Music of other countries?

Most of us are from English speaking countries and many of us agree that modern mainstream music of today is on a decline, but how about other countries? Is the modern music of other countires declineing too?

I for one know that the pop music of China has went down the drains.... The poppers of today just don't hold a candle to Anita Mui or Teresa Tang...

Anyone else know for another country?

Music of other countries?

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Arabic music is still very good, I think. But that's partly because many of the artists are staying true to the traditional roots.

I don't have a clue what they're saying, despite the fact that half of my family are Arabic/can speak Arabic - but the music sounds good. Apparently there are Arab Hip-Hop groups now, ha. I haven't checked any out yet, but I should, it sounds, erm... interesting.

I think African Music is terrible now. Well I can only speak for West Africa, but goodness me...

I listen to the classic songs, and compare it to the bullcrap that's being made today and just wonder why. It's like they're trying to embrace US Hip-Hop culture in some way, and incorporate it into their music - I think it sounds terrible.Obviously there are exceptions but I'm speaking generally.

I can actually understand most of what's being sung because it's usually either in Krio [broken English - like a weird mix of English other African languages] French or English - and the lyrics aren't fantastic either.

Music of other countries?

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yeah i am from greece, albania, and yugoslavia try the song angele mou its greek
arabic songs are wow. the words are so nice and the beat is always a new one for every song. not like rap where all beats are almost the same.
Try some Czech bands:

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Sarah: I'm originally from Ukraine so everytimes i come to my older folks grandmother she has those russian channels, music. This new year, i went there and I was watching Russian music channel. the same as American pop tart, nothing new. RAP music, I means Russian rap, when forst time I heard I thought I was going to bleed LOL.

don't get me wrong, there are many Russian rock bands, musicians, talented but again like in here %26lt;USA%26gt; there mighty $$ play major role. most of the time TV show talentless crap.

bands like Aquarium DDT, mummii troll, Kino, Machina vremeni those guys stay outside of todays talentless crap
I can't say I know anything about the past music of other countries, since I am from the US.

But, I watch IMF(International Music Feed) where they have this show called One World, and it plays videos from other countries. While I don't understand the languages, I can just tell that they seem pretty poppy. I have seen plenty that seem like they are the Britney of that country.

I do speak Spanish, and I have noticed that a lot of the music in Spanish speaking countries have really horribly written lyrics. But, again, I can't compare them to older Spanish music.
you need to get some reggae music, not reggaeton, reggae, dance hall, some reall jamaican music.
Check out Rammstein. Most of their songs are in German but some are translated into English.
The Only band i remember from another country was Gorky Park they were a russian rock band back from the early 90's
I can say that we've got the same situation in Russia, Ukraine and Italy!

Who the hell am I to know what happens in those three countries? Well. I was born in Russia, I had lived in Ucraine till 2003, and I used to listen to Russian/Ukrainian music. There were few bands that I liked, the rest just sucked, since everyone was trying to make commercial music, and to be what the media wanted them to be, to fiollow the standard models. Then I moved in Italy, but here the situation is the same. There are a lot of bands, like Finley, that are trying to be as "punk" as possible, but the truth is that they just make laugh...Whereas the others make and remake the same love songs. I mean, there are no good singers anymore. However there are always some exceptions, but obviously nobody have ever heard about them, they are not commercial.

That's why I mainly listen to British rock music, seems it's the only still able to give good bands...

P.S.: oh, and Germany is in the same situation, where are such great bands as Rammstein and Kraftwerk?! There's nothing left to listen to, just the same crap...
As others have said, Arabic music is still pretty good.

I'm a fan of Natacha Atlas myself ~ she has a great voice.

Wish I could add more, but most of my World music is from a while ago.

Having said that, there has been some good Native American stuff over the last few years.
i was talking to this guy in portugal and he likes the same indie folk as me... and apparently its quite popular there.
I listen to japanese rock
I have a really good friend who lives in Italy. She says that their popular music is terrible. Mostly house music. Whenever I was in Italy, though, I heard top 40 artists from the U.S. wherever I went. Britney Spears' song Toxic was REALLY popular.
Italy's is pretty much declining the same way America's is.

But Australia's is getting better :)
Sarah sarah, nobody seems to read the questions! ts ts ts.

I am from Greece, raised in Germany and my wife is Serbian (you know Yugoslavia which no longer exists, Clinton's and Blair's bombing of Belgrade and Novi Sad and... anyway) beside these three countries I have some access to french, italian and eastern european music, and to my depression the things are declining everywhere. Too sad, but that's the way it is. Music is business nowadays, and in order to make "bucks" u must make music that sells big. How do you do that? "Educate" your clients to listen to and like crap (you can write 10 crappy songs in ten minutes, but only once in a while a really good song) and once that's done you can start producing. Well you know the results.

Thank god there are some lone riders still out there that can make our day.
Oh yes, it's not just mainstream music from Enslish speaking countries that is declining. I can tell you about my two countries : French Rap and Egyptian Rap are all over the mainstream..So i just listen to classic songs of my countries.. modern music everywhere is declining I think