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Most popular music in all EU countries is mostly local, people that say otherwise probably only visited mcdonadls.
I wouldn't say that's true. In many northern and north-central EU countries the most popular music tends to be in English. The place of local music varies from small to medium in many countries.
The Prodigy? Really? I mean, really? I thought they stopped making music in the 90s.
I don't know those authors unfortunately.
Exactly my thoughts. Didn't know they were around still. Strictly down from Music for the Gilted Generation.
Cornwell is American, Nesbø Norwegian (Scandinavian crime fiction, what a surprise there) and Jungstedt some Swedish neverheard.
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I wouldn't say that's true. In many northern and north-central EU countries the most popular music tends to be in English. The place of local music varies from small to medium in many countries.
I wouldn't say that's true. In many northern and north-central EU countries the most popular music tends to be in English. The place of local music varies from small to medium in many countries.
All important European countries have a very important local music industry. There are also laws protecting local culture that impose local quotas. The main example is France, as in large European countries there are many state-owned media that also produce their local content.
As to movies, many European countries wage a lost war against Hollywood movies, mainly countries that once had state-owned studios such as Cinecitta, UFA, etc. For many European countries, local content is very important, that's why in many cases subsidised content could be very bad.
I don't know about Germany, but right now the best European movies are German by far and I bet they have a very important subsidised local culture. There's a certain reminiscence of former corporativist policies implemented by Mussolini and copied by many countries.
And Northern Europe. And Western Europe. And Southeastern Europe.
I saw pretty much no American pop culture in Germany. How about that? Americans seem to think that American entertainment outside of Hollywood is pervasive everywhere in the world. It is not, and 99% of the time you need a premium channel dedicated to US TV to watch American programming
I saw pretty much no American pop culture in Germany. How about that? Americans seem to think that American entertainment outside of Hollywood is pervasive everywhere in the world. It is not, and 99% of the time you need a premium channel dedicated to US TV to watch American programming
This is true. You need to pay for a Sky TV/Virgin TV subscription to get things like Fox here. American shows are popular, but they are not as popular as British shows.
Plus, in the top 10 songs on the charts right now.. artists are:
Jess Glynne, British
Ed Sheeran, British
James Bay, British
Years and Years, British
Mark Ronson, British
Kanye West/Rihanna/Paul McCartney, American/British
Maroon 5, American
Hozier, Irish
Ellie Goulding, British
Sia, Australian
I think what has saved the vibrant domestic culture here is that we are a small and unique one. People very much enjoy domestic music, movies and tv-series, just because it's domestic and we can relate to them. And this is the situation in all European countries, in some countries larger, in some countries smaller. Sure people watch US tv-series, movies and listen to music, but I can't figure out one country where those have replaced the domestic culture or the culture of their neighbours. Not even in countries where the proficiency of the English language are the highest, US culture hasn't replaced the indigenous. MTV pretty much died out when they stopped showing music videos. Who want to watch some reality show about spoiled brats in LA? Nobody.
Some Americans, and sadly a minority of English, listen, watch and read 99% domestic culture, they might be under the impression of that nothing else exists in the world. They think we listen to Kanye West, watch Steven Colbert and flip burgers at barbecues, as themselves are not exposed to anything else. For example, the Danish crime thriller Forbrydelsen, which is a masterpiece, couldn't be shown on US tv. It had to be remade to an American version. "Oh, what, multiple parties, immigrants, moving to Sweden? The American public won't accept it. Let's replace it with moving to LA, some Muslims, Indjun casinos and some gangsters".
Well, whatever, the end result was quite good, but suddenly The Killing became an American series, and probably 90% don't even know the origins were Danish. So, another piece of European culture just erased from American eyes.
A video in the end:
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Didn't know they were around still. Strictly down from Music for the Gilted Generation. 
Americans seem to think that American entertainment outside of Hollywood is pervasive everywhere in the world. It is not, and 99% of the time you need a premium channel dedicated to US TV to watch American programming
