DolaMight
07-01-2007, 09:05 AM
I'm a Canadian who hates Canadian music. I like all music and I don't care where it comes from.
I just read a thread here about people who love Canadian rock and I know everyone reading this is American but could you imagine living like this:
Up here people listen to Canadian music not because it's good but because it's Canadian.
This mentality trickles down because our government is so insecure it has to force by law artificiall injecting of patriotism into music and demand radio and TV stations to play like 35 percent Canadian content. And sadly it works, it does drive more sales towards Canadian acts. Not because of patriotism but for the same reason people buy so much terrible pop music. Most people buy what they know because that's all they know, they're mentally lazy and they don't go out looking for anything else, Rubes as my friend Ron would say.
Therefore if you're hearing music here it is unlikely it's being played because it's the best thing going, but because it got affirmative actioned to the DJ's playlist.
That said obviously Canadian music can be as good as any music but if I hear that an artist is Canadian i tend not to hear it out and give it a chance because I assume I'm forced to hear this in order to encourage me to buy Canadian. If I hear that the artist is not Canadian I'm more likely to give it a chance because it has to be worth something to of made it past the border.
This is a great country but this is just one of many communist tactics of the popular social-capitalism systems so popular in the Canada and Europe.
I just read a thread here about people who love Canadian rock and I know everyone reading this is American but could you imagine living like this:
Up here people listen to Canadian music not because it's good but because it's Canadian.
This mentality trickles down because our government is so insecure it has to force by law artificiall injecting of patriotism into music and demand radio and TV stations to play like 35 percent Canadian content. And sadly it works, it does drive more sales towards Canadian acts. Not because of patriotism but for the same reason people buy so much terrible pop music. Most people buy what they know because that's all they know, they're mentally lazy and they don't go out looking for anything else, Rubes as my friend Ron would say.
Therefore if you're hearing music here it is unlikely it's being played because it's the best thing going, but because it got affirmative actioned to the DJ's playlist.
That said obviously Canadian music can be as good as any music but if I hear that an artist is Canadian i tend not to hear it out and give it a chance because I assume I'm forced to hear this in order to encourage me to buy Canadian. If I hear that the artist is not Canadian I'm more likely to give it a chance because it has to be worth something to of made it past the border.
This is a great country but this is just one of many communist tactics of the popular social-capitalism systems so popular in the Canada and Europe.