Do Europeans have better taste in music than Americans?

Funny as Beethoven didn't hear it at all... :evil:

 

If you're going to be picky, so can I :110:

Beethoven had hearing when he wrote his fifth symphony...

 

Yeah Rag time is good, but I like jazz too.

 

LOL ;-)

 

No, it's because the language is so difficult to learn that 3 month it's nothing. Try to imagine Japan or Chines in that matter.

 

Ohhh I see where's your problem. You miss understand the meaning of word fluent. It's in term flow not perfect nor elegant meaning.
Instead of fluent I should used rhytmical. That fit better what I ment.

And sorry, but research are not about personal feelings. I also prefer Czech over English, but that doesn't change anything about the fact that singing in English is easier. Try to watch you local xFactor/Superstar/Idol and you'll see that I'm right.

 

aah okay . But I have another opinion about that. But I see now what you mean

LOL, well I do not see any of those horrible "entertainment" shows because I can´t stand them. But yeah "it is easier to sing in English" , you know what ? if any one sang their heart out in their own language, and sang well by the way. I would rather listen to their music than the usual run of the mill "crap". But there was a "Talent 09" where a guy won, and he "sang" ganster hip hop/(c)rap in Danish. But well I will be honest to me hip hop/(c)rap is not singing (now a days anyway), so there I would have rather had chosen a person who COULD sing well and did it whether it was in Danish or English, than that guy. But to be honest I do not give a crap about those "talent" shows. Cause they most of the times show the nasty side of human kind.

It took me about 3/4 of a year in fifth grade , when it comes to learning the English language. And then I had my first English conversation was with a HOT black African woman when I was 12, and there was quite a few grammatical mistakes in my language when I spoke. So I realised, that I had to learn MORE words, and also having a better pronunciation. So I took on an accent which was/is more British sounding . Because I wanted to be understood. And even today I learn new words in the English language, and it gives me great joy because learning new words in a language is something that makes you even more understood in a language which you like. The American English word: Ornery, I learned the other day, and the meaning I got too. So I really enjoy learning new words in a language I know already fairly well
So basically the ancients old sentence "the more you know, the more you know that you do not know". Which means in my mind , just because you think you master a language, then you can still learn a lot in the same area and language. Hell Tim Tacket (the head of Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do) was presented with a "10. dan" by some Grand Master circle , and he declined the offer. Because he had not learned everything there was to know, even though he was/is a "master" in Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, cause even martial arts evolve.

 

The trouble with US music, and the media in general these days, is the influence of gasta rap like 50 cent. I can't stand it, although I do like good rap.

I think Wolverine is a Great Dane, myself. Some people say his English is a little rough, or that he might be barking up the wrong tree sometimes, but he is a good boy.

 

You can speak string sentences together in Japanese after 3 months if you study hard.

 

I love ragtime rock......LETS RAG LOL

 

i like rock and roll and Country and Western i am in the uk
i relly like the dukes of harzzard aswell good music

 

I dunno what's come over me the last few days I've been listening to way too much House and Trance...

 

Another healthy thread by GoH it seems

Some radio stations I listen to when I want something different than the usual couple of discs that I let stuck on "repeat" for hours...:
Couleur3: http://www.couleur3.ch/fr/rsr.html?siteSect=100
Radio NOVA: http://www.novaplanet.com/
FIP: http://sites.radiofrance.fr/chaines/fip/endirect/

 

Was refering to the judges of the show they know how to sing and so you can learn something new from them. Anyway once again. Your preference doesn't change anything about the fact that what I said it's truth. I didn't say that English is better then local language. Sure for local the local song will most of the time be better then English, but it doesn't change the fact that if average human will sing in local or english it'll in most cases be better in English then in local. That was my point from the beginning as European languages are more difficult to master so that singing is also harder.

Hehe I don't know from where this came from (I was refering to learn Czech), but same as above. For common conversation in English you need 3 month. Sure you have to study whole and beyond your life to be perfect, but that's another story.

 

Still, English is European. I can't understand why some people thinks English is a continent for itself, and English is completely foreign to Indo-European, when it's origin is German.

 

Christer-swe: English is a Germanic language which has borrowed a lot of words from different languages over the centuries, such as Scandinavian, German, "Netherlandish" languages, Latin . Among some of the languages. Hell, even my own language borrowed a lot from German, before WWII : And not just the words; also the nouns were with capital letters until 1964 (do not hang me on that , cause I am NOT certain at all there). And from 1945 we began borrowing words from English . So the English borrowed from us, and now we are borrowing from them. So the reason why we now call the potato a kartoffel is because of the German language, and back in the olden days we used another word for those plants, and that was poteter which the Scanians still use in their language. Instead of potatis.
So it shows that quite a few languages are connected via history, and what not

 

Since what you wrote didn't contradict me in any way, and I'm sure you weren't trying to, I'm not sure why you gave me this lesson. I've studied lingustics, so none of that was news to me.

As a sidenote, we use the word potatis but we did use an older word before that: jordäpple (earth apple), though I'm not sure how local that word is...

 

In Dutch we call potatoes "aardappelen" (earth apples) too. :nod:

 

Erdapfel is quite common in German, too.

 

would that include Greek music? or other european folk music?

Your statement is too vague. I can't see any way of finding which population has superior taste in music given how taste is subjective. That's like making a thread asking people who makes better cheese. elaborate.