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I'm gonna find & watch a Swedish dubbed version of Monty Python as revenge.

Good to hear though somewhat surprised that the Americans accepted the existence of foreign languages.

Yes and people should be legally required to know this. Any time someone plays the English version, I go apeshit.

Yeah and her most globally popular songs has been in English with the Icelandic ones being less popular, weird coincidence. I think you are underestimating the impact of intelligibility and PR. Obviously quality and melody has some impact, but its not the main things. But yeah I'm heading out...

Yes I definitely think it is the main reason. Most people only (or at least usually) listen to music they understand. IMO there is 0% chance The Beatles (though they might still have been somewhat popular) would be the best selling band of all time if Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was...

And there might be... sales does not equal good music. I refuse to accept that Justin Bieber is the 20th best musician to walk this earth. but if we take Elton John as an example, when he started out half of the Chinese population were illiterate peasants mainly concerned about survival and...

No doubt there is brilliant English music - lots of it - but rather than some musical superiority, the fact that English is the most spoken language in the world has some effect on these top lists. You think Elton John would have sold 300 million records if he was doing the exact same music but...

Yes... and people will be saying "booh, we're getting 0 points because the world hates us" when in reality your songs are always not only hideous but also dull as dishwater. Anyway Ukraine will win tonight (it is tonight right?) and I'll miss it because I'm going out untzing.

I usually just watch the voting. The music is always terrible, from start to finish.