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Originally Posted by sonicl
I'm going to end up kicked up a hill for saying this, and then kicked back down for good measure, but I can't help but notice how American culture seems to allow no room for any crossover in tastes between mainstream and non-mainstream musics, while European culture seems to embrace that kind of a crossover, and sees no wrong in liking both sugar-sweet pop and weird-as-fuck rock. Any idea why?
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Good old sonicl.I think there are several reasons for this and i'll try to explain(it's just my opinion,mind).Europe has always been the brain of the world(up until now,at least) and has more of a tradition in contextualizing its and other countries's music.In terms of general popular culture the fact that Britain is close to the rest of it(both geographically and economically) simply means that whatever pops up in the country is quickly picked up by the press/radio in the rest of Europe thus creating a musical envoirement that is self-sustained for the most part.More later as the phone's ringing........