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Yes, we do not seem to go for foreign voices at all.
Saying that, I've listened to a few of his tracks, on the back of his excellent streaming numbers and I'm baffled to his popularity! It all seems to be sung/rapped in a kind of silly, sort of comedic voice. It all seems rather childish sounding to me!
This may explain why the media doesn't play these artists! The hear is like the palate, it needs training to digest something. As a French / Portuguese, I don't hear at all this sound you describe. I can understand what you mean though as I do felt the same while first listening to some Asian artists at some point.
It's a huge difference with the US on this subject, Bad Bunny's debut has been added to the Rolling Stones magazine all-time Top 500 ranking. YHLQMDLG made the year end top 10 list of greatest albums for Billboard, Rolling Stones, Entertainment Weekly, the NYT, and even Pitchfork! It's quite something when we think about it.
Yeah, I'm stumped by it all and not just him. I've listen to a few similar acts to Bad Bunny, like Ozuna and I just don't get it or the appeal.
I wouldn't say I was a fan of the Asian stuff either but having also listened to a few acts, I can at least see the appeal.
I guess the difference with the UK and US is, that there is a far greater diaspora from Spanish speaking countries, in the US, not so much in UK.
"As I said in the 80s and 90s Sabbaths star had fallen considerably"
Ozzy sold 30 million albums in the US during the 80s and 90s... By comparison, Deep Purple's career total in the US is, what, 15 million ? Also, Sabbath were a major influence on 90s and 00s bands (grunge, nu-metal...etc.).
It's definitely not as simple as "marketing" and "reunion tours".
“As I said in the 80s and 90s Sabbaths star had fallen considerably”. I fully stand by that statement because it is not my opinion, it is the truth.
Yes, Ozzy done well in the 80s and 90s but not Sabbath and even then I put a lot of that done to the shrewd marketing and management of Sharon Osbourne. Just look at Sabbaths performance even with Ozzy in the band in the late 70s, it was going downhill fast, with albums not even charting in some territories and performing very poorly in their once strong heartlands of the UK and the US.
I was around in the 80s and 90s and nobody really gave a toss about contemporary Sabbath, sure people still listened to and enjoyed their early albums but nobody was really buying or that interested in stuff like 7th Star, Born Again, Headless Cross, The Eternal Idol, TYR etc.
I'm not saying it is all down to marketing and reunion tours, clearly you have to have the music to back it up in the first place but it sure as hell put the Sabbath name back on the map, after it had sunk so low.
MJD I've listened to some of his songs but it just goes through me, I don't get it.
“in the 80s and 90s Sabbaths star had fallen considerably”
"sure people still listened to and enjoyed their early albums"
... a little contradictory, isn't it? 😉
"nobody was really buying or that interested in stuff like 7th Star, Born Again, Headless Cross, The Eternal Idol, TYR etc."
No one cares about the post-Ozzy and Dio albums, why are you even mentioning them?
Which is exactly what I am saying, nobody cared about their music in the 80s and 90s or even the later Ozzy albums, hence why I said their star fell, as nobody gave a shit about them anymore. Also, let's not pretend that their early stuff was still on everybodys lips and selling well on catalogue because it wasn't.
On the other hand Deep Purples stuff in the 80s done reasonably well, going Top 10 and getting to #1 in quite a few countries.
That's not strictly true about the Dio albums, well Heaven & Hell at least, some folk do rate it very highly, certainly far higher than Technical Ecstasy or Never Say Die, with some ranking it up there with the early albums.
You should take a holiday trip to Latin America and you will understand the appeal.
Although I am not a fan, reggaeton/latin trap music is inescapable.
Particularly Bad Bunny releases a lot of stuff, so you end up liking a song here and there and at the end of the day you realize you like a handful of hits.
He is the leader of the latin explosion. Streaming platforms were the gasoline that fueled this movement.
I am from Argentina and now, after years of market depression, a lot of artists are surging collecting millions of streams and gaining popularity in other latin countries. Particularly the producer BIZARRAP. He doesn't sing/rap, but he's got the beats and his tracks are very popular (he is something like a local Timbaland or Mark Ronson). Is he successful enough to be studied?
I'd love to take a trip to Central/South America/Caribbean but sadly I don't think it would change my opinion on this style of music, Gus.
I have listened to a reasonable amount of Reggaeton, Dancehall and old style Reggae etc and I just think it's not for me. I really do not like the style or delivery of the vocals, I like some of the music but prefer music with more straight forward singing. Also, I'm not a fan of a lot of their videos and imagery, again it's just not something that appeals to me.
I really like the music in "I LIke It" but again the vocals just annoy me, especially Cardi B, I really do not like how she delivers her lyrics. I find her really, really annoying and grating on the whole, not just this track.
NO, I think it's bloody awful but not as bad or annoying as that Bodak Yellow shit. WTF is that all about, woman sounds like she has some kind of illness, that affects her speech.
