Nem said:
I thought you wanted the reason, not to debate it. Even on those links you can see it. Germanic languages just have too many R sounds. G's that are pronounced R's aswell as others. Sure you can make a good melody, but the pool of combinations that work is much smaller than the english language, for example that doesn't use pronounced R sounds so much. Especially for people who don't talk the language the R sounds are very pronounced and don't make for good melodies. It's actually painful to listen to. I can for example point your second link of the first band as an example. You can argue that if you want. But you asked and i told you why. This is somewhat common knowledge. Actually a dutch person was the one that pointed this out to me first. Germanic languages just aren't very rich for singing. As they say, you can't make a (sturdy) house without bricks. It sucks, but it is what it is. |
I'm not debating it, I'm just against stupid generalisations. I'm just showing you several examples where it is obvious that the whole R thing is overblown because everybody thinks we talk like in those Hitler videos. There are actually many artists who can even make German sound pleasing enough. It is all a matter of pronunciation, that's why people generally like the British English more than American English. And French better than both.
Of course the English language in a musical sense is better sounding and much easier to the ears than German, that indeed is common knowledge. Dutch is much harsher than German though. I still believe there are some dutch songs I'd like, if you guys know any please show me some.
I also love Portuguese since my school exchange there...Spanish only from South-America, sorry and Italian more for comical reasons, even though I had it in school.
I also think Russian and Polish are incredibly hard languages, but I know some great songs in those languages. You get my point.
But yeah, I guess the biggest reason for less popularity of all of this music, is simple lack of understanding their lyrics.
Last edited by Errorist76 - on 15 December 2017
