>1.3 billion Chinese people>largest economy on earth>no notable musicwhat causes this phenomenon?
>>130104295https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg7sn2qgrwQ
>simultaneously Mr. Worldwide and Mr. 305isn't that far too much responsibility for one man alone
>>130104295big enough domestic market plus the us has them cucked from ever being a considerable soft power in the vein of japan south korean etc
>>130104295faye wong was a thing outside of china too you knowhttps://youtu.be/LJoQ3Dzmhcw?si=ljCyUYhZUi0rVejH
>>130104368I knew before even opening the link that it would be from the collab album with the Cocteau Twins. Important to note too is that she's from Hong Kong and the peak of her fame was from during the British Hong Kong era before the handover back to China in 1997, at which time she switched from singing in Cantonese to only Mandarin to not piss off China.
>>130104295tonal languages suck for making music
>>130104295They have notable music, you just don't know it because of the language barrier. It's rare that any foreign music gets popular in the English world if it's not sung in English, but many foreign countries never seem to mind when it's the other way around for some reason.
Are you guys watching Amazon Music too? Stagecochella?
>>130104394cantonese sounds repulsive compared to standard mandarin so that was a good thing
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>>130104331it's a bit redundant, 305 responsibilities included in worldwide responsibilities
>>largest economy on earth
>>130104295There's a China crisis.
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>>130105031>cantonese sounds repulsive compared to standard mandarinTrvke.
I like schoolgirl bye byehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3graDMuec&pp=0gcJCU8Co7VqN5tD
don't ignore xue hua piao piao
>>130104422I think it's what >>130104345 saidK-pop got big in the west despite the language
Communist countries have no soft power>"Modern China isn't Communist!"They're communist enough to have no soft power, they have really weird and seemingly inconsistent censorship laws too that result in everything they make being boring slop. China is only allowed to be fake-edgy, also they aren't the biggest economy in the world, they've been in a recession for the past 6 years
Regimes that are highly intrusive toward the thoughts of their population kill creativity.Even though people in the GDR were financially better off than in any other Eastern Bloc country, practically no art emerged there that has endured to this day, except among East Germans who associate it with their youth.Meanwhile, in much poorer Yugoslavia - communist, but less brainwashing in nature - far more music emerged that is still relatively objectively good today, for example a lot of new wave, post-punk and other electronic stuff
>>130104295tonal languages aren't good for singing
>>130109653According to some Youtube video I once watched they mostly ignore the tones in pop music. Lyrics are incomprehensible unless you already know what they mean. This sounds like a good thing for gatekeeping purposes.
>>130108460Kpop often has English lyrics or at the very least random chunks of English in songs. The Japanese also started doing that in the 70s and you can hear a lot of it in citypop where random verses or just the chorus is entirely English.https://youtu.be/-YSwJh-4j1s?t=91
>>130104295Xiao He (小河) is bretty kino, surprised he isn't more well known, the Chinese musical canon isn't really written yet so we'll have to see what stands the test of timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBgQUluay0
>>130104422This. But theree still might be an element of truth in what OP is saying. American and European music is super influential around the world. One might question why some of the musical styles haven't been more exposed in the states.
>>130104295no one cares about ching-chong lyrics in music
