Why do swedish bands sing in english

Even the street performers in Copenhagen do their performance in English because so many Northern Europeans are comfortable with the language. What janbb and the others have said, of course. Marketing wise is makes sense. But also:. ETpro Even little 5 year old Chinese kids can pronounce Chinese; but go build a rhyme scheme for popular music.

Ever listen to the year old man? Nugg Nugg Meckelen Metug, Farlucht matuch, metucht fartag. BeanS beans the musiCAL fruits, the more you eats the more you toots. Arabic, for example, works well with their particular noise style of music and unique rythm and not much else. To join, you must be at least 13 years old and agree to the terms and conditions.

Social Question. Why do so many Scandinavian bands sing in English? Add Topic 5, questions 1, people. Add Topic questions people. Add Topic questions 49 people. Add Topic 14 questions 6 people. Add Topic questions 7 people. Add Topic 27 questions 22 people. Add Topic questions 21 people. It's not really about understanding the lyrics, but rather that if you have a basic grasp of the phonology of the language in question it's a lot easer for your brain to process and remember the song than if you don't.

There are some that make music in both languages, but often what comes out is pretty different, and many even use a different name depending on the language, or they're in one band that sings in one and do their solo stuff in the other, or they're in two different bands.

And then there are of course many who never sing in English at all. So like hashi says, there's plenty of music in Swedish in all genres Or well, the really stupid pop that's not specifically aimed at kids is mostly conducted in English these days, thank God, that means it's much easier for me to ignore the lyrics and shut it out completely. Re: When will Swedish bands stop singing in English - it gets me sick Post by Woods » Fri , hashi wrote: Woh woh calm down there tiger there are a number of fantastic singers from Scandinavia that do sing in their mother tongue.

Re: When will Swedish bands stop singing in English? Post by Woods » Fri , Janjan, have a look at the Germans - they don't take the argument against their language, and for some reason Rammstein is the most well-known contemporary German band around the world as far as my metalhead knows They don't care the world understands English better, and - okay, maybe that makes them number four instead of number three in terms of revenues, but it also takes me closer to Germany in the long term, which is in their benefit as well!

Post by linguoboy » Fri , Woods wrote: Janjan, have a look at the Germans - they don't take the argument against their language, and for some reason Rammstein is the most well-known contemporary German band around the world as far as my metalhead knows. Post by Yasna » Fri , It's largely about local market size.

If you produce a hit in the Swedish market, you are probably not going to make a whole lot of money off of it. If you produce a hit in the German market, you have made it. So I can understand why an ambitious Swedish band would want to take aim for a bigger market.

Post by linguoboy » Fri , Yasna wrote: It's largely about local market size. Post by Johanna » Fri , Woods wrote: Janjan, have a look at the Germans - they don't take the argument against their language, and for some reason Rammstein is the most well-known contemporary German band around the world as far as my metalhead knows. Woods wrote: They don't care the world understands English better, and - okay, maybe that makes them number four instead of number three in terms of revenues, but it also takes me closer to Germany in the long term, which is in their benefit as well!

Chekhov wrote: I don't know about naive worldviews, but Jurgen Wullenwhatever pisses me off to no end because of his extreme pessimism and cynicism. You'd think the world was going to end imminently when talking to that guy. Post by linguoboy » Fri , Jurgen Wullenwever wrote: My personal opinion is that every other language that I have heard in music sounds more powerful than English.

Post by Jurgen Wullenwever » Fri , linguoboy wrote: Sounds like you have an irrational animus against English. Post by linguoboy » Fri , Jurgen Wullenwever wrote: Some pop songs in Swedish have been remade into rather anonymous and bland English versions by the same artists.

Post by Jurgen Wullenwever » Fri , But that was only an example, and not a good one. In fourth place is Barbados, which shows the stronghold Rihanna has on European playlists and the resulting downloads in the download chart, France and Barbados switch places. For artists from countries where English isn't the native language there is, however, one genre that works better than any other: dance music.

How else could Romania have landed in fifth place in the pan-European download chart? Romanian Inna has even managed to sustain a relatively long career, starting with 's Hot. They're even breaking America. There may be a few reasons for this. Clubbing culture has been deeply entrenched in Europe for decades.

In dance music it's generally more important how lyrics sound than what they actually mean. Artists with English as a second language can be less judgmental about what's deemed a cliche.

However, some lyrics sound as if the artist has just kept the initial gibberish lyrics they used to work out the melody. A country consistently punching above its weight internationally, particularly when it comes to songwriters , is my native Sweden.

It's one of only three countries in the world whose net export of music exceeds its imports — the other two being the US and the UK. The airplay figures may help to explain this Swedish "phenomenon".