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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. 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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"They're good for a quick fix, but then they lose their spark after a while and you move onto the next big thing." Generally all music is like that. IMO, no one is original when it comes to music. It just depends on who does it better in that particular territory and how it reaches the audience. =/
And seriously, English is hard to work with? Sorry, I don't think that it's really that hard to work with when foreign singers who know little of or nothing of English has English lyrics in their songs.
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Originally Posted by Yum!Fruit_Salad!
If it's generic, lyrically repetitive and uninteresting, do you really want to make American-styled music? Now, if the music wasn't generic and the lyrics were a tiny bit better, than there would be no problems. Not every American-styled song is like that (generic and all that), it's just unfornate Hikki happened to adopt that.
Stargate did Beautiful Liar? Ugh, I dislike them even more.
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Oh come on with the lyrics speech. Even if it's "lyrically repetitive", does it really make a song bad? It depends on more than just lyrics to know whether or not the song is bad. IMO, people judge songs more on the sound/melody/beat etc than the lyrics. I mean, seriously. If it wasn't for people translating foreign songs for us, none of us would really give a two cent crap about the lyrics. Heck, some people still don't give a two cent crap about the lyrics and don't even understand the message that the singer is trying to say in the song. Just as long as the song sounds good.
And Beautiful Lair was the hotness. Still love the song til this day. I really don't understand the Stargate hate just like the Timberland hate. Yea, Timberland's stuff sounds the same but hell, they are catchy and good. Stargate's songs have some differences in the melody and stuff but IMO, it's just that singers tend to sing the same tone as each other when it comes to their songs which is where I think some of you get that "their stuff is generic etc."
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Originally Posted by jbrat2219
If you think that's what makes good music in general, I feel sorry for you. Not all American music is generic and not all of it is terrible. Like I said, I hope she makes real music when she's better established. Yeah maybe it takes a song like this for her to be a hit, but I don't want her to continue to make generic music blending in with everyone else when I know she's better than that.
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"I hope she makes real music...." What's not so real about her music? Hikki has always had songs that's of the R&B genre but with most of them, of course, in a different language. Come Back To Me is no different from what her R&B songs sound like and are about. You're making it seem like she's selling herself out when she's really not and never have done. I should be the one who feels sorry for you because you just don't seem to understand that for some reason.