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TrainFan73 said:
I don’t know. I think in current music, unless an act has reached a certain stature they are unknown or little talked of here. Certainly lots of bands have reached a kind of legacy status. But even broader than the UK, nonwestern music, hell nonEuropean music is generally under represented.

I think more people would dig Cumbia and MPB if they were remotely familiar with it. Much less more Eastern music.
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I agree but I was specifically speaking to the idea that in a world with The Beatles, Radiohead, and Adele that the UK is underrepresented from a pop culture standpoint isn’t really a thing. Sure, everything is viewed through a lens of American sensibilities but the UK has an outsized presence within our music landscape moreso than any other country short of perhaps Canada.
 
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TenderLovingKiller® said:
I agree but I was specifically speaking to the idea that in a world with The Beatles, Radiohead, and Adele the idea that the UK is underrepresented from a pop culture standpoint isn’t really a thing. Sure, everything is viewed through a lens of American sensibilities but the UK has an outsized presence within our music landscape moreso than any other country short of perhaps Canada.
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I was just thinking, I wish the Canucks would share the stuff we don’t know.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I disagree but I am a music nerd.
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I’m constantly flummoxed by the shear amount of American stuff that cats on here are all like this is the best that I’ve never even remotely heard of…. That has to be magnified for those outside of America and then once you wonder out of the European realm you probably need some calculus to determine the limits of what we don’t know.

(it’s important to also note our sphere of influence(s), my friends and family think I am encyclopedic when it comes to musical knowledge… yet I don’t have a candle to @Yer Ol' Uncle D in general or you to indie rock or @Twentytwo to left of center country or @Joe Mac to Irish… etc…)
 
Joe Mac said:
Maybe it’s a hangover from the old forum, the landlords really didn’t believe in globalism with music curation…

I don’t think I’m entirely banking up the wrong tree though.
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I rag on VMP a lot but they genuinely seem enthusiastic about music exploration in general. They certainly step out of the American/European fold more often then say Rhino does.
 
TrainFan73 said:
I’m constantly flummoxed by the shear amount of American stuff that cats on here are all like this is the best that I’ve never even remotely heard of…. That has to be magnified for those outside of America and then once you wonder out of the European realm you probably need some calculus to determine the limits of what we don’t know.

(it’s important to also note our sphere of influence(s), my friends and family think I am encyclopedic when it comes to musical knowledge… yet I don’t have a candle to @Yer Ol' Uncle D in general or you to indie rock or @Twentytwo to left of center country or @Joe Mac to Irish… etc…)
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And honestly I’m an indie, rock, pop fan who’s taken an interest in local music through a later life enjoyment of folk. I don’t even scratch the surface. I’d really love to actually become an expert some day, as it is I’m probably more so of 00s landfill indie…
 
Joe Mac said:
And honestly I’m an indie, rock, pop fan who’s taken an interest in local music through a later life enjoyment of folk. I don’t even scratch the surface. I’d really love to actually become an expert some day, as it is I’m probably more so of 00s landfill indie…
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The older I get and the more I know, the more I realize that being an expert in anything is not really a thing.
 
Joe Mac said:
Maybe it’s a hangover from the old forum, the landlords really didn’t believe in globalism with music curation…

I don’t think I’m entirely banking up the wrong tree though.
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I think UK influence has waned a bit but I think that has to do more with how siloed things have become with how fan enjoy and discover music.

Today a T-Swift fan could choose to listen to only Taylor Swift if that’s how they chose to live their life. For me and most millennials and older we still remember a time when there was a bit more of a monoculture. If I wanted to watch a Weezer video chances are I had to sit through an Oasis or Blur video too. Now even though everything is available all the time at the tap of a finger, we still have to be genuinely curious in other music or culture to put forth the effort for discovery.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I think UK influence has waned a bit but I think that has to do more with how siloed things have come with how fan enjoy and discover music.

Today a T-Swift fan could choose to listen to only Taylor Swift if that’s how they chose to live their life. For me and most millennials and older we still remember a time when there was a bit more of a monoculture. If wanted to watch a Weezer video chances are I had to sit through an Oasis or Blur video too. Now even though everything is available all the time at the tap of a finger, we still have to be genuinely curious in other music or culture to put forth the effort for discovery.
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I don’t know, I think monoculture if there ever truly was one is more a MTV generation thing. 90s and early 00s top forty radio was an interesting melting pot. I think once you get to the early eighties things get heavily siloed again.
 
TrainFan73 said:
I don’t know, I think monoculture if there ever truly was one is more a MTV generation thing. 90s and early 00s top forty radio was an interesting melting pot. I think once you get to the early eighties things get heavily siloed again.
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I do think the internet has amplified American cultural hegemony. Music is reaching a point that film and big budget tv has been for quite a while. I think that leads to the less interesting things from other places getting more traction too.
 
Joe Mac said:
I do think the internet has amplified American cultural hegemony. Music is reaching a point that film and big budget tv has been for quite a while. I think that leads to the less interesting things from other places getting more traction too.
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I think that’s algorithm more than the internet…. We all end up in entertainment bubbles just like we do with social media and politics.
 
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