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Originally Posted by GRACE
The most popular songs in America generally lack any sort of substance, I don't think it's a "stereotype," because it's true. They're good for a quick fix, but then they lose their spark after a while and you move onto the next big thing.
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Well, that depends on how one defines "substance". There are many extremely popular songs in every language that fit this description (and I know you're not saying "only in America" do these things apply).
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Originally Posted by GRACE
I personally think it's because the English language is so hard to work with, in most other languages, you can preserve flow and beauty while still saying profound things because the language flows better. English, the mutated love child of more languages than you can count, doesn't often have that melodic flow, it's a very hard language.
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I disagree with your general point about English being hard to work with. As a general point with these "most other languages", the sounds which they employ aren't all conducive to "flow and beauty" either; making a generalization about "most other languages" really isn't the wisest thing to do. All modern languages are in some ways mutilated love children of former "live" languages. I'm thinking you have the Romance languages in mind; am I correct? Even in those cases, I wouldn't agree with your point about "flow and beauty".
Oh, and WORD to jknza's post. *applause*
And LOL @ the "skinny beauty" tag. Here we go again.
