Is the most popular music always the best? I certainly don't believe so.
Is the most well known song from a country the best they have? No, I don't believe it's true either. There has been foreign songs that have gotten ridiculous amount of popularity like Gangnam Style or Macarena but people never bother to look into a genre or other songs a country has. I know Gangnam Style is not Korea's best and I have nothing against it but I personally don't like it. Many years back when I was a freshmen in HS I decided to look at older groups and Classic Rock was a genre I discovered and fell in love with. I love everything from the rocker's voice to the instruments specially the electric guitar solos. After this discovery I never went back to the newer songs in the US. I stuck with the older rock groups like Queen, Aerosmith, the Beatles, Guns N' Roses, Toto, Bon Jovi, etc., mostly all the great rock groups from the 60's to the late 80's. I felt a little sad because everything I loved from these groups is no longer an ongoing way of producing music. Nowadays we have modern rock I honestly don't like much of it because the instruments and voice are too heavy and what I loved was that I would want to listen to everything apart like the drumming beat or the way the electric guitar was played and the singer's voice. I thought I'd never see it again, until I discovered L'Arc en Ciel, a 23 year old Japanese rock band.
Is the most well known song from a country the best they have? No, I don't believe it's true either. There has been foreign songs that have gotten ridiculous amount of popularity like Gangnam Style or Macarena but people never bother to look into a genre or other songs a country has. I know Gangnam Style is not Korea's best and I have nothing against it but I personally don't like it. Many years back when I was a freshmen in HS I decided to look at older groups and Classic Rock was a genre I discovered and fell in love with. I love everything from the rocker's voice to the instruments specially the electric guitar solos. After this discovery I never went back to the newer songs in the US. I stuck with the older rock groups like Queen, Aerosmith, the Beatles, Guns N' Roses, Toto, Bon Jovi, etc., mostly all the great rock groups from the 60's to the late 80's. I felt a little sad because everything I loved from these groups is no longer an ongoing way of producing music. Nowadays we have modern rock I honestly don't like much of it because the instruments and voice are too heavy and what I loved was that I would want to listen to everything apart like the drumming beat or the way the electric guitar was played and the singer's voice. I thought I'd never see it again, until I discovered L'Arc en Ciel, a 23 year old Japanese rock band.
L'Arc en Ciel has everything I love for a rock band. I never expected to find a rock band so similar in the overall feel of originality in their own genre and style. Hyde the rocker has an extraordinary voice, his voice is everything a rocker should have a strong smooth voice but rougher the moment he sings lower, a very very stable singing voice, and the feeling he gives off to the songs with his voice make me think nobody but him can sing them. This band also has 3 other members two of them play the electric guitar amazingly and have great voices as well and the drummer is just as great in his part as the others. They are all amazing in their own parts but the overall atmosphere of them as a band makes me want to see them live.
The fact that their music is in Japanese can be enough to stop someone from listening to them if they don't "understand it," I think many people think a language, mostly an asian language sounds a stereotypical way but I personally find the Japanese language very nice.
I kind of find it funny how other countries listen to American music but a lot of people in the US wouldn't bother looking into a different country's music. I suppose language barrier has a lot to do with it and not being exposed to a certain entertainment of another culture but why is American music possibly an exception in other countries even if english is a language barrier for them as well? I guess you could say it takes an open minded person to not judge by the standards of their own culture. I personally would actually prefer a lot of "foreign" music than listening to what a lot of American teens like, and I am not saying that there isn't any good songs out there but rarely any of that type of music fits my taste or live up to my standards ; )
I kind of find it funny how other countries listen to American music but a lot of people in the US wouldn't bother looking into a different country's music. I suppose language barrier has a lot to do with it and not being exposed to a certain entertainment of another culture but why is American music possibly an exception in other countries even if english is a language barrier for them as well? I guess you could say it takes an open minded person to not judge by the standards of their own culture. I personally would actually prefer a lot of "foreign" music than listening to what a lot of American teens like, and I am not saying that there isn't any good songs out there but rarely any of that type of music fits my taste or live up to my standards ; )
Anyways, this is L'Arc en Ciel the 23 year old rock band: Hyde's voice is live, raw, and powerful and the way the instruments are played IS GOLD:
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