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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
Idk, I just have the philosophy that if you are a commercial artist (like Stromae), you should be as big as you can possibly be and sing in English. The English speaking world (particularly US) is still the the global music scene's tastemaker and there's a reason it's the goal for so many people...he's already slowly making waves in this part of the world anyway (he performed on late night television earlier this year). He should follow the Shakira model and not really change his sound all that much and still record in French...a bilingual album with 8-9 English tracks and 3-4 French tracks (including French versions of the singles) would work really well.
He's just so good and such a dynamic performer that it would just be a shame to not see him be as huge as he can be and conquer the world.
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I agree with you, I'm just anxious about him trying to appeal to English speakers and alienating his French audience, also his songs are about very real, extreme things about life and idk if the US audience who enjoy more escapism and superficiality in their pop music will accept songs about AIDS or cancer or absent fathers etc, like dance music with contemplative and melancholy lyrics. But then again songs like Hey Ya became hits so idk.
He's also talked about how music shouldn't be about languages and people should be able to enjoy it without worrying about the language of the lyrics but rather the emotion and conviction the lyrics are sung with. I'm not sure if he himself would sing in English just to appease an English speaking audience.
I love the infomercial sound
