I've lived in Europe a couple of times, which of course doesn't make me an expert, but I did make a few observations about the music of different countries. When I first moved to the U.K. I refered to their dance music as "repetitive crap". A year later, that techno sound had grown on me, and I actually prefered it to a lot of the American pop/dance music, which is a big part R&B and rap. I bought quite a few compilation discs of Euro pop and danced to it at dance clubs, finding the sound refreshing and proof that there is great music out there that Americans just aren't exposed to. That's the problem right there. America is so big and so bent on the money-making side of it, very few hits from other countries make it over the Atlantic because they don't have the financial backing to bring it here. So we're stuck with our own brand of dance music which is mainly geared towards R&B junkies, when there's a whole world of good dance music out there that is being overlooked by us. But what can you do? My brother tried to hook his computer up to the british airwaves to listen to what was new there, but after awhile you get caught up in life here and what's on our radios, and soon you're out of touch again with the rest of the world. Sometimes I wish America would bring some of the foreign shows over here just for fun, regardless of ratings, like the European music awards or Top of the Pops, just so our culture can realize that there's alot of great music out there worth buying besides that which has the biggest money bags to back it. Abby
