimbau said:
Flilix said:

German pop music is the best music in the entire world!

https://youtu.be/haECT-SerHk

Kpop wins for me. This is not bad I just don't feel the song at all.

Actually I wasn't really being serious.



Flilix on 14 December 2017
RolStoppable said:
Farsala said:
I love Rammstein.

I don't have the answers but I will attempt it.

UK and USA are english and english=pop culture. Japanese are very open to english and they invent new japanese words all the time to match english words called loan words. Japan is also a bigger trading partner than Germany. Japan also dislikes most of their neighbors so they share their culture with english speakers, while Germany has a good relationship with it's european neighbors, so a lot of its pop culture doesn't get to us.

China is number 2 and they probably have less pop culture than Germany.

I can't stop thinking about the Eurovision Song Contest where it's becoming tradition to ask the question if Germany can defend their last place in the results.

Okay, they aren't always in last place, but they give off Cleveland Browns vibes for sure. Every year the German broadcasters get their hopes up only to see them getting crushed with an abysmal result.

It would probably help if they didn't send a boring, generic and forgettable song every year. UK has the same issue.



The_Liquid_Laser on 14 December 2017
HomokHarcos said:

I've found it strange that compared to the other major developed economies of the world, that Germany's popular culture doesn't seem to be as popular worldwide. The UK has The Beatles, Harry Potter, James Bond and the Premier League. Japan has popular video games such as Super Mario and Pokemon, manga and anime. The USA pretty much goes without saying. Why is this?


All of the big modern entertainment started in the USA.  Movies, Rock and Roll, and video games all started in the USA.  The British took American Rock and Roll and made it better.  They also share a common language with USA which helps.  Japan took American video games and made them better.  That is why USA, UK and Japan stand out in entertainment.



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vivster on 14 December 2017
RolStoppable said:

I can't stop thinking about the Eurovision Song Contest where it's becoming tradition to ask the question if Germany can defend their last place in the results.

Okay, they aren't always in last place, but they give off Cleveland Browns vibes for sure. Every year the German broadcasters get their hopes up only to see them getting crushed with an abysmal result.

We just got tired from all the winning.



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