draik said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:
Khuutra said:
I'm going to ignore the rest of your post to look at the idea that Americans "might as well have invented music".
It is blinding me.
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A few things.
A. That was a turn of phrase, relevant to modern entertainment. It's not to say that America had any part in the creation of great music(though it did in part, with blues, rock and roll, ect), I'm saying that relevant, profitable music, comes from us, and in MODERN times, we're running the show, so while we DID NOT invent music, we certainly might as well have, as far as the profit and popularity scale are concerned.
B. Fucking Elvis.
Anyway, yes, I probably shouldn't have generalized music, as it is the most questionable of our monopolies, yet again, relevant modern music is America's stomping ground. Classical is a shrinking genre. Rap, R&B, even country and rock & roll. The casual music listener belongs to us now. You know this. We didn't invent it...but we might as well have.
Nintendo didn't invent videogames...but they might as well have.
That was my opinion. I find it valid.
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I'm going to give music to the brits.
Queen, Pink floyd, the police, the who, radiohead, the clash, the sex pistols, led zeppelin, rolling stones, the beatles.
That's some quality music.
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Not just that, but those groups you just named defined a lot of what eventually became popular music today. Europe has been the starting ground for many different genre of rock and roll, and even where they weren't they really legitimized different forms of the music. Almost all of rock's popularity on the international scene is thanks to the Beatles, the Stones, and Led Zeppelin, Ozzy is still the god emperor of the metal movement...
I mean, yeah, the American south is the birthplace of the blues and R&B, and rock and roll was born from those traditions, but where do you draw the line with this stuff?
