For those of you not familiar with french the title says French Music. Here in Canada, I feel we don't appreciate or publisize french music as much as we should. In my french class right now, we're doing presentations on french-speaking music artists and 99% of them so far have only toured in Québec. There are only a couple of french channels on cable television and Much Music, the Canadian MTV, only shows French Kiss (french music videos) at 7am as far as I'm aware. I've also heard that the musical artsit don't get very much money at all. This shows mostly in their music videos. There are a lot of animation or "one set" videos.
All this aside, I've been realizing how good french music really is. There's something that sets it aside from music of other languages, and I'm not talking about the language. I'm not quite sure what it is. There's just this underlying (not sure if that's the right word) tone that corresponds to music of a different language.
When listening to music of a different language you have to be open-minded and patient. It's the same as discovering artists here. You aren't going to not listen to English music (or whatever your native tongue is) just because you can't find someone good. You just have to keep looking. One genre or artist doesn't define that country's music. Keeping that in mind I'll give you a head start and name some artists (most being Canadian) and some of their songs. If you liked this, keep checking this post again because I'll be updating them when I find someone new. Eventually, if the list gets too long I'll have to get rid of the song recommendation.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Music Internationle
I thought it would be kinda cool if every so often I did a little blurb about music from a different country (chances are it would be about more recent music and not traditional). I know a lot of my friends aren't entirely open-minded about music from a different country, mostly because they can't understand it or, in our case, it takes too much effort to translate it in our minds (french). Personally, I think you should give all kinds of music a chance (if you don't already). It's just like the music we listen to here just in a different language. What surprised me the most is how different it is compared to American music even though it's the same genre. So basically, I'll do couple blurbs and mention some artists of different genres that you can check out. All I ask of you is to give this music a chance and give me some feedback. What kind of genre do you want to see more of, do you like the idea or not, is there a certain country you want me to cover etc. I'm mostly doing this for you guys, although it will give me a chance to explore and discover some awesome new music :P There are 4 countries, or languages, that I'll be covering first because I already know a decent amount about them and it requires no research on my part once so ever ( :P). These countries are: French (Canada & France), Japan, Korea and China.
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