the future of Dutch and German lyrics

Hi,

This is the part of our discussion and the type/style of music that hurts everyone, and makes it once again, the new law that the one who sells the most is right, and that would mean that anything in any European or worldly language could not possibly compete with English.

French has its emotional side and expression, that is less mental, than English if you start with Shakespeare.

Italian is very expressive on a personal level, and has been for a long time, even in opera.

Spanish has done well, but I think their tradition to the flamenco and the guitar, have hurt the development of new music styles. But the singing style still stood up ... a sort of "solo" voice amidst the instruments.

Germany is a bit different for me. The schlagger is a copy of western music. The "krautrock" is something that is completely anti-western music in its expression, in favor of something else that we have a hard time describing and discussing. But you know that it is intense and strong. Reminds me of some AD2 lyrics, that we think are psychedelic and in the end, they are much less psychedelic than they are a really pointed finger at various things. And the translations of a lot of these things falls off badly, since we do not understand or get the feeling behind it.

You can see Italian quite well in the translations for PFM, Le Orme and Banco. In all cases, the Italian sounds much prettier and the words do not throw off the singer's ideas and concepts. But in English, the words are a bit less clear and make the understanding of the pieces more difficult.

Result? If they have to sing in English ... their inner soul is probably already gone, because they can not express in English the soul that their language possesses, they were born with ... and it won't sound quite right. And here, many folks are letting metal and growl hide the language altogether .... which is another story.